Chapter 349

“You’re the best, Mom! I’ve always known you dote on me the most,” Rayna said in a piping voice..

Linda replied, “Save it. It’s not because I feel sorry for you. I’m only acquiescing in your request because I’m worried you’ll drag me down and make me the brunt of gossip if no one wants to marry you since it’ll be your second marriage. I don’t have the energy to make another dress for Roxanne.”

“Mom, could you stop harping about how it’s my second marriage-”

“It’s the truth.”

It seemed as though Rayna knew she would fail in winning the argument with Linda, considering that she stopped talking and went about helping her mother with some housework. A long time passed before Curtis saw her appear on the screen again.

When Rayna noticed that the video was still recording, she gasped and turned beet red. “Oh my gosh! I completely forgot to stop recording. It didn’t capture my conversation with Mom just now, did it? No, that won’t do. I’ll have to edit that bit lest Mr. Faymon see it.”

As she muttered under her breath, Linda happened to call her to have her meal. The video ended after she responded to her mother.

Curtis sat on the couch and stared at the camera silently for a long time.

The forty–minute–long video replayed in his mind again and again. The way Rayna had looked and her words stirred a fire within him, and he felt angry and distressed.

If she loved me so much, why did she take Jefferson’s side without hesitation when a problem arose? Was it just because he had nothing and was the weaker one? What did I have, then?

The memory of that phone call in which she cried because of Jefferson and resolutely decided to remain in Frosa, abandoning him, made him seethe with hatred, and his gaze gradually turned icy.

Curtis tossed the camera carelessly onto the coffee table, then rose to his feet to go upstairs.

When Lucky saw him get up, it sprang to its feet and followed him while wagging its tail. Its owner merely glanced at it out of the corner of his eye and kept walking.

pair went upstairs

of the bathroom, the sight of Lucky lying quietly on the carpet

I’ll let it lie wherever

he dried his hair with a towel and was about to walk to the bed, he was

How did

stared at the scarf, his gaze reflecting his mixed feelings. Picking it up, he found a dark blue Hermès silk scarf underneath it. The other scarf belonged to Rayna.

he was at a loss

with wide, innocent eyes and wagged

at him

scarves onto the nightstand and started attending to some work matters. It was

o’clock at night. In ten minutes, it would be the

a new year won’t bring any changes.

on the lamp on his nightstand, his hand brushed against the dark blue silk

his place. After the breakup, she took away everything, leaving only him behind. It puzzled him as to where Lucky

of Regulators or even during meetings, there were many times when I saw her talking with a fierce and dazzling aura while wearing this exact scarf. Once, it even served as a blindfold tied around my eyes. Despite not being able to see, I could feel the warmth of her skin beneath my fingers and smell her faint fragrance. What brand was that perfume? Was

wore, he could not help thinking that if he knew the perfume’s brand, he would acquire it and force it to cease production of that perfume. I’ll make it so that she can never buy it anymore so as to avoid any

thoughts running through his mind made his heart ache, filling him with a sense

would snuggle in his arms languidly. He did not know where she picked it up, but she had a bad habit of playfully pressing on his Adam’s apple while looking

alone in the cold weather of Frosa.

Jeremy’s voice rang out. “Curtis, I heard from Mr. Tylinski that you’re not going to the Faymon residence for New Year’s Eve dinner tonight. Do you want me and Wyatt to go over and

of acknowledgment, Curtis replied, “There’s no need for

it regarding

spot–on guess. “Why would you think that? You haven’t seen me

asked Mr. Tylinski, and he said you’ve been very busy these few days. I knew you wanted to use

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