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.

the pair

he came out of the bathroom, the sight of Lucky lying quietly on the carpet had him furrowing his brows. He thought of chasing it out of the room, but after a moment’s hesitation, he merely stepped over it.

I’m sending it away anyway, I’ll let it lie wherever it wants and do a massive spring

a towel and was about to walk to the bed, he was stunned to spot the light gray scarf Rayna had given him during their trip to Jetroina.

it in the closet? How did

up, he found a dark blue Hermès silk scarf underneath it. The other scarf

a moment, he was at a loss

toward the puppy lying on the carpet. It gazed at him with wide, innocent eyes and wagged its tail. The corners of his mouth twitched as he

barked at him twice, seemingly unafraid.

the nightstand and started attending to some work matters. It was an hour later

at night. In ten minutes, it would be the

year won’t

out to turn on the lamp on his nightstand, his hand brushed against the dark blue silk scarf. He hesitated for a moment but still

everything, leaving only him behind. It

during meetings, there were many times when I saw her talking with a fierce and dazzling aura while wearing this exact scarf.

that if he knew the perfume’s brand, he would

running through his mind made his heart ache, filling him with a sense of love and hatred at the

closed his eyes, he recalled how she 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

the cold weather of

quickly, and 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 hang

a word of acknowledgment, Curtis replied, “There’s no need for that. I’ve already eaten. I’m calling you about

regarding Ms. Garland?”

haven’t

asked Mr. Tylinski, and he said you’ve been very busy

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