Cecilia was startled by the strange look on Rachel’s face. “Hey! What’s going on? You’re scaring me.”
Rachel quickly shook her head. “I’m fine. I just need to go out for a bit.”
Cecilia frowned and called out, “But we still have a meeting with Trinity Enterprise…”
Rachel didn’t reply, just left the office. She took a cab to her mother’s old house, which had been sitting empty for a long time. At one point, she had considered selling it.
But William had said, “We don’t need the money. Just leave the house here. It’ll be a way for you to hold onto your memories. Whenever you come back, you’ll feel like your mom is still with you.”
In her final days, her mother had trusted William with everything, and Rachel understood why. At that time, he treated her mother even better than she did. Neighbors praised him endlessly, and sometimes she even felt like she didn’t measure up.
But even the best people could change.
Rachel unlocked the door and stepped inside her mother’s room. She pulled down a box from the top of the wardrobe and opened it, going through it until she found an old photo album.
Yes, this was where she had seen Tyler before.
Rachel sat cross–legged on the floor, flipping through the pages slowly until she finally found the photo on the second–to–last page.
Tyler must have been about 16 or 17 at the time, but was already over six feet tall. His face still held a trace of youthful awkwardness, yet the lines were starting to sharpen. Even then, there was already a hint of coldness in his expression.
His handsome face was set in a slight frown, and somehow, that subtle expression carried a quiet kind of pressure. So, even back then, there was something in his eyes that felt intense.
No wonder every time Rachel saw him, she felt a bit intimidated.
Standing next to Tyler in the photo was his mother. The picture had clearly been torn up and carefully put back together.
But how could Rachel’s mother know Tyler’s mother?
Now, everything made sense. That feeling of familiarity she always had when she s she needed to rely on this photo to get what she wanted.
She quickly tucked the photo into her bag and rushed out to take a cab to LS Enterprise.
Tyler–it was finally clicking. But now,
Just then, Samantha happened to step out of the building with her colleague, Helena York.
Helena tugged at Samantha’s sleeve and pointed. “Isn’t that Ms. Lloyd?”
Samantha stopped to look, then nodded. Confusion crossed her face. “Wait, isn’t that Mr. Hunt’s company? What’s Rachel doing there?”
“I’m not sure,” Helena replied. “But LS Enterprise and Lewis Enterprise have been competitors for a while. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hunt don’t get along. Every time they meet, they can’t stand each other. And for years, Lewis Enterprise was the top company.
“But after Mr. Hunt built up LS Enterprise in just two years, they surpassed Lewis Enterprise. So, we’re enemies with LS Enterprise. I wonder what Ms. Lloyd is doing there.”
Samantha gasped and covered her mouth. “Do you think Rachel might be planning to switch companies?”
Rachel arrived at the front desk of LS Enterprise and asked to meet Tyler, but the receptionist immediately refused.
Chapter 20
+25 BONUS
“I’m sorry, but we don’t allow meetings without an appointment. Maybe you could try calling him?”
Rachel checked the time. She still had half an hour before her next meeting with a business partner, but the Oasis Project was down to its last three days. If she couldn’t convince Tyler soon, there was no way to recover the money for the project.
“I don’t have his phone number,” she said.
The receptionist raised an eyebrow. “You don’t have Mr. Hunt’s number? That’s even more reason I can’t let you go up, then.”
Just as the receptionist was about to say more, the phone rang.
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