The Husband They Shouldn't Have Lost

Old Mr. Carter, at the end of his life, asked Kyle Hubert to protect his family for three years. Kyle is an executor for the Underworld, a soul guide who walks the dead to the beyond, and the protecting was to be done with his powers. The arrangement was set up as a contract marriage, so Kyle moved into the Carter house as a live-in husband, engaged to the old man's granddaughter. Moving in was a step down in rank for him. He kept the details of the guarding to himself, and he risked his own life at it. For three years the Carters looked down on him and went behind his back. The family's curse was due to lift on a fixed day, and that same day was the end of the contract term. On that day they put him out of the house. A second crisis followed, with the family's lives at stake. They found out then what Kyle had been doing for the three years, and they knelt and asked him to come back and guard them again.