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.

mustering my courage and taking a firm grip on Colin’s

the car.

way,” Eric

Colin along, following Eric to meet

a collection of memorial tablets, probably praying for ancestral blessings on whatever was troubling

for Brendan’s eldest son, Colin’s father Ethan Langley. Though Colin was born out

intently on that tablet, his face

the tablet for Ethan Langley was accompanied by another for someone named Logan Langley,

all perished in a car accident, the very heirs Brendan had painstakingly groomed to take over the legacy.

by Brendan: indulgent, undisciplined, and lacking

Chapter 77

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

someone as steeped in tradition as Brendan, the absence of an heir was a major issue–how could he let the Langley lineage

we

offer your respects,” Brendan instructed after finishing his prayers,

it, his eyes glued

complex wave of emotions stirred in me, but fearing Brendan’s reprimand, I softly

me, his voice hoarse. “You’re

a moment, seeing the

All liars?