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Eternal Flames—Chapter 3
“Carson, please…”
“I don’t want to see you!” Carson was crying now. “I don’t want you to be my dad anymore!”
The words hit Darren like a physical blow. He reached toward the door, but Edwin stepped firmly in his way.
“I think you need to leave,” Edwin said quietly. “Now.”
“Please, just let me talk to him. Let me explain.”
“You’ve explained enough,” Tina said, her voice hollow. She had Carson in her arms now, his small body shaking with sobs. “You need to go, Darren.”
“Tina, please. I love you. I love both of you. I can fix this.”
“No, you can’t,” Tina said, looking at him through the screen door. “You can’t fix this, Darren. You can’t undo ten years of lies. You can’t undo the fact that my son just found out his father is a liar.”
“But I want to try. I’ll leave Emily. I’ll get the divorce. I’ll do whatever it takes.”
“It’s too late,” Tina said simply. “It’s too late for us, Darren. The only thing I care about now is Carson. The only thing that matters to me is protecting my son from any more of your lies.”
“So that’s it? You’re just going to throw away everything we had?”
“Everything we had was built on a lie,” Tina said. “I don’t want to build anything else on that foundation.”
Darren looked at her for a long moment, then at Carson, who was still crying in her arms. “I won’t give up. I love you too much to give up.”
“Then prove it,” Bette said quietly. “Prove you love them by leaving them alone. Prove you love Carson by not putting him through any more of this.”
Darren looked at her, his eyes filled with pain and anger. “You always hated me.”
“I hated what you were doing to her,” Bette corrected. “I hated that I could see what you were, and she couldn’t.”
“And what was I?”
“A coward,” Bette said simply. “A man who was too scared to choose, so he chose to lie instead.”
Darren stared at her for a moment, then looked back at Tina. “I’ll be in touch. Through lawyers, I guess. But Tina, I want you to know that I never stopped loving you. Not for a single day.”
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I love Carson and i hate Darren.
Bette is afraid, hurt and fearful, i hope she will lower the walls around her heart sometime in the future. Tina has to prove she is serieus in both heart and words but the most important thing for now is to get things resolved and i think Helena will be the best to help her.