“Rachel…” Ewan was about to explain, but Rachel didn’t give him any chance at all. She walked right pass him.
Ewan grabbed her arm to stop her.
They were standing side by side. The ambient became heavy. Time seemed to stand still and the air solidified.
Ewan took a deep breath, feeling his chest so tightened and painful that it was hard to breathe. His tone became weak. “How about waiting for a few more days? I will go back to the Hill Manor with you.”
“No need. I won’t go back to the Hill Manor with you to let everyone blame me. I don’t want to have anything to do with you. Whenever you’re willing to divorce, please inform me. If you want to ruin me more thoroughly by going on this way, I don’t care. It’s all up to you. I don’t have any choice, do I?”
Ewan exhaled the suffocation of his heart deeply. He closed his eyes and raised his head to look at the ceiling. He felt his wounded, aching heart was bleeding because of her sharp words, but he couldn’t change anything.
It was easy for him to restrain Rachel, but what about her soul?
His slender fingers trembled. Finally, he let go of her arm with difficulty.
Rachel immediately stepped forward and kept walking, without looking back or reluctance. All Ewan could see was resentment.
Ewan lowered his head, his eyes reddened. He looked at the pink orange that he was unable to send out. With a heavy look, he was standing still and staring at the orange.
His girl had been here and now she was gone.
Regardless of all his conditions, she just wanted to divorce him.
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Rachel returned to the Hill Manor from the military district.
She told her parents and grandfather that the incident was just a misunderstanding. To comfort them, she said that it had been resolved.
But the impact of video was far from that simple.
After returning to the company to cancel her vacation, Rachel found that she had been dismissed by the company with a high-sounding excuse. Before she left, her manager even gave her a kindly reminder, “You must have a moral bottom line,” which implied that she had no morals when robbing her bestie’s fiancé.
She didn’t explain much. She just took the settled salary and left the company.
Rachel wanted to leave the Hill Manor but didn’t want to return to stay with the White family. Hence, she stayed a few more days in the Hill Manor, wondering what she should do next.
When she was worried about that her father and stepmother wouldn’t be willing to take her in, her father called.
When answering the phone, Rachel was sitting in the back garden of the Hill Manor. Basking in the warm winter sun and listening to Jordan, she felt so depressed.
“You have set Leah up, but we won’t blame you any longer. We have found someone to help her out, but it requires a large amount of money. You should pay it.”
Leah had another four months from being released from the prison, and the White family loved her so much that even four mouths were unbearable.
Rachel asked, absent-minded, “How much?”
“Two million .”
Rachel smiled sarcastically upon hearing the words. The four-month sentence cost two million to redeem?
Leah’s time was really valuable.
However, it was not Rachel didn’t want to help, but that she really hated Leah. Besides she couldn’t afford that amount.
Rachel refused directly, “Dad, I don’t have that much money. I can afford 20, 000, but not two million.”
“I know you don’t have money, but you can ask your mother for it.”
“Neither does my mother.”
“Then, the Hill family can afford it. For them, two million is just a piece of cake.”
Rachel looked up at the sky, sighing deeply. She felt exhausted, “That belongs to the Hill family, and it has nothing to do with me. Besides, you can afford two million yourself, can’t you?”
Jordan was enraged. “You sent Leah to the prison. Of course you have to find a way to get this money. Two million are a big sum for us, but it’s a drop in the bucket for the Hill family…”
Rachel smiled ironically with bitterness. “Leah deserved it. Don’t put the blame on me.”
“Are you going to help or not?”
“I don’t have the ability.”
Jordan furiously denounced, “Great! I don’t have such an ungrateful daughter like you! I declare I’ll cut ties with you from now on.”
“Dad…” Rachel wanted to continue to explain, feeling exhausted and helpless.
Jordan didn’t want to listen at all. He scolded her, “Don’t call me Dad. You don’t deserve to be my daughter. How can the White family have such an unfilial daughter like you? It’s really a misfortune in my family.”
Rachel was speechless.
“If you don’t help Leah this time, don’t ever come back in the future. It’s unnecessary to notify me even if you die.”
Finishing his words, Jordan hung up the phone directly.
Rachel listened to the beeps for a moment, and then she put the phone back into the pocket. Curling up her legs onto the lounge chair, she held her knees with her arms and rested her head on them.
She just felt so worn out that she had no strength to get angry or fuss about.
What would she lose without that so-called family or that father?
Since childhood, she had never felt that she had parents. She was just like a parasite, living in the villas of the Hill and White families. The love of her parents was all given to other children. Her existence was embarrassing and unnecessary.
She had been used to the life without her parents’ care. Hence, when Jordan declared to cut ties with her, she didn’t felt hurt.
Instead, she only felt bitter and depressed.
The garden was full of colorful blossoms and trees. Even the grass on the ground was full of life, but she couldn’t manage to pull herself together.
Suddenly, a female voice came from behind her in a cold tone. “On the Internet, word had it that you’ve robbed your friend’s fiancé and been taught a lesson. Now it seems to be true. I’m wondering which unfortunate friend of you had her fiancé stolen.”
Rachel was startled, her face darkened. Judging from the voice, she knew that the woman was Eliza, Uncle Charles’s daughter.
Since childhood, Eliza had disliked Rachel deeply. She was aiming at her openly, different from Leah, who was kind to her on the surface but played dirty tricks behind her back.
Eliza came to Rachel, crossed her arms on the chest, and stared at her with disdain. She raised the corners of her mouth slightly to make a faint sneer and said sarcastically, “I’m also wondering who is so blind to fall for a woman like you.”
Rachel didn’t want to fuss with her, neither was she in the mood to talk to her, so she stood up, ready to leave.
Being ignored, Eliza asked in a faint anger, “By the way, why are you staying in our Hill family shamelessly? Don’t you forget your surname is White?”
Rachel couldn’t help clenching her fists, her nails sinking into the flesh of her palm and her breath becoming difficult. She had to open her lips slightly and exhaled deeply.
In the Hill family, she was often disliked. When she was a child, every time Eliza said in this way, Rachel felt herself like an orphan.
Rachel slowly turned to face Eliza, calmed down, and said indifferently, “Eliza, watch your language. Aren’t you afraid your hard words might kill others?”
Eliza smiled and narrowed her eyes, looking dangerous and evil. She slowly approached Rachel. “If they do kill people, you must be the first one I’d like to kill.”
Rachel frowned slightly, staring at Eliza’s hideous and terrifying face. Eliza’s words were gloomy and spooky and her eyes were evil and frivolous, which made Rachel feel creepy.
Noticing Rachel was taken aback, Eliza asked with a smile, “What’s wrong? Did I freak you out?”
Rachel retorted unhurriedly, “Eliza, I understand you’re upset because the murderer of Aunt Eve has not been found, but please don’t put your hatred on me and my mother.”
Eliza snorted coldly, tilted her head to Rachel, and lowered her voice. She whispered like the haunted, “I know who the murderer is and why my mother was killed. I hope the next target would be you.”
Her tone was so gloomy that Rachel shivered even under the warm, bright sunshine, the chillness rising from the bottom of her heart.
“Do you know who the murderer is?” Rachel was gobsmacked.
Eliza smiled and turned around abruptly. She replied in a cold tone, “You will know when you die.”