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“Miss Grey, where should we drop you off?” asked Eddie.
Only after hearing this did Rachel realize that other people were in the car and immediately shook off David’s hand without hesitation as if it were searing hot.
David was rendered speechless.
Was she avoiding being seeing intimate with him?
Rachel cleared her throat to cover up her embarrassment. Her eyes flashed as she said in a voice as clear as usual, “Drop me at the Oaks.”
“Okay,” replied Eddie.
Soon, Rachel reached her destination.
When she got off the car, David handed her the bunch of roses and said in a low voice, “Good night.”
“Good night.”
With a faint smile, she turned around and left.
David watched intently as she walked away. Then the driver started the car and pulled away. Eddie looked at David in the backseat from the rearview mirror and complained to himself, “Mr. Jones left so much work unfinished to have dinner with Miss Grey?
“Miss Grey is indeed gorgeous, but I have to ask, isn’t it a little too much for Mr. Jones to lose his cool today?
“He was losing his head over her!”
“What’s in your mind?” David suddenly asked.
Eddie subconsciously blurted out, “I was thinking that you have lost your head over Miss Grey tonight…”
The moment that sentence passed his lips, an eerie silence spread in the car.
Eddie Brook regretted what he said so much that he wanted to slap himself. Instead, he tentatively watched David Jones’s expressions, then carefully opened his mouth. “Miss Grey’s performance was very impressive tonight…”
But David’s frown only deepened. Eddie had to quickly think of something to quell David’s anger. So Eddie added, “Only a woman like that is worthy of you, sir.”
Sure enough, David’s gloomy expression disappeared instantly when he heard the second half of Eddie’s comment.
Having narrowly escaped danger, Eddie secretly gave Rachel an even more special place in his heart. Rachel Grey was almost like a savior to him now.
Eddie even started thinking about finding an auspicious place at home to worship Miss Grey for how she saved him.
“You did well tonight.” David’s deep voice was cold as usual.
Eddie paused briefly. He tried to reflect on what he had said that pleased David. Then, after some thought, Eddie’s only reasonable explanation was that Miss Grey was mentioned. Hesitantly, Eddie squeezed out a response. “We have nothing to do with the video…”
After hearing this, David’s lips curved into a mysterious smile. “That little girl has quite a few secrets…” he said indulgently.
It was already late at night when she returned to Johnson’s Mansion.
Carrying a bouquet of roses in her arms, Rachel returned to her room.
After a shower, Rachel dried her hair with a towel. That was when her phone on the table suddenly went off.
As soon as Rachel picked up the phone, a lazy voice spoke, “Someone is secretly investigating the Johnson Corporation’s CEO.”
“Are they better than you?” Rachel asked.
“Are you kidding me? My hacking skills are unmatched.”
“Then are you afraid of them?” Rachel asked again.
Her question apparently hit a nerve with Lucas Johnson on the other end of the line, who angrily roared, “Rachel Grey, you can call me names. You can look down on me. But I won’t allow you to humiliate me like this!”
As a respected outsourced member of the prestigious Hacker Alliance, Lucas Johnson would not allow anyone to question his hacking expertise!
Rachel Grey smiled playfully. “If that is the case, then what are you worried about?”
Rachel’s retort immediately left Lucas speechless. Then, after a long pause, Lucas spoke again. “I was the one who took care of the problems you caused. Is this how you would repay the person who saved you?”
“Even if you didn’t take care of it, I could have handled it.” Rachel Grey picked up the glass of water on the table and took a sip to soothe her dry throat. “Besides, I haven’t blamed you for interfering with my plans.”
Lucas coldly snorted. “Forget it. I was just wasting my efforts for an ungrateful person like you!”
“Who is investigating me?” Rachel asked all of a sudden.
“Louis Smith, CEO of the Smith Group,” Lucas said with a malicious sneer.
Rachel was not surprised. But she was pretty sure that Louis wouldn’t be able to find anything about her no matter what.
“I don’t think you were blindfolded by love. But what did you see in such a scumbag?” Lucas did not hold back his criticism. “In the past, you deserved better than marrying into the Smith family because they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Even though the Smith family is on the rise now, Louis Smith is still way beneath you. I’m glad that you finally realized how silly you were. Otherwise, I would think that someone has cast a spell on you.”
It was not just Lucas, but everyone close to Rachel had been dumbfounded by her sudden decision to be with Louis Smith.
Rachel Grey raised her hand and rubbed her forehead. Then, with a tone as icy as a winter stream, she said, “Do you remember that one time when we snuck out of school five years ago?”
“Are you saying…” filled with disbelief, Lucas’s voice suddenly tensed, “that it was Louis Smith who saved you that night?”
Rachel leaned against the front of the window, looking at the crescent moon hidden.
among the clouds. There was a faint trace of sadness in her eyes. “After returning, I’ve investigated for a long time and all the findings point to him.”
When she first learned that the Smith family was on the verge of bankruptcy, she deliberately approached Louis and offered her help. Everything that followed was just nature taking its course.
She was the only one that developed feelings as time passed.
This relationship that she had maintained for three years was only a deal from beginning to end in Louis’s eyes.
Lucas, who was on the other end of the phone, fell into a long silence.
After some time, Rachel spoke. “The past three years were just to repay him for saving my life back then. I have nothing to do with him from today onward.”
After she hung up, Lucas sent a Whatsapp message. [Stay away from David.]
Rachel switched off her phone and hugged her arms. She involuntarily looked at the bouquet of roses on the table and recalled the man saying, “Do whatever you want. I’ll clean up the mess for you, no matter how severe the consequences will be.”
It seemed like it was a little too late…
The next morning, Rachel received Mary’s call while she was having breakfast.
“Oh my god! How do you even have the mood to eat breakfast? I’m so pissed off!” Mary had a hot temper and would make unnecessary noise or fuss as if it was the end of the world when something happened. “Olivia is distorting the truth on Twitter and implying that your abused her without reason! Twitter is in chaos because of this incident! I watched it climb. the list of trending topics! Her fans are so angry they’re starting a revolution! My dear princess of the Johnson family, is this what you meant when you said you can solve it on your own?”