Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 334:

Seizing the perfect moment, Rachel chimed in, “Since you missed the elevator, how about a coffee instead?”

“No need,” Tracy replied through clenched teeth.

“Alright then. Wishing you better luck next time squeezing in.” As Rachel wrapped up her words, her phone buzzed with a message from Samira. “Wasn’t I super cool just now?” Rachel replied with a thumbs-up emoji.

“BTW, Tracy’s not getting upstairs anytime soon,” Samira added. “Why’s that?”

“It’s peak lunch hour. The first floor is swarming with delivery guys, and the elevators are packed,” Samira explained.

Rachel couldn’t help but smile, her mood unexpectedly lightening. Maybe today wasn’t such a bad day after all.

But just as she stepped into her office, her phone rang again.

“Hello, is this Rachel Marsh?” The caller ID was unfamiliar, but the voice was oddly recognizable.

than a classmate

“Yes, speaking.”

with excitement. “Oh wow, Rachel, it’s really you. It’s me,

I do. How could

brief exchange of pleasantries, Elsa Pierce cut to the

if you’re free, would you

were never particularly close. And there was that old saying—when a long-lost classmate suddenly

been

it. It’s been years, and I know it must seem odd for me to

added, “I’ll be honest. There’s something I’d like to talk to

world

continuing, “How about this—I’ll send you something to your email tonight. If it interests you, we

speaking, another call started coming through on

name flash on the screen, Rachel’s heart tightened. “Elsa, sorry, I’ve got to take this. Something urgent just came up.” Without wasting a second, she switched over to Jeffrey’s call. Jeffrey had been job hunting

give him space, so