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Chapter 46 - Burn (Danny Conrad POV) Pt.1

Hey everyone :)

First. So everyone wants to know how Lydia can die if she's bound to Bend and the grandmother? The thing about my stories is you have to read VERY carefully. I didn't say that she bound ALL the children. Danny is the one that told Cynthia that the children are bound to Bend and his mother. BUT when Mary - Danny's mother - tells him what she's done, she doesn't say ALLLLLL the kids.

Second. Guys, Faith wouldn't remain some punching bag forever. I know she had a rough start in the beginning, but she was locked away... 

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Chapter 46 – Burn (Danny Conrad POV) Pt.1

"She's just a girl," words that I never thought I would say come from my mouth, with a dubious tone attached. Was Cynthia really wishing death on some girl? "She's something that was created that was never meant to exist. There is no one in the world, here or Zedwood like her."

"So you're – you're what? Jealous?"

"Of her? I have everything, Danny, but I lost so much because of her, she doesn't get to come randomly into my family twice and destroy what is mine."

I close my eyes, resting my head back with nothing left to say. Or maybe it is that I just didn't have the words.

Or maybe it is hard to say them out loud?

One minute I was driving my happy family to start over in Bend, the next I'm in my brother's dungeon, and – and for what?

What answers did I hope to find by remaining with Cynthia in here? So far all I had gotten was the extent of her hate towards the girl that my brother and his wife took in.

I do not believe this is the woman – Cynthia – that I met all those years ago? How did she keep up the pretenses for so long? How did she conceal her hate?

How could anyone with so much hate inside them love anything or anyone? Was there any room to love someone else? I hated the people that took Tina from me, but eventually I had to let that hate go, concentrate on my children. Should I meet them again, I want to say that I wouldn't be reacting like Cynthia now, but at the same time, I would want them to suffer.

The difference – the only one – I could come up with was: what I'd be willing to risk exacting my revenge? My children in exchange for watching them suffer? No.

I'd lose my children and my revenge still would not bring Tina back. I'd have nothing.

"Tell me again, why did you start – why is Lydia practicing magic? Do you have any idea how dangerous it is?" Cynthia grew up in Zedwood; surely she knows how unpredictable spells can be? With whatever spell she gave my daughter, there was no telling what would be risked to keep the equilibrium of nature in tack.

"Why Cynthia? Why would you even-"

"What else am I supposed to do Danny?" she asks plainly, "Your brother has no intention of ever letting me leave this place and eventually, you will leave too," say because our children need one parent and if you can be that one parent I can live with that... I think silently. Please, Cynthia, finish your thought with something along those lines.

"I once again, have to think of myself, Danny. How can I get out of here to be with my family? To protect my children from that monster? I won't be able to do that in this place where Ansel wants me to rot," she spits.

Wrong. Answer.

My skin immediately feels prickly, the only reaction her words get that's visible while I try to keep my face neutral. These solutions impossible to believe, I shake my head, "this – this woman isn't you," I say sure of my words now. Cynthia - this version of her - couldn't be whom I married and had children with, wanted to spend my life with.