Dear Sweetheart

Chapter 624
By the time Curtis returned to the Faymon residence, it was already after one in the morning. The nanny had calmed Yosef and
Yelena down by then, and the two children were in their beds. Only Xareni was still lying in Jasmine’s arms, studying the inside
of the house with her tearful eyes. When Curtis came into the house, Xareni fixed her eyes on him for a long while before making
noises and reaching her hands out for him.
When Jasmine turned around, she was shocked to see Curtis. Nevertheless, she came back to her senses and figured out what
had happened when she saw the man reaching out for Xareni.
“Yosef and Yelena are asleep, so Xareni’s the only one awake. She has a slight fever. We’ve already summoned the family
doctor, and he asked us to try to cool her down without medicine first, so we gave her a cooling patch.” As Jasmine spoke, she
reached out to touch Xareni’s forehead, only to find that it was still a little warm.
The moment Xareni was in Curtis’ arms, she reached out to grab his shirt. Shortly after, she closed her eyes.
“She’s asleep,” Jasmine noted. In less than half an hour, Xareni had fallen asleep in Curtis’ arms. Jasmine then called for the
nanny to ask her to bring the girl back for now. She instructed, “Carry her to the room opposite the nursery. Don’t put her in the
same room as Yosef and Yelena.”
The nanny nodded and gently brought the sleeping girl upstairs.
“How is Rayna?” Jasmine asked, glancing at the tired Curtis.
He reached out to rub the bridge of his nose. “She’s still unconscious.”
“What did the doctor say?” Jasmine filled a glass of water for Curtis before sitting down on the couch opposite him.
Curtis reached out for it and thanked her. “He said she’ll either wake today or tomorrow.”
“I see,” Jasmine replied. Right as she raised her head, she spotted Kristie descending the stairs.
“They’ve finally quieted down.” Kristie walked over to the coffee table to get herself a glass of water. After sparing a glance at
Curtis, she continued, “Curtis, I’m sure everything will turn out fine for a good person like Rayna.”
“Okay,” Curtis mumbled. Instead of drinking any water, he gently swirled the glass. At that, Jasmine uttered, “Why don’t you get
some rest first?”

“No, it’s fine. I’m going back to the hospital after getting changed.” Curtis drank a sip from the glass and went upstairs.
Kristie glimpsed at Jasmine, who shrugged with a helpless look.
For the time being, James, Theodore, and Jeremy were taking turns resting in a small room beside the VIP ward in the hospital.
Ring!
All of a sudden, an ear-piercing alarm went off. In the next moment, smoke entered the room.
“Theodore, there’s smoke!” Jeremy was the first to notice the smoke. The three men then covered their mouths and prepared to
leave, but a thought popped into Theodore’s head. “Rayna’s still in the ward next door.”
“I’ll go and get her.” Jeremy immediately strode toward Rayna’s bed as Theodore and James followed closely behind him.
However, when they reached the bed and pulled away the blanket, they were shocked to see that Rayna was nowhere to be
found.
The trio froze. Theodore then asked, “Where’s Rayna?”
“Did she wake up? Did she run out on her own?” Jeremy was equally confounded by the situation.
Boom! An explosion occurred somewhere in the hospital, and in the next second, the screams of the fleeing people filled the air.
“Let’s get out of here first. If we don’t, we’ll end up dying here!” Jeremy urged Theodore, who was still frozen by the side of the
bed. “Theodore, let’s go!”
Theodore snapped his brows together but soon left the hospital with Jeremy and James.
Once the three of them ran out to the open space outside, they turned around to find clouds of smoke rolling out of the windows
of the eighteenth floor. The firefighters had just arrived, and they used their hoses to extinguish the flames above.
“Did you guys see Rayna?” Theodore was the first to think about Rayna as he asked the other two men.
It was then the two men realized they did not see Rayna on their way out.
“Could it be that she didn’t come out?” The very thought of that possibility made Jeremy’s back soak in a cold sweat.
The three of them then started searching for any signs of Rayna around, but their search was fruitless.

Just as Curtis came back to the hospital from the Faymon residence, he saw the smoke coming out of the floors above the
twelfth floor. Promptly, he tried to dash inside to look for Rayna, but the sharp-eyed Theodore spotted him in time. “Rayna’s not
inside! You’ll only end up killing yourself if you run in now!”
Hearing that, Curtis fixed his stern gaze on Theodore and Jeremy. “What do you mean?”
What do you mean by Rayna’s not inside? Is she awake?
“We couldn’t find Rayna on the bed when we came out of our room,” Theodore started after taking a deep breath. “Maybe she
woke up, but... we couldn’t find her after coming out here either.”
“If she’s not here, that means she’s still in the hospital!” With that, Curtis shoved Theodore aside and moved to rush inward
again. Alas, a fireman at the side stopped him.
“My wife is still inside! Rayna! Rayna!” Curtis tried to go past the firemen who were holding onto him, but his efforts were for
naught. Just then, a raspy voice sounded out behind him. “There isn’t anyone in the hospital anymore.”
Curtis whipped his head around to look at the elderly doctor in a lab coat with reddened eyes. “What do you mean?”
“The firemen have surveyed the area. There isn’t anyone on the twelfth floor anymore,” the elderly doctor explained. After
adjusting his glasses, he continued, “Could it be that your wife had left the hospital earlier?”
“That’s impossible. She wouldn’t have left without saying a word if she did wake up,” Curtis refuted before turning back to
Theodore and the other two.
“When we were in the ward, Rayna did not come to,” Theodore told him, sure that no one had opened the door and left the room
while they were there.
“Then how can she just disappear without a trace?” Curtis snarled. He had not wanted to leave the hospital, but Theodore had
persuaded him to do so by using the children. It had only been hours since he left the place. Yet, by the time he returned in the
morning, the hospital was on fire, and Rayna was nowhere to be found.
A hint of guilt flashed past Theodore’s eyes.
The three men were guarding Rayna’s ward, but none of them knew when she went missing.

“We can only check the hospital’s surveillance cameras for now,” James said as he mulled over the events. “But we’ll have to
wait until the fire on the twelfth floor is put out. There’s... also a chance that we’ll find nothing.”
Theodore, Jeremy, and Curtis all knew what James was implying.
As Curtis stood in the area outside the hospital and watched the firefighters attempting to put out the flames, he narrowed his
eyes and clenched his fists.
Where are you, Rayna?
Among the four of them, Theodore was the first to compose himself. He then quietly went to the side and took out his phone to
make a call.
Meanwhile, a black trailer sped down the road outside the hospital.
In the car, the unconscious Rayna, who was wearing an oxygen mask, was held tightly in someone’s arms. The man who held
her was gently rubbing his stubbly chin against her cheek.
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