Shadows Of A Forgotten Spring

Chapter 192

Travis yanked the flaming wood away from his chest.

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His entire body screamed in pain, smoke clogged his lungs, but one of it mattered. Not when his world was falling apart.

He stumbled to his feet, gasping at the heat pressed against his back. His house, the only home he'd ever known was crumbling, flames consuming everything he'd ever loved, everything he'd ever held dear. He could still hear his parents screaming, but they were dying, becoming weaker and weaker until... silence.

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his small frame trembling beneath the burden of the loss

his family had prepared were all gone. They were like ghosts in the wind, and fled at the first sound of trouble. Not one of them stayed, nor did any of

came out of his mouth, but it wasn't enough. He couldn't hold in the pain, it was too raw, too sharp, too much. He

cry of loss. Of rage.

did not die down. The dead did not

few minutes later, red lights flashed through the night. Fire engines rushed to the building, spraying huge gallons of water, over the blaze that had consumed his home. He walked out of the darkness, his plan was to tell the firefighters who had set the house on fire. But then he

of the operation, standing tall and calm, in a

blood turned

had come not to help, but to watch. To make sure his evil plan had worked. To