Cutie, Please Marry Me Again (Jenna and Hansen) novel Chapter 1783

Raeleigh sat next to Santiago on the bed, watching the man who still showed no signs of waking up. Seeing Jepherson enter, she hid her left hand behind her back, asking as she looked at him, "Why are you here?"

"Why can't I be?" Jepherson walked to her with a deadpan face and sat next to her, his gaze filled with determination. Silent, Raeleigh shifted her hand out, to which Jepherson went to hold, only for her to evade, saying, "I can still move it. It's fine."

"I'll only know after I take a look at it. Why are you hiding it from me?"

Eventually, Jepherson pulled her into his arms, trapping her, holding her hands behind her back.

Raeleigh did not shed a tear but only rested her chin on Jepherson's shoulder.

Giving a light squeeze on her hand, he coaxed, "Cry if you want to. Let it all out."

Chuckling under her breath, Raeleigh said, "Does it look like I can shed a tear? I've murdered people and done the wicked; I believe I have a ticket to hell after I die." "I'm not afraid of going to hell; I'm willing to go where fate wants me to. I mean, I've sinned, haven't I?"

"But I don't want to drag the people around me down with me, my parents, my loved ones..."

"Nobody said you did the wicked, nor is anyone condemning you to hell. You won't have to worry about going anywhere with me by your side. Even if you were to go to hell, I'd be there before you, preparing for your arrival."

"With me by your side, no one will dare touch you, not even in hell. Trust me."

Raeleigh shook her head. "I never trusted you. I've lost all faith in you."

Hearing that, Jepherson snorted bitterly. "I don't care for anybody else's trust but yours. You are my wife. How can you not believe me?"

Jepherson pushed her away and cupped her face with his hands, calling to her, "Raeleigh..."

Staring deep into her eyes with his fathomless gaze, he continued, "I've disappointed you with a lot of decisions I've made in the past, but not anymore, not this time. I'm indecisive, yet I'm born into a powerful family. This is the biggest sorrow in my life."

"I don't regret being born into such a family; I want the power, but I want you even more." "Trust me one last time. I won't make the same mistakes again."

Raeleigh shook her head. "You and I are not fit to meet in this world; I don't want to live with you ever again. We're like two massive solid boulders. The ship can't carry both of us; one has to go."

"Why throw one when you can throw both?" Jepherson asked.

Then suggested, "Even better, let the boat sink."

With that, he lowered his head to kiss Raeleigh's lips, but she evaded.

"I am already someone else's wife; it's impossible for us ever to be together again. You know this."

"Why are you still lying? Do you think I don't dare to blow up the Green House's gates?"

Jepherson's words got Raeleigh stumped momentarily. He moved his hands away but kept his gaze at her, who was now pale. Staring into each other's eyes, Jepherson smirked and said, "I don't want to be his enemy, so I need a chance to make peace with him. Raeleigh, you are our chance. You are the beginning and the end of him and me."

Raeleigh said, "Why are you doing this?"

"I would let you go if he came before me. But since it's the other way around, I stand my ground."

"You want to fight him to the death?"

"I don't mind if he doesn't want a divorce. You're my wife, the matriarch of the Richards family. You two can't see each other. He can live his life in Green House, and I'll go on with mine here in Capital City. I won't stop him if he wants to see you, but if he wants to take you away, over my dead body."

Resigned, Raeleigh turned her face away and looked elsewhere. She didn't say anything, nor did she have anything to say. There was nothing she could do since he was so hell-bent; she could let fate decide her future.

But she wasn't sure if she could even survive today, let alone the future.