The Silent Wife

Chapter 261

Rachel frowned. Continuing to ignore the man, she picked up another tent pole, asking, “Victor, which side

should this belong to?”

Victor replied, “Over there. Just put it through.”

“No, you can’t put it through directly.” Justin dug out a connector from the bag next to him. “Connect it to this

first.”

Reaching the end of her patience, Rachel immediately tossed the tent pole aside. The tent pole produced a dull sound as it dropped to the ground and bounced back up. “Since you’re so good at it, do it yourself. I’ll go gather some firewood,” she said. Then, she turned around and left the campsite without looking back.

At first, Victor wanted to go after Rachel, but Justin grabbed him before he could do so. “What are you doing, Mr. Wade? Come and teach me how to pitch the tent.”

Victor shook him off peevishly. “Don’t you know how to do it yourself?”

“I’ll only pitch one tent. If you can bear the sight of me sharing a tent with Rachel tonight, then leave as you please.”

“In your dreams!” Victor immediately decided to stay. “I’m gonna keep a close eye on you even if I won’t get to

sleep tonight. Don’t you dare think about taking advantage of Rachel! You can fool her about what the hell you’re coming for, but you can’t fool me!”

Justin confessed right away, “Indeed, I came for Rachel, and I’m not denying it. Why would I fool you?”

“Bah!” Victor gave him a scornful look. “You think Rachel’s gonna fall for you? You and whose army? I’m telling you, Justin-Rachel will never choose a scumbag like you again even if she’s blind!”

Justin retorted, “Who else is Rachel gonna choose if she won’t choose me? You? She’s got quite a lot of men protecting her, eh?” Including Victor, there are already three men revolving around Rachel at present. All of them are reckless and courageous men who itch to risk their lives fighting me for Rachel’s sake, he thought.

again,” Victor said coldly after hammering the tent peg into the ground. “There’s no way I’m gonna sit

back then. Seeing Victor hammering the

In the dry weather, there were many dead branches on the ground, so she didn’t have much trouble gathering them. In the blink of an eye, the

Samuel trotted up to

play hide-and-seek with you two right now. Just be good and go back to the campsite and go to Victor after playing on your own for a

now, saying she wanted to see if there’s any squirrels in the mountains, but she hasn’t returned yet.

the firewood. She asked Samuel what had happened at the time, saying, “How much time has passed since

time. When Charlotte came, she heard there were little squirrels in the mountains, so she brought lots of nuts with her. You were quarreling with Justin just now, so she ran away on her own since

away. After running a few steps, she looked back and asked, “Which way did

moment before pointing in a direction up the mountain. “That

away. Samuel, go back to the campsite at once and ask the other teachers to

soon as he promised Rachel, Justin emerged from behind the ancient tree behind him; the man and the boy gave each other a

the instructions, Rachel immediately went searching for Charlotte. The sky was darkening at the moment. If Charlotte went deep into the mountains by mistake, even if there weren’t any wild

Charlotte. “Charlotte! Charlotte!” she shouted. Just then, she heard a rustling sound behind her. “Charlotte?” She looked back,

me that Charlotte

way in search of squirrels or something.” Rachel looked around. “Are there any squirrels on this mountain?” For a moment, she couldn’t care less about

the woods on the mountain. Let’s look for her in the

immediately turned to

your

“No, it’s not necessary.”

from her without

him either. Worried sick at the thought of Charlotte having gone missing, she headed into the mountain woods while calling Charlotte’s

smart. Perhaps she couldn’t find any squirrels and has

at all? Charlotte’s so little; what if anything bad happens to her? What

regretted having gone along with Samuel’s plan to trick her in such a way. However, what was done was done. If he were to confess to it at this very moment, the consequences would be unthinkable. As a consequence, he could only try to divert the subject by consoling her, saying, “Charlotte isn’t that plucky, and she’s not strong