My Mute Bride

Meanwhile, at the basement carpark, after Rachel got into her car, the safety belt wouldn’t budge even after she tugged at it a few times. Drained of energy, she slowly slumped onto the steering wheel while thinking, Ten years… How many decades does a person have in his lifetime?

Earlier, when she watched how brilliantly Gloria seemed to be shining while surrounded by the children, she felt a sense of shame forming in herself for the first time in her life. That girl was so perfect, and she carried a sense of cheerfulness and brightness which was completely different from herself.

Honk! The sound of her car honk echoed through the parking garage as she accidentally leaned on it. It was so loud that it shocked her and jolted her back to her senses violently.

What am I thinking about? she asked herself. / still haven’t avenged my mother, and I’m being sorrowful for no reason over here.

After she cleared her mind, she remembered Justin’s words from dinner earlier, and she drafted a text message before sending it to Jefferey. Then, she drove out of the parking garage.

Under the late evening lights, Riverdale appeared to be especially lively. However, Jefferey had been staring at the text on his cell phone for a long time with an incredibly sullen face.

“I’m home, Dad!” Amber announced from behind him and hugged him around his neck from the back after coming into the house. “Daddy, I saw a bag I really like today. Will you please buy it for me?”

After yanking her hand away, he scolded, “What else can you do besides buying handbags?”

His cold voice boomed through the living room, startling Amber. “What’s the problern?”

“Let me ask you this. Where did you get the information about the tender?”

“It’s… from Justin’s car.”

“And he let you take it so easily?” The expression on Jefferey’s face darkened. “I should have known that you won’t be of much help with that intelligence of yours. Great, instead of being any real help, you’ve pushed me into the fire pit and someone else now has something he can use to threaten.”

Never been chided so angrily by Jefferey before, Amber whimpered, “What happened exactly, Daddy?”

“What happened? It’s all because of you!” he shouted. “The information on the tender is fake, and Pacific Inc. used this information I gave them to join the tender. They ended up in complete defeat and announced one sidedly that they want to end the collaboration with us. Now, our company has lost its source of funding and we need a huge sum of money. Once the board of directors gets word of this, do you have any idea what will happen?”

“What’s gonna happen?”

current position as the president and someone else will be selected to

drained from Amber’s face, and she heard a

Dad. I-I’ll ask Justin for help

now on, just stay out of

to help? Justin will

course he will since he has something to gain from it. Look at this!” he snapped, showing

“15%”

wants to buy up 15% of our shares and even

decided to agree to it and to sell the shares under your name. The press

stomped her foot. Why should I sell my shares to that mute? Dad’s crazy, and even Justin has lost his mind as well? Furious, she took out her phone and made a call. “Hello, it’s me. I can transfer fifty thousand to you today. Just get the things done early as I instructed. Tomorrow afternoon, I don’t

together in a car to head toward Hudson

to cut out a slice of his cake shows that the internal financial situation of Hudson Pharmaceuticals is already very terrible. All you have to do is get a hold of their

I got

her cell phone rang, and she hung up the call without even thinking after seeing the caller ID. Since she

you picking up

an important call. Getting

she explained herself, she turned her phone on silent mode, but at that moment, she received a text message. Hans is hospitalized

the door handle. The text message was from Janice, and so was

want to

frown, Justin

him in sign language. I’m sorry, but I have to take care of an emergency now. Can you please wait for me to sign the

“What’s the emergency?”

clenched her