Have I Told You Lately

There were still twenty days left until her father’s trial. If she did not manage to collect and return the money within these days, she was afraid that her father’s hair would turn white before the day he was released out of jail came.

Investor?

Rachel hesitated when she remembered what Johnson had said just now. She took out her cell phone from her pocket and scrolled up after opening the contact list. A number imprinted in her memory leapt out at her.

Initially, she had remarked the number as “hubbie”. She even deliberately added an ‘a’ in front so that his number would appear at the foremost section when she opened the contact list.

Yet the number of times he phoned and texted her was too few and could be counted with a single hand that after a long while she had changed the remark to ‘Kenneth Shawn’ and would not disturb him when there was no important matter.

She called the number while tossing the cigarette into the toilet bowl and went out to rinse her mouth.

Her voice sounded a bit hoarse after smoking and if she did not do something about it, Kenneth would be unhappy when he sensed it from her call.

“Hi, who’s there?”

The phone call got through very quickly, yet what made her blood froze was the one picking up was a woman. Her question was proficient as if being experienced to receive these kinds of calls.

once more when

back her consciousness after a long while; she spoke with an uncanny tone of voice, “I’m looking for Kenneth Shawn.

The woman replied casually, as if she was the one having authority. “Please tell me your

quickly hung up without letting her continue further. Her hands trembled and her phone dropped with a clank. She

face from the broken screen of the phone. Not knowing when, there were tears flowing down her cheeks and she seemed like she had lost everything from a bankruptcy, looking like a drowned

gone through the four seasons for three times. They would

that hard to add her to the contact

And that woman…

remembering

Yet both of them had signed the contract and if he derailed, he

have faith in him, yet how the woman from the phone addressed him affectionately changed

the crevice which used to be obscure in her heart started

did not care whether today is weekday nor

left her workplace straight at half past five in the afternoon and bought some fresh fruits

changed the dishes every day for Kenneth after they were married yet most of the time it was her alone facing the dishes she