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I love you, and I'm sorry. I should have protected you before. I'm very grateful that you'll let me into your life again, and let me be the mother I should have been a long time ago. Even if I don't follow you on your journey, I am always with you. Come home when you've finished your quest — wherever we decide that will be.
It feels like everything I’ve been working towards has been shattered into a million pieces — but I have you, still, and that’s what matters. I missed you. Thank you for protecting me, and for standing up for me. For us. You are the mother I loved and even more than that. I just hope you’ll be okay — Lillian Abernathy.
I can't believe Gertie gave you a fucking blunt though
Three decades. Thirty years. That’s how long I loved you. I wanted to spend eternity with you — even though I knew how short your life would be compared to mine. We had everything. A perfect house, a perfect life, a perfect marriage…
A perfect child.
It was perfect, Conrad, and he didn’t destroy it — you did. For almost two years I watched you change into a heartless, hateful caricature of yourself, and I felt powerless to stop it. The man I loved was replaced by someone unrecognizable.
I can’t forget the thirty years I spent loving you. I can’t replace the years we spent raising our son. Not our daughter, Conrad — our son, Ryker. I can never forget any of it, but I can’t bring any of it with me into the future. I cast aside the Deerstep name.
Ryker has grown into someone I’m proud to call my son. It’s delightful he turned out so well even though we weren’t the best of parents. I’m sorry you can’t see that.
Enjoy your fame, your fortune, your wine empire. It’s more important to you than this family, in the end.
I was doing everything right! I gave you everything you could have ever wanted! A house, a ring, thirty years of marriage, a baby, everything! You were set for life with me, and after everything we've been through, you would turn against me!? If you want to be penniless and reduced to nothing, Lillian Abernathy, then that's fine by me. If you're going to taint the Deerstep name, then don't take it!
I'm not merciless, Lillian. When you're done with this tantrum of yours, you can come back and apologize, and put that ring back on your finger. Really. I swear it.
Please.
I'm sure you were such a nice young man before that unfortunate incident. I'd love to meet you when you break that curse of yours. Take good care of Ryker.
I hope you’ll be okay. He needs someone in his corner, rooting for him. I’m glad that it’s you. He never stopped loving you, calling you mother, even when it seemed hopeless. I’m cautiously optimistic. You weren’t there for him before — but you sacrificed everything to make up for it. Maybe you can meet me under better circumstances someday.
She burned down the home I lived in with my family for thirty years. I should be angry with her, but I'm not. It was the wake-up call I desperately needed. I'm ashamed to say it took such a drastic measure to spur me into action and protect my son, but I'm thankful to her for it.
I'm sad it didn't work out with her and Ryker, though! She's such a sweetheart, and such an adorable girl. Oh well, sometimes these things don't work out.
I felt pretty similarly about her and her husband for a while. I was surprised that she approached me after we burned her house down... she just wanted to know where Ryker was. She wanted to help him. I pointed him in the right direction the next time I saw him. I hope that was enough. I hope the two of them are doing better. I hope she gave him the chance he needed.
My dear friend Jessie's son... well, one of them. He always seemed like such a nice young man. Polite, well-learned, and proper. He used to play with Ryker all the time when they were toddlers, but they had a falling out and didn't like each other much after that. It's such a shame! Maybe they can make up in the future. I would quite like that, I think.
I did always like her more than her husband. I remember she came over all the time to ask mother if Ryker could dig holes in our backyard. Last I heard, she was trying to turn things around. Wanted to find Ryker and make it up to him. I hope it worked out.