My Mute Bride

Rachel’s heart tightened, and she instantly pressed her back against the wall.

Victor emerged from the shadows. Just then, an aged voice suddenly came from inside the alley. “Victor, is that you?”

Before Rachel could come to her senses, Victor had walked up to the person. “Why are you coming out by yourself, Grandma? How many times have I told you that it’s hard to see things clearly at night? What if you trip and fall again when you come out?”

Rachel followed the voices with her gaze and saw the innermost small house. The house was dimly lit, and an old woman was standing tremblingly at its door, supporting herself with a walking stick. Meanwhile, Victor addressed her as his grandmother.

The small house was in a dilapidated condition. It was in disrepair for years, and its walls were mottled; there wasn’t even a decent chair in the house. Victor pushed the clothes away from a corner on the sofa before taking off his jacket and spreading it over the surface. “I hope you won’t frown upon this, Miss Hudson. Please have a seat.”

Rachel looked at the old woman who was bustling around in the house.

Victor explained, “My Grandma is old, so she can neither see nor hear well. But for some reason, she can hear my voice.”

‘Are you and your Grandma the only ones in your family?’

“Yeah, I have lived with Grandma since I was a child.”

Rachel couldn’t bear to listen to such words. After all, she and Nancy had also depended on each other for

survival as she grew up.

Just then, Victor’s grandmother’s voice came from the room inside. “Victor, come and look for the tea caddy. We should pour a cup of tea for our visitor!”

Victor hurriedly went into the room. “Don’t trouble yourself with that, Grandma. We don’t have tea in the house…”

“I recall having some tea around the house, though. How could we let the visitor leave without having something to drink?”

to discover that she had already left with the envelope placed on a corner of the old and shabby table. He was startled by this, and he quickly

time, and it was a little past 11.00PM. A dinner wouldn’t have taken such a long time, so it seemed that he must be

out of his bedroom. He asked,

She’ll be fine after

about the young man

I have helped him before, so he probably wants

look into

nowhere, after all.”

depended on each other for survival, and he was filial to the elderly. Even if he seemed slovenly on the outside, he hadn’t done

to do so, Julian decided not to insist. “By the way,

you asked me to do earlier

confused as she read them. She had never studied medicine and had only a smattering of

kinds of herbal medicine and healthcare products, including the pills and the oral liquids, have little effect on the human body. One might as

time as long as no human lives

Otherwise, it would have gone out of business long ago with the prescriptions Jefferey had. After all, these prescriptions were handed down from their ancestors without the dosage specified. With Julian’s lab test results and the previous results from Janice’s investigation, Rachel was now certain that

Justin came in, he saw Julian and Rachel standing together; they looked

Justin,” Julian greeted

responded. “Aren’t you going to

the results happened to come out today, so I’m giving

looked thoughtful as his eyes fell on Rachel’s hands. Meanwhile, the woman collected the documents and gestured to him. Let’s talk about

Justin nodded slightly.

truthfully recounted Julian’s words and her own conjecture

hand. “I also had someone test the sleeping pills before the research and development laboratory was closed, but the results aren’t out yet. This is quite thoughtful of you. However.” He

hand trembled, causing the lab test report in her hand