My Mute Bride

Rachel slowly closed her eyes. She didn’t care about being his wife or if the baby would be a b*stard. Ever since she got her memories back, she knew the both of them could never be together again.

It had been a month since Janice and her subordinates started the search in all the riverside neighborhoods. “Still nothing?” Julian asked as he handed her a bottle of water.

The wind was blowing against Janice’s hair. She took a sip and shook her head. “We searched all the riverside neighborhoods. One by one as well. No clue until now.”

“Maybe she’s locked in a mountain somewhere?”

“No. It’s mostly manors there. The Bureau of Real Estate has records of the manors’ owners.”

Bureau of Real Estate? All of a sudden, Julian had a stroke of inspiration. “I think we’ve been looking at this the wrong way. Even if Justin locked Rachel up, he wouldn’t put her in a place unrelated to him.”

“What are you getting at?”

“She’s either in a hotel or a personal estate he owns.”

Janice gripped the water bottle and she realized what Julian was getting at. “Hotels are out. There are too many people there.”

Which meant there were only estates left.

With how cautious Justin was, he would never take Rachel out of Riverdale, so she must be in one of the estates in the city.

Julian frowned. “But what’s up with ‘river’? What’s she trying to say?”

“Probably the neighborhood’s name.” Janice then made a call. “Hello? It’s me. I want all the details of Justin Burton’s estates in Riverdale ASAP.”

Janice received an email not long after she hung up. “He has a lot of properties in Riverdale.”

nodded. “Good thing it’s still just this

the neighborhoods that have ‘river’ in their names. If we still can’t find her, we’ll expand the range. Don’t worry about it too much. No news is the

since Rachel’s disappearance, and

out of the other elevator when she arrived at her floor. He was pushing the cart as he went toward the president’s

wasn’t in. When the secretary had to leave, she would lock the door to keep any

than Victor. Before he could say anything, they heard someone talking just around the corner. Hence, Gloria quickly grabbed him and put

the secretary’s voice saying, “Who left this cart here? Assistant Beckham’s going to yell at someone if he

get the janitor

as she questioned, “Why did you come here? How did you manage to even get

That being said, he looked more gaunt and there were a few bruises on

see that. “What

looked at her in

you looking at me like that, silly kid? I

With that, Victor went to Justin’s

what are you doing? Don’t go through someone’s stuff

through all the

are you looking

he has hidden

mad? She can’t be here! What do you think she is?

Victor snapped, “Do you have any better idea, then? I’ve tailed him for three

Justin almost every day for the last three months but every time, he would

beaten up

quiet! Someone

I’m taking this straight

the door before she could say anything. Gloria’s face fell and she dragged Victor into a cubicle in the room. She managed to close the door before the people outside could come in. Victor tried to break free, but she held him back. “You’d better