Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 303

Chapter 303: Coming clean.

The Whitlock’s were sniveling and shivering when David’s men brought them over and forced them onto their knees. Immediately, before being questioned they started to deny having any knowledge of Humphrey’s crimes.

This was because David’s men had identified themselves as police and grilled them for a while before Humphrey went berserk.

“Cut the bull shit! We know everything that your son has done and we also know that you knew everything but despite that, you did nothing about it.” Amon retorted.

Mrs. Whitlock whined. “We tried! I swear to God.”

“No, you did not! Instead, you covered up his crimes and put the rest of your children in danger. “Phoebe reared her hand back and slapped Mrs. Whitlock. “This slap is for Diana, she would be alive right now if you had protected her as you should have done as a mother.”

She slapped her again. “This one is for your other daughter; imagine what kind of pain and nightmares she is going to live with for the rest of her life?”

She clenched her hand into a fist and punched Mr. Whitlock right on the nose.

“This is for your dead son; you buried him in the Gundam forest to cover up Humphrey’s first crime.”

Sill filled with anger she backhanded him. “This is for America, if you had not invited her to your ranch while knowing fully well what Humphrey was doing, she would not have died.”

Phoebe went back and forth between the two Whitlock’s slapping and punching them on behalf of all the victims whose lives Humphrey had taken.

When she exhausted the last slap, she wound her hand because it was tired.

“You better be prepared for what’s coming because the body of your son which you buried is being retrieved as we speak. Humphrey will not be going to prison for the murders he committed but you two will go in for abandoning a corpse and a few other crimes.

If I were you, I would shut up and accept whatever punishment that comes my way because if you try to dodge it, I will open Pandora’s box and pin all of Humphrey’s crimes on you.

At the end of the day, you were his partners in crime because you covered up for him. If blame is being assigned, you take 50% for all the murders.” Phoebe hissed, she wanted to them again but looking at them disgusted her.

“Take them to the station, I will come up with heavy charges that will get them punished severely and ensure they are locked up until their hair is grey.” Amon shoved Mr. Whitlock towards the men.

“I am sorry, i truly am.” Mr. Whitlock mumbled as he was dragged away.

Mrs. Whitlock was just crying loudly, and her cries were annoying those that were present. It took a few more minutes for the unsettled trio to get their bearings again. Around them, almost everything had been flattened, the buildings Whitlock house had been flattened, the once green pastures had dried up, not to forget the dead cows.

It was a good thing that most of the ranches were far apart so there were no nosy neighbors to ask questions and all the workers had been sent away by David’s men.

“You two should leave now, the sect will take care of the aftermath.” Amon told Phoebe and David.

“Mmm.” Phoebe answered. “Thank you for the help.”

“Go, go.” Amon waved outwards, gesturing for them to leave.

The couple left, driving out as a bus drove in, bringing in members of the sect that had come to cleanse the land and get rid of everything that had been contaminated by the demon.

“Do not be surprised if the news tomorrow announces a fire at this ranch.” David told Phoebe.

“Why?” she asked.

“Do you really think that will leave any building standing? The sect leaves nothing behind when they cleanse, sometimes they even go so far as to buy a building just to demolish it.” he shared.

The two were sitting at the back of the van, far away from the driver so their conversation was private.

“You seem to be quite familiar with founding sect, are you a member?” she quizzed.

“No, but I know a member.” he answered. “I asked my grandmother about it when I found out that the founding families are related to it. According to her, I almost joined when I was younger but coming from the first branch made it impossible. My father expects me or one of my two brothers to inherit Saxon group, you cannot be president of a mega company and ghost catcher. The company comes first before everything else.”

“You are not part of the company anymore, you can join now if you want.” Phoebe looked at him with interest.

He seemed to enjoy dabbling in the ghost world after all, and he had not expressed any fear after an encounter with the demon. If she didn’t know better she would assume that he had done it before.

David laughed lightly. “I only do this for you, if you were not here I would be slaving away behind my desk like every other ignorant person in the city.”

The distance between them was small but he disliked it so he moved closer to her and rested his head on her shoulder.

“Is it weird that I am exhausted?” he asked.

“No, I am exhausted as well and it’s only….” she looked at her watch. “It’s actually past one, how did time run so fast?” She looked at the empty van which had just he two of them now, not even the ghosts were around. “I kind of feel like we have all forgotten something, or perhaps missed it.”

“We have forgotten to eat.” David slipped his right hand through hers, interlocking their fingers.

Phoebe sighed, that was not it, something was nagging at her but she couldn’t put a finger on it. She sighed again and decided to let it go, it would come to her later.

“It feels wrong to be thinking about food after all that has just happened.” She said softly as Humphrey’s original face from the picture David had showed her on his phone came to her mind.

In the picture, four or five year old Humphrey looked normal and happy, smiling in the embrace of his mother. How had things gone from that to what he had become?

“This whole thing makes me a little scared to have children again. How does someone give birth to a child without a soul?” she shivered.

An empty body, as Amon had called it. Wasn’t it the same as a still birth?

“People die everyday, the rest of the living go on however. You do not give up on living life just because you know that you will die somewhere down the road. You cannot decide not to have children just because you have met one child without a soul.” David replied.

Phoebe sighed loudly again. “Our boys were beautiful, i miss them.”

He let go of her hand and put both of his hands around her rest, leaving his head where it was on her shoulder. “I know, I miss them as well, are you ready to discuss our similar dream now?”

Phoebe scoffed. “Right, the dream, it was a long dream, too long. How did it end for you?”

David closed his eyes for a few seconds as he recalled the last seconds of his life, there was nothing good there, just images of blood and dead bodies.

“A whole lot of dead Saxons and a bullet to the back of my head when I was trying to avenge our family and protect what was left of the Saxon group. My mother led the wolves right to our door and opened it wide for them.”