Have I Told You Lately novel Chapter 80

Miles was still quite curious. “You are so young. I guess you didn’t marry for a long time. How could he get tired so soon? You are such a reasonable woman. How did you fall in love with such a man?”

Rachel twitched the corners of her lips and didn’t answer.

She thought that Miles didn’t understand because he didn’t know the whole story, so she didn’t explain much.

Perhaps Miles didn’t know, in the new century, not everyone could love and get marry freely. Kenneth was forced to marry her, so he hated her and never liked her from the beginning.

Seeing that Rachel kept silent, Miles seemed to realize that he had brought up her sad memories. He smiled apologetically. “I’m sorry, Rachel. I shouldn’t have mentioned such matters. But I believe you would find someone better.”

Rachel looked at him with a smile. She turned the laptop to him and said in a light tone, “All right. I’ve resolved it for you. Take a look.”

“Oh?” Miles’ attention was drawn back to work. He looked through the data carefully and nodded. “It matches now. Sure enough, I still have a lot to learn.”

“Please take your time. Compared with other newcomers, your achievements are about the same as those of the employees who have worked for a year already,” Rachel encouraged him.

As soon as she finished her words, her cell phone rang.

Startled for a while, she stood up and grabbed the phone from the nightstand. “Please look through the data again to see if there’s any problem. Excuse me, I need to answer the call.”

“OK. I will.”

The hotel room was not big. Wrapping herself tightly in the coat, Rachel picked up the phone and sat down on the bedside. Seeing it was an unfamiliar number on the screen, she swiped to answer.

“Hello?”

“It’s me.”

She heard a man’s deep and pleasant voice.

Rachel was taken aback. She put down the phone and checked the number carefully. Then she said in a low voice, “Where are you calling from?”

“The landline in my office.”

“I see.” Rachel curled her lips.

Seemingly he was not happy with her tone, the man suddenly asked, “Don’t you have anything to say to me?”

Rachel’s expression slightly changed. She raised her head and pretended to be confused. “What are you talking about? Didn’t you call me yesterday?

Upon hearing it, Miles, who was sitting only a step away and checking the data, looked up and glanced at her. Then he looked down immediately.

“I was on the phone with Mr. Lopez today. He said you came to City J. Why didn’t you tell me yesterday?”

The man’s tone was calm and he didn’t sound questioning. However, Rachel sensed a hint of displeasure in his words.

Feeling a sense of guilt and a little unhappy, she blurted out, “Why did you bother Mr. Lopez? Should I report to you where I go on my business trips one by one?”

Seemingly she had reacted too fiercely, and Miles was shocked. He looked up at her in surprise. “Rachel?”

Rachel was stunned. Only then did she remember that there was another person in her room. She hung up the phone awkwardly, stood up, and looked at him. “Is there any other problem with the data?”

“Well... Nope.” Miles closed the laptop and held it in his arms. He stood up with a smile. “Thank you so much, Rachel. Please go to bed early. I’m going back.”

“Oh... OK.”

Rachel nodded with an easy-going smile. As soon as she closed the door, however, she pulled a long face. Glaring at her cell phone, she cursed, “Bastard!”

At the same time, the cell phone was quite cooperative -- it rang again.

Rachel answered it immediately in a fierce tone, “What now?”

“Are you in a hotel room?”

“Yes. So what? What else do you want?” she still snapped in anger.

He almost embarrassed her in front of her coworker just now.

“It’s so late now, but do you still have... a man in your room?” Kenneth’s tone slightly changed.