The Silent Wife

Chapter 265

Victor could only speak against his will in front of the girl. “I was just joking. Are you angry, Charlotte?”

Charlotte replied, “This joke isn’t funny at all, Mr. Wade. If you speak of my dad like this again, I’m really going to get angry!”

“Okay, I won’t say that anymore,” Victor replied helplessly. After Charlotte went far away to cheer Samuel on, he said to Rachel, “The only good thing Justin has done is to take pretty good care of Charlotte.”

Rachel was startled; she seemed to think of something. “She’s his daughter, after all.”

“But I feel that it might be better for Charlotte to be with you.”

“Did Jolly say something to you?” Rachel asked. Jolly would sometimes pick the kids up at school, so Victor had talked to her quite a number of times as Charlotte and Samuel’s homeroom teacher. Because of Rachel, the two soon warmed to each other.

Victor replied, “Rachel, I think you’re justified in wanting to take Charlotte away. No matter what you do, I’ll always side with you.”

Rachel was lost in thought before her eyes were drawn to the race in the distance.

All the teams set out after the referee blew the whistle.

Justin nearly tripped Samuel as soon as he took a big stride forward. “Ouch!” Samuel hugged the man’s thigh right away. “You idiot! I almost fell to my death!”

“Isn’t that because you have short legs?”

Samuel’s face turned livid with anger. “I’m a kid!”

“We’re gonna lose if you keep arguing with me.”

“We’ve lost already!” Samuel rolled his eyes at Justin while standing where he was with his arms folded across his chest. “If I had known this earlier, I’d rather give up on the race than join you. This is so embarrassing.” The other teams have reached the halfway mark, whereas he and I are still on the starting line, he thought. “Let’s forget it. I don’t want to run the race anymore,” he said while bending down in an attempt to untie the strap that tied his foot to Justin’s.

“It’s still too early to give up! Why give up before the end of the race?” Justin replied. Grabbing Samuel’s belt right away, he lifted the boy up in midair and ran toward the finishing line in big strides like a flash, quickly overtaking all the other parents.

the finishing line, everyone at the scene was

They’re breaking the rules! How could anyone run a three-legged

race, so how could you run the race with the kid in your

hurriedly maintained the

as Justin tucked him under his arm. He kept struggling,

still didn’t know what he had done

so embarrassing!” Samuel shot him a glare. “I’m not gonna take part in races with you anymore!” he said, before

of fairness

“What?” Justin frowned.

your feet on the ground to be fair to the other teams,” the referee said

a loss for

distance, Rachel suddenly gave

something, and he looked back

gurgling on. The summer sunshine seeped through the gaps between trees, producing

Justin remembered, if he wasn’t mistaken, this was the

back at her. When their eyes met, she didn’t manage to stop laughing in time. For a moment, she was

then, Charlotte took her hand and snapped her out of her thoughts. “Mommy, the beach volleyball

senses, Rachel replied perfunctorily, “Let’s

do

scores with the referee. Seeing that Justin and Samuel had been disqualified, he felt sorry for Samuel, but he couldn’t help but want to ridicule Justin at the same time. However, when he looked up, he saw Justin placing his hand on the tree beside him for support. Suddenly, the man’s face showed a hint of agony, and the instant he turned around with his back to Victor, some

slightly.

saw Victor, he frowned. Immediately, he made a silencing gesture

unnecessary, he thought. He knew how softhearted Rachel was better than anyone else did, so there

and Charlotte got the second highest comprehensive score. On the other hand, Justin and Samuel finished in last place, for Samuel steadfastly

“You’re such a

“Our placing in the sports meet