Betrayal At the Altar by Dolores Delia

Chapter 2

“Yes!” Louis Smith answered firmly. His voice showed no hint of hesitation as if her question was silly.

Rachel’s heart skipped a beat. Her heart throbbed in pain as if someone had stabbed her heart with a knife.

Louis left her and bolted out the door after dropping an insincere apology.

Rachel stared at Louis‘ leaving figure. She felt as if all air was sucked out of her. She couldn’t breathe, and her heart was convulsing in pain.

She felt the chill seeping through her body, freezing her limbs.

The Smith family had financial difficulties when Louis took over the family business. Their cash flow problem pushed them to the brink of bankruptcy.

company was facing a financial crisis and would marry her when the company was back on track. She believed him and still remembered the promise he had made her after many years. With her identity, she helped him conquer the business world and became his advisor, making his name in the business world from a nobody just so that he could make her Mrs. Smith. She was hoping that her family would accept

she’d spent with him was just a business

seen him as her true love. But for him, the relationship was

just a joke compared to what he

the tears in her eyes with all her might. Still, they flowed freely down her face.

Grey, my brother would never marry a village girl like you had you not been bugging him for so many years. Get out of my family if you know your place.” Rachel’s heart sank after hearing those brazen words

pointed her finger directly at her, “Who do you think you are? Do you

throb in pain. Was that what she was to the Smith family? “That’s enough! That would be all for today.” Mrs. Smith stood up impatiently and walked toward Rachel. She looked at Rachel in disdain as if she was dirty and lowly. “Look at you,

greeted the guests with a broad

guests leaving the wedding she had been waiting for such a

got in return after everything