Cutie, Please Marry Me Again (Jenna and Hansen)

Chapter 1628

When he saw Jepherson, Jacky stood up without a word. He then turned around and said, "Bury the dog."

Jepherson moved with the intention to follow him, but his way was barred by the village people.

Jacky continued, "I only did something that I should have done from the beginning. I was like this before I met you. Those who oppose me will not have a good ending when I catch them. Other than the blood on the ground, I promise that not even her bones will remain."

Jepherson's gaze was deep and cold. "Jacky Scott."

Jacky stopped and glanced back at Jepherson, "I'm not you. I'm not going to consider the bigger picture. For the sake of the bigger picture, I left behind a mad dog that hurt people everywhere. This isn't how I, Jacky, do things. Never put a snake in your arms, it will only lead to your death."

Jacky pivoted on his feet and left with his men. Raeleigh stood a little distance away as she watched Jepherson as well as the entire proceedings. When he turned and saw her, only then did she walk away.

Raeleigh left Waverly Village and headed for the shopping mall to buy some necessary daily items and some tonics for Louisa.

On that same day, Raeleigh quietly packed up the luggage in Santiago's room and moved back to her own place.

When Jepherson came back, Raeleigh had by then already asked some people to move the bed.

The room was now empty with the exception of Santiago lying on the bed.

In the following days, besides visiting Santiago every day when Jepherson was absent, neither of them had the chance to see each other.

Due to Jacky's incapacitated state at the time, he had missed out on the Mayor election. The current Mayor was someone from the Moore Family.

Raeleigh heard that the person from the Moore family was irresponsible.

However, the fact that Flynt was able to elevate that irresponsible person to an important position, showcased Flynt's capabilities.

Moreover, during this period of time, the Richards family suffered the threat of being supplanted in Capital City. When Flynt's people rose and became the mayor, he would join hands with some merchants and replace the Richards Group. Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

Therefore, the turmoil outside had yet to calm

down.

Jepherson left early and returned late at night. Raeleigh stayed in Santiago's room all day to take care of him. Xanthus, on the other hand, followed doggedly in her footsteps.

Due to the state of Raeleigh's eyes, Xanthus studied everyday on how to keep Raeleigh's eyes from getting worse.

But no matter how much he researched, there was only one answer and that was to remove the brain tumor through surgery. The problem with that was that no one dared to perform this operation.

The child had already grown past the recommended age, to perform it now would be a pointless endeavour.

Besides, Raeleigh wouldn't agree to the operation.

Raeleigh had just wiped Santiago's face and was about to leave. When she reached the door, she saw that Jepherson had just come back, but neither of them spoke.

Raeleigh walked past him and through the door back to where she stayed. She closed it behind her and hadn't emerged since, not even for a meal.

Jepherson did not seek out Raeleigh. He gave her all the time and space she needed.

Two months later, the Capital City finally returned

to its peaceful days. The momentum of the three powerhouses increased as well. With the stance of the Richards, the Moores, and the Whalens, it was once again confirmed that the strengths of these three old families were extraordinary. In their fight for supremacy, they fought themselves to a standstill.

The Moore family occupied the entire political circle. The Richards family held dominion over the commercial lifeline of the city while the Whalen family controlled an unseen trajectory.

The three families occupied their respective parts of the circle. Plus, in the past six months, the Richards family had suffered the most losses.

Although they had regained what was lost and recovered all their business chains, the loss was still too great.

Almost everyone knew that something had happened to Santiago.

Autumn came and Raeleigh had been pregnant for six months.

Standing beneath the tree, Raeleigh protected her belly with one hand and concentrated on reading a book with the other.

Hearing a car stopped not far behind her, Raeleigh turned around and saw someone had gotten down from the car. Jepherson stood there and stared at her, his soft eyes fixed on Raeleigh's belly. However, he didn't intend to disturb and encroached on her space. Thus, all he did was stand by his car and stared at her from afar.

Jared stood not far from where Raeleigh was. Ever since Raeleigh moved out from the Richards family, he had followed her every single day.

They're currently at Raeleigh's new residence, which was chosen by Raeleigh herself. Most people weren't aware of the location and she intended to live here. But recently Raeleigh felt that it was not safe anymore, hence she planned to leave for a period of time abroad.

Now that Stella was dead, Raeleigh was no longer worried about Stella's retribution against her. However, she still needed to keep an eye out for the Doyle family as she couldn't rule out the possibility that they would blame her for Stella’s death. After all, this matter had to do with her right from the beginning.

As the saying goes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

The family that had raised Stella could be just as unkind.

The issue of Raeleigh going back was delayed for this reason and as she didn't want to stay idle in the Richards family, she moved out.

Raeleigh hadn't seen Jepherson for a few days. She wasn't expecting his arrival.

Raeleigh glanced at the tree for a moment. She then turned back around and took off in short, quick strides.

When Raeleigh reached his side, she asked, "Do you have business with me?"

"I'll be away for a few days. I need you to come over and help me keep an eye on Santiago. I'm worried when no one is there by his side."

Raeleigh shifted her head in Jared's direction. He could have just asked Jared to pass on the message, why did he need to come all the way here?

"How long will you be away?"

"I'm not sure yet."

"I'll come over this afternoon."

Raeleigh had not had her lunch yet.

"Then I'll go back with you this afternoon."

Raeleigh had nothing more to say. She hoped that they could treat each other like they used to, which enabled her to interact with Jepherson with ease. Since he wanted to stay for a meal, Raeleigh barely spared it another thought other than there being an extra person to eat with them.

"I'll go and prepare."

Raeleigh turned on her heels and went into her own house. Xanthus was just about to cook. When he saw who exactly it was that came in, he instinctively froze, followed by a tremulous question, "Mr Richards, you have so much free time to come over?"

"Just a small matter, so Raeleigh invited me here for a meal."

Jepherson casually changed his shoes, as if he had returned to his own home instead of entering another's house. Xanthus returned to the kitchen with a strained face.

After she had changed her clothes, Rayleigh headed for the kitchen. She was prepared to help, which inevitably became a lecture she knew Xanthus would heap on her.

But this was only a minor part, the major part of the issue had yet to come.

Xanthus didn't know that Raeleigh had promised to take care of Santiago for Jepherson. Once he was made aware of it, his expression went terribly bad.

"You're not even his mother! Why is it whenever he has something going on you have to come at his beck and call? Was he always so hands-off?"

"Before he met me, he had Santiago. There was no need for me."

Raeleigh refuted. That sentence sounded like something that was just pulled out to rebut against Xanthus's resentment but right at that moment, Xanthus saw Raeleigh turned herself away and he had to swallow back all the words he wanted to say to her.

It had been some time since she moved out. She had never dropped by to visit Santiago since and it made her feel troubled.

Initially, she had wanted to leave as an experiment, to see whether Santiago would wake up because he wasn't used to her not being there. In the end, there was no news.

Louisa had come over twice and mentioned briefly about Santiago's condition, but the situation wasn't optimistic.