My Mute Bride

Julian was driving back to the city from the suburbs. Not long after he exited the compound, he saw a malicious-looking man on the passenger’s seat of a van that passed him by.

At first, he didn’t pay heed to it, but he started feeling uneasy after he went on for some distance.

All the people in the van wore black. What could their business in the suburbs be at midnight?

“Pardon, the number that you have dialed cannot be reached. Please call…”

Both Victor and Gloria couldn’t be reached by their phones.

At once, he made a U-turn and headed back toward the villa.

By the time he arrived, the villa was in a mess.

The bodyguards were on the ground, defeated and in pain. Rushing into the bedroom, he was met with a sight of Gloria and Victor passed out on the floor, and Rachel sitting in a pool of blood at the corner of the room.

“Rachel!”

The lights on the operating table were bright and blinding.

The sound of machines colliding rang in her ears, yet she was still too weak to open her eyes. She could only hear the sound of the doctor and nurses speaking by her side.

The moment her body was cut open, the pain that she initially felt numb to suddenly soared once again. The stimulation to her pain-receptor nerves was so unbearable she was about to pass out.

At this moment, she felt like she was diving into an abyss. Every time she felt like she was about to drown and die, she would get a breath of air only to drown again.

It went on and on.

By the time Justin rushed to the hospital, it was already the wee hours of the next day.

“How is she?”

He held onto Julian hastily.

With an expressionless face, Julian told him, “This child is gone.”

The four words were like a hammer that was slammed down on Justin’s heart.

The look in his eyes wavered as he staggered a few steps back. Leaning against the wall, he was in utter disbelief.

“Who did this?”

that, his face turned

was threatened by the very existence

regained consciousness, it

With that, she was surprised. Out of instinct, she wanted to move her hand,

long before he woke up. As their eyes met the

How do you feel? Do

the pillow, she couldn’t reply with

only then that he

could be seen from where he held onto

Why are you here?

asking that, she realized that the surrounding wasn’t the villa in

The hospital?

the immense pain from her lower body surged through her body, making her pupils contract. She looked toward him and

say, he

moment, he looked into her eyes and took a deep breath before saying, “Rae, we can still

pale in a

memory of the previous night gushed into her

who appeared suddenly, Victor and Gloria who were on the ground, the

“Ah!”

strength she could muster, she hugged her

never

dreadful memories from last night,

The child is gone.

the thoughts of letting him

Mommy is sorry…

“Rae!”

“Ah!”

kept on yelling in a hoarse voice. Throwing all the pillows off the bed, she was yelling with all her

didn’t take long before Julian came. Looking at the situation in the ward, he quickly pulled Justin away. “Head outside for

in a corner with her knees hugged to her chest. Her

afar while watching Julian walk toward her

her hand, but she no longer resisted when she saw that it was Julian. She then let him pull herself into

as he gave her consoling pats on her back.

uncomfortable for Justin

clenched his fists before exiting

Frankie was waiting

investigation of what happened last night?

nearby were destroyed, so there was very limited footage of them. Winston