Time passed like flowing water. He had dreamt about a time when he was old. He was like the sun in the middle of the sky, and Jepherson was his shadow. This feeling... Hansen wanted to laugh but he couldn't. Once upon a time, he was also young and passionate. However... His days passed like falling flowers, lingering in his mind for many years, and the autumn wind was desolate. Suddenly, he understood one thing and he was unhappy about the discovery. He had wasted a lot of time when he was young. In the end, he felt that life was too short. He didn't want to waste his time again. "I heard that you quarreled with your grandmother." Hansen was silent for a moment before he asked his son, Jepherson, who lowered her head and remained silent. Hansen rose to his feet. Jepherson stood up to support him. The father and son both understood the reason for the silence. Since he was silent, it meant that he admitted to it. How could Hansen not
After Raeleigh left the hospital, she planned to go back. Jepherson did not say that he would not allow her to go back. Later, the car arrived at the door of Xanthus's residence. Raeleigh got out of the car and went straight to him. However... "Why are you also getting out of the car?" Hearing the footsteps following her, Raeleigh turned around and looked at Jepherson with a displeased face. "I am homeless now. Don't you intend to take me in?" After saying that, Jepherson stepped towards Xanthus's villa. Raeleigh stopped outside for a while, and she then followed him inside. After entering through the door, Raeleigh changed her shoes and looked into the villa. Xanthus had already prepared the food and was waiting for Raeleigh to come back to eat together. But the atmosphere was still a little strange. After all, Xanthus did not expect that it was Jepherson who came in first, and he had already gone inside. Raeleigh explained to Xanthus, "I will find a way to let
Raeleigh got up the next morning. The first thing she did was to look out of the window, but there was no one outside. While she thought about this, Xanthus knocked on the door and asked Raeleigh to eat. Raeleigh walked downstairs and saw that Jepherson was sitting on the table waiting for her to start eating breakfast. "You're awake?" Jepherson asked when he saw Raeleigh, but she didn't answer. She just walked to the other end of the table and sat down. Jepherson tugged at Raeleigh's face as he looked at it carefully. After a while, she lowered her head and said, "The matter has been settled. I'm going to the hospital later. Come with me." "I don't want to go to the hospital. You go ahead." "If you don't go, Mom will be worried." "... You're guilt tripping me." Jepherson didn't know how to respond to that. He picked up his bowl to eat. Raeleigh was depressed and didn't want to eat. After breakfast, Raeleigh got changed immediately. Thinking ab
Raeleigh only found out that Jepherson had left when she got up the next morning. Xanthus said from down the stairs, "He had a misunderstanding. He thought that there was something between you and Flynt. He was just upset for a second." Raeleigh began descending the stairs. She knew this, of course, but she didn't think it was anything bad. "I know he must have misunderstood." After she finished breakfast, she followed Xanthus to visit Flynt. However, when they arrived at the hospital, they were blocked off by the Moore family, so they didn't go in. "Let's go home then." Raeleigh wasn't exactly dying to see Flynt anyway. She thought to herself that if Jepherson had hurt Flynt out of a moment's rage, it meant that he had been wrongly accused. If this was the case, who was the real culprit then? It was probably Flynt himself. Perhaps he was fine after all. Thus, it didn't matter whether she looked into this or not. Raeleigh followed Xanthus back to the
Santiago walked towards Raeleigh. The men who were in his way didn't dare approach him. They all knew his temper. He didn't care about the consequences when he beat others up. When he was in front of Raeleigh, Santiago suddenly raised his hand and pinched her face, making Raeleigh at a loss for words. He brought his hands together after pinching her. "Not bad, we don't see each other for a day and you've gotten yourself in quite the mess." She stared blankly at Santiago, unable to utter a single word. Behind him, Jacky walked up to him after taking care of the group of men. Santiago turned around to look at Jacky, "Thank you!" "Heh!" Jacky hummed in amusement. "Let's go home." Santiago turned on his heel and walked out of the alley while looking at the men on the ground. He walked over to one of them, squatted down and looked at his face. "Do you know what the consequences are for offending me?" "Mr. Santiago, we were just following orders. Please fo
Raeleigh arrived at the door to her house. When she got out of the car, Jepherson's car slowly stopped next to her before the man himself emerged from his car. "When did you get back?" When he spotted Santiago, Jepherson's face fell. His gaze followed Santiago, who was getting out of the car. "I just got back. I'm tired. I'm going in to take a bath." Santiago walked to the back of his car and popped open the trunk. He took out a suitcase and placed it on the ground. He then closed the trunk and went into the house. Raeleigh felt that something was amiss based on how angry they looked. She looked at Santiago, who was walking into the house. Xanthus got out of the car and looked at them as well, but didn't say anything, nor did he follow them inside. Instead, he stayed behind to keep Raeleigh company. Jepherson also stared at Santiago. After a while, he looked away and diverted his attention towards Raeleigh. "The Old Madam had sent those men over. I was on
"It's fine, Xanthus. I'm already done," Raeleigh said. She had cooked up fish, some stewed meat, two vegetable dishes, and a beef and tomato soup - all of which were her specialties. Xanthus looked into the kitchen with a hint of displeasure in his eyes. "Even I, as your brother, have never seen you prepare so much delicious food for me before." "That's because you don't need me to." Raeleigh brought the soup out and handed a pair of oven mitts to Xanthus. Xanthus raised his eyebrows. "Why don't I remember that?" "Take your time to recall." "Rae Rae..." Raeleigh hummed in response, raising her head just as Xanthus said, "Have you noticed that you're being especially nice to Santiago?" "He's still young, so of course I have to be nice to him." Raeleigh did not notice anything wrong with what she said. "He's just about done with puberty. Don't you think that he might have had some lapses in judgement?" Xanthus stared at the beef and t
Before going to sleep, Jepherson sent a text to Jenna and told his mother about the incident. After reading the message, Jenna couldn't sleep in peace and she started to complain to her husband. "Is the same thing going to happen again? I thought she changed. I can't believe she is still the same." Jenna said bitterly, helplessness painted across her face. She had done her best to appease her mother-in-law but she didn't expect this outcome at all. Their children were adults. They should have the liberty to make their own choice. Why did their mother-in-law have to interfere? Jenna couldn't understand her mother-in-law's ways. She wondered if she had ever changed anything about how she went about things in all those years. Be that as it may, Marissa was Hansen's mother, and Hansen felt uncomfortable when he heard Jenna's complaint about her. No matter what kind of mother she was, she still cared for her children. Hansen held his wife's hand. "S
Santiago went home once more to retrieve Jepherson's sperm from the sperm bank. After that, Raeleigh got pregnant through medical procedures. However, when Raeleigh was only three days pregnant, the doctor made a major discovery. He informed her that he made progress with Shaney's illness , and that he might have misdiagnosed her condition. At that time, Raeleigh had been so overjoyed that Shaney was fine, and she only remembered that she was pregnant after half a month since learning about Shaney. By the time she remembered that she was with child, she wanted to stop her pregnancy. However, Santiago persuaded her to give the baby to him. Raeleigh pondered about it for a long time before finally agreeing. ...... Time passed in a blink of an eye, and Raeleigh had never expected for things to turn out the way it did. She gave birth to her second child, and Shaney had made a full recovery. Santiago had told her that the baby was the will of God, and he
When Raeleigh got out of the car, she began staring at the Richards family's courtyard. Although the Richards family had already buried Marissa's body, Raeleigh was still unwilling to go back. However, as she gazed at Carsten's precious little face that was looking at her expectantly, she had no choice but to follow Jepherson inside. At that moment, Santigo and the other children were in the yard. When Santiago saw Raeleigh and Jepherson, he smiled and gestured at Jepherson. "What are you doing?" Raeleigh asked when she saw Santiago. "Nothing." Though Raeleigh did not believe Jepherson, she decided not to ask further. When Carsten saw Forden and Shaney, he immediately tried to break away from Jepherson's arms, wanting to get to them. The children were all gathered in the Richards family manor that day. Coupled with the four other children of the Whalen family, there were ten children altogether, and they almost occupied the entire courtyard. Ra
Raeleigh said nothing as Carsten continued sinking his teeth into Jepherson's neck. She stared in shock as blood seeped out of his wound. Jepherson raised his hand and patted Carsten gently, then walked to the bed and sat down. After a while, Carsten finally fell asleep. He closed his eyes as he dozed off in Jepherson's arms. Meanwhile, Raeleigh had rushed out of the room to ask the hotel staff to prepare disinfectants before going back into the room to help Jepherson clean his wound. Jepherson leaned against the wall, still holding Carsten in his arms and unwilling to let go. Raeleigh frowned. "What should we do?" Jepherson's voice was a little hoarse. He had been busy for the past two days entertaining guests. "He got scared because of the crowd. He thought that you didn't want him anymore since he couldn't find you, and probably thinks that I'm the one who forced him to stay there." After bandaging Jepherson's wound, Raeleigh helped wipe Carsten's mouth. Sudd
After Raeleigh and the others left, Santiago walked to Zorion's car and stopped him. Zorion casted a glance outside. "Rossie, you should go first. He won't show any mercy once I get off." "You knew he wouldn't show you mercy, so why didn't you think of that before you caused trouble?" "I was just kidding! Who knew he'd have such a bad temper? I didn't expect him to take it seriously." Rossie sighed and gave in. Glancing at Zorion, she finally understood that he was only using her as an excuse to escape whenever he got into trouble. She got out of the car and looked at Santiago who stood opposite her. "Long time no see." "Where's Zorion?" "He's so afraid of you that he doesn't even dare to come out," said Rossie. "It's too late to be scared." He walked up to Zorion's car with the rod in his hand, then raised the stick and smashed it against the car until it was completely wrecked. When he was done, he tossed the stick aside, turned to pick
After leaving the kindergarten, Raeleigh followed Santiago to the Richards family manor. It had been four years since she returned, so she was no longer familiar with the place. Santiago went in, put Carsten down and asked the children to keep themselves entertained. He then looked at Raeleigh and said, "I came back this time because Mrs. Richards is dying. She has been unconscious for a while now. I came back to see her for the last time." Raeleigh asked, "Mrs. Richards?" "Yes. Jepherson hasn't been home these couple of days because he has gone to visit her. He didn't tell you about it because Mrs. Richards doesn't want to see you. While she was still herself, she did say that she would never let you into the family, and that she didn't want to see you ever again. Jepherson went to take care of her but was worried about you. So, he asked me to come home to take a look and it was only then did I find out that Carsten is autistic. This is on your plate now."
When the time came, Raeleigh enrolled Carsten into a kindergarten. On the first day of school, Carsten was bullied. Raeleigh felt sorry for him as she gently touched his swollen face. He had been beaten because he could not speak. She wanted to confront the bully, but Jepherson stopped her. He told her that Carsten should resolve this matter by himself. That year, Raeleigh could not sleep well at night. Hair loss became an issue, and she was exhausted all the time. But after half a month, the children stopped bullying Carsten. Instead, their parents came to Raeleigh's home. "Just take a look at your child..." The parents pointed to their child, and Raeleigh was confused when she saw a boy about the same height as Carsten. The boy seemed to have taken a serious beating, but when Carsten had gotten beaten up like this, Raeleigh hadn't gone to look for trouble with the bully's parents, did she? Raeleigh retorted, "And? It's normal for
The snow was falling heavily. Jepherson put away the phone and took Raeleigh back into the house. The two stood inside and watched the snow. Meanwhile, Hadrian and Scarlette were busy in the kitchen, not daring to make a sound. The Richards family manor remained quiet when winter was approaching. None of the family members returned even on New Year's Day. Raeleigh went to the yard and waited for them in advance, but no one came back. After New Year's Day, Raeleigh returned to her home with Jepherson. Her family members were all surprised to see her pregnant when she got home. They did not expect Raeleigh to be pregnant after being missing for several months. Moreover, she was almost due. Everyone in the Osteen family knew that Raeleigh stayed because of the baby inside her belly. Undoubtedly, the baby was Jepherson's. However, they wondered where Santiago went. Since Raeleigh said nothing, no one dared to ask about it. They all ignored the incident and sil
Raeleigh was stopped by Jepherson's men at the entrance of the village. 'I knew it wouldn't be easy for me to run away.' "Madam Raeleigh, Mr. Richards is waiting for you." Raeleigh had no choice but to go back with them. At the same time, Jepherson sat on his wheelchair outside the village with a blanket on his lap and upon seeing Raeleigh, he breathed a sigh of relief. Raeleigh walked up to him, "Don't be complacent. I'll leave one day." Shifting his gaze to Raeleigh's belly, Jepherson stretched out his hand and pulled her to him. Despite being too weak to walk, he had a firm grip. Raeleigh lost her balance and fell onto his lap. She tried to escape, but he said immediately, "Don't move." Although his voice sounded terrifying to others, he was trying to negotiate. Everyone turned around to look at them, and Raeleigh blushed. Jepherson covered her body with the blanket, then placed his hand onto her belly. Raeleigh tensed up immediately. She ra
Raeleigh had been depressed for a while after Santiago's departure. After a few days, she finally calmed down a little. Jepherson's health had not improved during this period of time. Whenever he was free, he would stare at Shaney's photo in a daze. Deanna and Jacky had helped take care of Jepherson when Raeleigh fell ill. After Raeleigh recovered, she returned to taking care of him herself. However, Jepherson had been in such poor health that he couldn't even go downstairs. It took Raeleigh a lot of effort to help him get down, especially when he was unwilling to go downstairs. "Autumn is coming. I don't want to go down." He was saying that it was cold downstairs. Raeleigh replied, "I can't take care of you all the time. Are you going to exhaust me to death? Your parents left you alone and ignored you. Santiago abandoned you too. What do you want me to do? I have to work. I also have to take care of you..." "Then stop working. Take care of me." Rael