My Mute Bride

By the time Jason exited the morgue, his weather-beaten face was covered in wrinkles. His eyes were so bloodshot that their vessels looked like they were about to rupture in the next second.

As they both stood at the door, the assistant and the bodyguard fell silent, not daring to take a peep.

“Where is Justin?” Jason’s voice echoed down the hallway.

The assistant replied, “Young Master Justin should still be in Brookville discussing the project. The news | receive from there indicates that he has a high chance of winning this bid. It’s more or less already in the bag.”

“In the bag?” Jason clenched his fists so hard that the veins on the back of his hands bulged. “An eye for an

eye, I say. We shouldn’t have kept this scourge alive in the first place. Any problem that wasn’t completely eliminated is bound to arise again.”

“You mean—”

Suddenly, there was a clatter from the stairwell as if something had fallen.

Jason’s face tensed up.

The assistant and the bodyguard were already yanking the stairwell door open before it immediately revealed a panicked Amber.

“You haven’t left?” Jason questioned.

She was ashen-faced as she clutched the banister while taking two steps back. “I didn’t hear anything, Jason. I’m leaving now.”

“Didn’t hear anything’? Do you think I’ll believe that?”

“I really didn’t hear anything.”

“Stand there!”

As the cold words rang out, the bodyguard immediately understood what Jason meant and caught hold of her.

A frightened Amber screamed, but she was knocked out before she could call for help.

“Take her as a hostage.” Jason gave her a careless, disdainful glance.

If she hadn’t manipulated Tina, Tina wouldn’t have been so careless as to do many foolish things that resulted in the falling out with the Hindenburg Family. Not to mention, Tina’s psychiatric state wouldn’t be in such disarray.

later, she was in an old, abandoned warehouse. “What are you guys going to

wants you to stay here for a while, Miss Hudson. He has no

“Why is he holding me captive? I don’t know anything! It has nothing to do

of the people by Justin’s side are clean? I don’t care what you did or didn’t do. As long as

cause Justin to lose the bid in Brookville or he’d be in hot water once

point of taking me

knows that and he’ll listen to you. Who would we have taken if

you?”

of that is fake! The person he cares about the

Mute woman? Jason frowned.

Brookville? He’s so worried about her safety in Riverdale lest I or someone else hurt her. The person he cares most

telling me this? Do you think I can send someone to take her from

need to take her. She has a soft spot in

voice echoed around the

concluded his meeting and returned to the hotel at noon, he found Rachel asleep on the couch with a magazine propped open on her knee. It was

catch it, but perhaps due to him being rough with his actions, she stirred

at him in a daze before violently coming to her senses and

Justin dropped the magazine on the coffee

her posture. When did you

Did you stay in for

She nodded.

she had never left Riverdale before and it was her first time in

Justin raised his wrist to look at the time, he responded, “Get changed and have

dumbly

greeting him the moment they entered a room in the

in her wildest dreams would Rachel have imagined Justin bringing her along for a lunch

each had a beautiful young woman by his side. It was obvious from first glance that these women weren’t the men’s wives, but rather hired

down, the woman next to Rachel pointed at her purse and asked, “Did

at the purse in her

Thus, Justin had sent someone to purchase a fresh set of her entire

arm around her own male companion and grumbled, “Look at that. The lady has such a nice purse that I look positively inferior next to

white-haired, he still placated the young woman. “I’ll buy you one that’s