The Silent Wife

Chapter 30

In the office of Burton Group, Justin was reading the plans of a project from his laptop.

“Mr. Burton, our greatest competitor for the East Pearl Project this time is Imperial Group. They’ve already negotiated the terms for the piece of land, so it’s quite difficult for us to overtake them at this moment.”

Frankie’s voice, which was filled with worry, came forth from behind the laptop.

Justin said, “Easy doesn’t exist in building a business.”

Frankie chewed on Justin’s words.

Burton Group was an established company, so their competitors would naturally be powerful too. Moreover, an insignificant competitor would not possibly show up in front of Justin.

Just as they were talking, Justin’s eyes darkened as he saw something on the laptop screen.

“What’s wrong, Mr. Burton?” Frankie’s heart skipped a beat as he started worrying for the staff in the engineering department. “Is there a problem with the plan?”

It was only after seeing the laptop screen, which was turned around by Justin, did Frankie come to a sudden realization.

The screen showed Justin’s mailbox. Half a minute ago, he received an anonymous email that only contained a picture, and the content of the picture was…

Frankie’s expression turned sullen. “Mr. Burton, this picture…”

Rachel and Julian were visibly seen in the picture, and the pair was in a treatment room. Julian was holding Rachel’s hand while checking on her with his head lowered.

Justin stared fixedly at their hands which were held together and ordered coldly, “Look into the IP address and find the sender.”

Frankie shivered as a chill ran down his spine. “Yes, sir.”

Staring at the picture, Justin tapped the table with his finger. His eyes darkened more at the thought of the incidents that happened recently.

Although the Hudson Family had successfully swapped Rachel with Amber and made the former marry into the Burton Family, the outcome was not as well as they had expected.

eyelids had been twitching the whole afternoon,

the hospital until the evening. Just so happened, Julian was about to get off from work, so he fetched her home

at the Burton Residence,

darted a glance at Rachel and said, “Julian,

already spoken up to explain. “Coincidentally, I

says she’s our relative?” Sue cast a disdainful glance at Rachel. “No one

interrupted Sue with

and bite her tongue. “Alright, I’ll stop. It’s rare that you come home this early, so let’s spend some time together,” Sue said

Family, Julian nodded and turned to Rachel. “Rachel, go and

looked at Sue

ahead.” Sue wanted to talk to Julian and had no desire to be bothered with Rachel, so she waved her hands about and wanted Rachel to leave quickly as if she

Rachel was relieved.

sitting across from her on the couch. After some small talk, she asked, “Julian, I heard Amber is now an

was a

but she’s pretty and innocent too. I’ve met her before. She’s a kind girl. Do take care of her more since she’s working with

replied indifferently, “She doesn’t work

how Amber hurled insults at a patient in the morning, Julian decided that he would definitely not accept someone like her to become his assistant intern. Regardless of how she got into the

“That mute, she can’t talk yet she’s good at gossiping. She just can’t bear to see her sister doing better than

a solemn expression. “Mom, can you stop judging a book by

Justin’s attitude, Julian knew Rachel’s situation would be full of hardships in the Burton Family,

not judging a book by its cover. I’ve investigated it before,” Sue explained to Julian patiently. “The mute’s mother was a mistress and caused Amber’s mother’s death back then.

jinx.”

frowned. “Who

you‘ve misunderstood her. After hearing her explanation only did I realize how pitiful that girl is. She lost her mother at a young age. It must have been tough

So, it’s Amber.

was actually filing a complaint first. “Mom, you

story from one

with you?” Sue’s expression changed all of a sudden seeing how Julian was still siding with Rachel after all that she had told him. “Did the