Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 134

The old house had plenty of rooms, but none were specifically for Brandon.

After all, Brandon and Colin had rarely ever stayed in Midvale.

It was perfectly normal that there wasn't a room for him.

"There are so many rooms, just pick one," Lillian said dismissively. "Sleep wherever you want."

Did he really need to ask her that?

With that, she went upstairs.

The housekeeper, having overheard, came over with a smile to show Brandon to a guest room.

"Mr. Brandon Mercer, please follow me to the second floor. There are two guest rooms up there, always kept clean. The sheets and duvet cover were just changed.

When the master and madam were still with us, they also lived on the second floor.

Your mother and Lillian stayed on this floor when they visited as well."

Brandon could discern the hierarchy from the way he was addressed.

The housekeeper called him the formal "Mr. Brandon Mercer," while he called Lillian by her first name.

Not that Lillian seemed to mind.

Brandon just found her way of interacting with the people in Midvale very strange.

She had lived in Northwyn for so many years and had never shown any of these tendencies.

Lillian returned to her room. Everything was just as she remembered it, without the slightest change.

But though the room was the same, the people were not.

She would never again see her doting grandparents in this old house.

So much had changed over the years.

Her grandparents were gone, her grandmother was in a coma, and her mother had a mental illness.

She hadn't been back to Midvale in a long time, and this visit was only to get a signature for a divorce.

Lillian felt she couldn't even face her Lancaster relatives.

Despite this, the next day, the elders of the Lancaster clan all came to see her.

They all brought her gifts.

Lillian looked at them, her heart filled with complex emotions.

As they sat and caught up, everyone was surprised by how much Lillian had changed.

She looked as if she had been through a great deal.

One of the clan elders looked at her and couldn't help but ask, "Lillian, what happened to your hair? And why have you gotten so thin?"

Hearing the elder's question, Brandon, fearing Lillian might blurt out the truth about prison, quickly interjected.

"Lillian spent two years abroad. I think she wasn't used to the food."

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