Dear Sweetheart

Chapter 671

“Okay. We'll go over at once," Milo replied before casting a look at Curtis and Robin. “Please excuse us."

Seeing that Milo was leaving, Simone followed suit. Before doing so, she again stressed that it was imperative that Curtis give the medicine to Rayna and remember to collect more when it was close to running out.

Curtis gave his word that he would do so. When they had both left, he went over to the hospital bed and bent down to scoop Rayna up in his aims. “Go and drive the car over, Robin. We'll go to Jayfort first. Also, notify Han ey to go straight to Jayfort," he instructed Robin as he walked out of the ward.

Robin gave an answer in acknowledgment and walked in front of them to pave the way for them.

A black Maybach slowly drove away from the entrance of the hospital. Across the road was a white car with a man in the driver's seat. He watched as the black Maybach left before taking out a cigarette from liis pocket. Just as he was about to light it, liis gaze fell on the spot between liis thumb and index finger of liis right hand. After putting the cigarette back into the box. he started the car and drove forward unhurriedly.

During the drive to Jayfort, Rayna. who initially had her eyes closed, slowly opened her eyes. The first tiling she did was to direct her gaze to the person beside her. Upon confirming that it was Curtis, she lifted her hand slowly to touch liis cheek. Alas, a sharp stinging pain assailed her hand when she did so. Just as her hand was about to fall, he grabbed her wrist and looked down at her. “You're awake. Are you still in great pain?"

“It's still bearable," she replied in a hoarse voice. Honks drifted into her ears, upon which she asked, “Where are we going?”

“Jayfort." Grasping her hand, Curtis kissed her on the forehead and promised. “I'll never leave you behind anymore. It'll never happen again.”

This time, it's already a miracle that I found her in a day. If the previous incident were to repeat itself, and she was taken abroad, what would become of me if I really couldn't find her forever? I don't even dare to think of that possibility.

“Oh yes, how's the matter with the elderly traditional medical practitioner?” All of a sudden. Rayna recalled that then trip there was meant to locate the elderly traditional medical practitioner.

Curtis did not keep her in the dark anymore, answering honestly, “He's dead. One of the men who took you away from the hotel that day was liis brother. As for the identity of the other young man, I've already ordered someone to look into it.”

Only after she heard his response did realization gradually dawn upon her. “I see. No wronder. then. I didn't suspect anything when the man claimed to be the elderly traditional medicine practitioner himself. but I later found him to be overly aggressive and wras very much puzzled about it.”

“How so?” Curtis inquired.

“As far as I remember, that elderly traditional medicine practitioner was exceedingly gentle in nature. Besides, he talks really slowly. If you're impatient, you'll even get an anxiety attack speaking to him.” At that point, a smile quirked her lips. “By the way, do you know' who's the person that saved me when we left the beach?”

At her question, Curtis arched a brow, responding in a low’ and unhurried voice, “No.”

On the heels of that, he added. “You're not wrell yet, so don't think about all this. Rest well. Right now’, the most important tiling is to recuperate." Verily, he did not want her to spend the last vestiges of her energy deciphering those people's tine identities.

“You're right," Rayna affirmed with a nod and nestled in liis embrace. When the car drove onto a small street, the shouts of haw’kers and the sounds of locals washing their clothes by the river could be heard fiom outside the car window; “I've ahvays heard that the pace at Jayfort is very sedate. From the look of tilings now, it's true.”

“Do you like this place?" Curtis stretched out a hand to stroke her hah which was a touch messy.

“Yeah," the woman confessed, bobbing her head. She was fond of a classic scenic town with waterways like Jayfort, for it gave people a sense of comfort in their loneliness. Belongs to © n0velDrama.Org.

“If you like it, we'll buy a house here. In the future, we can come here often with the kids." Curtis had his lips beside her ear, sounding incredibly indulgent.

“Sure." A faint smile appeared on Rayna's pale face. Then, she lamented softly, “It feels like we've never spent such a long time together in the past."

That casual comment of hers promptly turned liis expression solemn. “That won't happen again. I'll spend more time with you and the kids in the future."

Indeed, the amount of time they spent together daily throughout the course of their relationship could not even begin to compare with that of the recent tivo months.

Suddenly. Rayna murmured, “I'm sorry. Because of me, you can't live your life peacefully. Previously. I even dragged you into the internal strife between Jefferson and Terblanc Group when you were already swramped with the matters of Faymon Group. The dust had just settled, and Faymon Group is facing another impending crisis, yet you've got to bustle around for my sake. I'm sorry, Curtis.”

“Why are you apologizing, silly? It had never been you dragging me down but the other wray around." That time around, the incidents befalling Rayna came too sudden and bizarre. It was definitely

premeditated, or Curtis would not still be in the dark about the mastermind's intention even after two months had passed.

His instincts screamed that it was a plot orchestrated by the mastermind. The ultimate goal was undoubtedly Faymon Group and him instead of Rayna. Perhaps she was but a pawn in the whole scheme.

After Faymon Group encountered a crisis in the real estate project in Yartran. its share prices had been dropping even till then. Despite the occasional rises, they were never on par with the decline.

At the same time, the progress of Glory's newdy developed product had also been hampered. Just a little over a wreek ago. some consumers lodged reports of Glory's cosmetic products causing damage to the skin. Worse still, some claimed that Glory's perfumes contained a minute amount of refined poppy that would make clients addicted after inhaling them.

Curtis did not mention any of that to Rayna. On top of that, he even instructed Ella to keep silent, forbidding the latter fi om saying a w’ord to her.

In liis eyes, company matters paled in comparison to Rayna's affairs.

At present, Faymon Group was controlled by Alfred behind the scenes, so he was not worried. As for Glory, he entrusted it to Jasmine, letting her handle tilings secretly. The current focus was on dealing with the investigation by Market Regulation Bureau.

In truth, he was confident in solving the few problems Glory was facing. Having been in the business field for so many years, he had witnessed numerous tactics used in sabotaging others. The only thing he needed to do right then was to ferret out the person making trouble for Glory on the sly.

Curtis took his phone out of his pocket and flipped to the photos taken by the bodyguards he sent to the seaside mansion. As soon as he sawr the great pile of laboratory equipment in the living room, liis first thought was that the culprit wranted to experiment on Rayna. Precisely speaking, they were targeting the parasite within her.

While that was merely his conjecture, he was totally convinced that it could be nothing else but the truth.

He scrolled through the photos on his phone. The moment his gaze landed on a tiny bit of plant in a shattered glass vessel, liis eyes glinted coldly.

Only when he lowered his eyes did he put awray the chilliness in them. He studied the woman in liis anus, then directed liis gaze on the emerald bracelet on her wrist. A flash of something dark flittered across liis eyes.