His Real Wedded Bride

Chapter 1208 Learning The Lesson

No matter what Holley said at that moment, Rachel would only take it as some excuse—it would have

only made her despise Holley even more than she already did.

"Excuse me. We have an appointment with Lance."

In spite of the anger she felt, Rachel put on a smile the moment they arrived at the Silver Corporation.

"You must be Ms. Bai. Please proceed to the meeting room. Mr. Zhan will be there any minute now,"

the young receptionist told her. It was a surprise that she still had to wait because she had already

given him a call before they arrived.

"The meeting room? Where is he? How long do we have to wait?"

Normally, for every appointment she requested with Lance, he would be the one waiting—he would

even cancel his meetings to accommodate her.

Now, he would go so far as to send her to some meeting room as if she was any other associate.

The thought left a bitter taste in Rachel's mouth. What made him change so fast?

Was it because of what happened the night before? Charles ended up blaming her and Holley for

Sheryl's suffering and in return, made Lance distance himself from her.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Bai. I'm not sure how soon Mr. Zhan will be available. Please wait patiently."

Though the receptionist replied carefully, her tone obviously turned impatient in contrast to how she

had originally received Rachel and Holley.

The two had been bending their backs trying to get all the cooperation opportunities in Y City, yet

somehow, Charles managed to destroy almost all of them. To make sure their efforts didn't go to waste,

Rachel couldn't do anything but endure what she had to, even the receptionist's rude attitude.

In this situation, she was even afraid that Lance would refuse to work with her—prior to heading there,

he had refused to answer her call until she used another phone to dial him up. Although he did agree to

the meeting, it was with obvious reluctance.

At the moment, Rachel was submitting to quite the humiliation.

Perhaps begging for Charles' forgiveness would be a quick fix for the situation, she thought, but it

wasn't the right time to do so yet. The man clearly despised her. It would take a long time before she

could get him to consider trusting her again.

Without any time to lose, her first priority was to make sure that Tarsan Corporation survived in Y City.

If in the trial operation phase, all Tarsan Corporation's cooperative partners ditched the corporation,

Rachel was well aware of the great loss it would cost the company. And as vigorous as the business

competition was in Y City, it would be extremely difficult for Tarsan Corporation to occupy a place in the

business world again.

Although the corporation could bare some short-term losses, if these losses continued, all the

shareholders would want Rachel out of her position to run Tarsan Corporation. After all, she was the

one who, in spite of the opposition she faced, insisted on moving the corporation to Y City.

If Tarsan Corporation didn't survive, all the blame would be on her and she would lose absolutely any

say in the corporation's development. By then, she would be in a real hell. This was her last chance to

save the rest of the cooperation opportunities for Tarsan Corporation.

"Watch your attitude, young lady! Just give Lance a call."

Seeing that Rachel was offended, Holley snapped at the receptionist.

The girl wouldn't even take them seriously. Even though Holley knew it was silly to cause a little scene,

she knew she had to do something to show Rachel that she was trying to get some results.

Also, she thought that intimidating the receptionist might work.

However, all the girl did was roll her eyes at Holley and ditch any effort to be polite. "Miss Ye, I'm just

the receptionist. Mr. Zhan wouldn't answer me if I called. How about you call him again? Since you're

such a big shot, he would certainly take you seriously."

'Good…that's enough, ' Holley thought, knowing that she didn't go along just to fight with the desk girl—

she just wanted Rachel to see that she would help her get what she wanted while suffering just as

much as she did.

With that, Holley ignored the receptionist and turned to face her boss. "Rachel, we shouldn't waste time

here. Let's look into what's going on."

Holley, of course, got what she wanted. Seeing that Holley defending her, Rachel felt much better.

Besides, it didn't seem like they had any choice but to go wait in the meeting room.

With a nod at Holley, Rachel gave the receptionist a hostile glare before walking away.

Meanwhile, Sheryl arrived at Charles' office.

"What's wrong, Sher? What's bothering you?"

Although Charles was clearly in the middle of something when Sheryl stepped into the office, the

moment she did, he put aside all his work and took a seat beside her.

"Charles, I need to talk to you. I hope this won't make you uncomfortable."

"Sher, where did that come from? You're my wife. If you want to talk, then of course, let's talk. We need

to be honest with each other. It won't bother me. Remember how Rachel put misunderstandings

between us to cause trouble to our marriage before? If we had talked things through in the first place,

we probably could have avoided most of the pain. I don't want to go through that with you anymore," he

said, looking at her with soft eyes. Even then, when he thought about the horrible things Rachel had

put them through, he felt disgusted. As payback, he already destroyed all the business cooperation

Tarsan Corporation owned in Y City—he even made those who had already signed contracts with

Rachel refuse to work with her.

In such a situation, Charles knew it would surely take Rachel a long time to deal with those problems.

The best scenario would be Rachel failing to follow through with her plans and disappearing from Y Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

City for good.

"Speaking of that, you were the one who was mistaken, thinking that something was happening

between Nick and me. You hadn't even talked to me for days. I almost thought for sure that you were

going to leave me and go back to Rachel. I even thought of raising Shirley and Clark alone. You have

no idea how scared I was," she complained. Whenever she remembered those days when she and

Charles were so distant from each other, it made Sheryl terribly upset—it was too miserable a time, as

if her whole world was crashing down.

Immediately, Charles tried to soothe her, "Sher, honey, I would never leave you. It would kill me if I ever

lost you. That's why I went straight to you to ask about Nick. I'm so glad that I did. Otherwise, I

would've never known about your concerns and our misunderstandings. If you kept suppressing all

those negative feelings inside, our relationship would just get worse and worse. I really don't want that

to happen."

"Well, I have also learned my lesson. This time, I came to find you," Sheryl smiled tenderly. 'So gentle

and understanding…How wonderful the man before me is…' Such thoughts ran through Sheryl's mind.

Suddenly, she got a feeling that she owned the most beautiful thing in the whole world. As long as she

was with him, nothing else mattered.

It no longer mattered, all those hard times Melissa had given her—she would never again believe it

when Melissa tried to convince her that Charles didn't love her. From then on, she promised to use her

own heart to feel Charles' love and affection for her.