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?”

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

got home, Justin hadn’t come back yet. 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

came out of his bedroom. He asked, “How

be fine after

the young man

helped him before, so he probably wants to return the favor,

was still worried, though. “I’ll help you look into his

nowhere, after all.”

he was filial to the elderly. Even if

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

analysis you asked me to do

them. She had never studied medicine and had only a smattering of herbal medicine, so she couldn’t quite understand

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

most of the time as long as no

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 from the ancestors, but

was heard from outside. As soon as Justin came in, he saw Julian and Rachel standing together; they looked like a well-matched couple under the kitchen’s bright light. He frowned for

there, Justin,”

Justin responded. “Aren’t you going

me to test some stuff earlier, and the results happened

fell on Rachel’s hands. Meanwhile, the woman collected the documents and gestured to him.

Justin nodded slightly.

words and her own conjecture in the

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 suddenly raised his head with darkened

report in her hand to float down on her feet.