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.”

seemed to act more and more like a normal person these days, and I found it rather

a little. I was so scared that I

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

state of disrepair, and it seemed like it had

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

you don’t want to sleep in the same room as Mr. Lincoln? Your room is

Then, I pointed to the room next

scared.” Steven looked

the two of us had to share the room, which

up here in the mountains,”

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

warm this way,” he

it really was warmer with

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

“This is the old Lucly residence. All the Lincoln family

this place was extremely creepy. So, this old residence was the grave of the deceased

worry. I’ll protect you,” Steven said as he

simply hugged me to keep me warm and didn’t

tired, but I fell asleep without worrying about anything