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.”

to act more and more like a normal person these days, and I

little. I was so scared that I hugged his arm

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

really old too. The room was in a state of disrepair, and it seemed like it had been a long time since

shoot a horror movie?” I

Lincoln, are you sure you don’t want to sleep in

room. Then, I pointed to

Steven looked

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

so cold up here in the

didn’t say anything. He just lay down

warm this way,”

really was warmer

Later, they started their own business and accumulated a

residence. All the Lincoln

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

I’ll protect you,” Steven said as he held me closer.

was a peaceful night. He simply hugged me to keep me warm

I was too tired, but I fell asleep without worrying about anything at