Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband-Chapter 486: Memories in a locked mind.
Not surprising, there was some discomfort in the room for a moment. Nobody knew what to say next, did they have to give Rekha condolences, did they have to comfort her, did they have to apologize to her.
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Phoebe and Maureen shared a similar distressed look as they started drawing the same conclusions. The key was likely connected to Rekha's parent's death. They had died in the same year as Cillian.
It made sense now why Edward had taken responsibility for Rekha, why he gave her everything she ever needed. It explained why he bought her a big house and assigned her dozens of maids, why he attended her school meetings and did everything a parent ought to have done. Maybe guilt had been eating him up all these years.
A tomb like silence continued to swallow the room, as all eyes focused on Rekha who appeared to be in distress and confused. She was looking at old man Lee with unanswered questions in her eyes.
"Girl, was Bernard Montgomery your father?" Grandpa Lee asked Rekha, breaking the silence.
Nodding slowly and a bit absentminded, Rekha smiled mildly with unease. "Yes, he was, I didn't know that he had ties to the academy. Please tell me, did he do the right thing by taking the key to the academy?" She crossed her fingers and hoped that her father was a righteous man.
"Right thing, I see that you really hold the academy in high regard. Your eyes have been glued shut so much that you cannot see what is in front of you. I was once like you; we were all like that until what happened to Bernard and Cillian." Grandpa Lee softly voiced.
The women traded gazes; Phoebe stretched her hand forward. "So does anyone else also think that their tragedies are linked?" She asked as question that lingered on everyone's mind.
The dots were there, they just needed to be connected with s string, pen or a pencil.
"I do not think, I believe so. Bernard died only three days after Cillian left for his mission. This was after he told me that he was going to take the key to safety because he could not keep it in his house.
I assumed it was the academy, and I encouraged him to do so. To my shock after he informed the academy heads that he would be bringing in a mystic key which Cillian had given to him, he ended up dead. He and his family got into an unexplainable accident only one child survived." Grandpa Lee turned his gaze to Rekha.
Phoebe and Maureen also looked at Rekha, feeling sorry for her. They wondered how she was feeling after so many years of being accused by the Montgomery family of having brought bad luck to her father which led to his death. The same accusations had been levied at her dead mother. Rekha had to be relieved surely.
Old man Lee shook his head and sighed for the umpteenth time. "My words are not evidence of anything child. It could all be a coincidence but come on, just do the math. Isn't the timing too suspicious? Don't you remember anything about that night? How did you survive the accident? What bumped into the car and forced it off the road?" He queried, hope of finding answers glinted in his eyes.
Rekha shut her eyes closed tightly, trying to recall the accident but her brain was as blank as a cloudless sky. The more she tried to recall, the more she felt a sharp ache which threatened to tear her brain apart, so she gave up. It was always like this when she tried to remember past events.
"I-I do not remember anything." She buried her head in her palms like as though her head had grown too big for her neck to lift.
"Because you said that my father blocked your memories, whatever it was that he blocked must have been very terrifying for you to live with as a child." Phoebe reminded her, her eyes lingered on Rekha with unspoken remorse.
Rekha shifted from her seat such that a maid could clean where she had been sitting. For a moment, they remained silent and waited for the maid to do her job which was done in two minutes.
"I think it was demons." Old man Lee suddenly said when they had privacy again.
"Demons? Mr. Lee you really think that demons had something to do with the accident that killed my family? And the academy, were they really involved?" She asked, her tone laced with disbelief especially regarding the academy in which she had so much faith and trust.
Grandpa Lee wiped a handkerchief over his face as he gestured indifferently. "Honestly I am not a hundred percent sure, but I suspect it to be so. I started distancing myself from the academy back then because there were more questions than answers, eventually I left because I did not know who I could trust anymore.
I have been sniffing around still; I intend to find out why Cillian thought the academy could not be trusted. Why Bernard died, what happened on Cillian's mission? If possible, I want to help in cleaning house and restore the academy to what it used to be. I am an old man now with not many years left so I am not as scared as I was in the past." He pulled his shoulders down and leaned back in the chair, sinking in the leather almost completely.
"How do you intend to do that?" Phoebe asked, curious to know his plan.
"Rufus is back at the academy, he asked me to go back there, apparently things are messed up. Morell run the academy as if it was his personal playground, he ruined it with politics. I am going to take Rufus up on that offer and I will do some digging while we restore the academy to what it used to be." Grandpa Lee explained.
Maureen arched an eyebrow. "You alone cannot take them on join our team, secretly of course. We will tell you what we find and vice versa." She proposed.
Grandpa Lee grabbed a hold of the offer immediately, he drifted his eyes to Rekha whose eyes were closed digging for her lost memories once again.
"I can return back those memories to you if you are up to it." He offered his services.
A shudder rolled down Rekha's spine, even as a grown-up she was terrified about what was buried in her head. "Thank you and I will seriously consider it but finish Cillian's story first." She proposed
The other two women nodded. "She is right, what happened when he got to the Island." Maureen asked.
"Now that is still a mystery to me. I wonder who knows what happened?" His eyes narrowed in Maureen's direction. "I think your brother does actually. On the day of Cillian's funeral when he was chasing away the elders of the academy, I remember him accusing them of not sending help to your father. He called them hypocrites, spat in their faces and said the Mayfair's would never be connected to the academy again. If you want to know more, find a way of asking him." Grandpa Lee suggested.
In response, Maureen clicked her tongue. "It will be easier to kill a high-level demon than get any answers out of him."
