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.

in the restaurant’s children’s play area, Charlotte went down the slide and into

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

know it, but she has her own reasons

“What are those reasons?”

know yet,”

are you so

My smartest Aunt Gloria. She was the one who told me how to deal with Amber so that

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

Did that mean Gloria was intentionally pretending to act

together that evening until it was very

with the two children, the streetlamps in the neighborhood were

cab driver before leading one child in each hand to

a figure blocked the entrance. “Why are you back so late?” it asked

through the haze of alcohol at the cold, imposing figure shrouded in shadow.

strong smell of alcohol made Justin frown. “How much

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

suddenly reached out to pinch his cheeks. “I asked

push her hand away, she helplessly clung to

but the sound of

wrists and instructed with a stern

of Mommy then!”

wanted to say something, she had dragged him along

chastised, “You were out with the kids. How could

lecturing me?” Rachel braced her hands against his shoulders and

tactics. “Call me next

stumbled toward her room. “There’s no need. We took a

Afraid that Rachel would

him aside and rushed into the bathroom with a hand over her

her stomach from churning, she hugged the toilet bowl and began to puke like there was

immediately turned and went to grab a glass of warm water for her

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