There were no lights on in the house. In fact, they had been on, because Joshua had instinctively turned them on the moment he walked in. But when he found the house empty, he went back and turned them off again.

He turned off the lights not because he liked the dark, or because he enjoyed being alone, but because he felt that was all he deserved. Living in the darkness—wasn’t that exactly what he had been doing until now? Perhaps in the eyes of others, he would always be the high and mighty pr