Ezra Fier is riding a horse. He is now a young man of twenty-one years old. He has his mother's hair and father's eyes. As he thinks about Edward and Mary, he becomes very bitter. It turns out that Edward was never the same after Matthew doomed the Fier family by killing William Goode. Ezra was too young for the memory of that night to be clear. But he does remember that it happened.

As Ezra continues to make his way to Great-Uncle Matthew's farm his bitterness turns the sunny day into dark night.

Mary turned out to have never recovered from that night. So she's stuck as a bumbling idiot. She mainly declared she was a witch and asked when Jeremy was coming. You know, the Jeremy who never actually existed. Ezra took care of her after his father's death. Then he didn't have to take care of her after she drowned herself. Something that wouldn't have happened if Matthew had just let them remove the curse from the Fier bloodline!

THE CHAPTER