Standing in front of his parents' graves, Shane couldn't move his eyes away from the safe.

In spite of being covered in dirt, it was evident the safe was merely buried a few years ago. The surface was of the safe was barely corroded. In fact, it was glistering.

I think the will is in the safe!

Silas crouched and started examining the safe. A short while later, he said, “Mr. Shane, it's equipped with a padlock, but it doesn't have any batteries.”

Shane beckoned Silas to bring it back and instructed, “Take it in and get a few batteries to get it running.”

“Alright!” Silas marched in the direction of the villa and brought the safe away from the burial grounds.

Meanwhile, some workers were directed to restore the burial grounds. They were only permitted to leave once they were done.

By the time Shane made his way back to the villa, Sharon and Connor had fallen asleep. Mrs. Wilson made her way out of their room and asked with a gape, “Isn't that Mr. Thompson's?”

Shane was about to make his way upstairs, but he brought himself to a halt when he heard Mrs. Wilson. He looked at her and asked, “Are you sure this belongs to Grandpa?”

Mrs. Wilson nodded and answered, “Yes! I have seen it back in the day!”

you saw it?” Shane asked with his eyes narrowed to

alive back then. I saw him bringing the safe out to a certain somewhere. However, the safe was nowhere to be

everything, he was certain the will was the thing that

is it covered in dirt?” Mrs. Wilson started picking

around

Wilson repeated after Shane, “What?

“Mmm!”

winked in confusion. She probed further, “Why has Mr. Thompson buried it

way upstairs once

went after Shane without further

believe it's the will we have been searching for! Great! We can finally avenge

instructions. Therefore, she hoped

have hidden it so well to the extent that

Shane instructed Silas to place the safe on the table once

and installed the batteries required to get the

of the safe flickered as it was

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