His Precious Love

“It’ll take at least forty minutes for the groceries to be delivered. Are there flour and unsalted butter in the kitchen?” Rayna asked Larissa as she headed toward the kitchen, ignoring Curtis altogether.

“Yes. They’re all in the upper cabinet.” Larissa followed her into the kitchen and helped her retrieve the said items. Then, she added, “There’s also an oven and some molds for cookies. Do you need them as well, Ms. Garland?”

“Yes. Please take them out for me.”

“Sure.”

Kristie didn’t go into the kitchen but eyed Curtis beside her and inquired in curiosity, “What did you say was the purpose of your visit just now? You’re here for your laptop, right?”

Without waiting for Curtis to answer, she started rummaging everywhere in the living room.

In the end, she found the laptop beside the television. With all the excitement in the world, she brought it over to him. “Found it! Hurry up and leave, Curt, lest your work gets held up.”

Curtis was rendered speechless for a moment.

He massaged his temples. “I worry about you since there’s an outsider at home. I’ll leave later.”

“What outsider?” Kristie was lost at first before she followed his gaze to the kitchen and caught sight of Rayna. Immediately, chagrin swamped her. “Rayna isn’t an outsider! Don’t treat her like your enemy simply because you’ve broken up with her. She’s stunningly beautiful, and many men are interested in her even if you aren’t.”

Curtis’ eyes darkened a shade. “You’re now siding with outsiders, Kristie?”

“I was just speaking the truth.” Kristie curled her ruby lips. In the next instant, something seemingly occurred to her. She leaned close to the man and queried in a whisper, “Are you so adamant about staying because you want to eat Rayna’s cooking, Curt?”

“No.”

In response, Kristie harrumphed. “I think that’s the reason all right. It’s obvious that you want to stick around for a free meal, Curt.”

Pressing his hand against her head, Curtis forcibly turned her around in the direction of her room. “Go back to your bedroom and change out of your pajamas. If you continue talking back to me, I’ll dismiss Mdm. Lovett and leave you to fend for yourself.”

“How petty!” Kristie muttered. Slapping his hand away, she begrudgingly returned to her bedroom.

on the coffee table before striding to the bar area. He snagged a glass and got himself

the open kitchen. Her black hair was pulled back in a simple ponytail

with his ebony eyes fixated on

kind of allure exactly does she have that I can’t forget her? And why is it that she has the

he threw his head back and downed the entire glass of soda. That

helping Rayna when her phone rang

the side to

and daughter-in-law are on a business trip and can’t make it

give you a half-day leave. Just come over

beyond words. Before leaving, she suggested, “Since you’ve got nothing to do here anyway, Mr. Faymon, you

after she had left, Curtis remained leaning against the bar without budging

the kitchen, only to see that Rayna was managing

that case, why should I still go and help her? Besides, I’m not here to be

Lovett? Why isn’t she helping Rayna?” Kristie questioned upon seeing

is running a high fever, so I gave her a half-day leave,”

Upon hearing that, Kristie rolled up

stopped by Curtis

that much money to compensate everyone.” As Curtis recalled her

when I set the wrong duration for the oven! Am I to leave her to do

stared at the man fixedly with

foreboding

anything, Kristie shoved him into the kitchen and announced loudly, “Rayna, Curt has offered

scoffed, “He can’t even differentiate between salt

be embarrassed to eat your cooking without doing anything and insisted on helping, so do

she was greeted by the sight of Curtis

bowl of flour. “Since

face, Curtis turned to glower at Kristie, but the latter had long since

flour!” Rayna urged. Then, she even muttered, “He shouldn’t have offered to help if he doesn’t know how to do it. He came in, but he isn’t helping at all, standing around like