The Silent Wife

Chapter 156

Amber answered, “Somerset Mountain. Why?”

“Hudson Pharmaceuticals has funded children from Somerset Mountain?”

“Yes, we have been doing it for more than 20 years.”

“How could it be? I remember there wasn’t anyone left after the fire.”

“The fire?” She was slightly stunned. “Justin, how did you know there was a fire in Somerset Mountain?”

A frown came to Justin’s face as he feigned indifference. “It was on the news. I happened to watch it.”

Amber nodded. “Yes, it was exactly because of the fire that the whole mountain was reduced to ashes. I heard someone almost died too. My dad said that there was a hidden village in Somerset Mountain and it was home to some human traffickers. They were trying to escape security checks, so when the fire happened, they couldn’t be rescued on time.”

Justin clenched his fists tighter. “That’s what your father told you?”

“Yes, those traffickers hid in a ditch and the firemen didn’t even know there were people there. They managed to find them in the end, but a little girl almost died in the process.”

“Almost died?”

His expression changed.

“She was burned badly, but she managed to survive. My dad did everything he could to save her by sending her to hospitals all over the country. In the end, she was even sent abroad to receive treatment.”

Amber didn’t manage to finish her words before Justin grabbed her hand to interrogate her, “Where is she now?”

“She… she’s still out of the country.”

“What’s her name?”

“Justin, what came over you?”

“What’s her name?” he repeated.

“Katherine Cooper.” Amber’s features were distorted in pain. “Justin, let me go! What happened to you?”

Justin’s cold face was stiff as he struggled to believe his ears.

Katherine…

Katie…

back to the Burton Family after the fire twenty years ago. He didn’t have the ability to investigate the matter at first and when he finally rose to position as the president of Burton

had sent people to search all over Somerset Mountain, but he never succeeded

thought she was

thought she died in the fire to

Amber’s arm,

If… if you want to see her, you can attend with me this Saturday. However, Justin, what’s wrong with

took a long while for him to

you.”

window, signaling that night had fallen over Riverdale like a humongous black cloth that stretched across the

looked down at the bruise on her

felt that she had

whom Justin hadn’t seen in more than 20 years was enough to shake him

he knew that Rachel was that very girl from all those years ago,

in Amber’s cold eyes was reflected in the car

the investigation bureau, a conversation

“Officer Hawkins.”

stripped of my position, so just call me by

do that. The position issue is temporary and I’ve already acknowledged you as my only

a chair and sat on it. Beneath her short haircut, her features were bright

files concerning Somerset Mountain. If I were one second late, they would’ve been destroyed since

of

to its long history, the box had already yellowed and

going to

“To save someone.”

stern, but her eyes betrayed a

also the confidentiality period, she would’ve given those files to Rachel long ago. Perhaps if

away from the hospital, he never appeared again for a

though she had gone

away on a few occasions, but Jennifer had always pulled her back to the ward

closing the door and

the

“Miss Jennifer.”

voice rang down

to help you. It’s just that Mr. Burton has warned me before; if I allow you to

don’t mean it

“Then…”

is she these

it’s way better than when she refused to put anything in her

great.” Julian seemed panicked as he placed a folder in Miss