Betrayal At The Altar

Chapter 855

Louis Smith panicked when Rachel Grey read his mind; he immediately denied it.

“No, That’s not true. I-” he tried to defend himself.

“My time is precious. I don’t want to waste time talking nonsense with you, Rachel said without looking at him. “Let me give you a piece of advice, Louis. Instead of wasting your time and energy on me, why don’t you think about how the Smith family should proceed from now on?”

Then she walked past Louis and headed to the office.

Louis watched her leave and clenched his fists. “Are you so anxious to cut ties with me because of David Jones?” he growled, feeling hurt.

Rachel stopped in her tracks and turned to look at him.

Then she casually tucked the stray hair behind her ear.

Rachel was enveloped in the warm sunshine, and the diamond ring on her finger reflected a dazzling glow under the light that pierced into Louis’s eyes, making him squint uncomfortably.

Rachel’s gesture spoke volumes even though she did not speak a word.

Louis understood what her ring represented, having been in a failed marriage himself.

Louis was confident he could change Rachel’s mind if it were someone other than David Jones. Unfortunately, he was no match for David on all fronts.

David, the Jones family’s patriarch in Aureliana, also had absolute authority in Seaxas’s underground forces.

That was no way the Smith family could measure up to him in terms of fortune and power.

Rachel gazed at Louis coldly. “Let bygones be bygones, Louis. We will go our separate ways and mind our own business as we move on. If you don’t listen to me, then…

She paused for a moment, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly. “you will end up like the Grey family in Pollister.

calm that no one could detect her genuine emotions.

bone-chilling. Louis felt trapped in a snow

pale involuntarily; his pupils constricted as he looked at Rachel

the Grey family’s accounts and seizing all its assets. However, Louis knew fully well that the Grey family’s bankruptcy came without

not as prominent as before, it was in better shape than other families in Pollister. It could not have gone bankrupt so quickly. When the Grey family was in its heyday, Hans had offended many people and made countless

that one of his enemics had sabotaged him to avenge the

in his wildest dream that the instigator was Rachel Grey!

father. How could

would it do her to

did she do it? He

Rachel not concerned that everyone would despise

feelings and made him pay the price. What makes you think what I said to you was just a harmless

an ice hole;

and had

continued to hound after her, she would undoubtedly stop him. She was someone who

between them. Rachel would never forgive him

reached out his hand slowly as if he wanted to grab hold of something. But in the end, he was empty-handed.

self-deprecatingly, feeling sorry for

phrase “serves you right” in the past. He finally got it.

when she stepped into the office.

Rachel at the door. She looked annoyed as if something bothered

her.

the elevator. She teased smilingly, “What’s the pouty face all about? Did you

and

Louis Smith provoke you? Are there conflicts between you two?” Rachel

could not help mocking him mercilessly. “He came to the office early morning to see you; one look at him, and I knew he was up to no good. That bastard left you without a word at the altar on your wedding day. Now that he found out about your status, he came running like an irritating tramp to repent his wrongdoings. I guess he must have learned it from his beloved Olivia

her about how Louis had abandoned Rachel on their wedding day and how the Smith family had sucked Rachel dry along the way, Linda harbored hatred toward the Smith family and despised them

However, the

on airs of a prestigious background, but what they did was