The funeral lasted for three days since so of the Dumrique business partners overseas wanted to co and be there before Magnus got buried. Cayenne already planned this ahead of ti to make sure that everyone will be able to send her father-in-law in peace.
During the three days of the funeral service, Celestine didn't get a word from her father. It's either he would speak to Cayenne or Stefan. Sotis, he would talk to other people, but he never included her. It was obvious that she was an outcast and many people had seen this treatnt, too.
During the burial, a dia company provided live coverage using a drone to show how grand the ceremony was. His remains were buried in Platinum Haven morial Park, one of the most expensive ceteries in the whole country. In fact, it was also known as a millionaire's row since most buried bodies there were from prominent families or well-known businessn.
Stefan didn't want to expose his children to that kind of place from a very young age. Thus, Luiz and Kyle stayed back along with Reuben and Ingrid. Of course, the number of bodyguards was doubled because of the triplets.
After the burial ceremony, people slowly dispersed as they bid farewell to Stefan and Ferdinand. Others didn't even dare talk to Celestine, afraid that Stefan or Ferdinand would take it against them.
Celestine finally approached her father again with Julia. No matter how much she tried to harden her heart, she still felt the pain from being tossed aside and ignored. "Dad, until when are you going to ignore ? Am I really invisible to you? Am I, not your daughter? Why are you treating this way?"
"Grandpa, why aren't you taking us back? Mommy was proven innocent of that cri already. Why are you still ignoring us?"
Ferdinand closed his eyes to suppress the anger he felt toward his daughter. As a father, he was also hurt knowing that his daughter had beco so malicious, so evil. He never ant for her to grow up like this.
"Celestine, I know you were innocent of that embezzlent cri, and I sent you to Italy for another reason. I guess you never listened to out of disappointnt to as your father or probably your anger was so deep you didn't hear my words when I asked you to leave."
"What are you talking about Dad?"
"It's up to you to rember it. I don't have so much ti left in this world, but I hope you won't be too late to rember it."
Giving them a slight nod, Cayenne pushed the wheelchair that Ferdinand was using and left the cetery along with her husband and the bodyguards.
Since Ferdinand would be all alone in the villa now, Stefan and Cayenne decided to let him stay in the mansion with them. At least, he would be able to spend ti with his grandchildren and avoid stressing himself with so much worry. Dr. Albert will be there to check on him from ti to ti as well.
Two days later, Cayenne went back to work, though she was only allowed to work at ho. She communicated with Jackson about the things that they must work on as well as the pending charity events that got canceled because of what happened to Magnus.
"Miss Yen, I was checking your schedule for this month, and it seed like you don't have any appointnts for next week. If I can finish my workload before the weekend, can I take three days off next week? I wanted to go sowhere with a special soone."
"Oh, sure! Looks like you've got a girlfriend already, huh."
"No, Miss Yen, she is not my girlfriend. She's like a dear sister to . I have no romantic feelings for her at all."
"Alright. If that is how you feel. Anyway, as long as you finish your work, I don't mind you taking so ti off."
"Thank you, Miss Yen. Though, if sothing occurs, please let know as soon as possible. I don't really mind."
After almost two hours of a video eting with her secretary, Cayenne put down her pen and turned off her laptop cara. She stood up to stretch her legs and arms from sitting for a long ti because of her work. [Jackson is a lot different compared to how he was.
He was like a Pokémon who went through various stages of evolution.] Thinking about it, Cayenne couldn't stop smiling at her silly idea of comparison.
"Wifey, why are you smiling like a silly cat?" Stefan asked when he noticed that she was smiling while stretching her arms.
"Jackson."
"Jackson? Jackson Mondejar, your secretary? Why are you smiling because of another - "
"Hephephep! Don't even finish those words. You don't have to be jealous, alright? He didn't do anything to make smile, it was more like my imagination of him made smile."
"Why were you imagining him?"
Cayenne felt like smacking her face right now. She just gave herself another problem. "Well, I had a eting with him earlier, right?" Cayenne started her explanation while walking toward her husband. "I just thought that Jackson had improved so much compared to the first ti that we t him."
"And what was funny about that?"
"I compared him to a Pokémon."
"A Pokémon? Seriously? What kind of Pokémon?"
"Nothing in particular. I just thought that he was like a Pokémon that went through different stages of evolution. From the nerd who got bullied easily, to a man who tried his hardest to live and prove he was doing fine, and to the Jackson right now who's full of confidence in his work, and soone who starts to hang out with his colleagues now."
"Hmm, now that you ntioned it, I saw him having lunch with his colleagues a few tis. Kyle was there, too."
"As his employer, I am happy that he is improving."
"Do you think it's because of the accident? I an, he changed a lot after the accident, right?"
"Well, I don't mind if the accident changed him to beco a better version of himself."
"But didn't you find it weird? Until now, I am actually puzzled with what happened." Stefan started thinking about the accident that almost killed Jackson several months ago. Due to Cayenne's pregnancy, he wasn't able to pay attention to it personally, but he asked Tristan and Elena to take care of everything.
He was really shocked when the couple told him that Jackson was alive and was making a fuss because he wanted to leave the hospital and go ho. At so point, he feared that it would tarnish his wife's na since Jackson worked for her.
[Should I ask Tristan to look into his dical record again? What if there are so risks with his new personality now?]
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