Chapter 653

Inside Rayna's dream, the man walked until he stood right in front of her, then stretched a hand toward her. Seeing that she gave no response, he grabbed her and tried to drag her away.

“I'm not going with you. I won't,” she mumbled in her sleep until she woke up with a start.

Curtis was doing some work in the study when he heard a noise from the bedroom. He rushed over immediately, taking long strides. The moment he pushed the door open, he saw Rayna sitting on the bed. drenched in a cold sweat. Her face was deathly pale.

He hurried over to the bed and placed a hand on her forehead. However, she did not seem to be running a fever. “What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?”

“Mm-hmm,” she murmured in response. As she reached out and held his arm, he could clearly feel the slight tremble in her hand. It seemed she had yet to recover from her bad dream.

He stood next to the bed and hugged her, waiting until she calmed down before letting her go. “I'll get a towel to wipe your face.”

“Okay,” Rayna answered. She loosened her grip on liis arm, but she did so ever so slowly with a hint of reluctance.

Seeing that, Curtis sighed softly before scooping her up from the bed and carrying her into the bathroom.

Since she could no longer see. a chair had been prepared in the bathroom so she could sit on it while he helped her wrash up.

As she sat in the chair in front of the bathroom counter, he used a warm w’et towel to dab at her face with gentle motions.

He spoke to her tenderly while cleaning her face before moving on to her hands, wiping them carefully.

Then, he took another towel, dampened it, and began patiently wiping her back.

Being drenched in a cold sweat had left Rayna feeling a little chilly. However, after Curtis' careful ministrations with the warm towel, her body slowly started winning up.

had been toward her over the past few’ days, she

cutting her off before she could finish her

eyesight never gets better, it has never crossed my mind to

your eyesight will be on the mend,” he continued as he rinsed the towels and hung them up to

as he was about to lower her onto the bed, she clutched his shirt and asked. “What time is it

the bedside table. It was three

replied as he put her down on the bed. He reached for the covers and was about to tuck her in when

haven't you?” She recalled that she had been alone in bed w’hen she

over later. I still have several international video conferences to attend,” he replied

the fingers gripping his shirt and lay down on the bed. He pulled the covers over her

she dozed back to sleep. Then, he got up gingerly and

video conference's attendees—a silver-haired man—noticed that Curtis had rejoined the meeting, he reported, “Tilings have been a little tricky over

is up to something. It seems a reshuffle in the candidates for Yartran's royal family is poised to happen, so internal pow7er struggles have been

Engineering Bureau w’ho oppose the current president?” the voice of a young wfoman rang out in the video conference. “As far as I know; the president personally selected those wdio would be in the bureau. I

The crown prince...

hearing that, Curtis narrowed his eyes as he sat at his desk. “What's the name of

the w’oman

the current crown prince, to be exact,” added

the word “Bridge” Rayna had traced

eyes, and he slowly clenched

to view’ liis photo on Yartran's official website,” the woman added. Her hand moved over her tablet, and she quickly sent a photo to

tapped on the photo and frowned. “He has

crown prince is the only one whose looks differ from the other royal family members. Those in their family either have black or yellow’ eyes. None of them have ever had blue eyes,” the wroman in the video conference responded. She also

and gave it a cursory glance. Nonetheless, the part where it talked about the crown prince's engagement did not escape liis notice. “He's engaged? He has

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