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.”

Justin and held

“Why not?”

her,” Gloria replied with a frown. “She’s obviously a vain woman. Don’t you feel sick to your stomach with her around you every day?” Despite her

hand and said seriously, “This is about

If you let her work at the Burton Group, she and Miss Rachel will

if I tell you it was Rachel’s

stunned. How could

quickly signed the appointment letter. Meanwhile, Frankie hurriedly took to his heels with the document to stay out of

reason, she couldn’t help feeling that she had made a wrong decision by giving up piano and coming to Riverdale

realized that Justin’s world was much more complicated than she had imagined, and it seemed that her life was no

Hudson Pharmaceuticals. Since five years ago, huge amounts of money have been transferred into a

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

head. As far as she

“It’s almost impossible to have these sums of money transferred to an offshore account

There’s one possibility

it came to a trusted person, no one could be more trustworthy than Jefferey’s own daughter. “I’ll ask Amber out for dinner this evening,”

gathered up the documents and put them into her handbag. If

when he saw how apathetic Rachel looked. However, the latter noticed something and looked at him calmly. If you don’t agree to it, I can go

to make a choice or teaching

doing everything Justin told her to; now that Hans was dead,

he left first

the only place in Riverdale that still