Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband-Chapter 494: Bringing Rekha closer.

For so many years, Edward had carried the weight of his problems alone. Like his mother, he had managed the weight of a grief so profound that it became a shadow of his very being. Fear had made him harden his heart and bury away every emotion related to his father's death. But now, the dam he had meticulously built began to crack.

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He buried his head in his trembling hands as sobs escaped his lips, one after the other until his body convulsed with the full force of his anguish. His cries were raw and guttural, they escaped the office and echoed in the hallway.

His sobs echoed with the heartbreak of a young man that had loved and lost his father so quickly and them held on to his pain in silence for decades.

Old lady Mayfair's heart broke for her son, the burden left to him by Cillian had been too great. The questions, too many and the anger, explosive. "Look at me." She commanded. She moved to him and held his head, staring deep into his red rimmed eyes. "You did the right thing by not investigating blindly and stupidly. I would have died if something happened to you too. You have done a great job by running the company and protecting us all. Your father would be proud Edward. I know that because I am proud of you." She assured him.

Deep down she was determined to find out what exactly happened to her husband. She knew that if there was someone that could unearth the truth about this, it would be Phoebe and her ghost team.

Something in Edward shifted amidst the agony, a catharsis he had needed for a long time, The burden eased bit by bit as if it had been squeezed out, one tear drop at a time. For the first time in three decades, there was a faint calm within Edward. His mothers' words somehow carried his grief away, scattering it into the air and it was carried out through ventilators.

After Edward composed himself, grandma Mayfair diverted the conversation to Rekha. "Edward, you did your best for her, but I think it was lacking. We should have been her new family. We need to embrace the girl fully, in fact that is long overdue. We should have welcomed her here as soon as her parents were put in the ground. I should have taken care of her like a mother does her daughter.

I feel terrible that I never got the chance and what makes me feel worse is the fact that you cut her off Edward. No matter what she had done you had a debt to pay, her family's blood is on our hands to an extent." The words left her lips, tinged with quiet let down.

Edward inhaled deeply, regret enveloped him regarding how he and Rekha ended things in the past. "It was never my intention to cut her off I was trying to protect her without arousing her suspicions. I gave her two choices mother, to either stay by my side or go to that school. She chose that school, and I want nothing to do with the school.

I still checked in on her and continued providing for her. Nanny Fey who takes care of her daily life kept me updated on what she was up to. As long as she was healthy and happy I considered it that my job was being done. I just couldn't see her anymore because she turned into one of them." He admitted.

Shaking her head, grandma Mayfair's wiped the corners of her teary eyes. "Even so Edward, she was like a daughter, and you just threw her out of your life like an old rug. That was heartless of you. You should have told her the truth and let her decide for herself what she wanted. She should have learned about her parents from you and not old man Lee.

Imagine if she had heard it from a malicious person out to make her an enemy of our family. They could have twisted the truth and pointed to us as the killers of her parents rather than fellow victims of a sinister plot. Thank God that she is a sweet kid, and she holds no grudges against us." She stopped talking and sneezed into a tissue from a box sitting on Edward's desk.

Edward's ears perked up; a calculating gleam flickered as his gaze narrowed. "Old man Lee told her? He knew the truth about the accident, how? Why was she even there in the first place?" He bubbled over with questions, eyes alight.

Grandma Mayfair shrugged once. "Have you not seen or heard the gossip regarding George Osbourne?" Her brows shot up in surprise, the news was all over their estate.

A slow head shake was his only reply, Edward was not one to follow up with the town gossip, unless it was economic, political or sports and even that was limited to golf and polo.

"Oh dear, George had a ghost wife, he was married off to Levi Osborne when they were just toddlers. A real marriage in which their hands were tied with a rope, there was a ritual, and their souls were bound together. It's sick, is it not? Anyway, Levi died and the ghost haunted George and his first secret wife which led to a divorce. Well___that and the Osbourne's thinking the girl was no good for him. Then George married Minka, and the ghost haunted them, making it hard to have little Osbourne babies so Phoebe and Rekha dealt with it." Grandma Mayfair rushed through the story.

Edward scoffed, shaking his head in disbelief. "They are insane, and the guilty parties deserve to be punished for what they did." He commented. "So, uncle Lee then told Rekha about her father just like that? It is very strange; I did not even know that he knew that father had given Bernard anything." He rubbed his chin.

Old lady Mayfair shrugged, she also didn't know anything until now. "Rekha was distraught because old man Lee told her that the academy could be responsible for her family's death. She remembers nothing about the accident, but she feels terrible that she chose the academy over you. As the super adult here I am giving you the task of mending your relationship Edward, she was naive back then and you kept the truth from her."

Edward nodded__then paused and winced. "Mother, I don't think that Rekha wants to remember what happened during the accident. I blocked her memories because she was having nightmares and drawing horrific pictures of demon like creatures." His thumb tapped on the sofa headrest.

Grandma Mayfair patted his shoulder. "Ask her tomorrow, she is spending the night and if it works out, many more nights after that." Grandma Mayfair stood up and left the study, wishing him a good night on her way out.

With his hands in the pant pockets, Edward walked to the window and stared at the bright stars thinking about his talk with his mother. The urge to look into his father's death began to gnaw at him, he was stronger willed now and with Rufus' help maybe the truth of what happened back then could finally come to light.