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.

seemed to drop by a few degrees

down the spines of

had arranged for a marriage between my mother and the son of the

right. I had betrothed your mother to Klaus Gonzales, back

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

of your mother’s pregnancy got out, your mother and the Jones family became the butt of South Hampton’s cruel jokes. Every day, people would leave

your mother was their biggest source of their shame.

in a deep breath. “So all of this

your mother and the Joneses! He would have liked nothing more than to see your mother become the shame of

mused aloud, “How cruel! He had put her through so much physical and

your mother’s story would still be

now Klaus Gonzales wants to change the target of his anger, and use me to carry out