My Mute Bride

Chapter 265 An Embarrassing Match

Victor could only speak against his will in front of the girl. “I was just joking. Are you angry, Charlotte?” Charlotte replied, “This joke isn’t funny at all, Mr. Wade. If you speak of my dad like this again, I’m really going to get angry!”

“Okay, I won’t say that anymore,” Victor replied helplessly. After Charlotte went far away to cheer Samuel on, he said to Rachel, “The only good thing Justin has done is to take pretty good care of Charlotte.”

Rachel was startled; she seemed to think of something. “She’s his daughter, after all.”

“But I feel that it might be better for Charlotte to be with you.”

“Did Jolly say something to you?” Rachel asked. Jolly would sometimes pick the kids up at school, so Victor had talked to her quite a number of times as Charlotte and Samuel’s homeroom teacher. Because of Rachel, the two soon warmed to each other.

Victor replied, “Rachel, I think you’re justified in wanting to take Charlotte away. No matter what you do, I’ll always side with you.”

Rachel was lost in thought before her eyes were drawn to the race in the distance.

All the teams set out after the referee blew the whistle.

Justin nearly tripped Samuel as soon as he took a big stride forward. “Ouch!” Samuel hugged the man’s thigh right away. “You idiot! I almost fell to my death!”

“Isn’t that because you have short legs?”

Samuel’s face turned livid with anger. “I’m a kid!”

“We’re gonna lose if you keep arguing with me.”

“We’ve lost already!” Samuel rolled his eyes at Justin while standing where he was with his arms folded across his chest. “If I had known this earlier, I’d rather give up on the race than join you. This is so embarrassing.”

The other teams have reached the halfway mark, whereas he and I are still on the starting line, he thought. “Let’s forget it. I don’t want to run the race anymore,” he said while bending down in an attempt to untie the strap that tied his foot to Justin’s.

away, he lifted the boy up in midair

finishing line, everyone at the scene

How could anyone run a three-legged race like

could you

maintained

extremely embarrassed as Justin tucked him under his arm. He kept struggling, saying, “Put

him down triumphantly as he still didn’t know

“I’m not gonna take part in races with you anymore!” he said, before running away. Whenever he ran into a classmate,

was against the rules of fairness for you two to run the race like that. We’ll have to disqualify you two

“What?” Justin frowned.

race with the kid in your arms. Both of you must run the race with both your feet on the ground to be fair to the other

at a loss for

spectacle from a distance, Rachel

something, and he looked back to see this

in the mountain woods were chirping nonstop in the height of summer, and the stream was gurgling on. The summer sunshine seeped through the gaps between trees, producing swaying shadows of trees on

wasn’t mistaken, this was the first time Rachel had laughed

met, she didn’t manage to stop laughing in time. For a moment, she was startled, and she felt

her thoughts. “Mommy, the beach volleyball match will begin in a while. Let’s

to her senses, Rachel replied

do our

calculating the scores with the referee. Seeing that Justin and Samuel had been disqualified, he felt sorry for Samuel, but he couldn’t help but want to ridicule Justin at the same time. However, when he looked up, he saw Justin

slightly. Is Justin

a silencing gesture toward

a disdainful look. This is unnecessary, he thought. He knew how softhearted Rachel was better than anyone else did, so there was no way he would tell her about it even if Justin didn’t ask him to keep it

the second highest comprehensive score. On the other hand, Justin and Samuel finished in last place, for Samuel steadfastly refused to