My Mute Bride

Charlotte seemed to be tired as she lay against Justin’s shoulder and remained quiet. Justin patted her back intermittently as if he was putting her to bed. Then, he sat down on a bench while carrying her.

Rachel followed him over. “What’s wrong? Is she tired?”

“She was too frightened when she saw the birds. She gets sleepy once she’s relaxed.”

“How did this happen?

Justin furrowed his brows. “Charlotte was injured by a bird before when she was younger.”

It was only after hearing from Justin did Rachel know that Charlotte had not always been staying with Justin since young. More often than not, Justin was too busy and did not have time to take care of her, so Arthur would take her to his place.

“There are quite a number of kids from the extended families who are around the same age as Charlotte. They actually don’t have many connections with the Burton Family anymore, but some of them are still racking their brains to claim a relationship with us.”

Justin was talking about the distant relatives which were barely connected to his family. They knew the Burton Family had very few heirs, so quite a number of them had wicked intentions. Arthur was old now and had started missing his hometown for some reason. He had actually brought Charlotte back to his hometown a few times. At that time, he even had the intention to adopt a few of the distant relatives’ children.

Just then, Charlotte, who was lying on Justin’s shoulder, spoke up all of a sudden. “There are pigeons at Great Uncle’s place, and they’ll peck my eyes.” While saying that, Charlotte rubbed her eyes.

Startled, Rachel lifted Charlotte’s hand and caressed the scar at the corner of her eye. Even though it was not obvious, Rachel had noticed it before this.

Justin explained, “That injury was by a pigeon.”

Rachel felt her heart squeezed. Initially, she thought Charlotte had accidentally injured herself. Kids were playful, so it was common to get some injuries and it didn’t sound like a serious matter. However, from what

Justin said, it seemed like the incident was not as simple.

“The doctor in the neighborhood’s clinic disinfected Charlotte’s wound after she was injured, but she started having a high fever that night. When I rushed over the next day, she was already in a coma due to the high fever. So, we quickly rushed to the hospital and were told that she had an infection.”

Later, they realized that the pigeon that injured Charlotte had an infectious disease. It was quarantined in the pigeon farm and was about to be slaughtered. However, for some reason, it injured Charlotte and even appeared in the dishes which were prepared ‘specially’ for Charlotte that night.

elaborate further on the details, but Rachel was already petrified hearing that. There were many schemeful people in

this happened.” Feeling sorry, Rachel rubbed Charlotte’s cheeks. “I will

shoulder and said softly, “I

and gave Charlotte a kiss

faint scent of Rachel’s perfume, and it actually made him absentminded for a while. A gust

Only then did she realize when she was kissing Charlotte just now, she subconsciously held onto

increased while

Justin’s arms. “Daddy, Mommy, I

could say

each other as the atmosphere became awkward. What’s

you bring Charlotte back to you?” Rachel initiated a topic to ease

many things to attend to in the company, so I couldn’t bring Charlotte with me all the time. It was Grandpa who sent the adopted child back to his

very resolute in handling things. He clearly knew how to make a decision between his real great-granddaughter and a son from the extended

said, “Because of this incident, Grandpa hopes that I’ll get

“With Amber?”

“Yeah.”

left for 5 years. Rachel

“Why?”

Charlotte well. Do you really think that she’ll willingly become Charlotte’s stepmother and take good care

sister. Who else do you think is fit to be

should at least be someone whom

else does Charlotte like besides

looked at Justin

come back and look after Charlotte, what would

could give an answer, the