Such a Rude and Noisy Woman novel Chapter 414

Only after her father-in-law had left, Rachel went upstairs into Hiram's office, as she wasn't prepared to meet him just yet.

As she pushed the door open to come in, she felt with her whole being that something had changed in this room. From time to time she used to come here and even worked in the office next to it. It had only been less than two weeks that Rachel had been out of town. Then why she felt so strange, as soon as she stepped into this place, which she must have visited hundreds of times.

"Coffee or tea? Can I help you?" she uttered in a low voice, after standing right in front of Hiram's desk. It made her feel even worse, that she just sat there and did nothing all day.

Since Rachel had come back to him, she made up her mind to confront all the problems that life threw at her. Running away was not a good idea anymore. It had already proven to not be working.

The old lady on the train was right. Escaping wouldn't settle anything.

Besides, she didn't have the courage to run away a second time.

Now, she had to deal with the mess that she caused by herself.

Not only that her dispute with Gavin didn't go away, but she had also managed to piss off Hiram - the most important man in her life.

He was "buried" in the documents, which Ben just gave him a moment ago. There were three copies on his desk, which were urgent and needed to be dealt with immediately. Without even bothering to raise his head upon Rachel's words, he replied with a cold, emotionless tone,"No, thank you. Tell Ben to pull the car in front of the building now. I need to go out for a business meeting in maximum fifteen minutes."

"Okay, I'll go now!" Rachel nodded her head.

Glancing at him, she turned around and walked out swiftly.

Twenty minutes later, Hiram changed his suit to a set of leisure clothes and also stepped out of his office.

Meanwhile, Rachel was trailing behind him.

As she promised, she had to go with him the next twelve days, following him like a "shadow" - twenty-four hours a day, wherever he went.

As both of them had just gotten into the car, Hiram's phone began to ring. As he took it out and saw who was calling, his eyebrows furrowed. But he picked it up, anyway.

"Hello," he spoke with an almost mechanical voice.

As she was sitting right beside him, Rachel could clearly hear a woman crying on the other side of the phone.

"Hiram, my restaurant's on fire! I don't know how it started, but the flames took over the whole building rapidly. My Time Restaurant's gone……"

It was Flora and she sounded truly heartbreaking,"Hiram, could you, please, come over to me now? I'm totally lost and have no idea what to do."

Looking at his watch first, he hesitated for a moment with a frown on his face, before replying anything. Then he said to Ben,"Please, drop me off at Phoenix Street fast!"

After a swift glance at him, Rachel immediately averted her eyesight outside at the sky, but didn't say anything, nor stop him.

She knew it was Flora who called him. To her surprise, the first acquaintance Rachel ran into after she came back was her, which felt quite complicated and awkward.

They arrived at the Time Restaurant soon. From a distance, she could see a thick black smoke cloud whirling from the burning edifice up to the skies. Two or three pump trucks were heavily throwing water on the fire.

As quickly as possible, Hiram got off the car and immediately ran to the burning restaurant.

Also Rachel and Ben rushed to get off after him.

Sank in the deep smoke and scary fumes, Flora and all her employees were standing outside, watching their burning restaurant anxiously, but hopelessly. They had tried their best to put the fire out, but couldn't stop it from spreading.

Seeing Hiram, Flora, who was shedding tears, ran to him immediately and hugged him tightly. "What can I do, Hiram? What can I do? This restaurant is the heart, blood and bones of my entire life, but now it's turned to dust! Oh, I can feel my heart's also burned into ashes! Oh, God!"

Patting her on the shoulders, he spoke in a comforting tone,"It's not a big deal! Look at you! Standing in front of me safe and sound. We, humans, are so insignificant in front of the unstoppable power of nature and the man-made calamities. Anyway, the restaurant can always be rebuilt, as long as you're here!"

While taking her hands off him, he noticed that a piece of skin on her hand was burned off.

"What's wrong with your hand, Flora?" Hiram asked, worried.

Hurriedly, Flora hid her hands behind her back and shaking her head repeatedly, replied,"Nothing! A burning plate dropped it, while I was trying to get more stuff out."

While they were talking to each other, her manner was always very evasive. Also she would never look straight into Hiram`s eyes. Suddenly, a voice rang out behind them.

"Oh, God! You're injured, Flora!" Rachel shouted, as she strode hurriedly to them. Pushing her husband slightly, which also seemed totally unintentional, she managed to stand between him and Flora.