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.”

and more like a normal person these days,

sound as the door opened a little. I was so scared that

into the bedroom and switched on the lights. The electric circuits here weren’t functioning well, so

of the room looked really old too. The room was in a state of disrepair, and it seemed like

been rented out to shoot a horror

sleep in the same room as

into Steven’s room. Then, I pointed to the room next door and said, “Steve, you can sleep in

scared.” Steven looked

of us had to share the room,

so cold up here in

anything. He just lay down beside me

this way,”

resist, but it really was warmer with him hugging me. He was so

Lincoln family members were all physicians. Then, they started opening clinics and pharmacies. Later, they started their own business and accumulated a lot of wealth over

old Lucly residence. All the Lincoln family members are

place was extremely creepy. So, this old residence

Steven said as

night. He simply hugged me to keep

was too tired, but I fell