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.”

more like a normal person these days, and I

was so scared that I hugged his arm

switched on the lights. The electric circuits here weren’t

a state of disrepair, and it seemed like it had been a long time since anyone lived here.

out to shoot a horror movie?”

sleep in

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

scared.” Steven looked

the two of us had to

so cold up here in the

didn’t say anything. He just lay down beside me and

this way,”

but it really was warmer with him

Later, they started their own business and accumulated a lot of wealth over the past few generations.”

“This is the old Lucly residence. All the Lincoln family members are buried here after their

knew was that this place was extremely creepy. So, this old residence was

said as he held

He simply hugged me to keep me warm and didn’t do anything else.

but I fell asleep without