The Silent Wife

Chapter 280

“It’s best if you can accept this. And if you can’t, it doesn’t matter to me.”

With that, Rachel mentally gathered herself. Alas, after several seconds of standing off, she pushed Justin away.

The moment she left the study, sounds of items shattering could be heard inside.

“Mommy!”

Charlotte had been startled from where she had pressed herself against the door as she hadn’t been able to leave in time.

Rachel was also stunned by Charlotte’s presence, but hearing the noises behind her, she quickly took Charlotte’s hand. “Let’s go. It’s time for dinner,” she said nonchalantly.

Charlotte shyly nodded and followed Rachel downstairs, but she couldn’t stop herself from looking back. She didn’t particularly understand the laws of the world due to her young age, but Charlotte was good at figuring out people’s emotions. It was just as Samuel said-Justin was the one who came looking for trouble first. So, making Rachel angry was his own fault.

But for some reason, Charlotte found Justin pitiful. They clearly had a huge fight, but Rachel wasn’t angry at all–even Charlotte was at a loss for words when faced with Rachel’s icy demeanor.

Adult relationships were just too hard to understand.

Justin had completely trashed the inside of the study–even the shelves had been pushed over. At that moment, the place was a complete mess.

Beyond the door of the study, it was quiet.

In the end, he sat in the middle of the carnage, suffering from his pain as he pressed a hand to his aching forehead. He remembered when he saw the picture in that email at his office earlier. When he saw Rachel and Janice standing together, fragments of an image flew through his mind.

It was an image of Janice, Hans, and Rachel standing together in an old alley. Rachel grinned between the two, her smile warm and gentle as Hans pulled her away from a cyclist cycling down the alley.

That scene had wounded his heart and his mind buzzed that instant. It felt like all those fragments had wound themselves together to assault his mind, making his temples hurt. He was in so much pain that he couldn’t even grip his mouse properly.

Right now, that scene once again assaulted his mind in the remains of the study, as though someone was hitting his temples repeatedly with a hammer, trying to make his insides burst out. The pain was agonizing.

“Hello?” In his pain, Justin called a doctor. “Dr. Aurich, where are you?”

ruckus upstairs had been noticeable. The babysitter didn’t dare to speak much, opting to stand by the

after, Justin could be heard

you going,

As long as

like he hadn’t heard anything as

your dinner.” Rachel’s voice brought Charlotte’s eyes back to her food. She then dropped a shrimp on

was a little worried. “Mommy, Daddy hasn’t eaten

busy peeling the shrimp for Charlotte, so her answer was half-hearted.

fight with Daddy again, Mommy?” Charlotte’s voice was small. “If you guys don’t make up,

skipped a beat and she stopped peeling the shrimp when she heard Charlotte’s question. Immediately, her heart ached terribly. Regardless of what Justin did, it was his own mistake–the same went for her. What did the children do wrong? Yet every time she and Justin argued, it only

face. “I won’t leave you, and I haven’t

didn’t quite

The babysitter pointed at the fish soup on the table. “Miss Hudson specially ordered me

who do you think this

a moment before she responded by yelling in surprise. “It’s

him, so she paid special attention to Justin’s meals,

after hearing the babysitter’s

daughter was willing to eat again, Rachel let out

see Dr. Aurich. The pain finally

for a

“Feeling better?”

for a bit longer.

from the looks of it, your headaches

a little

flipped through Justin’s medical records. “I told you before to not exert yourself in the near future. Your amnesia was caused by trauma, and the memories you forgot were ones that had a heavy negative impact on

anymore.” Justin’s eyes were shut tightly. His forehead was

looked at Justin in