Mitchel silently listened to her words.

"Look, you know what matters to me. So don't provoke me again with Lauren's matters, okay?"

Mitchel did not keep silent this time. He rested his chin on her hair and swallowed hard his Adam's apple.

"You have my word."

The next morning, Mitchel headed to the company for some business and instructed Tessie not to wake Raegan up until nine o'clock.

However, Raegan got up before Tessie could wake her up.

After breakfast, Raegan bid farewell to Kyler and Luciana and had the driver take her back to Serenity Villas.

In the afternoon, Raegan was wiped out from the previous night, so she decided to take a nap.

By the time she woke up, night had already fallen.

Somehow, she missed Mitchel. She reached for her phone to give him a ring but got no answer.

Thinking he was just swamped with work, she shrugged it off.

Dinner time rolled around, and she still had not heard from him. Now a little anxious, she tried calling him again.

Still, his phone remained unreachable.

Meanwhile, the tension was rather intense in the CEO's office at the Dixon Group.

It seemed that he was about to crush the report in his hand.

The report clearly stated that the similarities in the samples were strikingly low, which indicated no biological relationship between him and the baby.

Just as Raegan was about to call Mitchel for the third time, she hesitated and chose to send a text instead.

"Honey, are you free right now?"

She rarely used that endearment, but Mitchel liked it whenever she called him that.

Feeling buoyed by their candid conversation last night, Raegan figured being a little sweet would not hurt.