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 coax his grandmother out of bustling around. He lifted the curtains, came out, and was about to talk to Rachel, only 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 grabbed the envelope before going out after her, but all Victor heard was the sound of a car engine at the entrance to the

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 herself

his bedroom. He asked, “How is

be fine after getting some rest

the young man

him either. I have helped him before, so he probably wants to return the favor, which

you look into his identity. This person suddenly

nowhere, after all.”

other for survival, and he was filial to the elderly. Even if he seemed slovenly on the outside,

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

you asked me to

Julian, but she was somewhat confused as she read them. She had never studied medicine and had only a smattering of herbal medicine, so she couldn’t quite understand

and the oral liquids, have little effect on the human body. One might

quiet most of the time as long

had set foot in Riverdale for so many years, so it more or less had 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 handed down

standing together; they looked like a

Justin,” Julian

responded. “Aren’t you

and the results happened to come out today, so

Rachel’s hands. Meanwhile, the woman collected

Justin nodded slightly.

Julian’s words and her own conjecture in

pills before the research and development laboratory was closed, but the results aren’t out yet. This is quite

test report in her hand to