My Mute Bride

“Is this why you quit your former job and went to work at the Burton Group?” Janice looked at Rachel. “Did Justin ask you to look into it?”

Rachel averted her eyes in the face of Janice’s questioning. I have something else to attend to, so I’ll be leaving first.

“Hey!” Since she was unable to stop Rachel, Janice could only watch as her car drove off into the distance.

When Rachel reached Nancy’s place, she pressed the doorbell several times, but nobody answered the door. Just then, the door of the opposite house suddenly opened, and a middle-aged woman poked her head out. “Are you Madam Tiller’s granddaughter?” She looked Rachel up and down with a look of puzzlement. “Madam Tiller has been sent to the hospital. Don’t you know that?”

Immediately, Rachel’s expression changed upon hearing the woman’s words.

When Rachel arrived at Tran-Q’s emergency department in a hurry, she nearly bumped into a nurse holding some medicine. She gesticulated at the medical staff at the nurses’ station for a long time, but no one understood what she meant.

Just then, a familiar male voice sounded from behind. “Rachel?”

Hi, Julian. Rachel turned around to see Julian. After she explained the situation to him, Julian asked the staff at the nurses’ station. Upon learning that Nancy was receiving emergency treatment, he hurriedly took Rachel there.

“Hi, Madam Tiller.”

“Hey.” Nancy, who was lying on the sickbed, was startled for a moment when she saw Julian and Rachel. “Why are you here, Rachel?”

Rachel’s eyes were red with worry. How are you, Grandma?

“Oh, I’m fine. I just took a tumble and grazed my skin; it will heal once I go home and apply some cream to it. But Victor was worried, and he insisted on sending me to the hospital.”

Rachel followed Nancy’s gaze and saw the young man standing nearby. It’s you?

The young man’s blond hair was particularly obtrusive in the white-painted emergency department. Isn’t he the young man who had a fit of epilepsy in the neighborhood that day? Rachel thought to herself.

old, and I was worried that it would be bad if she had a sprain or bone fracture,

shook her

thief. Didn’t you say that you were coming over for dinner? I thought of going out to buy some fish, and

thief at such an old age? You shouldn’t have done that. Rachel was exasperated. What should I

her at one side by saying, “It’s fine as long as Madam Tiller is okay. I have asked the doctor who

Still, her heart ached a lot

Nancy’s knee.

Nancy piggyback to Rachel’s car, whereas Julian went out after them and handed the medicine to Rachel. “The dosage

days, so you don’t have

Thank you.

Julian took a glance at Rachel’s car. Then, he asked with a frown, “Do you know that young

guess so. We

guarding against harm from others, Rachel.

know that. I’ll ask about it. Rachel also felt strange as Nancy seemed to be quite familiar with this young man. Besides, she felt somewhat disturbed upon recalling how

she pointed toward the bedroom and signaled for the young man to help her grandmother

for dinner as well, Victor? I have to thank you for

immediately waved his hand, but Rachel nodded. I got

keyed in a sentence on her phone’s screen

shook his head. “It’s nothing-that’s what I should do. You saved my life before, and this is nothing compared to

including banknotes of 100, 50, 20, and even five bucks. Victor then explained, “This is for

bit.”

for a moment before she pushed the envelope back to him.

young man said stubbornly. “I never

So you’ve been helping Grandma by her side these days?’ She had heard from Nancy several times that a young man often helped her around and scrambled to help with all the dirty and heavy work. At first, Rachel thought the young man was a volunteer serving