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?”

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

hands and rushed out

“Mrs. Burton.”

the men behind him start

injured some time ago, so he decided to

I haven’t even finished using the things you gave

no need to take it too seriously.

were four men carrying a massage

to move the furniture in the living room to prevent

Nancy interrogated Frankie. “It’s been so long since he’s married Rae, yet I’ve never even seen

There are

Downstairs?

heart thumping, and she immediately stopped her grandmother from exiting

here, Grandma. I’ll go down for a

and she yelled as the latter

His hands were

are you here? There was nothing on Rachel’s

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

remember having crossed your

moment, Rachel behaved like a wary wolf that was showing

warmth in Justin’s eyes vanished. “I’m just sending some gifts to your grandmother. What’s the big

so? Is it as simple as that? Nothing

as

she cared about most in the entire Riverdale would be her grandmother. Thus, rather than ‘sending gifts’, it felt

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

pulled open the car door, seeming like he was about

was about to go

“Rae!”

with a bright smile on his face. “Fresh fish from the market. I heard you wanted to make some fish soup, so I got it for

suppressed her perplexed emotions. Then, she nodded her head

old man conversing with Rachel the moment he shut the

Irwin, they bumped into Frankie who was talking

it. I can see

on the narrow staircase, Frankie’s eyes instantaneously turned darker

she realized it, Grandpa Irwin screamed as two men pinned him