Have I Told You Lately

Rachel only stood to her feet after a long while. She washed the dishes, put them back into the disinfection chamber calmly and changed her clothes. She went out of the house to the garage to reach her car

and drove half an hour to the company.

The workers greeted her when they saw her. "Good morning, Manager Lewis."

"Morning." Rachel smiled and nodded. She took her coat off after entering her office and asked her assistant, "Is Mr. Johnson here?"

"Yes, he's in the office."

Rachel went to the president office and entered after knocking the door.

"Oh, it's Rachel." Johnson Lopez quickly laid down the documents on his hands when he saw her coming in. He invited her to the reception area and even started to make tea.

"What brings you here?"

"It's regarding the money." Rachel went straight to the point and continued with a slightly pleading voice, "Mr. Lopez, I've worked in this company for three years and you know my personality. Therefore I hope you could lend me two million yuan."

Johnson startled and replied helplessly, "Rachel, it's not up to me to decide. And even I do agree to lend you this huge amount of money, the other directors would not concede."

"I know. So can I borrow from you personally?" Rachel asked. "Don't worry, I'll return the money to you within six months, I could even pay you five percent of interest!"

"Rachel, I have no choice, my money's kept by my wife and you know her. I won't be able to go home if she knows I've lent money to you."

As if having remembered something, Johnson asked, "Eh, isn't your husband into investment? Two million yuan should be small problem for him, why didn't you ask him?" "It's only a small investment; he didn't make much from it." Rachel felt sour when she said it.

After three years of marriage, she only knew Kenneth was an investor but she had no idea where his company was located or how much he earned every month. After all, his money was kept to himself due to the contract.

"Rachel, I really do want to help, but I can't." Johnson poured a cup of tea for Rachel. "I'll try and let the finance department give you more salary next month, as you truly have a hard time this month after all." Rachel knew it was pointless to continue the conversation further and she wanted to leave. "Sorry for disturbing you, Mr. Johnson. And thank you for your time."

"No problem. I didn't manage to offer you any help anyway, maybe you should try and have a loan from the bank."

"Thank you for the suggestion."

She felt slightly frustrated after leaving the president office and she headed to the washroom. She slipped into a cubicle when she noticed there was no one inside. She took out a cigarette box and a lighter from her pocket and lit up a roll of cigarette.

She had no addictions towards cigarettes and she only smoked them for fun. She had not touched cigarettes when she knew Kenneth hated the smell after they married. She had only smoked and became addicted to it recently.

Rachel sat on the toilet bowl while smoking and her face went grim.

She had always been proud to have a lawyer as her father since kid and had intended to aim for the profession of judiciary in university. Yet her interest towards it was not strong and she chose banking at last. She had felt that her family was too 'rich' back then as her dowry was lavish enough and her family had moved into a three-storied villa. She had thought that her father was earning a bit too much yet she did not place any doubt.

Until one month ago, her father did not come home, and she was informed from the news that he had been arrested due to corruption.

Her mother almost cried her eyes out and her hair had turned white due to anxiety.

Rachel was level-minded enough to calm her mother down while contacting the attorney to pay the stolen money little by little.

She had sold the houses they owned, including her house made as dowry and a car. She had even shamelessly moved into Kenneth's apartment yet there still lacked of two million yuan. Her relatives were too anxious to avoid her and her family, not to mention lending her money.

She had tried to contact every close friend she could talk to in the past half month, yet she was not able to borrow a single penny.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐