Chapter 350
Curtis sneered. “Jefferson gave up his right to become the head of the Terblanc family, making Arnaud the only remaining heir. It’ll be a piece of cake for Arnaud to get to know the prominent figures in Aploth. He’s planning to enter Aploth’s market. That’s why he dared to lay a finger on me. Moreover-”
“He knows how much Jefferson cares about Ms. Garland and that you and Jefferson share a mother. He wants to play with you two, so he did this,” Jeremy said, finishing his sentence for him.
Curtis rubbed the dark blue silk scarf between his fingers as grimness clouded his eyes. “He’ll have to get my permission to enter Aploth’s market.”
“I know little about running a business, so I’ll refrain from making any comments.” After a moment of contemplation, Jefferson said, “Do you think Jefferson knows about this? Arnaud’s such a ruthless character. Would he be silent about this?”
Curtis hummed in rumination. “He probably doesn’t. If he did, he wouldn’t have gone to Frosa with Rayna. He would have gone back to Yartran to clarify things with his father.”
“Does Arnaud have some kind of plan by not telling him about it?”
“That’s enough. Stop talking about him,” Curtis snapped, his mood taking a dip.
That name was haunting him like a ghost recently. If not for his upbringing and self–restraint, he would have gone straight to Frosa by tracking down Rayna via the tracker in her ring and then shot Jefferson point blank.
Sensing the imminent eruption of the volcano named Curtis, Jeremy smartly stopped mentioning the name and asked, “Curtis, why did you call me then?”
“I’ll send you the front desk number of the hotel she’s currently staying. Call her” After a pause, Curtis added in a resentful but resigned tone, “Send her the location of the lab.”
Jeremy was silent for two seconds before saying, “I didn’t mishear you, did I? You’re… saving Jefferson?”
“I just don’t want my soon–to–be wife to run off with another man,” Curtis snarled. “Making this call to you tonight is the most humiliating moment in my life.”
“It looks like Ms. Garland has changed much of you, Curtis, Jeremy remarked. “If this were in the past, you would have killed him without leaving any trace behind; you wouldn’t be someone anyone could reason with.”
At that, Curtis‘ tone deepened. “Jeremy, if you have too much time on your hand, why don’t you get some investors for your lab? I’ve been investing more than a billion per year in your lab, but I’ve yet to see any good results. I’m getting annoyed, and I don’t think I want to keep throwing money into the gutter. What do you think?”
“I’m not that free!” Jeremy blurted out. “For the sake of testing out RP3KK antineoplastic drug for the pharmaceutical factory under Faymon Group, I haven’t been sleeping for two weeks. I nearly died!”
“Are you done?”
“Okay, I’ll call Ms. Garland right now and try to find out how things are between her and Jefferson at the same time. Can’t let your wife run off with someone else, right?”
With that, Jeremy ended the call swiftly.
Curtis glared at his phone, so furious that he could not voice a single word for a while.
After recollecting himself, he kept away his phone and placed the blue silk scarf on the nightstand.
He sighed and muttered, “Just this one time, Rayna.”
I’ll only relent this one time. Once you’re done dealing with those matters, you have to come back.
Chanaea and Frosa had a time difference of seven hours, so it was currently seven in the morning at Frosa. As the weather was cold, the glass windows of the hotel were coated with a layer of mist, making the outside view foggy from the inside.
It had been a long while since Rayna arrived in Frosa. Once she adapted to the time difference, she became an early riser. After washing up, she went to make breakfast while looking on her phone at the map that Jessica had given to her.
She had searched through all the labs on the map, but her search had been fruitless.
Nevertheless, Rayna was planning to make a trip to those labs again to find out whether or not there were other unmarked labs around them. The woman refused to believe that Jeremy’s lab could be invisible to the human eye.
Right after she poured the hot oatmeal into a bowl and brought the bowl to the dining table outside, she heard the faint sound of a phone ringing.
“Good morning, Ms. Garland, the receptionist politely greeted. “You have a call from Chanaea, and the caller identifies himself as York. He would like to have a talk with you. Do you know him?”
Rayna fell into a daze but quickly snapped out of it and answered, “He’s my friend. Please forward his call to
Hearing that, Rayna checked the location on the map. It was a bustling street, and the lot number of the lab. Jeremy gave her turned out to be a private mansion.
“Thank you. I really need Ixora,” Rayna said in a quiet voice. After biting her lower lip, she added, “Did Mr. Faymon ask you to tell me about this?”
“It won’t be appropriate for me to call him Curtis.”
“I know. I know it all” Rayna’s throat lightened.
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