My Mute Bride

My Mute Bride Chapter 51

Chapter 51 Were There Enough Wedding Favors?

Rachel entered the study at night to serve Justin with some tea.

At the sound of the door being opened, he instructed her without looking up, “Put it down.”

Even though she did as he asked her to, she stood there without leaving.

Finally, he looked up at her. “Did you need something else?”

Rachel hesitated for a moment before she signed. Do you have a solution for the medication formula?

While keeping his gaze on her, Justin answered, “We previously missed our chance, so it’ll be difficult for us to go back to Hudson Vineyard. We might be able to head there on the pretext of discussing the wine business, though. Why? Do you have a solution?”

She shook her head.

For now, Rachel didn’t plan on telling him that she had seen the formula.

Since the dosages weren’t listed, she was worried that even if she informed Justin about it, he would think she was hiding something from him.

Justin asked in a careless manner, “I heard Jefferey took you to the vineyard last week. What were you doing there?”

It was right after he dropped the question that Rachel’s heart raced loudly.

How could she have forgotten that he knew her whereabouts like the back of his hand?

He…

Upon seeing that she was unable to explain herself, his gaze darkened. “Did he ask you to do something else?”

As her expression tightened anxiously, she nodded. He gave me a packet of drugs.

“Drugs?” Justin frowned. “What kind of drugs?”

Rachel made a few hand gestures with slight embarrassment.

term. Since he was close to losing his patience, he tossed a pen and a piece of paper onto the table before he instructed, “Write it down. What kind of drug

hesitated for what seemed like eternity before she finally and carefully wrote

drug Jefferey gave her was actually researched and developed by Hudson Pharmaceuticals

the market for many years, Justin was long accustomed to the darker side of human nature. Drugs like these were always accessories in

wanted you to drug me

embarrassed and terrified

snorted coldly, “And where is

lips. I threw

to Burton Residence as she had discarded it outside the house as

consider you a person.” The mocking tone stung as it

nor the method to deny it. Yet, it was still humiliating to be

else, I’m going back to

He subtly nodded.

her walk away with such fragility that a slight gust of wind could knock her over, he suddenly asked, “Were there enough

over her

desk, Justin’s severe face was softened by the soft yellow light above him, which made him suddenly look friendlier—even

stared absent-mindedly at the scar, she suddenly returned to her senses and quickly

repulsed, even—to the point where her shoulders shook as she nodded, as if she was afraid he would do something harmful to her

cordiality that Justin felt dissipated into thin air, although he himself couldn’t describe what he was

forced by her family to marry him

room, Rachel let

sudden change in expression, she felt

one moment to the next,

it was likely that he asked someone to drop off the wedding favors to make it clear to her coworkers that she was married and to prevent anything untoward from happening to

was the

day, she went to

moment she stepped off the subway, she received a text

‘Morning.’

usually come to

She thought, Come?

only

while she clutched her phone. Yet, before she could even take two steps, a

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