Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 77

I’m not sure how long I was out, but when I woke up, I found Colin’s hand still cushioning my head.

Rubbing my forehead, I gazed at Colin, bleary–eyed. Had he been holding up my head the whole journey?

Over three hours…

Was he genuinely challenged or just playing the fool?

“Where are we?” I murmured.

“The Langley old house,” Colin whispered back, clutching my hand as if he feared something terrible.

Those pitiful yet captivating deep eyes of his always seemed to trigger a protective instinct in others.

“Don’t worry, I’m right here,” I reassured him, patting the back of his hand, though I was pretty scared myself.

What was this place, some kind of haunted manor in the middle of nowhere? The surrounding wilderness was eerie enough, and the house itself looked downright desolate.

And with the lights on at this hour, it resembled a scene straight out of a horror flick about a haunted village.

hard, mustering my courage and taking a firm grip on

the car.

way,” Eric

following Eric to meet

before a collection of memorial tablets, probably praying for ancestral

tablet for Brendan’s eldest son, Colin’s father Ethan Langley. Though Colin was born out of wedlock, he was still

fixed intently on that

accompanied by another for someone named

accident, the very heirs Brendan had painstakingly groomed to

favored by Brendan: indulgent, undisciplined, and lacking in wit–hardly

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the promising line was cut short in that tragic accident, leaving Samuel as Brendan’s sole surviving son–an underachiever incapable

the absence of an heir was a major issue–how could he let the Langley lineage end with him? That’s where Colin and I

the Langley family, our roles were clear: we were mere instruments

after finishing his prayers, turning to look at Colin and me.

and held it out to Colin, but he wouldn’t take it,

emotions stirred in me, but fearing Brendan’s reprimand, I softly coaxed him. “Colin,

voice hoarse. “You’re all… liars.”

froze for a moment, seeing the depth

All liars?