My Mute Bride

“That’s not what I mean.” Gloria’s childish stubbornness was written all over her face. “Never mind, I can’t explain it clearly to you anyway. In short, Justin isn’t as devoid of human feelings as you perceive him to be. He cares about you a lot, you know.”

Does he really care about me? All of a sudden, Rachel felt like laughing.

When she saw how unmoved Rachel was, Gloria felt annoyed. “How could you be so ignorant of what is good

for you? I have made myself so clear to you, yet you don’t even understand a word of what I have said. Anyway, I’ll stop being nice to you if you dare to hit him again!” she warned. Then, she picked up the breakfast bag from the table and lamented, “I must be out of my mind to have bought breakfast for you!”

With that, the office door slammed shut with a loud bang. Rachel could see clearly through the blinds how Gloria threw the breakfast she had initially bought for her into the trash can before leaving exasperatedly. She took a deep breath, swept the discarded documents on the table aside, and sat down.

Meanwhile, Gloria went back into Justin’s office in a huff. Then, she plonked herself down on the sofa and gulped down a glass of water. “What’s the matter? You look so mad.” Justin’s voice came from behind the computer.

“I was bitten by a dog.” Gloria replied in a petty manner. “I seriously don’t understand your taste for women. The ladies around you are weirder than one another.”

Justin looked at Gloria in bafflement and was about to say something, but Frankie knocked on the door and came in just then. “President Burton, the human resources department needs you to sign this letter of appointment. Amber Hudson can come to work from tomorrow onward.”

“Give it to me.”

“What?” Gloria sprang up from the sofa. “Amber is coming to work at the Burton Group? Why didn’t I know about this?”

Justin replied impassively, “You never liked to concern yourself with work-related matters in the first place.”

“Isn’t she working at the hospital?”

“The Burton Group’s research team is short of hands, so I asked her to come.”

do.” Gloria hurriedly ran over to Justin and held his hand. “You mustn’t

“Why not?”

feel sick to your stomach with her around you every day?” Despite

let go of her hand and said seriously,

let her work at the Burton Group, she and Miss Rachel will meet frequently. Don’t you care about what

darkened at Gloria’s words. “What if I tell you it

stunned. How could that

of Gloria’s hand, Justin quickly signed the appointment letter. Meanwhile, Frankie hurriedly took to his heels with the document to stay out of trouble.

smile on her radiant and beautiful face. For some reason, she couldn’t help feeling that she had made a wrong decision by giving up piano and coming

world was much more complicated than

about Hudson Pharmaceuticals. Since five years ago, huge amounts

didn’t have quite the patience to continue reading them. “Does Jefferey have

head. As far as she knew, there wasn’t such

explained, “It’s almost impossible to have these sums of money transferred to an offshore account unless someone is managing

There’s one possibility

a trusted person, no

the documents and put them into her handbag. If there’s

didn’t even realize that his brows had furrowed in sullenness when he saw how apathetic Rachel looked. However, the latter noticed something and looked at him calmly. If you don’t

“Are you telling me to make a choice or teaching me

doing everything Justin told her to; now that Hans was dead, she had nothing to be afraid of except

a cold glance. Then, he left first with his cell phone

clutched the collar of her suit jacket. On her way to visit Nancy, she drove to Old Street to buy some of her grandmother’s favorite old-time snacks for her. This street, which was about to be demolished, was the only place in Riverdale that still made these traditional snacks. After everything was packed up, she walked out of the shop with the snacks in her hands. When she looked up and saw the