My Mute Bride

During dinner time, Charlotte wanted to sit next to Rachel. “Mommy, I want to eat that!”

“This?”

“Yes!”

“All right. Eat more and grow tall, Rachel said. Then, she dropped the food the little girl liked onto her plate.

With an unreadable look in his eyes, Justin watched as Charlotte chomped down on the food happily. This girl is usually a picky eater and would always complain at the dinner table. No matter how we coaxed her, she wouldn’t even take an extra bite. With this woman around, she just eats anything she gives her and even eats a lot of it. More importantly, everyone knew how Charlotte usually treated other women. She would usually be stubborn, rude, and mean toward them. In contrast, she was very obedient toward Rachel. Is it because they’re related by blood?

Night fell, and after Rachel tucked Charlotte into bed, she sneaked out of the room quietly.

At the top of the staircase, she saw that the light in the study on the first floor was still turned on. If her guess was right, Justin was probably still working there. Therefore, the master bedroom would surely be empty now.

If the surveillance record containing the evidence that could prove that Hans was murdered was in this house, the most probably place it would be was either the master bedroom or the study.

After she slipped into the bedroom, she started searching from the head of the bed, opening and checking every drawer. Finally, in the corner of the closet, she found a black-colored safe.

Password… What’s the password? she asked silently while looking at the number pad.

Beep, beep, beep.

She punched in Justin’s birth date.

It’s not right. What about Charlotte’s birthday?

Beep, beep, beep.

That’s not it, either. I still have one more try left, she thought. At that moment though, the sound of footsteps came from outside the room, so she quickly closed the closet doors.

“What are you doing here?”

Holding her chest, Rachel turned around and said in surprise, “You gave me a scare! You don’t make a sound at all when you walk!”

he asked while standing

that I’m going to leave now. In the end, you

he asked suspiciously as he inched

“You don’t believe me? What

you?”

put in so much effort to make a trip here. You baked cookies with

into my room where we’re alone. So tell me, what do you plan

conclusion, Rachel couldn’t stop herself from bursting

you laughing

interested in you,” she

“What did you say?”

don’t care whether you believe it or not,

and stopped her from leaving. In an icy tone, he asked, “If you’re not interested, why did you show up at the

holding her wrist, she didn’t struggle and asked

“You tell me.”

about that kiss? I had too much to

his jaw and

it so seriously. We’re adults now. You know we’re capable of

face was red. Such a

it when she said, “I’ve told you before your return that you should think carefully about acknowledging your daughter. It’s impossible for you to avoid your

day, it was not a secret that Rachel was Justin’s ex-wife, so how could she hide the

opened the fridge and grabbed a bottle of beer,

then, she left Riverdale alone to save herself and left her daughter behind. Earlier, her heart was broken

had no other choice as well.” She sighed and continued, “But look how great things are now. You

“I found the safe.”

“Really?”

while nodding. “It’s in Justin’s closet, but I don’t know the

Jolly returned to her room and ransacked her drawers before coming out again with a thumb-sized glass bottle. “Here’s some fluorescent powder. Just scatter this on the number pad and Justin will leave his prints

not easy to arrange and combine a six-digit

guesses. Maybe there’s a pattern