Chapter 34

Brandon and his group had even carried out grave robbing before. Wealthy families would build large tombs in our village, and they would bury the dead together with expensive jewelry in those tombs. After they were finished, Brandon and his men would steal the valuables from the tombs before secretly sealing them back up. Those people had no morals. They'd do anything for money, no matter how unspeakable those actions were. Over the years, my father had been quietly gathering evidence of the Ford family's criminal activities. He knew that things between Freddy and me wouldn't end in peace, so he kept this evidence as a last resort, just in case he would need to use it. It wasn't just my father either. Alana's father and other villagers who had conflicts with the Ford family had been secretly collecting evidence as well. The black notebook Alana's father gave my dad contained records of the Ford family's fraudulent accounting activities, while the envelope held photos documentin