Have I Told You Lately

Chapter 80: I’m at Your Door

Miles was still quite curious. “You are so young. I guess you didn’t marry for a long time. How could he

get tired so soon? You are such a reasonable woman. How did you fall in love with such a man?”

Rachel twitched the corners of her lips and didn’t answer.

She thought that Miles didn’t understand because he didn’t know the whole story, so she didn’t explain

much.

Perhaps Miles didn’t know, in the new century, not everyone could love and get marry freely. Kenneth

was forced to marry her, so he hated her and never liked her from the beginning.

Seeing that Rachel kept silent, Miles seemed to realize that he had brought up her sad memories. He

smiled apologetically. “I’m sorry, Rachel. I shouldn’t have mentioned such matters. But I believe you

would find someone better.”

Rachel looked at him with a smile. She turned the laptop to him and said in a light tone, “All right. I’ve

resolved it for you. Take a look.”

“Oh?” Miles’ attention was drawn back to work. He looked through the data carefully and nodded. “It

matches now. Sure enough, I still have a lot to learn.”

“Please take your time. Compared with other newcomers, your achievements are about the same as

those of the employees who have worked for a year already,” Rachel encouraged him.

As soon as she finished her words, her cell phone rang.

Startled for a while, she stood up and grabbed the phone from the nightstand. “Please look through the

data again to see if there’s any problem. Excuse me, I need to answer the call.”

“OK. I will.”

The hotel room was not big. Wrapping herself tightly in the coat, Rachel picked up the phone and sat

down on the bedside. Seeing it was an unfamiliar number on the screen, she swiped to answer.

“Hello?”

“It’s me.”

She heard a man’s deep and pleasant voice.

Rachel was taken aback. She put down the phone and checked the number carefully. Then she said in

a low voice, “Where are you calling from?”

“The landline in my office.”

“I see.” Rachel curled her lips.

Seemingly he was not happy with her tone, the man suddenly asked, “Don’t you have anything to say

to me?”

Rachel’s expression slightly changed. She raised her head and pretended to be confused. “What are

you talking about? Didn’t you call me yesterday?

Upon hearing it, Miles, who was sitting only a step away and checking the data, looked up and glanced

at her. Then he looked down immediately.

“I was on the phone with Mr. Lopez today. He said you came to City J. Why didn’t you tell me

yesterday?”

The man’s tone was calm and he didn’t sound questioning. However, Rachel sensed a hint of

displeasure in his words.

Feeling a sense of guilt and a little unhappy, she blurted out, “Why did you bother Mr. Lopez? Should I

report to you where I go on my business trips one by one?”

Seemingly she had reacted too fiercely, and Miles was shocked. He looked up at her in surprise.

“Rachel?”

Rachel was stunned. Only then did she remember that there was another person in her room. She

hung up the phone awkwardly, stood up, and looked at him. “Is there any other problem with the data?”

“Well... Nope.” Miles closed the laptop and held it in his arms. He stood up with a smile. “Thank you so

much, Rachel. Please go to bed early. I’m going back.”

“Oh... OK.”

Rachel nodded with an easy-going smile. As soon as she closed the door, however, she pulled a long

face. Glaring at her cell phone, she cursed, “Bastard!”

At the same time, the cell phone was quite cooperative -- it rang again.

Rachel answered it immediately in a fierce tone, “What now?”

“Are you in a hotel room?”

“Yes. So what? What else do you want?” she still snapped in anger.

He almost embarrassed her in front of her coworker just now.

“It’s so late now, but do you still have... a man in your room?” Kenneth’s tone slightly changed.

Rachel was speechless.

She was in a daze for a while, and suddenly she laughed. Raising her eyebrows, she asked, “Is it

strange? I’m now single and divorced. It is not strange that I’m with a man, is it?”

She thought he would mock her, but unexpectedly, there was silence on the other end of the line for a

few seconds. Then the man’s deep and cold voice came to her ear. “Where are you now?” he asked.

Rachel’s expression changed a bit. With a soft snort, she said, “Even if you come here to catch the

adultery now, it’s too late. Moreover, you don’t seem to have that right now.”

He wanted to care about her business, but he had forgotten his current identity. Rachel wondered if he

was driven by his habit formed in the past, or he did care about her.

“Rachel!” The man’s voice was now obviously full of unhappiness.

“You should be still in the office, right? Keep on working. I won’t disturb you now. Bye.”

Finishing her words, she hung up the phone without waiting for his response. She became

expressionless.

At midnight, when she was still sleeping, Rachel was woken up by the vibration of her phone. Still

spacing out, she reached out from the quilt and fumbled for her cell phone. Since she was way too

sleepy, she fell asleep again before reaching her phone.

The vibration stopped for a few seconds and it started again.

It happened repeatedly for several times. Rachel was irritated and she sobered up. Reaching out, she

switched on the lamp and got her cell phone in her hand. Inwardly, she kept cursing the jerk who

disturbed her sleep at such time.

When she saw the familiar number on the screen, her face was darkened.

After the call was connected, she snapped, “Kenneth Shaw, don’t you know I’m sleeping? Why are you Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

so annoying?”

The man’s low voice answered her, “I’m at your door. Open the door.”

Rachel gaped.

With her widened eyes, she was startled.

He said he was at her door.

When she came back to her senses, she got up from the bed. Without wearing the slippers, she rushed

to the door.

Her series of rapid movements made her short of breath. Pursing her lips, she calmed herself down

before opening the door unhurriedly.

At that moment, Rachel felt quite strange as if she was still in a dream. She kept wondering if he was

indeed behind the door.

Under the bright light in the corridor, the man’s tall figure was right in front of her. He wore a neat

business suit, looking as handsome and calm as usual.

Rachel’s pupils slightly shrank, and she was in a daze for a few seconds.

Kenneth looked down at her. He caught a glimpse of her fair and tender feet on the floor. Instantly he

said with a frown, “Where are your slippers?”

Rachel was brought back to her senses by his question. The next moment, she was about to close the

door.

She kept asking herself inwardly why she had opened the door just now.

Certainly, the man wouldn’t let her shut him out. As if he had expected her reaction, he pushed the door

and walked straight into her room. He also helped her close the door behind.

Rachel was irritated. “Kenneth Shawn, you!”

“The floor is cold. Let me carry you to the bed.” As he spoke, the man lifted her and carried her in his

arms, walking towards the king-sized bed.

Rachel was speechless.

His words sounded extremely... ambiguous.

As soon as she was on the bed, Rachel pushed him instantly and moved back. Glaring at him with an

alert, she asked, “How did you know I’m here?”

“It’s not difficult to ask my men to do some investigation,” Kenneth looked at her and answered in a flat

tone, unbuttoning the buttons on his suit jacket.

Rachel subconsciously bit her lower lip. She snorted with a self-mockery. “Indeed. It’s just a piece of

cake for you.”

Suddenly she changed her attitude and said in anger, “You intruded my room in the mid of night. Even

if the hotel security couldn’t do anything, will the police just stand by? Leave now, or wait for the police

to come!”

She kept blaming herself inwardly for opening the door for him.