Chapter 510
“Alpha, did you hear me?” Taylor asked. “She’s here…she’s back.”
‘It’s not possible,” I said more to myself than him.
What he had just said couldn’t have been possible. Rachel couldn’t be at my villa right now because Rachel was fucking dead.
It was a cruel and unusual joke that was being played.
Rachel was Cassandra’s nurse a long time ago, and one evening, while she was driving, she got T-boned. There were no survivors in that accident… I had no one ot blame; no one to incriminate…
“I didn’t think so either, but she’s here… living and breathing,” Taylor confirmed, sounding just as confused as I felt.
Without many words, I dismissed myself from my date with Judy. I felt guilty leaving her, but this was too important. I needed to see for myself if Rachel was truly alive and well. I barely remember getting home.
As I ran through the front doors of the villa and my nose picked up the scent of a woman in the parlor, my heart started to race. I walked into the parlor and froze when I saw the familiar figure sitting on the couch, her legs crossed over one another and her hands neatly placed on her lap.
She looked nervous as her eyes scanned the room, searching for any changes since he last time she was here.
It was true… she was alive.
“Rachel?” I asked, stepping further into the room and drawing her attention to me.
Her eyes shifted to me, and my breathing hitched as I looked into the familiar emerald, blue, and grey eyes. Her dark curls tucked behind one of her ears as she gave me an awkward smile before standing to her feet.
“It’s been a long time,” she said, as if she weren’t a walking ghost standing right in front of me.
“How is this possible?” I asked, my words coming out in a breath. I was confused as to how she was standing right in front of me. “You… you were dead…”
“I know you have a lot of questions,” she said softly. “And I want to be honest with you. Do you think we can talk for a bit?”
I was dumbfounded as I stared at the woman once loved after my wife died. She was the only other woman that I loved after Melissa’s death The only one I even
considered marrying. I was gutted when she passed away… or at least when I thought she passed away.
I found myself numbly nodding as I lowered myself onto the couch. She sat beside me, her eyes never leaving mine.
“It’s really good to see you again, Gavin,” she said as tears filled her eyes. “You have no idea how badly I missed you and how it killed me not to see you.”
I wasn’t sure what to say, but when she wrapped her arms around me and hugged me, it brought my mind back to all those times I’ve held her before. All those times she’s felt so perfect in my embrace. Though she was tall, she still fit small against me, and her scent was the same.
She pulled back slightly to look at me, a small smile playing on her lips.
“It feels like nothing’s changed between us,” she murmured, her hands running through my hair.
I wanted to agree with her and to fall back into my old habits, but she was wrong. So much had changed between us and I couldn’t even. begin to tell her because I was just so confused on the fact that she was right in front of me, alive and well… looking incredible and unharmed.
“How are you here, Rachel?” I asked her, my voice was coming out softer than intended.
She swallowed as she glanced at her hands, and then she glanced back up at me, nibbling on the corner of her lip.
“Because I’ve been lying to you for years,” she admitted. “I never died in that crash and I’m not who you thought I was…”
“I don’t understand,” I said, shaking my head. “Tell me the truth now… who are you?”
“I was never a nurse… though I was trained in that field. I was an undercover agent. I was sent to Silver Crescent as a spy,” she told me. My brows furrowed as I stared at her.
“A spy?”