Dear sweetheart novel (Rayna and Julian) novel Chapter 694

“I did, but the call wouldn't connect,” the woman choked out. “The weather report said a storm's about to arrive. Did he go to the mountain to find you?”

Upon hearing that, Cassidy felt her face flush slightly. I didn't think he would take Yasmin's words seriously!

“I don't know. Although, since you lot can't find him, you should call the police.” Then she turned around, ready to return to the warehouse to grab something.

“Do you have any shame at all, Cassidy?” Another woman, visibly older than the first, clamored, “Stanford's already engaged to Angela, yet you keep trying to seduce him!”

In response, Cassidy gazed at the people in the courtyard coldly. “Please do not speak nonsense like that, Ms. Banner. You say I'm the one who seduced him, but have you ever considered that he's the one who comes over here every day to harass me?”

“If you hadn't seduced him, he wouldn't have ignored Angela and kept visiting you! You're just like your dead mother, seducing men all the time merely because you're a little skilled at treating people's ailments!” Emily Banner completely ignored what Cassidy said and continued, “Everyone in this area knows your mother married your father after she got pregnant! Before she even met his parents or got engaged, she slept with him!”

If looks could kill, Cassidy's cold scowl would've slain Emily.

“I dare you to say that again!” She stomped toward Angela Palmer and Emily before barking frigidly, “Believe it or not, I can kill that stupid son of yours without even stepping foot onto the mountain!”

In response, Emily raised her head. It was pretty obvious she doubted Cassidy's words. “If you're that powerful, your family wouldn't have fallen from grace.”

“Well, since you don't believe me, I'll give you a demonstration.” The moment Cassidy ended her sentence, she blew the whistle around her neck.

Due to Cassidy's whistling, the stormy weather appeared significantly eerier.

As Curtis stood at the entrance, he shifted his sight toward the black skies and saw a cloud of unknown birds flocking toward the courtyard before circling above it.

“What kind of bird is that?” Rayna asked.

“They look like bald eagles, but not really? They seem to resemble crows a little.”

“Those are hellfire birds.” Yasmin cowered in the corner while hugging her head. “In this place, whenever hellfire birds appear, it means someone's about to die!”

Rayna and Curtis were slightly taken aback when they heard that.

“Stop blowing it!” Angela's attempt at snatching Cassidy's whistle was foiled when the latter sidestepped her. Right as the middle-aged men were about to approach Cassidy, they all heard a familiar voice coming from the outside. “I found the Alpson, Cassidy! I found it!”

Promptly, everyone shifted their attention toward the entrance and saw a man covered in mud trudging into the courtyard with something in his hand. That something was a plant with a flower bud at the top.

Cassidy was slightly stunned upon seeing the plant.

As he spoke, he arrived in front of her. “I even pulled its roots out so you can cultivate them instead of looking for more on the mountain in the future.”

The man happily handed the Alpson to her, but she slapped it away.

After staring at the herb that dropped to the ground, Stanford Rodriguez confusedly turned to Cassidy. “What are you doing, Cassidy?”

“Don't you dare go overboard, Cassidy Gilroy!” Emily strutted toward Cassidy with the intention of confronting the younger woman upon witnessing that scene. To her surprise, Cassidy just shoved her away.

Losing her balance, Emily stumbled to the ground. Hastily, Stanford helped his mother up and stared at Cassidy with dissatisfaction. “What are you doing!”

Without delay, Cassidy grabbed his wrist, pinned it to a nearby pillar, and slashed the back of his hand with a knife that was hanging on a wall next to her.

“Stanford!” Angela yelled. Just as she was about to approach him, she was stunned to see black blood flowing out of his wound.

“That's not Alpson. It's Dita.” Calmly, Cassidy shifted her attention to his gloved left hand. “You're lucky that only one of your hands is ungloved. If both were infected with Dita's sap, you'd be dead on your way back home.”

“Dita!” The people in the courtyard exclaimed before distancing themselves further away from the plant. Someone even left the courtyard entirely.

“You should be thankful that this is only a bud. If it were blooming, you'd be knocking on Hades' doors the moment you touched its petals.” Cassidy squeezed almost all the black blood out of Stanford's hand before letting him go. “Wait here.”

Without delay, she grabbed a ceramic bottle of medicine from the warehouse. “Give me your hand.”

As he did what she asked, he gazed intently at her with a touch of joy in his eyes.

She popped the bottle open and warned, “It'll be painful.”

“I'm a big man. I can handle a little pain,” he assured smugly. “Do it.”

As the edges of her mouth curved upward imperceptibly, she directly poured the bottle's content onto his wound.

Stanford proceeded to shriek so loudly that even the birds on the mountain were startled.

Inside the house, Curtis covered Rayna's ears, but he couldn't block Stanford's voice out entirely.

“I bet Cassidy did it on purpose.” She chuckled.

“I can tell she's a vindictive person.”

“What, you don't like someone like her?”

“No, because you're the only person I like.” Curtis stared at her as she did the same. “As an outsider, I don't think it's an issue as long as people don't do bad stuff.”

“Mm-hmm. Sure.” Rayna pouted. Just as she turned around, she noticed the cook was serving food on the table. She remarked with amazement, “Wow, I can't believe she's so fast!”

Curtis saw the dishes at the dining table as well and said, “Let's eat.”

Then he pulled Rayna by her hand into the dining room.

“Mr. Faymon, Mrs. Faymon,” the cook greeted upon meeting the couple.

“Mhm,” Rayna replied before patting Curtis' hand. “Call Yasmin over to eat.”

Before he could do that, the girl walked in. “Can we eat now?”

“Yes!” The cook patted Yasmin's head. Then she smiled at the couple. “There are still a few more dishes in the kitchen. I'll bring them out.”

In response, Curtis waved. “Go ahead.”

Rayna then sat at the dining table with him at her side.