Chapter 364

Jeannie looked at Irwin, her hazel eyes warm with a gentle smile.

"Irwin, do you know why your father doesn't want you to be around your mother?"

Irwin shook his head.

"It's because he's worried she might be a bad influence on you."

Irwin froze, startled.

"Do you remember how old I was when I first came to Southcreek Manor?"

Irwin nodded. "I remember. I was five."

Jeannie smiled softly. "Right. And do you remember how, back then, you used to have nightmares all the time?"

Irwin thought hard, vague memories surfacing. He nodded slowly.

"But I can't really remember what those nightmares were about."

remember everything." Jeannie's voice was patient and kind. "You would cry in the middle of the night, and when I asked you what was wrong, you told me everything.

his voice small. "Ms. Radcliffe, what did I tell you back

stone.' She asked you to hide it under Mom Bryn's bed. She

widened in

As Jeannie spoke, a vivid

said Mom Bryn was going to have a baby boy, and then the baby died. Was it...

a heavy sigh, shaking her head. "That wasn't a magic stone at all. If I'm not mistaken, it was something much more dangerous -a radioactive

in confusion.

stone that gives off strong radiation," Jeannie explained gently. "It's illegal here your grandmother

cancer. And at the time, Mom Bryn

eyes. "Was it my

just a child. You had no idea what it was. Your grandmother used you to hurt Mom Bryn.

furrowed as he tried to piece it together. After a

because of

mother. She wouldn't have done something like that without

clouding his face. "Why would Mom want to

Bryn had a baby, her own child-you- would lose your

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