Chapter 212 - The Breakfast Gathering (1)

Jacob's gesture was sweet, J thought and she can't help but smile to herself. She was never pampered this way before. And Jacob is making it so that J would get used to it. She never minds getting used to it. All these times Jacob has been doing a lot of things to make her safe and comfortable, not to mention killing her kidnapper. And tomorrow she wanted to make it up to him.

The next morning, everyone from the horse farm and orange orchard started to arrive one by one. Noah came earlier to help Mary and Mrs. Potters in the kitchen to prepare breakfast for everyone. The whole kitchen was busy when J came down to check on them. Jacob was left in the bedroom to make some calls in the hospital.

After some moments of preparation, the breakfast was all set in the buffet table. And with J's signal, everyone started to get their breakfast and started to dig in. J looked at everyone's happy face. It was rare for them to have a gathering like this. She hasn't seen everyone in the Lodgepole Estate all together in one place and she felt overwhelmed. There were about one hundred people gathered around the lemon orchard where Mrs. Potters set up a couple of breakfast tables. There were not just hostlers, vets, helpers, and farmers, they also bring their family with them.

J didn't know that the estate had already grown a large number of people in there. Some of them grow up in the estate just like J. And some of them got married and had a family but didn't leave the estate which made J grateful to them. Thou some of them already left just like Noah, but still keeps on coming back because they have a family and a home to come back to.

Finally, Jacob came down. Although some of them have already seen Jacob yesterday, others haven't got the chance to see him and only heard about him from the others. They already have a speculation as to what his relationship is with their heiress but they didn't dare talk about it in front of J. Jacob looks dashing wearing a grey V-neck long sleeves shirt, his hair his quite messy because of the wind coming from the sea which made some of the girls ogled at him.

Jacob takes the vacant seat beside J. As soon as Jacob arrives, they both started to relish the delectable breakfast dishes that Mrs. Potters and Mary prepared for everyone. "Are you done doing some errands?" J asked Jacob, she wondered what takes him too long making calls if it was just James he is calling. "Mmm... hmm..." Jacob hummed in reply. He didn't make further explanations, there are some things that he cannot discuss yet with J so his reply was short which J understands that he doesn't want to discuss it with her.

Actually, after Jacob made a couple of calls, he received a call from Arthur saying they found something about Oliver Garcia. They found out that he is a member of Novus Rex, an organized crime group that has been operating the black market in the country for over five decades already. And now they have started expanding in the nearby country as well.

There were a couple of questions that lingering in his mind. Like, did the Novus Rex sent Oliver Garcia to threaten J? Why would they? Did J do something to offend them? What is J's relationship with the Novus Rex?