Chapter 907

Rachel stepped forward and called out to Ray and Sunny, who were crouching at the door. “Come here. Don’t scare our guest.”

The two dogs seemed to understand what Rachel meant; they wagged their tails and came bounding over to her. Their gaze darted occasionally to Jerry, filled with wariness.

“They are very guarded.”

“It’s fine.”

Rachel instructed the dogs to stay to one side before she headed upstairs.

When they entered the study, Jerry grabbed a chair and sat down, pulling out a stack of documents from his suitcase and pushing it toward Rachel.

“These are financing channels I found over the past two days, as well as some customers we’ve worked with previously. I’ve asked around, and I can borrow around 30 million dollars. The interest rate is very high and is calculated by the day…”

Rachel glanced at the numbers on the documents and shook her head. “30 million dollars isn’t enough. We need over a hundred million dollars.”

“What should we do, then? If nothing else works, we can borrow from loan sharks.”

“No way!” Rachel cut him off, her voice firm and unwavering. “It’ll be a bottomless pit. We’re not talking about thousands, but millions of dollars. Would they bother being loan sharks if they had that much money? They’d open a company themselves!”

“But you’ll be sued and perhaps jailed!”

Jerry stood up anxiously, his hands gripping the edge of the table. When he spoke, his voice was trembling.

“You’re my boss and my family! If you hadn’t taken me in, I would’ve gone to jail! Why don’t… Why don’t I tell Hannah that I was the one who misappropriated company funds and that she should be suing me. I’ll go to jail on your behalf!”

Rachel’s heart swelled at the sight of how anxious Jerry was getting for her sake. She patted his arm, signaling him to sit down.

“Jerry, I know you’re doing this for my good, but I can’t make things hard for you because of what I did. If I really let you take the blame, what would that make me?”

“But…”

“No buts,” Rachel said, cutting him off. There was a determined look in her eyes as she went on, “I’ve thought it through. If I can’t raise the money I need in two days’ time, I’ll let nature take its course. I won’t push away the responsibility I’m supposed to take on.”

“What about Mr. Hunt? Have you told him this? He surely won’t turn a blind eye.”

Jerry was giving this his very last shot.

Rachel shook her head. “Tyler’s up to his ears dealing with his company. Didn’t you see how hard he’s been working the past two days? He’s trying to raise funds for me.”

Jerry saw how Rachel had set her mind to it, and it seemed they had exhausted all other options too.

“Alright, then.”

Seeing him so anxious, Rachel patted him gently. “Alright. All these things can be worked through. Even if I get sentenced to jail, it wouldn’t be for too long. Don’t worry.”

Jerry was never one to dwell on things. He had other things to do.

Standing, he said, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll make a move first.”

Rachel nodded and walked Jerry to the door.

His retreating figure made a sense of helplessness rise up Rachel’s chest. She knew that he had exhausted all his resources and contacts. Raising over one hundred million dollars in two days was practically impossible.

After Jerry left Rachel’s apartment, he didn’t run around looking for other sources of funding.

Instead, he stood on the roadside and hesitated for a long while before taking out his phone and dialing Hannah’s number.

The moment the call went through, he took a deep breath and said servilely, “Ms. Abbot, I’m Jerry.”