Chapter 315: Chapter 315

Chapter 315 She May Be The Mastermind Curtis remained composed and simply hummed in response. “How about Wyatt?”

“Mrs. Lopez called him earlier,” Theodore said solemnly. “I’m currently contacting someone to get a private jet over. We’ll send Wyatt back first, and the rest of us will leave tomorrow morning. By the way, Wyatt wants to bring Jessica along too.”

“All right,” Curtis responded. “Rayna and I will meet up with you all tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.”

After Curtis ended the phone call with Theodore, Rayna asked with a worried expression, “Did something happen to Wyatt’s father?”

Curtis nodded lightly.

“We have a car on standby. Let’s return to the hotel and find Theodore and the rest.” Rayna was about to get out of bed and change her clothes.

Curtis stopped her and tucked her back in bed. “It’s dangerous to travel at night with this heavy snowfall. We’ll go back tomorrow morning.”

Rayna frowned. She could not help but worry.

Wyatt and Curtis were close like brothers. It would set tongues wagging if they did not go back to express concern for Wyatt’s father.

Curtis seemed to have read Rayna’s mind. “Theodore will arrange a private jet to send Wyatt back first. Don’t be anxious. With this heavy snowfall, I can’t afford to put your life at risk.”

Rayna nodded in agreement. Then a sudden thought came across her mind and she asked, “Do you and Theodore have anything against Jessie? I noticed this a while ago. Theodore looks unhappy whenever Wyatt gets too close to Jessica.”

Curtis did not refute Rayna. He decided to tell her everything. “Jessica has an ulterior motive for getting close to Wyatt. She may be the mastermind behind his father’s car accident.”

“What?” Curtis’ words left Rayna reeling with disbelief. “It can’t be...”

“Did you not once wonder how you both met?”

“No.” Having interacted with her for some time, Rayna did not think Jessica had an evil mind. “She intended to look for her uncle at first, but her uncle moved away without telling her.”

After thinking for a while, she added, “I was the one who invited her to share the condominium with me. Also, I didn’t know you well then and was not acquainted with Wyatt. She couldn’t have possibly foreseen the future.”

“Perhaps she wanted to get to know someone working at Faymon Group so that she could infiltrate the organization,” Curtis deduced. “Don’t you feel she’s overly kind to you sometimes?”

Rayna could not refute Curtis. She had witnessed such moments before.

Be it the time when Meredith used the photo incident to force her to leave Faymon Group or when she needed the map in Tyrandas, Jessica had been very enthusiastic and helpful in many ways.

Rayna did not bring these up, however. She only pursed her lips. “Even if it’s true that she approached me with special intentions, she has never harmed me all this while, and I can feel that she genuinely treats me as a friend.”

“I understand.” Curtis caressed her cheek.

He was aware of Jessica’s deeds and her reason for doing so, but he chose to play ignorant and not expose her because she did not harm Rayna.

Rayna looked up at Curtis and asked, “Why did you say she has an ulterior motive for getting close to Wyatt? And why is she accountable for his father’s car accident?”

“She wants to seek revenge for her sister.”

Rayna was confused. “Sister? Didn’t Jessie say she’s an only child?”

“That’s a facade she created for outsiders. Some people wanted to hush up an incident related to her sister. So to successfully carry out her revenge, she had to spin this lie,” explained Curtis. “She actually had a sister two years older than her. Her name is Bianca.”

Rayna had a rough deduction of what might have happened. She hesitated a moment before saying, “Don’t tell me Wyatt did something to her sister...”

“No.” Curtis lowered his eyes and began to recite the story. “A year ago, her sister, Bianca, accompanied her company CEO to DM Premium Club for a business meeting. However, she was drugged...”

Rayna’s entire body turned stiff and goosebumps appeared on her skin.

She could vaguely guess what might have happened to Bianca after that.

Curtis glanced lovingly at the woman in his arms. He was unwilling to let her listen to such vulgar content, so he stopped talking.

Rayna, however, wanted him to continue. “I want to know what happened next.”

“There were six of them at the business meeting. All of them were business partners and knew one another well. They took her to a hotel room and forced her to perform various dirty acts on them. They even recorded the whole ordeal.”

Although Rayna was mentally prepared, she still felt sick in the stomach as she listened to Curtis narrate the incident in detail.

“One of them was Wyatt’s father?”

Curtis hummed in acknowledgment and continued, “After the six men had their share of fun, they shoved her some money to shut her up. They were certain she wouldn’t create a scene since she was powerless. However, Bianca became pregnant and later suffered a miscarriage. Because of that, she broke down and ultimately took her own life by slitting her wrist.”

Curtis paused for a moment to see if Rayna was okay before resuming, “Bianca’s parents saw records of the incident on her phone and went to her company, wanting to seek justice. In the end, the tables were turned on them. They were sued for slander, resulting in the loss of their jobs. Unfortunately, both decided to end their lives as well. Those people used their power to suppress the incident and even erased all records of Bianca. They also gave a huge sum of money to her uncle and his family to hush them up.”

“Those people are monsters!” Rayna gritted her teeth in anger.

She could not imagine how devastated Jessica must have felt after knowing what happened to her sister and the grief she had to bear when her sister and parents consecutively took their lives.

While comforting Rayna, Curtis said, “That’s why I don’t like to attend cocktail receptions. The things businessmen talk and do in private are more terrifying than anything else.”

“My heart aches for Jessie. How did she find the courage to live on after her family was destroyed?” Rayna murmured.

She finally understood why Jessica had been in a bad mood after she returned from the hospital that day and why her words had seemed conflicting.

Jessica’s purpose in getting together with Wyatt was perhaps to facilitate her revenge plan. However, she might have had a change of heart when Wyatt shielded her from a gunshot at the shopping mall.

Jessica must have hated herself so much at that time.

Wyatt’s father was the one she wanted to take revenge on, but she ended up falling in love with his son.

“This whole incident is Wyatt’s father’s fault, not Wyatt,” Rayna said. “If I were Jessica, I would have taken my revenge in the same manner as her.”

Curtis pulled Rayna tightly into his embrace. “I know what you mean. I only consider Wyatt as family. What happens to his father is none of my business. Jessica knows her boundaries, so I have no reason to want her dead.”

“We all know that Wyatt’s feelings for Jessie are real.”

“That’s why Theodore and I are worried,” Curtis replied. “Wyatt may not like his father, but that is his biological father after all. If he were to learn the truth, he would be heartbroken. I won’t interfere with how Jessica seeks her revenge. But if she dares to lay a finger on Wyatt, I won’t let her off. After she settles her stuff, Gabriel will arrange to enroll her in a Ph.D. program overseas.”

Rayna pursed her lips. “Do we have to go that far? Perhaps Jessie—”

“She hates the Lopez family. Wyatt will inevitably be implicated,” Curtis interrupted her words. “The fact that I allowed her and Wyatt to get together despite finding out the truth about her says much about my generosity.”

Rayna snuggled in Curtis’ embrace and did not say anything further.

He’s right. Wyatt’s father destroyed Jessica’s family, leaving her with nothing. If she decides to stay together with Wyatt, she will not be happy being constantly reminded of the terrible incidents. If Wyatt finds out the truth, he’ll suffer too.