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.

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

the car.

come this way,” Eric said, waiting for us

along, following Eric to meet

was before 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 of wedlock, he was

intently on that tablet, his face

for Ethan Langley was accompanied by another for someone

very heirs Brendan had painstakingly groomed to

by Brendan: indulgent, undisciplined, and lacking in

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in that tragic accident, leaving Samuel as Brendan’s sole surviving son–an underachiever incapable of producing an heir.

was a major issue–how could he let the Langley lineage end with him? That’s where Colin and I came into the picture.

clear: we were

your respects,” Brendan instructed after finishing his prayers,

to Colin, but he wouldn’t take it, his eyes glued to the

stirred in me, but fearing Brendan’s reprimand,

to me, his voice hoarse. “You’re all… liars.”

seeing the depth of disappointment in his

All liars?