So let's continue with The Betrayal by R.L.Stine!
Chapter 25
Ezra yells at the top of his lungs and falls on his back. He looks at the skeleton and sees that it isn't moving. Yet it somehow was lightly choking him before. So I guess the young man scared himself. His back aches as he gets up and...yeah...the pain can't be that bad. If you get up easily, you either aren't hurt or are young.
Ezra realizes the skeleton hadn't moved but had just happened to fall forward. I guess it knew it was the end of the chapter which meant a jump scare was needed. He then thinks that the skeleton was trying to break free and caused the scratching sound.
He pushes the skeleton out of the way and looks into the study. Problem is that it's so dark that he can't see anything. Ezra lights a candle so that he can figure out what's in the study. Or, at least, what remains in the mysterious room.
It turns out the skeletons, yes there's a second one in the study, are Constance and Matthew. Well...that's what Ezra assumes to be the case. But there's no proof so it could just as easily be that the skeletons are from some random people.
Ezra finds Matthew's journal and boy is it messed up. The older man describes his laughter as being just as painful to himself as it is to his wife. It turns out that he walled the study in to keep him and Constance safe from the Goodes. Which explains why there was no cement to hold the bricks together. The study was walled in by a madman who wasn't thinking clearly.
It turns out that Constance saw sense and tried to flee. But Matthew, in his madness, killed her to keep them both in the study. The one area he thought would protect him from the curse that he allowed to run rampant through the Fier bloodline. It sickens and saddens me that Constance was killed by her husband to enact a demented fantasy.
Matthew died happy as he thinks that now he is safe. He also says 'we' as if he thinks the woman he killed is safe.
It's very clear that Matthew was driven mad and has no regrets about what happened in Wickham. Yet Ezra uses the journal as proof that the Goodes are bad. It isn't like Matthew decided to let hate rule and thus doom the entire Fier bloodline. Oh wait...
Ezra also takes Matthew's amulet. He puts the amulet around his neck and considers it the only inheritance he will get. What do you mean that's your only inheritance? You also got your blood cursed!
Ezra walks out of the house and is consumed by hatred of the Goode family. He also thinks about the village of Wickham but I bet he doesn't think about the great injustices that were done there. Not only did the Fier brothers burn innocent women, they also took everything from Wickham before leaving.
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