Callis's injuries were not too severe, only a long gash on his back. He was fine after Xanthus treated him, but he kept his gaze on the nervous teen as he sat on the sofa.
Seeing that he was all right, Raeleigh immediately put a glass of water in the nervous teen's hands. "Drink some water. It's alright; just tell your parents the whole story when they're here."
Raeleigh was afraid of frightening the teen; a kid his age would be in between being sensible and not.
He would be treated as an adult when things happened, but at the same time he was still unable to handle them.
Raeleigh waited for the teenager to speak. However, he was so nervous that he dared not look up. He held a cup in his hands, sweating profusely, and kept swallowing his saliva.
Jacky came over after hearing about what had happened. The people outside were all Jacky's men, so he came in without knocking.
Finding the scene in the living room strange, he asked, "What's going on?"
Raeleigh looked up at Jacky and explained, "This boy here almost hit me with his bike; Callis took the impact for me and got himself injured. He's fine now, but the boy's frightened."
Jacky walked to the teen and clamped his chin, forcing him to look up. Horrified, the teen's hand flinched, and the glass in his hand fell, shattering it, leaving water all over the floor.
Jacky's eyes were laced with a cold and merciless light as he stared at the teenager, asking, "Who sent you?"
Trembling, the teen stuttered. "I..."
"I don't know."
Standing aside, Raeleigh fixed her gaze at the murderous Jacky. She couldn't understand what Jacky was trying to do, but from the looks of it, the teenager had done it deliberately.
Raeleigh then directed her gaze at the pale, frightened teenager and couldn't help asking, "He's only a teenager. Could he have any bad intentions?"
Jacky gritted his teeth. "It's exactly because he's young and still can't make a good judgment that he's used."
Raeleigh didn't answer. Jacky wasn't wrong.
With that, she no longer said anything. Everyone had different perspectives on even one thing.
What Raeleigh knew most was design. But she grew up with a different past from the norm, so she was well aware of what to do and when.
Still fixing her gaze at the teenager, she recalled the situation at that time. Although she wasn't paying attention, the situation was uncalled for; she was sure no one was there a second before the incident.
The teenager came out of nowhere. Even if his bike was faulty, his appearance was too strange. And at the time, there were only two possibilities.
One was that the teenager had observed her for a long time and was ready to take action at any time. The other was that the teenager had turned a corner at some point and accidentally hit her. But Raeleigh clearly remembered that there was no turning or alleys nearby. So it was credible to say it was premeditated.
Jacky still clamped the teenager's chin in his hand, and Raeleigh was speechless. It was the first time she had seen a man grabbing another man's chin to the point that it looked like something straight out of a romantic movie.
If Deanna saw this, how would she react?
Jacky sneered. "You'd better cooperate with me now, or you won't get the chance to confess when your parents come."
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