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.

slide and into the ball pit. She was clearly

game to glance at her. “Are you sure Aunt Gloria’s return will do any good?

she has her own

“What are those reasons?”

yet,” a confident Charlotte

are you

My smartest Aunt Gloria. She was the one who told me how to

Gloria was accompanied by a starry-eyed look of worship from

mean Gloria was intentionally pretending to

that evening until it

with the two children, the streetlamps

soberly thanked the cab driver before leading one

she opened the door, a figure blocked the entrance. “Why are you back so late?” it asked in a low

looked up through the haze of alcohol at the cold, imposing figure shrouded in shadow. “Who

alcohol made Justin frown. “How much have

to send the cab driver away was merely the last bit of her sanity and sobriety, and now that she was

her face to stare at Justin for a while, Rachel suddenly reached out to pinch

push her hand away, she helplessly

was all too comical, but the sound of

immediately caught hold of Rachel’s wrists and instructed with a stern face, “Charlotte, Samuel, wash up

of

wanted to say something, she had dragged him

“You were out with the kids.

Rachel braced her hands against his

“Call me next time. I’ll go

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

Afraid that Rachel would fall, Justin attempted to catch

him aside

stomach from churning, she hugged the toilet bowl and began to puke like there was no

the ghastly sight, Justin immediately turned and went to grab a glass of warm water for her

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