My Mute Bride

After seeing his client, Justin hurried to the hospital.

Upon entering the ward, he saw Gloria sitting on the bed while having her meal. “You’re early today. Have you eaten? Want to share?”

“I’m good. I had lunch with a client just now.”

“I see. If you had come even earlier, you would’ve met Rachel. Look, she made some chicken soup for me. It was fish soup yesterday. Though fish soup helps with recovery, she said it’s better to switch to other flavors

at times.”

Justin was baffled by this, and he promptly asked, “She’s been coming every day?”

“Yeah. Ever since I got hospitalized, she visited me every single day with various kinds of meals. She even insists on preparing them herself because takeaways are too greasy and it’s best I avoid them.”

“Why have I never seen her?”

“Perhaps she’s avoiding the time that you would come.”

Gloria looked into his eyes and continued, “You truly went overboard last time. If I were in her shoes, it would’ve been hard for me as well. Why don’t you take the chance to talk about it with her?”

“There’s nothing to talk about.”

“Justin, you’re always holding back your thoughts and behaving like you’re the coldest man in the world.”

“Eat up. I’ll go get some fruit.”

Having said that, Justin exited the ward.

Upon his exit, Gloria turned to the piling baskets of fruit and snorted.

Get some fruits? Does he think I’m a child?

On the other hand, Rachel was cleaning the vegetables in the kitchen while Nancy was watching TV in the living room.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

“Victor! He’s always forgetting his keys!”

Nancy nagged as she walked to the door.

Since she feared that her grandmother would fall victim to more accidents, Rachel had given Victor a duplicate house key.

“Excuse me?”

you still remember me, Madam Tiller? I’m Frankie. I

momentarily when she heard the familiar man’s voice. She cleaned her hands and rushed out from the kitchen, only to see Frankie standing by

“Mrs. Burton.”

Frankie had the men behind

Burton heard that Madam Tiller was injured some time ago,

no need for this. I haven’t even finished using the things you gave me last

token of appreciation. There’s no need to take it too seriously.

men carrying a massage chair into

went to move the furniture in

long since

There are still things left to move

Downstairs?

thumping, and she immediately stopped her grandmother from

go down

the latter was walking out the door, “Tell Justin to

getting out of the car. His hands were tucked

was

glancing at Nancy’s unit, Justin then queried, “Did you like

don’t remember having crossed your boundaries

wolf that was

just sending some gifts to your

that so? Is it as simple as that? Nothing like

signed rather hastily as

fact that Justin knew about her weaknesses. After losing Hans, the person that she cared about most in the entire Riverdale would be her grandmother. Thus, rather than ‘sending gifts’, it felt more

Justin’s joyous mood disappeared into thin air. “You’re

car door, seeming like he was

was about to go back upstairs. However, she was stopped by a shout of her

“Rae!”

the neighborhood security guard’s outfit, Grandpa Irwin was grabbing a fish by its tail as he walked over to her with a bright smile on his face. “Fresh fish from the market. I heard you wanted to make

Then, she nodded her

Rachel the moment

Grandpa Irwin,

I can see

with Grandpa Irwin on the narrow staircase, Frankie’s eyes instantaneously turned darker as he signaled two

realized it, Grandpa Irwin screamed