The Silent Wife

Chapter 292

As she spoke, Gloria studied Rachel’s expression. “At that time, doctors said it was highly likely that he would fall into a vegetative state where he would never wake up.”

“Does that mean you took care of Charlotte before he regained consciousness?” Rachel asked.

“Huh?” Gloria paused for a moment before nodding. “Yeah.”

“In that case, thank you so much.” Rachel took her hand. “It’s arduous to take care of a newborn and if it weren’t for you, Charlotte might not have been able to survive.”

“There’s no need to be this courteous with me, Rachel. Charlotte is my niece, so how could I have neglected her?”

“I still wish to thank you, so this glass is for you.” Without saying anything else, Rachel snagged Jolly’s glass and gulped it at one go.

Now that Jolly was startled awake, she mumbled blearily, “Drink! Drink!”

However, as she was unable to stop Rachel in time, Gloria could only watch on and frowned as Rachel finished drinking from the glass. Weren’t we talking about Charlotte? How did the topic change?

“You were doing fine abroad, Rachel. Why did you suddenly come back?”

“You must have heard about what happened to the Hudson Family.”

“A little bit.”

“One of the reasons is that we’ve finally sought revenge for Hans. Another cause is that I’m worried about leaving Charlotte here alone.”

Rachel had never once brought up Justin throughout her speech.

“Well, Justin has taken care of her quite well all these years,” Gloria pointed out. “Although I don’t talk to him a lot, his personality has changed a bit since he lost his memory. You must have noticed it as well.”

As she declined to answer, Rachel instead poured Jolly a glass of water, exhorting her to have a drink of it before sleeping.

After a moment of hesitation, Gloria decided that Rachel still had a cold attitude toward Justin and swallowed the words that she wanted to say.

It was fine since they still had time.

the slide and into the ball pit. She was clearly

up from his tablet game to glance at her. “Are you sure Aunt Gloria’s return will do any good? She doesn’t seem very close to Justin

it, but she has her own reasons for doing

“What are those reasons?”

yet,” a confident Charlotte

are you so sure,

Gloria. My smartest Aunt Gloria. She was the one who

accompanied by a starry-eyed look of worship

that mean Gloria was

that evening until it

time Rachel returned home with the two children, the streetlamps in the neighborhood were already

thanked the cab driver before leading one child in each hand to head

a figure blocked the entrance. “Why

of alcohol at the cold,

Justin

drank quite a bit. What she had used to send the cab driver away was merely the last bit of her sanity and sobriety, and now that she was home, the alcohol was rushing

tilting her face to stare at Justin for a while, Rachel suddenly reached out to pinch his cheeks. “I

push her hand away, she helplessly clung

but the sound of children muffling their laughter with their

of Rachel’s wrists and instructed with a stern face,

of Mommy then!” Charlotte

like he wanted to say something, she

were out with the

hands against his shoulders and repeated

“Call me next time. I’ll go and pick you

she waved him away, she stumbled toward her room. “There’s no need. We took

Rachel would fall,

only just caught her when she shoved him aside

to stop her stomach from churning, she hugged the

warm water for her instead. Kneeling next to her, he told

was told to. She was so obedient and well-behaved that he practically