The story just seemed to become more and more unbelievable. Rufus could believe easily that he had died in their past life because he had been on his way to death only a few months ago.
What he found hard to believe was that his Prudence had passed on early and the great Saxon family had fallen. He couldn't help feeling like a sinner because he had not protected the legacy which had been passed on to him.
He was so grateful that the Saxon pendant had given Phoebe a chance to be reborn and granted them the opportunity to change things. He would make sure that when he died, it was not as a sinner that had left behind a weak fractured family.
There and then, he decided to double his efforts in training David as a worthy successor. He was a better fit for patriarch than his father Robert. If the generation gap was an issue, he would pass on the position to Robert and declare David his assistant so that he could naturally inherit the position after his father.
