Stacey was momentarily stupefied before she nodded. “Sure!”
I nodded back at her. “Thank you!”
“You don’t need to thank me. It’s the least I can do!” She sounded rather stern.
I knew she was just thanking me for helping her with Felix. However, I was still grateful to her.
I looked at Jackson and tried to move my body. Unfortunately, my body still hurt terribly. “Jackson, when will I be able to leave the hospital?” I asked.
“The doctor suggested that you stay and recuperate for a few days!” He saw how I was trying to get up and helped me before he continued. “It’s almost spring. Letty, promise me you’ll take it easy. Let’s have a nice spring together, okay?”
I nodded and plastered a smile on my face. “Okay. But, I want to go back to K City for a while. I still have some work to do there. Once I’m done, I’ll come back to Jadeborough and we’ll spend a happy spring together with the child.”
He frowned slightly. “Can’t it wait till a later date?”
I shook my head. “I might need to go back tonight. Louis Stanhope is now my godfather. I have to go because I’ll be written into the family register tomorrow night.”
“Louis Stanhope?”
I nodded. “Yes!”
He furrowed his brow. “Is it because of John?”
“Yes!”
He pursed his lips and remained silent.
Sometime later, he looked at me and said, “Fine. I’ll wait for you to come back to Jadeborough to spend spring with us.”
“Okay!” After a moment, I asked him, “The child… Does she have a name yet?”
He shook his head. “We were waiting for you to name her. Macy’s instructions were for the child to take your surname. This way, you’ll really be a family!”
My chest contracted painfully, and a vein throbbed in my temple. It was painful to speak. “Is it a boy or a girl?”
“A girl!”
“Her name shall be Summer.”
Jackson was slightly stunned. “Summer Stanhope. What a beautiful name.”
I nodded as tears welled in my eyes. “I hope she’ll receive all the warmth and joy that I wasn’t able to share with Macy!”
He nodded and pondered for a moment. “I love the name.”
“It’s a great name. It’s full of old-fashioned charm, yet it’s not outdated.” Nick voiced his agreement.
I nodded. Perhaps it was due to the excessive talking, or because my body was weak, to begin with, but I was utterly drained.
Stacey noticed how exhausted I was and said, “You should rest in the hospital today. The banquet is tomorrow night, right? You should rest up and save your strength.”
I sighed heavily. The day passed slowly as I remained within the confines of the bed.
By the time I traveled from Jadeborough to K City, it was the afternoon of the next day. John picked me up at the airport. When he saw the dark circles around my eyes, he sneered, “I can’t believe one trip to Jadeborough reduced you to this. Did you see a ghost or something?”
I climbed into the car and muttered, “I was short on time and didn’t manage to rest properly.”
“We’re headed for gown fitting. You can take a rest at my place later. I’ll go get you at night,” said John as he started up the engine.
I looked at him and a smile tugged at my lips.
He cocked an eyebrow when he saw my smile. “Why are you staring at me so creepily?”
I turned my gaze away from him and murmured, “Has anyone told you that you’re looking more and more like an older brother?”
He scoffed and barked, “Don’t say such crap.”
I stared out the window and let my mind wander. “John, we’re the only ones left from R Province,” I lamented.
He froze for a second before frowning. “What do you mean?”
At the traffic light, he stopped to stare at me.
My throat hurt slightly, and my eyes were uncomfortably dry. “Macy’s gone!”
“Gone?”
“She’s buried with Grandma in Jadeborough. I wanted to bring them to R Province. But now, we can’t go back to R Province.”
The light turned green.
However, the elderly man was slowly hobbling across the zebra crossing.
The car behind punched their horns ceaselessly, but John did not start driving. Instead, he leaned back and closed his eyes.
The horn persisted. John burst out of the car and slammed the door ferociously. I was stunned by his reaction. When I realized what he was planning on doing, I scrambled after him.
He marched up to the car with the impatient driver and knocked on the window. The driver rolled down his window and snapped, “So what if you drive a Bentley? You…”
The driver shut his mouth after one murderous glare from John.
John pursed his lips, raised his eyebrow, and coldly stared down the man. “Get out!”
The man panicked slightly as he tried to make sense of the situation. He suppressed his anger and replied, “Is there something wrong with you?”
“I told you to get out!” John erupted as he wrenched the car door open and yanked the stout driver out of the vehicle.
The terrified man was scared stiff. He gazed at John’s handsome face in terror and started to plead for mercy.
After expressing some of his furies, John tossed a name card in the man’s face and barked gruffly, “Don’t honk your horn like a madman in the city center next time. Otherwise, you won’t get away with just a beating again.”
John returned to the car and started driving.
I sighed. “You didn’t have to be so… impulsive! Just let him scream for a bit. You only had to wait till the old man was across the road. You didn’t have to cause a scene.”
He pursed his lips but didn’t reply. It was clear that his bad mood stemmed from elsewhere.
“How did she die?”
I paused and turned to see him driving seriously. He seemed to have just posed the question in passing.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.