My Mute Bride

“Do you really think I’d believe such an obvious lie?” Justin shouted, his voice echoing throughout the hall.

“You’d rather believe a stranger over your own family?”

“Just because you’re my family doesn’t mean you won’t lie.”

Julian couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “Tell him what Janice gave you, Rachel.” The evidence would prove what Julian said was the truth whether Justin liked it or not, or so Julian thought.

Meanwhile, Rachel had been standing there silently for a while. Since she was mute, she never had a big presence whenever it came to groups. Even though there were only the three of them, she was little more than invisible among them. Contrary to Julian’s anger, Rachel looked calm. Since Justin said he found Katie, she didn’t want to explain anything anymore, even though she didn’t know who that ‘Katie’ was or how she managed to impersonate her. Simply put, there was no point explaining anything to someone who never believed her. Thank you, Dr. Peters, but you don’t have to come up with these excuses.

“What’s wrong, Rachel?” Julian stared at her in disbelief. “I thought you got Janice’s package.”

Well, he says he’s found Katie and obviously, it’s not me. Rachel then made some simple gestures, but it felt heavy when she put her hand down.

Justin glanced at her and a sliver of suspicion rose within him.

Julian clenched his fists. He had been holding his fury back for almost a year now, but it finally erupted at that point and he hurled a punch at Justin. “Why won’t you believe her?”

The punch caught Justin by surprise and it hit him right in the face. The impact sent him staggering backward, toppling a chair on his way. Rache gasped but she couldn’t stop them in time.

Even though Justin was caught by surprise the first time, he managed to launch a kick when Julian tried to attack him again as he was much more agile than the other. In the end, they got tangled in a brawl.

Panicked, Rachel waved at the bodyguards outside. The bodyguards realized something was up, so they charged inside and pinned Julian down. Rachel tried to pull the bodyguards away but she was shoved off instead

“Rachel!” Julian couldn’t move an inch since he was pinned against the floor. “Justin, you’re going to regret this one day!” he roared.

wiped the blood that was trickling down his mouth. “I never regret anything. And it’s getting late. Your mother’s going to be worried if

what he was trying to say, so they dragged Julian

too far since Julian was Jusitn’s cousin, after all. Thanks to that, Julian broke free of their grasp

of sight. After that, he slowly unraveled the slip of paper in his palm. It was drenched with sweat but he could make the message out

when she helped him up earlier. A grim determination rose within Julian and

furniture and cleared away the glass shards on

Deep down, he thought to himself, How dare she lie about Katie? How dare she get

Dr. Peters was just

By making that kind of story

froze at

everything I told

back, but he

is weak but stubborn. He’ll never give up until he takes you away with him, don’t you

color Rachel had drained from her

“Guards,” Justin said coldly.

sent Julian off quickly came back.

wants a change of

came from her wrist stopped her train of thought. “You seem uncomfortable here. I think a quiet place suits

already late at night but Amber was still on the balcony, talking to someone on the phone. “Don’t come back if you

are you going

it, but not

“Why?”