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?”

had already left with the envelope placed on a corner of the old and shabby table. He was startled by this, and he quickly grabbed the envelope before going out after her, but all Victor heard was the sound of a car engine at the entrance to

She checked the 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 sending Amber home. Since Rachel didn’t give it much thought, she entered the kitchen and helped

of his bedroom. He asked, “How is Madam

fine after getting

about the

so he probably wants to return

though. “I’ll help you look into his identity. This person

nowhere, after all.”

was filial to the elderly. Even if he seemed slovenly on the outside, he hadn’t done anything bad, so he

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

to

She had never studied medicine and

and healthcare products, including the pills and the oral liquids, have little effect on the human body. One might as well say that they deserve

as

some connections in the government. 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 Jefferey had been crying up wine and selling vinegar these years by selling fake medicine. The Hudson Family’s century-old clinic had six prescriptions

standing together; they looked like a well-matched couple under the kitchen’s bright light.

there, Justin,”

you going

asked me to test some stuff earlier, and the results happened to come out

woman collected the documents and gestured to him.

Justin nodded slightly.

Julian’s words and her own conjecture

lab test reports in his 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

the lab test report in her hand to float down on her feet. I have forgotten about this, she thought