Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 232

Chapter 232: Chapter 232: Nightmare

Around 6:00 in the morning, the world outside was as black as ink. Melody Summers was nudged awake in her sleep by a furry head.

She groggily opened her eyes and met the Leopard’s gaze, which shone like two small light bulbs in the darkness.

Melody Summers reached out from under the quilt and gently stroked the Leopard’s furry head, mumbling, "It’s you, Flora... Are you hungry...? Just wait, I’ll feed you when I get up in a bit..."

Melody Summers had let the Leopard out of her space to keep her company yesterday. It was probably because the scene she’d witnessed in that basement was too bizarre—the powerless freezer room filled with boxes of decaying human organs, the empty medical beds... The images replayed in her mind like a movie.

At the time, Melody Summers hadn’t felt scared in the basement, just heartbroken for those innocent people.

But the more Melody Summers thought about it over the past couple of days, the more terrifying the scene became.

And so, the night before last, she’d had another nightmare.

For the first time in a long while, she started dreaming about the events of her past life again.

She dreamed that in her past life, during the extreme cold, she had come down with a high fever. Water was scarce, so she had nothing to drink. The fever left her parched, her throat raw and painful, and she groaned in agony on her bed.

Then, Elaine Hughes knocked on her door, asking with a hint of complaint why she hadn’t made dinner yet. The whole family was hungry.

In her past life, Elaine Hughes had never lifted a finger. The other Lancasters were even more pampered and wouldn’t do a single chore. Melody Summers was the only one who handled all the housework.

Facing Elaine Hughes’s nagging, Melody Summers could only force her ailing body to the kitchen to cook for the Lancasters.

At that moment, she was trembling slightly from the high fever. Her hands were unsteady, and she accidentally dropped and shattered a plate.

Seeing this, Sylvia Lancaster burst into tears and asked, "Sister, do you have something against me? That plate you shattered was a gift I made for Mom and Dad in pottery class. How could you break it on purpose?"

Melody Summers hurriedly explained that it wasn’t on purpose, but not a single one of the Lancasters believed her.

While comforting Sylvia Lancaster, Elaine Hughes looked at Melody Summers with a gaze full of disappointment. "I’ve said it before. Sylvia is innocent in the matter of you two being switched at birth; she’s a victim too. Why must you always target her like this? You disappoint me so much. I truly wonder... is a malicious child like you really my daughter?"

Simon Lancaster also stared coldly at Melody Summers, his tone harsh. "Get on your knees and apologize to Sylvia!"

In the dream, Melody Summers continued to plead weakly, "I have a fever! My hands were shaking, I couldn’t hold the plate steady! I didn’t break it on purpose, and I didn’t know she made it!"

Upon hearing this, Silas Lancaster looked at Melody Summers with utter disgust. "You can’t even hold a plate steady? You’re useless. Why did someone like you have to come back and disturb our lives?"

Robert Lancaster, the head of the family, tried to smooth things over. "Alright, don’t just stand there. Sylvia gets angry just looking at you. You should get back to cooking."

Watching Melody Summers silently pick up the ingredients and resume cooking, Robert Lancaster added, "Melody, you’re the one who stole everything from Sylvia in the first place. You should be thinking about how to compensate her, not targeting her. Understand?"

Melody Summers couldn’t remember how she had responded in the dream. She only recalled the scene suddenly shifting, and she was being drugged by Robert Lancaster and Elaine Hughes and sent to Hector Hayes’s bed.

In the dream, she tried to fight back, but as soon as she pulled out a razor blade, the Lancasters, who had suddenly appeared in the room for some reason, pinned her down by her arms and legs.

Robert Lancaster and Elaine Hughes held down her arms, one on each side, while Simon Lancaster and Silas Lancaster grabbed her ankles.

They stared at Melody Summers with loathing, chattering incessantly about how much she had disappointed them. They even ordered her, "If you still consider us your family, then don’t resist!"

Sylvia Lancaster stood in the room, flanked by Flynn Adler and Ethan Sutton. She snuggled against the two men, looking down at Melody Summers with contempt.

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