My Mute Bride

Chapter 280 Amnesia by Trauma

“It’s best if you can accept this. And if you can’t, it doesn’t matter to me.” With that, Rachel mentally gathered herself. Alas, after several seconds of standing off, she pushed Justin away.

The moment she left the study, sounds of items shattering could be heard inside. “Mommy!” Charlotte had been startled from where she had pressed herself against the door as she hadn’t been able to leave in time.

Rachel was also stunned by Charlotte’s presence, but hearing the noises behind her, she quickly took Charlotte’s hand. “Let’s go. It’s time for dinner,” she said nonchalantly.

Charlotte shyly nodded and followed Rachel downstairs, but she couldn’t stop herself from looking back. She didn’t particularly understand the laws of the world due to her young age, but Charlotte was good at figuring out people’s emotions. It was just as Samuel said—Justin was the one who came looking for trouble first. So, making Rachel angry was his own fault.

But for some reason, Charlotte found Justin pitiful. They clearly had a huge fight, but Rachel wasn’t angry at all––even Charlotte was at a loss for words when faced with Rachel’s icy demeanor.

Adult relationships were just too hard to understand.

Justin had completely trashed the inside of the study––even the shelves had been pushed over. At that moment, the place was a complete mess.

Beyond the door of the study, it was quiet.

In the end, he sat in the middle of the carnage, suffering from his pain as he pressed a hand to his aching forehead. He remembered when he saw the picture in that email at his office earlier. When he saw Rachel and Janice standing together, fragments of an image flew through his mind.

It was an image of Janice, Hans, and Rachel standing together in an old alley. Rachel grinned between the two, her smile warm and gentle as Hans pulled her away from a cyclist cycling down the alley.

That scene had wounded his heart and his mind buzzed that instant. It felt like all those fragments had wound themselves together to assault his mind, making his temples hurt. He was in so much pain that he couldn’t even grip his mouse properly.

Right now, that scene once again assaulted his mind in the remains of the study, as though someone was hitting his temples repeatedly with a hammer, trying to make his insides burst out. The pain was agonizing.

“Hello?” In his pain, Justin called a doctor. “Dr. Aurich, where are you?”

Rachel brought the children to the dining room for dinner as the ruckus upstairs had been noticeable. The babysitter didn’t dare to speak much, opting to stand by the side and watch instead.

Justin could

are you going,

at Justin too. As long as he apologized,

he hadn’t heard anything as he rushed out of

eat your dinner.” Rachel’s voice brought Charlotte’s eyes back to her food. She then dropped

was a little worried. “Mommy,

busy peeling the shrimp for Charlotte, so her answer was half-hearted. “He’s a grown-up. He’ll eat

again, Mommy?” Charlotte’s voice was small. “If you guys don’t make up,

terribly. Regardless of what Justin did, it was his own mistake––the same went for her. What did the children do wrong? Yet every time she and Justin argued, it only

her hands before touching Charlotte’s face. “I won’t leave you,

didn’t quite believe her.

lie to you?” The babysitter pointed at the fish soup on the table. “Miss Hudson specially ordered me to buy this fish today. It’s supposedly

for a moment before she responded by yelling in surprise.

so she paid

hearing the

was willing to eat again,

Dr. Aurich. The pain finally began to subside after he sat in the treatment chair for a

“Feeling better?”

of staying here for a bit longer. I seem to sleep better here. You don’t mind,

it, your headaches

a little

records. “I told you before to not exert yourself in the near future. Your amnesia was caused by trauma, and the memories you forgot were ones that had a heavy negative impact on you. It’s your body’s self-defense mechanisms protecting you. If you force yourself to remember, you’ll be

return of my memories anymore.” Justin’s eyes were shut tightly. His forehead was

at Justin in confusion. “What do you mean

would miss some major event that would never be able to be fixed