Chapter b666 /b

    “Wait, I have something to say to you.”

    Rachel wanted to leave right after putting the medicine down, but Jim stopped her.

    The smile she was trying hard to keep on her face stiffened. She clenched her fists and prepared herself mentally, then turned around to face her father.

    “I know what you want to talk to me about, but I’ll never agree to it. Yvette and Sasha hired someone to kill me. If I weren’t lucky, you wouldn’t even have the chance to see me here today. This isn’t them being insensible or rash. It was a wilful murder. I’ve already given her a chance, but she disregarded it. Since she doesn’t care about our rtionship, don’t me me for thinking like this.”

    Gerald cut her off.

    “How could you say that? Since you’re talking about giving her a chance, that proves that you can choose not to pursue the matter. You know about me and your father’s situation. He is definitely going to divorce Sasha, too. Must you doom every member of the family before you’re happy?

    “She’s your sister, albeit of a different mother. You two are rted by blood! Drop the charges against her, and we’ll make sure she answers for her wrongdoing. I promise she won’t do anything to hurt you from

    now on.”

    Jim was less harshpared to Gerald, but to Rachel, there was no difference. Both men wanted the

    same end oue.

    “Why? Why should I always be the one making the sacrifice? Have you ever stepped into my shoes and considered things from my perspective?” Rachel said firmly.

    It wasn’t that she didn’t care about such things, but her family was always disappointing her. With time,

    she no longer held out any expectations for them.

    That didn’t mean they could keep making herpromise time and time again.

    Gerald’s face turned dark with displeasure.

    He pointed a finger at Rachel, then said usingly to Jim, “Just look at the daughter you’ve raised! I told you she’s a stubborn one and you have to smooth out her edges, but you refuse to listen to me. Rachel, that’s your younger sister we’re talking about! Must you go to such extremes?”

    Rachel’s chest heaved with emotion as tears filled her eyes. She clenched her fists so hard, her nails dug into the flesh of her palms. The pain was the only thing keeping her alert to what was happening around

    her.

    Her lips were pressed tight against each other, a firm and resolute look on her face.

    “My sister wants me dead, and you want me to jump to her defence?! Do you think I have a screw loose? Or is her life the only one worth defending while mine amounts to nothing?”

    Jim looked morose and pleaded with Rachel, “I’m begging you, Rachel. Didn’t you promise me that you’d never send Yvette to jail?”

    “I did, on the condition that she doesn’t do anything wicked. But then she came marching to me with William in tow, using me of being unfaithful right in front of Tyler. Do you really think I’ll believe that

    she’ll treat me as a sister?”

    Rachel had long seen through Yvette. Jim and Gerald were the only ones still blinded by so–called kinship and still believed that Yvette treated her as a sister.

    None of these mattered, though. What mattered more was their attitude.

    Forget it! She didn’t want to talk about this anymore.

    She knew it was pointless trying to wake someone pretending to sleep.

    Jim refused to give up hope and continued pleading with her. “I don’t have much time left. Can’t byou /bjust take it as fulfilling a dying wish of mine?”

    “Mr. Lloyd, are you using your life to guilt–trip Rachel?”