The Silent Wife

Chapter 244

“I’m going to help Martha prepare dinner,” Rachel said, thereafter going to the kitchen.

It wasn’t until she left that Justin finally dropped the magazine in his hands with an uncharacteristically vexed expression on his face. In fact, he was very dissatisfied with his previous nervousness.

After all, it wasn’t as if he was a prepubescent boy. He shared a marriage and a child with her, so how could he still get so nervous?

Martha’s and Rachel’s voices floated out of the kitchen, blending with the sound of the two children talking and laughing in the dining room. Just like that, the large, deserted villa was filled with familial warmth.

As Justin looked down at the cake on the coffee table, he couldn’t help picking up the fork once again.

Indeed, the cake was quite delicious.

After dinner, Rachel headed into the bathroom to help Charlotte bathe.

As the four yellow rubber ducks floated atop the bubbles in the filled bathtub, Charlotte said, “These two are Mommy and Daddy. This is me, and this is Samuel.”

Giving her daughter a conflicted look, Rachel started, “Charlotte, if Mommy and Daddy were to separate, who would you want to live with?”

The smile on Charlotte’s face froze and her small, heat-reddened face crumpled up with anxiety. “Are you leaving again, Mommy?”

The word ‘again’ stabbed into Rachel’s heart like the sharp point of a knife, but she steeled herself and persisted, “I’m saying ‘if, Charlotte. If your daddy and I separated, who would you want to go with?”

Instantly, the rims of Charlotte’s eyes reddened. “Why do you want to separate, Mommy? Is it because I was bad?”

Seeing her daughter on the verge of tears, Rachel no longer had the heart to continue asking. Quickly, she wiped her daughter’s eyes and reassured, “It’s not because of you. You’ve been very good. You’re a very good

girl.”

After carrying Charlotte back to her room, Rachel took some time to placate the child and read to her. Only after an interminable length of time where she watched her daughter fall asleep did she finally let out a deep breath.

find fault with themselves, whether it be ‘I wasn’t well-behaved enough’ or ‘my parents no longer wanted me.’ The anxiety

fact that it was her last resort,

on the balcony was strong and it looked like it was about to

phone showed an incoming call

“Hey, are you back?”

How are things

to Janice. Barring any accidents,

it truly

of the transaction that Hans stumbled upon is Stanley Tillery, one of Jefferey’s men. He currently works as Chief of Security at Hudson

he be convicted based

people in the video. He’s only the face of the group. The

Security at Hudson Pharmaceuticals’ didn’t sound like a particularly important position, it was tantamount to being Jefferey’s right-hand man and monitoring Hudson Pharmaceuticals’ every move

rest of the men, though they looked unremarkable and unrelated to Hudson Pharmaceuticals, they were actually Jefferey’s way of protecting himself and avoiding

arise.

better stay by Justin’s side these few days

course. It’ll only be a

When everything is over, I

was mysterious, Rachel found it hard to lift her spirits. “Don’t give me another plane ticket and send me to another place for a vacation. I don’t feel like going

not a plane ticket. Right, I can’t talk anymore. My ride’s

what that had to do with not being able to continue talking, she heard

“No one!”

end, Jolly hung up rather

Rachel narrow her eyes. Who on earth had gone

she texted,

For her part, Rachel didn’t feel like pursuing the topic, anyway. As of late, the conclusion of Hans’ murder case had been weighing on her heart and she felt the issue becoming

she got to the last, critical moment, the longer and

days, a storm enveloped

weather forecast indicates that there will be a storm again tonight, President Burton, so the security team advises that we cancel the celebrity meet-and-greet session lest a safety incident occur. You know

Mr. Smith, who happened to be the person in charge of publicizing the