ENCHANTED LOVE, VOLUME 3 - Season 13 Episode 82

“I do believe you. As for what happened last night, I don’t blame you. It was my own choice,” Holley said and blushed.

Suddenly, something seemed to have occurred to her. She hastily got up from the bed, grabbed her scattered clothes, and got dressed.

“Oops! We’ll have a board meeting tomorrow, but I haven’t prepared relative documents and share certificates.” Naturally, she brought up the meeting as she had planned.

As she headed straight for the door, Black also got up from the bed and hugged her from behind.

“Don’t worry. You have me. I’ll transfer my shares to you,” he assured her.

“Is that so? It’s too nice of you!” Holley exclaimed. She turned to face him, joyfully returned his hug and pretended to be touched by his words. Her arms wrapped tightly around his waist in a sweet gesture of gratitude, but her mind was in another place.

The next day that Holley had long waited for finally came. Confidently and impeccably dressed, she calmly waited in the conference room by herself.

When Rachel strutted into the meeting room, she was shocked to find that only she and Holley were there. ‘All of the shareholders are supposed to attend the meeting, but only Holley and I are here. Did they reschedule it?’ she wondered as she took a seat.

“Ms. Turner, you’re wondering why the other shareholders didn’t come, aren’t you?” Holley asked. “I’m sure you’ll know what’s up after you see this.” With that, Holley pushed the paper across the desk to Rachel.

Meanwhile, Rachel felt a bad foreboding when she noticed the smirk on Holley’s lips.

She quickly opened the document, only to find that the dramatic changes in the proportion among the shareholders.

At present, Holley was the biggest shareholder with a 40% stake of Tarsan Corporation, while Rachel was the second-biggest shareholder. Rachel’s face immediately blanched when she saw the numbers. She was so shocked that she repeatedly flipped over the document with trembling hands.

‘What’s going on?’ she thought.

Rachel looked down on her because Holley didn’t have any shares in the company back then. Even though Holley had an excellent performance at work, Rachel never expected Holley to be a threat to her one day.

In Rachel’s eyes, Holley was simply her errand girl.

Now, the tables had turned and she couldn’t believe what she saw.

At this point, she truly regretted helping Holley get out of prison. ‘Looks like she planned this a long time ago,’ Rachel thought.

She flipped over the pages once again, and a shareholder’s name suddenly caught her attention. It was Black.

‘Hmmm…’ Rachel cocked one eyebrow.

‘He has twenty-five percent of the shares. If I can manage to get his, maybe I can change the situation,’ she thought.

She was still in her thoughts when Holley’s voice interrupted her musings.

“And oh, Ms. Turner, I forgot to mention that you will not be the president of this company anymore. I guess I don’t need to explain the document to you. As for the project we have argued about, I oppose it. I’m sure you’ll agree with me now, right?” Holley said in a triumphant tone.

“Holley, you’ve gone too far!” Rachel shouted. She could no longer endure Holley’s arrogance towards her. When she heard her provoking remarks, she wanted to scream at the vile woman and tell her to get lost.

However, Holley just smiled. “Rachel, I think you should call me Miss Myers now. You said that I was just your servant, but now I’m looking forward to the new relationship between us. How about you?” Holley said coldly.

Holley’s eyes were devoid of any emotion.

“Don’t be so confident, Holley. I advise you not to jump to conclusions. You’ll never know what can happen in the next second.”

“I don’t think so. I’ve waited for this day to come for far too long, and now I finally got what I wanted. Oh, I’m going to throw a party tonight to celebrate my promotion. Do you want to come?”

That was the last straw for Rachel. She glared angrily at Holley once more, stood up, and slammed the door when she got out. ‘If I continued to face that woman, I might lose control and rip her into a million pieces,’ she thought.

On the other hand, Holley didn’t give a damn about Rachel’s feelings. She remained in her seat and reveled in the taste of victory. Pleasure coursed through her when she saw Rachel leave like a deflated balloon.

‘She looked rejected. Soon, I’ll take charge of Tarsan Corporation. Rachel can’t snap at me or insult me anymore,’ she thought.

Still, Holley felt humiliated when she thought about how mean Rachel had been to her.

Thus, her next step was to give Rachel a hard time and pressure her to resign from Tarsan Corporation.

At that moment, Rachel felt so frustrated at Holley’s betrayal. She was dying to find someone to rant to, but she didn’t know who to approach.

After she thought for a while, she realized that no one would want to keep her company except for Bernard.

And so, she called Bernard and asked him to come over. When she was done, she went to a bar downtown and waited there.

Finally, Bernard had arrived. When he spotted Rachel, she was by the bar counter and had gotten tipsy.

A guy tried to take advantage of Rachel, so Bernard gave him a stern look and scared him away. He then walked towards her and took the glass of wine from her hand.

A stabbing pain shot through his heart when he saw how distressed Rachel was. “Rachel, you drank too much. It breaks my heart to see you act like this,” Bernard said miserably.

“You’re here, Bernard,” Rachel said with a giggle. She threw herself into his arms, but several seconds later, she broke into sobs.

“You know what?” she started. “I’ve lost everything. Holley took everything from me. She is really a bad person. What should I do?”

Bernard glanced at the devastated Rachel, and he couldn’t help but blame himself for being not able to do anything about it. He wanted to wipe off her tears and make her stop crying, but he didn’t. He wasn’t her boyfriend, so he thought that he wasn’t in a position to do those things. Apart from holding her tight, he couldn’t find any other ways to comfort her. He couldn’t even ask her to cheer up because she still had him and he would always be there.

The loud music bumped from the floor and reached to the corner where Rachel and Bernard were. They both remained silent and looked dejected under the dim lights.

“Let me drink, Bernard. It hurts, you know?” Rachel said and pointed at her heart. “Fine. Now that you want to drink, I’ll join you,” Bernard agreed.

He gave back the wine glass to Rachel, and asked the bartender for a bucket of beer. When the bucket arrived, he uncorked a bottle and started to drink without saying a word. It seemed like drowning in alcohol could make him forget all his bitter and sad feelings.

They drank until midnight, and then Bernard staggered out of the bar with Rachel in his arms. She stopped crying, and he broke the silence. “I want to sing a song for you, Rachel,” Bernard said gently before he started to sing. It was the first time that he had sung a song for someone.
Even in the peaceful night, he was in no mood to appreciate the beautifully bright moon. All he wanted was to make his beloved girl happy and forget all the miserable things.

“Take me to your heart, take me to you soul, give me your hand before I’m old.

Show me what love is, haven’t got a clue. Show me that wonders can be true.

They say nothing lasts forever. We’re only here today.

Love is now or never. Bring me far away. Take me to your heart, take me to your soul. Give me your hand and hold me. Show me what love is, be my guiding star. It’s easy, take me to your heart…”

At that moment, it was only the two of them. No problems, no other people.

His soulful voice reverberated throughout the empty street, and made the night a bit lovelier.

After that, Bernard drove Rachel home and escorted her to her unit. Afraid that she might have a headache later, he went down to a nearby pharmacy. He bought some medicine before he went back to her condo.