Chapter 482

The moonlight was ridiculously gentle, soft as a stream, quietly spilling over the two of them. Some insect in the night chirped lazily in the distance. "Broderick, do you think people can come back to life after they die?" Broderick Ackerley gently smoothed Leslie Green’s hair, his eyes fixed seriously on her face. "I doubt it." If coming back were possible, then his parents wouldn’t be gone. Leslie reached out, touched his cheek, and smiled at him. "Exactly. That’s why, Broderick, we have to really live. Try hard. I hate the Green family, and yeah, I hate the whole damn Ackerley family too. Broderick, I want to bring the Greens down." Broderick stared at her for a few seconds. Then he said, "Okay, I'm with you. How do you want to do it?" Leslie sat up, locking eyes with him. "You're not gonna ask me why?" He could feel her emotions. That familiar feeling washed over him again. Leslie’s love wasn’t the showy kind—it was deep, intense, and quietly overwhelming. And his own feelings for