Revenge After Death

Chapter 78

1 lowered my head and listened quietly as Ignatius spoke.

“It’s great that he listens to you,” he said with a nod. “Now that you’re pregnant with a descendant of the Lincoln family, you’ve done our family a huge favor. If the baby’s a boy, then our family would finally have a worthy heir.”

I kept my head lowered and remained silent. What kind of traditional thinking was this? Couldn’t daughters become successors too?

Ignatius left after that. He ordered Ewan to lead Steven and me to our rooms to get some rest.

Steven held my hand the whole time. I assumed that he was just trying to get my attention and tried to pull my hand away but to no avail.

“The house is haunted,” he said abruptly as he looked at me.

A chill ran down my spine, and 1 hid behind him in fright. Holding onto his arm tightly, I muttered, ” Who are you trying to scare?

As a person

who had died once, it wasn’t that strange for me to be afraid of ghosts.

Steven smiled but said nothing. He let me hold his arm all the way to the rooms.

When we finally stopped in front of one of the bedrooms, he said, “It doesn’t matter whether our child is a boy or a girl. The baby’s health is our priority.”

like a normal person these days,

I was so scared that

me into the bedroom and switched on the lights. The electric circuits here

too. The room was in a state of disrepair,

been rented out to shoot a horror movie?” I asked Ewan, looking

and said, “Mrs. Lincoln, are you sure you don’t want to sleep in the same room as Mr. Lincoln? Your room is next door, but someone committed suicide there a few years

pointed to the room next

I’m scared.” Steven

the end, the two of us had to share the room, which had

in the mountains,” I whispered.

anything. He just lay down

this way,”

warmer with him hugging me. He was so warm.

family members were all physicians. Then, they started opening clinics and pharmacies. Later, they started their own

All the Lincoln family members are buried here after

extremely creepy. So, this old residence was the grave

you,” Steven said

peaceful night. He simply hugged me to keep me warm and

was too tired, but I fell