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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.
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 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.
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.
My very best friend. Technically my ex-husband, too, but it wasn't a union we had any choice in. We're at a point where we can joke about it. We were never a real husband and wife, and we never wanted to be, and now we're divorced! But I hope he's in my life forever. We've been through so much and made the best out of some awful situations. I hope we can both get what we want in the future - just a normal, happy life.
She is my best friend. We also used to be married, but not by choice. We do not have romantic feelings for each other, but it is funny to joke about. Sometimes. I would much rather have a beautiful husband who is tall, strong, gorgeous, bespectacled, ginger, blue-eyed, and left-handed, but she's my dearest friend and I hope she will stay in my life until the end. She has terrible taste in men and I think she should start dating women instead, frankly.
Our families were friends. I saw him often enough. Always smelled faintly of grapes, which I do not care for. Other people's family business isn't of my concern, but I've heard through the "grapevine" what kind of a father he was to Ryker. That's why Elinor was able to talk me into burning his home to the ground, too.
Son of a family friend... one of many, actually. It's a shame what happened. Couldn't be obedient to his parents, not unlike my own. I heard he ran off and joined those monks. What a joke. The youth these days have no respect for tradition nor common sense.
I never liked him. He was "nice" enough, polite, but I saw firsthand how everything he did affected Ryker. He's so stuck in his ways, he'll take it out on his own family. I don't think Ryker would have tried to steal that artifact if his father hadn't made him feel so small. He deserved the wake up call Jax and I gave him.
The daughter of a family friend. There was a time when it seemed like she might become my daughter in law... she was a perfectly nice young woman, sure, but the heiress of the Deerstep family should have spent her time looking for a proper husband. I wouldn't have accepted that. Well, I suppose all that doesn't matter anymore. She went down an embarrassing spiral, and now she's a criminal too! She set my home ablaze! The youth these days are no good, no good at all!
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.
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.
…A gentleman. I’d love to read that book once it’s done.
Nice feller. Quiet, but real smart n’ clever, too.
please don’t give me your hickey disease 😭😭😭😭😭😭
My WHAT?!?!?!!?!?!?! Hickeys aren’t contagious! Besides, I don’t even have any!
I don’t know you so well. And it’s a little unfair how much Grace doesn’t like you, I think… But I think you’re a good person. I’m really happy for you that Bandor is back! Are you okay? Well, I hope things start getting better for you really soon, ok?
I admire your dedication to Grace, and how even when life hits as hard as it possibly can, you’re always right there next to her, unafraid and untouched. I might not understand your dynamic, but to me, that looks like true love, in one way or another.
and why he ourple 😂
I'm so sorry about your family. I know what it's like; I hope the grief settles and makes you stronger. It may have...
I can’t talk to you right now. You have a lot of fixing to do but it’s not impossible…
Take all the time you need. I wish you the best. Thank you for giving me a chance.
A little scared that you’re older than me. But I hope it makes it easier for you.
I’m scared
You’re all so quick to call a scared girl a monster. Do you think I’m one, too, because of a power I don’t understand?
Be careful around grace
Don’t pretend to know her… Just because you defeated one monster doesn’t mean she’s the next.
Watch your friend. Maybe she needs to be in a jar.
Please, help me make sure I don’t…do anything.
You’re just like me. You don’t have to be anything anyone says you are, okay?
coworkers. mike kind of annoys her, because checkers feels like he must think he's better than everyone at work, he just gives her that vibe. plus he never puts an effort into his outfit and she thinks it kind of makes him look like he's not putting any effort in. but she's just rubbed the wrong way, it's not like he really did anything, so she isn't gonna make a big deal out of it.
coworkers. mike forgot her name cause he's too busy asking people if they tried turning their computer on and off again