Countdown to My Divorce

Cecilia was startled by the strange look on Rachel’s face. “Hey! What’s going on? You’re scaring me.”

Rachel quickly shook her head. “I’m fine. I just need to go out for a bit.”

Cecilia frowned and called out, “But we still have a meeting with Trinity Enterprise…”

Rachel didn’t reply, just left the office. She took a cab to her mother’s old house, which had been sitting empty for a long time. At one point, she had considered selling it.

But William had said, “We don’t need the money. Just leave the house here. It’ll be a way for you to hold onto your memories. Whenever you come back, you’ll feel like your mom is still with you.”

In her final days, her mother had trusted William with everything, and Rachel understood why. At that time, he treated her mother even better than she did. Neighbors praised him endlessly, and sometimes she even felt like she didn’t measure up.

But even the best people could change.

Rachel unlocked the door and stepped inside her mother’s room. She pulled down a box from the top of the wardrobe and opened it, going through it until she found an old photo album.

Yes, this was where she had seen Tyler before.

sat cross–legged on the floor, flipping through the pages slowly until she finally found the photo on the second–to–last

six feet tall. His face still held a trace of youthful awkwardness, yet the

that subtle expression carried a quiet kind of pressure. So, even

wonder every time Rachel saw him,

in the photo was his mother. The picture had clearly been torn

Rachel’s mother know Tyler’s

always had when she s she needed to rely on this

into her bag and rushed

finally clicking. But

out of the building with her colleague, Helena

tugged at Samantha’s sleeve and pointed. “Isn’t

nodded. Confusion crossed her face. “Wait, isn’t that Mr. Hunt’s company? What’s Rachel doing

competitors for a while. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hunt don’t get

Mr. Hunt built up LS Enterprise in just two years, they surpassed Lewis Enterprise. So, we’re enemies with LS Enterprise. I wonder what

and covered her mouth. “Do you think Rachel might