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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running down his soot-streaked face, his small frame trembling beneath the burden of the loss just

were all gone. They were like ghosts in the wind, and fled at the first sound of trouble.

couldn't hold in the pain, it was too raw, too sharp, too

of

the world did not stop. The flames did not

huge gallons of water, over the blaze that had consumed

a well tailored black suit, was a man whose expression was blank. Mr.

blood turned

why he'd come. Alexander Black's father had come not to help, but to watch. To make sure his