Marissa felt furious about what happened. She tried to cool herself down with the exquisite fan in her hand but to no avail. Then, she pulled out her phone and called her daughter-in-law.
However, her son picked up the call instead.
“Mom, how come you’re calling so early in the morning? What’s wrong?” Hansen slept late the night before. Although he had taken good care of himself, despite being middle-aged, he was as fit as a young man. He still had urges in bed as usual.
Hansen had just woken up from his sleep when he picked up the call and it was Marissa’s call that woke him up. He was worried that the sound would wake Jenna up, so he quickly picked up the phone instead.
Marissa was stunned, and she pulled a long face. “What do you mean? Are you complaining about the fact that I’m calling you?”
“How could that be? I asked you that because I just thought that it must be an important matter for you to call at this hour. Who angered you? Where’s Jepherson? Isn’t he with you?”
“He was the one who angered me. Can you pay more attention to your son and teach him some manners?” Marissa complained. Hansen was surprised because Marissa had always been very protective of Jepherson.
“What’s the matter? What did he do this time?” Hansen said as he moved his hand to Jenna’s face. He caressed her face with the back of his fingers and moved her hair out of her face. There were barely any signs of aging on Hansen’s and Jenna’s faces. Jenna’s hair were soft like how it was when she was young.
The cover was pulled downwards and Jenna’s smooth and fair shoulders were revealed.
She was lying in bed without clothes on. As the covers were pulled downwards, her beautiful back was shown. There were faint kissing marks on her back and she looked breathtaking.
It had been years since they had been on a honeymoon together, therefore Hansen was extremely passionate.
When Hansen noticed the kiss marks on Jenna’s back, he couldn’t help but to lean in to kiss her back again. Jenna was at her limit and she would be risking her life if they continued. Therefore, she chose to play dead.
Hansen felt bad for Jenna, so he pulled the covers back up to cover her and focused on his phone call with Marissa.
“It’s about the engagement of course. I’ve already told you many times that you should urge Jerry in this matter but you didn’t bother with it. None of you listened to me.”
“Now, things are awkward with Deanna from the Whalen family. Why didn’t you settle this matter earlier? There’s no point waiting on it.”
“Didn’t we agree to talk about this matter only after Jepherson graduates from school? Despite your interest for Deanna to be with Jepherson, you know the rules of the Richards family, which was to accept polygamy. Rayan is not going to agree with that.” Hansen had always wanted to remove this crazy rule of the Richards family because it was allowing men to have fun behind their wives’ backs and also putting women in unnecessary pain.
Unfortunately, it was a difficult mission. Hansen had brought up the issue many times but Marissa had always disagreed with it. It was obvious what intentions she had in mind.
Although she had no intention to make him marry again, she wanted to keep the rule, so that she could have a way to upset Jenna or warn her.
Hansen didn’t need anyone else other than Jenna, and he didn’t wish for his son to have more than one wife either.
A man should be loyal to one woman in his life.
Hansen wanted to use this as an excuse to get rid of this rule in the Richards family. This way, the Richards family could avoid affairs from happening under the excuse of passing on the family name.
It’s a modern society and for a man to have more than one wife legally, no one from a decent family would allow their daughter to be involved in that.
Let alone Rayan.
Hannah would cut ties with them.
“How do you know that Rayan would disagree with it? It doesn’t matter if he does because his daughter would agree. Deanna likes Jerry.” Marissa disagreed on removing the Richards family rule and Trevor had no say in it.
Hansen knew that Marissa would say so, therefore he didn’t intend to bring up the fact that Jepherson saw Deanna merely as a younger sister, and not as a potential partner.
“If that’s the case, then we can still wait till after they graduate.”
“He’s working right now. Don’t use their graduation as an excuse to shut me up. I know what you’re thinking. You say you will let the children choose for themselves, but I’m telling you, don’t forget that your and Jenna’s marriage was arranged by your grandmother and you two are happier than ever. This is the proof. What else do you have to say?” Marissa brought up his grandmother to pressure Hansen, but he was unaffected by it.
“But they haven’t even graduated from school yet. Furthermore, Jenna and I are abroad and you’ll have to wait for us to get back before you could arrange the marriage.”
“Deanna has just entered university, and it is her first year there. If we want to ask for Deanna’s hand in marriage, then it doesn’t seem like Rayan would agree to it.”
“You two should come back now then. You are a mature couple, you can travel anytime.” Marissa was satisfied with Jenna as her daughter-in-law, but she didn’t like how Jenna was always agreeing to Hanson’s arrangements.
She should not obey him blindly. What if one day he were to ask her to end her own life? What would become of her by then?
“Jenna is asleep. I’ll talk to her about it once she wakes up.” Hansen brought Jenna up in the conversation. Although Marissa wanted Hansen to wake Jenna up, she couldn’t bring herself to say so because Jenna had always treated her extremely well.
“Fine, let her rest then. Ask her to call me back once she’s up. It’s about ten o’clock over here, what time is it over there?”
“It’s about four o’clock.”
“You should rest then.” Marissa hung up the phone. She thought about it, and she then stood up from the chair. She couldn’t wait for Jepherson to come home, so she decided to do it herself.
Marissa brought some help along and visited the Whalen family.
There was no one at the Whalen family residence other than Hannah. She said a lot of kind words, but she didn’t bring up her daughter during the conversation. Hannah thought that Deanna was still young, and they should leave the topic for the future.
In fact, both of the families knew it very well that Marissa couldn’t seem to see the issue clearly.
That time, Rayan had become more determined about his decision. Jepherson was a great kid, but he wouldn’t rush his daughter to marry into the Richards family. The Richards family had a huge business and tons of rules. Rayan had not forgotten about what happened to Dory in the past.
Therefore, this marriage wasn’t a good idea.
Raeleigh rushed back to her dorm after she got down from the car. Nobody noticed her coming in since there were too many people in school. It was early in the morning and nobody possibly knew where she went. She could have just gone out for a walk for some fresh air.
Raeleigh entered the room and acted calm. She saw Scarlette gaming on her laptop. She fell into a daze and then quickly locked their dorm room.
Scarlette yawned and looked at her. “You’re back?”
She looked exhausted, but she didn’t stop what she was doing.
Raeleigh sat down and looked at Scarlette’s laptop. She asked, “Did you log in to my account and let the game run?”
“What else? Your ranking in the game is too low and if it remains this way, when will you be able to earn money off of it? Therefore, I helped you. But remember to log out from your game the next time. Why don’t you get a laptop with a fingerprint lock? All laptops have that now, and you know our major. We have to store our designs in our laptops in the future. Aren’t you afraid that someone will try to steal your designs one day?” Scarlette said in a straightforward manner.
Raeleigh was lost in thought. In fact, she knew these things very well. However, how could she afford a laptop with a fingerprint lock when she could barely sustain her daily life?