The Protector

Levi asked, “What’s going on?”

“Come with me!” Michael led him to the front gates of the house.

Seeing the coffin that lay beside the gate, Levi’s eyes grew cold. He demanded, “What is the meaning of this? Is this for me?”

“No, it’s for your mother! They had said…” Here, Michael hesitated and shook with fright, too afraid to repeat what he had heard just now.

“Say it!” Levi ordered, raising his voice in a menacing manner.

Gritting his teeth, Michael replied, “The Gonzales’ had arrived with a message for you, their bastard child Levi Garrison. They’ve sent your mother this coffin to congratulate her on being a wretch, and they had mentioned that they would pray that she would continue to be a wretch in her next life!”

Immediately, everyone felt the tension in the room rise.

drop by a

chill shot down the

a marriage between my

nodded. “That’s right. I had betrothed your mother to Klaus Gonzales, back when she was still

whole of South Hampton and had humiliated your mother for being a

the butt of South Hampton’s cruel jokes. Every day, people would leave all sorts of trash outside

Hampton, and your mother was their biggest source of their shame. Whenever she appeared in public, people would hurl vulgarities

in a deep breath. “So all of this has been caused by the Gonzales

one thing on his mind—to destroy both your mother and the Joneses! He would have liked nothing more than to see your mother become the shame of South Hampton, and for everyone to remember her as a wh*re!” Michael

He had put her through

family hadn’t issued a stern warning, your mother’s story would still be floating around in

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