My Mute Bride

Blood spread through Rachel’s skirt as a stabbing pain came from her abdomen. She pressed a hand to it, her face pale.

My child, my child.

Justin shoved Frankie aside and scooped Rachel up. “What are you standing around for? Get driving to the hospital!”

It was then that Frankie snapped out of it, and the car sped down the streets of Riverdale while running several red lights.

After making it to the emergency room, Julian stepped out once Rachel had been checked over.

“How is she?”

Julian confirmed that the door had been shut tight before he allowed his expression to fall. At the same time, he stopped Justin from going in.

“Are you concerned about her?”

“Stop asking me things like that. What happened to her?”

“She’s pregnant!” Julian raised his voice, his low tones reverberating through the corridor, shocking the few medical staff nearby until they had looks of bewilderment on their faces.

Why was the usually even-tempered Dr. Peters so furious?

Instantly, Justin’s head was filled with a buzzing sound. “What did you say?”

“I said that she’s pregnant. She’s already more than two months along.” Julian’s expression was dark. “I wanted to tell you about it a few days ago, but you were busy taking care of Gloria. Not only that, you never asked once about Rachel. So, I thought that there was no difference whether I told you at all.”

Justin was still stunned. He stared dumbly at the door to the ward, seeming as though he hadn’t heard Julian.

Rachel was pregnant all along? Am I going to become a father?

“Justin Burton!”

At the thought of Rachel’s condition, Justin quickly snapped back to reality. “How is she now?”

“You’re only asking this now? What were you doing before you thought of that?”

going

stable. The first three months of pregnancy

that, Justin let out

as she stared out the window. Just then, the door behind her opened up. She could tell

still unwell? I know

a long moment of silence, Rachel finally turned

did you do

at the mention of the elder

of it out on me-whether it’s your resentment toward me or the Hudsons. Don’t hurt anyone who’s innocent! Now

as though they would burst the

you saying that he should avoid punishment just because he’s in his

despair grew. She ended up letting out a chuckle as

Grandpa Irwin, a human trafficker? In that case, why

you want,

of the incident from 20 years ago, he couldn’t wait to chop all of those involved into

the gaggle of traffickers who sold him were the true culprits-none of them had

find proof, the statute of limitations on the case had already been reached. Didn’t that mean that the culprits

middle of his tirade when he got a phone call. After glancing at Rachel, he left

with a bang, the room

tightly, her face as

“Yes?”

came to Riverdale. He said that he went to a friend for shelter,

acquaintance, you

Hudson Pharmaceuticals had seemingly bought that forest for development. Hence, it was reasonable for the people who lived there to

did he

admit that he’s been an errand boy for traffickers. The documents at the police station have long since been destroyed as well. We won’t be able to dig up

eerily cold, and one could sense the iciness from

back. It had been swelteringly hot, and the loathsome old man who had

him, he would let the boy starve to death inside

and damp, and he hadn’t been able to see anything. All he could smell was the

hadn’t saved him back then,

we do with