My Mute Bride

“Mrs. Burton, what’s wrong with you?” As soon as Jennifer saw Rachel’s pained appearance, she hurriedly went forward.

Rachel felt as if something was about to burst out of her brain as she frantically gripped her forehead, but she failed to suppress the pain. As she let out a cry of pain, she fell to the floor.

“Mrs. Burton!” Jennifer’s face paled with fear.

The colorful world suddenly turned black and white as time wildly receded to that scene in the isolated mountainous area more than twenty years ago, where birds and animals fluttered among the mountains and

forests…

The dream that had been with her for more than twenty years was gradually becoming clearer at this moment. At this moment, the gentle silhouette that had its back to her for twenty years slowly turned around.

The woman’s long hair hung over her shoulder as she revealed a warm smile and dimples on her cheeks. “Katie, didn’t I ask you to stay at home with Grandma? Why are you following me up the mountain again?”

“Mom, it’s too boring at home, so I wanted to follow you up the mountain to collect herbs.”

“Don’t fall down. Come and hold my hand.”

“Okay!”

“Do you like collecting herbs?”

“Yes.”

“Then, I will teach you a song about herb-picking, okay?”

“Okay!”

“Poria seeds, peony flowers, forsythia, dahurica, mixed with red sand…”

Rachel’s lips vibrated. Despite the inability to make a sound, the memory of those children’s songs suddenly became incomparably clear to her with the name of each herb echoing in her ears.

“Mom, are we not going to pick herbs today?”

“Katie, we have guests at home. I have something to tell this man, so head out and play for a while. Grandma is at the back of the mountain, so go and find her, okay?”

“Okay!”

instantly came flooding back as it invaded her whole brain. She remembered what her mother looked like, how she became a mute, the man

a look at what’s

first help her to

to her, but she could only see their mouths moving as she heard nothing. Her ears were filled with buzzing sounds that were interspersed with the childhood she had forgotten for

nothing wrong with her. She’s

her hand?” Someone spoke up, causing Rachel to snap out of it. She jerked up her hand to shield the item in her hands and looked warily at the nurse who came to take it away.

asked, “Mrs.

in a daze and finally

doctors and nurses looked at

you should

remember the events of twenty years

song her mother taught her, the origin of the Somerset Mountain fire, and the guy who was hidden

that

Jennifer!

out of bed and went to call

what’s wrong?” Jennifer was

Give me the phone.

“Mrs. Burton, um…”

to contact

“Mrs. Burton, Mr. Burton said that you are not allowed to contact the outside world. How about this? If you have anything to tell him, I will call him and pass on the

him that I have something to say to him and it’s

the number in front

you’re coming back as she has something to say to

Justin’s voice came from the other end. “I’m busy with something right now. It can wait

will you be

After those three words were spoken, he hung up while a busy

in disappointment. Jennifer comforted, “Mrs. Burton, it’s okay. He will come over when he’s done. If you have something really important, I can relay it

I’ll just wait for

she calmed down and looked at the information sheet in her hand, she suddenly felt as if she was in a trance. The great elation she had felt earlier was washed away by twenty years of time

foe for so long and had tortured her all this while. Besides, the origin of that fire still came from the Hudson Family, so it