Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 484

Chapter 484: Answers at last.
Maureen wanted to whistle, that or hide behind a chair because old man Lee and Phoebe were staring at each other as if they were involved in a standoff, one that involved invisible weapons that would be pulled out at any moment.

“Are you sure that you want to open that can of worms?” Old man Lee asked Phoebe. His eyes didn’t flinch, meeting her intense ones in a similar way.

The tension was thick, the air hung heavy with a promise of a beat down even though everybody knew that nobody was going to be beaten. Surely, Phoebe would not beat up an old man for answers!

“Bring it on, I eat worms for a living.” Phoebe replied.

Just like that, the tension vanished, Rekha and Maureen burst into laughter. Even old man Lee could not help himself; he joined them in laughing. Phoebe was feeling embarrassed, and she winced, she had not meant to say that.

Her intention had been to say something domineering, not ‘I eat worms for a living.’

“Stop laughing.” she whined.

Her whining made it worse, they giggled and cackled in a way that was even worse. It was if she had inflated laughing gas in the room. Phoebe had no choice but to sulk until they got all their laughter out. She had a dreadful feeling however that this would not be the last time she heard of her blunder. Lord save her if it got into Andre’s ears. He would find a place for it in his movie for sure.

Eventually the laughter died down and Phoebe could not have been more relived.

Wiping cold sweat away from his pale skin, grandpa Lee let out a long and weary sigh. “I haven’t laughed like that in twenty years. I think that I have grown quite old, and I should unburden myself of some things.” His eyes turned wistful as he turned around and looked out of the window, recalling past events. “Honestly I don’t remember or fully know the details of the things that happened around the time your grandfather died. His death is something that I find truly regrettable. If only Cillian listened to me and did not go on that mission maybe he would be alive today.” He paused his speech and returned his gaze to the listeners.

Phoebe and Maureen’s attention sharpened like a sword; this was the first time someone from Cillian’s inner circle was willing to give them any real information.

Maureen could not believe that it was happening, finally. The last time she had approached grandpa Lee on the matter, he had ordered her never to speak on it again. He had even gone so far as to ban her from visiting his home. She did not know if she had Phoebe, Shanna, Minka, George or the ghost of Levi Diggens to thank for this opportunity.

She pressed record on her phone, not wanting to miss a single word. As for Rekha, she was partly nonchalant because nothing in the conversation concerned her. She knew however that the subject of Cillian’s death was a taboo to Edward. If he knew that his sister and daughter were looking into it, he would not be very happy. Nevertheless, she sharpened her own ears to listen because Cillian Mayfair was a legendary guardian.

“What happened grandpa Lee?” Phoebe’s voice was smooth and encouraging as she urged old man Lee to go on.

A breath heavy with exhaustion escaped his lips once again. “While I don’t remember some things, there are other things that happened around that time which I recall like it happened yesterday. Your grandfather had what they call curious cat syndrome, he just had to know everything. He collected all sorts of artifacts and studied them as a scholar on mystic artifacts. That path led him to the six mystic keys, Cillian was very interested in those damn keys…..” He paused because Maureen interjected.

“Speaking of keys, there is a box in his desk drawer in which a mystic key was supposed to be resting but there is no key. Do you know what happened to it?” Maureen’s brows rose up.

Phoebe remembered that she had seen the box too, she had wondered where the key had gone or who could have taken it.

Nodding his head, grandpa Lee’s face grew more stern. “I know the box you speak of; we found it in the Gumbo spring highlands on a demon hunting mission that we had gone on together. We went after a collector demon, that would kill humans in possession of artifacts which possessed special energy. The key was among the artifacts that the demon had collected. We took everything back to the academy except for the key.” Grandpa Lee narrated.

Rekha scratched her head; she carried out her missions by the book so hearing what Cillian had done she could not help but judge him harshly. “Why would he do that? That was the academy’s property! What he did was wrong.”

“Calm down tiger! We do not know why my father decided to do that, he must have heard a very strong reason.” Maureen gave Rekha a little dismissive wave and drifted her focus back to grandpa Lee. “Please uncle Lee tell us why my father did such a thing.” She requested politely.

Grandpa Lee cast Rekha a brief glance, letting out a small cackle. “I was as strict on following the rules like you young lady once upon a time. In fact, I opposed strongly when Cillian hid the mystic key, but he told me that all he wanted was to study it and he would hand it in within a period of two months.

Actually, he did not believe that the academy was secure enough to protect the key under Morell’s administration. Things had changed drastically at the academy after Rufus was struck down with a strange illness. The academy was honestly a mess, a few trespassers had been caught on the grounds. Everyone knew that we were vulnerable.” He chuckled remorsefully. “I wish I had listened to Cillian. At the time, I thought that he was being paranoid, but I gave him the time that he requested for.”

He paused his words to sip on a glass of water and continued. “A month passed and everything was calm. Out of the blue one day, Cillian was given a confidential assignment by the academy, the type that was off the books. He was to go with a team to the Island of no return to handle some problems.” A measured gust of air came through his nose. “He never should have gone on that mission. If he had told me about it, I would have said so to his face and told him to turn it down because he was not the first to be assigned this mission. The fact that it was still being assigned was a bad sign in itself. You could smell the doom from a mile away.”