Lahat ng Kabanata ng Countdown to My Divorce: Kabanata 681 - Kabanata 690

Tyler typed out a message. It read like a threat.[Jason, you must be too idle these days. Do you want me to tell your old man to ship you overseas for a while?]Jason immediately went quiet.Luke stepped in to calm Tyler down.[Alright, let me give you some advice. You should approach this from two angles. Firstly, push her a little. Secondly, make it clear that you're serious about her—that this isn't some casual game. By push, I mean forcing her to confront her own feelings. I've met plenty of women like her. They clearly care but won't admit it. Honestly, that's exactly how Rachel is.]Tyler thought it over. Luke's words made sense. Rachel was the type to get tangled up, always caught between holding on and letting go.Tyler wasn't someone who wasted time. Once he had the answer, he stopped replying altogether.Jason noticed the silence and even tagged him a couple of times, but there was still no response.[I knew it! He treats us like a vending machine. Once he gets wha

Rachel was already growing impatient."Dad, I've made myself very clear. The only reason I still acknowledge you as my father is because, even though you're blatantly biased toward Yvette, I can at least understand it. She's your daughter, too. But you can't guilt-trip me. I'm under no obligation to make up for the remorse you feel toward her."Then, Jim dropped a different bomb. "I heard Tyler's company is in trouble. If he can't secure investors soon, won't it be on the verge of bankruptcy?"At that, Rachel felt a sharp unease in her chest. "What are you trying to do?""I know Lloyd Enterprise can't solve all of his problems, but it could at least buy him some time. If you're willing to show your sister some mercy, I'll give you half of Lloyd Enterprise in exchange."Rachel's heart clenched. She didn't even know how to process the emotions crashing over her.To think that, for the sake of saving Yvette—the same person who once tried to destroy her—her father was willing to hand

"Uhh, Cecilia, don't say things like that!" Rachel cut Cecilia off in a hurry, terrified the latter might blurt something out of line. She could already feel Tyler staring at her intensely.If Cecilia kept talking, Rachel was certain she wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.Cecilia, completely baffled, asked, "What are you talking about? Did you forget? Last time you told me that you wanted to run that project, but we'd need a marketing hook. And what's more eye-catching—especially for women—than men? At the time, you said we should use a few good-looking guys for the shoot. Then we'd publish it through the magazine. It'd be the perfect ad, right?"Hearing that, Rachel finally remembered. She had tossed out the idea to Cecilia before, just casually in passing. She had forgotten all about it after getting sidetracked with other things.It surprised her that Cecilia had remembered so clearly.She let out a long sigh of relief. "That actually sounds good, but I didn't get a good look e

Rachel walked further inside and asked Yale, "Why?""Don't you think LS Enterprise sounds like someone's name?"Yale didn't give her the answer outright. Instead, he dropped a little hint.Rachel pressed the elevator button. "Whose name?"Seeing that Rachel wasn't picking up on the clue at all, Yale tried again. "Think about it carefully. Which other alphabet sounds like L?"Rachel pressed the button, and the elevator doors closed. She racked her brain. There were just too many possibilities. How could she possibly guess?"Yale, you're just making things hard for me. Tyler knows so many people—how would I know whose name he used? Don't tell me, it's his mother's?"Yale was speechless. Seeing that she couldn't guess, he gave up on the riddle."Closer than you think."Ding!The elevator doors opened just then.Rachel froze. "You don't mean me, do you?""L sounds like R, and R is the first letter of your first name. It's not that hard to figure out," Yale replied.Not hard to

Back when William was running his company, there had also been plenty of single mothers on staff. Unlike Tyler, William was firmly against allowing them to bring their children to the office.Even an hour wasn't allowed.His reasoning was simple and blunt. A company was a company, not a daycare center and certainly not a marketplace. Rules were rules, and he wouldn't let anyone break them.As a result, nearly every single mother who struggled to juggle work and childcare ended up making mistakes on the job. William's only response was punishment after punishment—never once addressing the root of the problem.Yale quickly returned with a cursive writing practice book in hand."Ms. Lloyd, this is all we've got for now. Let's use it for now. I'll buy a new one later to replace it for the kid.""That'll do."Rachel laid the tracing paper over Tyler's handwriting and carefully followed the strokes, one by one, copying them in exact detail. Luckily, she had some experience with this k