My mute bride novel (Rachel and Justin)
Chapter 30

Chapter 30

In the office of Burton Group, Justin was reading the plans of a project from his laptop.

"Mr. Burton, our greatest competitor for the East Pearl Project this time is Imperial Group. They've already negotiated the terms for the piece of land, so it's quite difficult for us to overtake them at this moment. Frankie's voice, which was filled with worry, came forth from behind the laptop.

Justin said, "Easy doesn't exist in building a business."

Frankie chewed on Justin's words.

Burton Group was an established company, so their competitors would naturally be powerful too. Moreover, an insignificant competitor would not possibly show up in front of Justin.

Just as they were talking, Justin's eyes darkened as he saw something on the laptop screen.

"What's wrong, Mr. Burton?" Frankie's heart skipped a beat as he started worrying for the staff in the engineering department. "Is there a problem with the plan?"

It was only after seeing the laptop screen, which was turned around by Justin, did Frankie come to a sudden realization.

The screen showed Justin's mailbox. Half a minute ago, he received an anonymous email that only contained a picture, and the content of the picture was... Frankie's expression turned sullen. "Mr. Burton, this picture..."

Rachel and Julian were visibly seen in the picture, and the pair was in a treatment room. Julian was holding Rachel's hand while checking on her with his head lowered. Justin stared fixedly at their hands which were held together and ordered coldly, "Look into the IP address and replace the sender."

Frankie shivered as a chill ran down his spine. "Yes, sir."

Staring at the picture, Justin tapped the table with his finger. His eyes darkened more at the thought of the incidents that happened recently.

Although the Hudson Family had successfully swapped Rachel with Amber and made the former marry into the Burton Family, the outcome was not as well as they had expected.

On the other hand, Rachel's eyelids had been twitching the whole afternoon, and she felt perturbed for some reason.

She stayed in the hospital until the evening. Just so happened, Julian was about to get off from work, so he fetched her home too.

The moment they arrived at the Burton Residence, Sue stopped them.

With a displeased look, Sue darted a glance at Rachel and said, "Julian, why did you guys come back together?"

Before Rachel could write something in her notebook, Julian had already spoken up to explain. "Coincidentally, I was done with work, so I drove her back. It's just a small favor since we're relatives." "Who says she's our relative?" Sue cast a disdainful glance at Rachel. "No one knows how long more she will be able to stay at ours. 1-"

"Mom." Julian immediately interrupted Sue with a slightly sullen look.

Seeing Julian's reaction, Sue had no choice but to clam up reluctantly and bite her tongue. "Alright, I'll stop. It's rare that you come home this early, so let's spend some time together," Sue said kindly. Considering Rachel's situation in the Burton Family, Julian nodded and turned to Rachel. "Rachel, go and have some rest first. I'll call you when it's time for dinner."

Rachel looked at Sue hesitantly.

"Go ahead." Sue wanted to talk to Julian and had no desire to be bothered with Rachel, so she waved her hands about and wanted Rachel to leave quickly as if she was a jinx.

Rachel was relieved.

After hearing the sound of the door closing from upstairs, Sue removed her disdainful look and peeled an apple for Julian, who was sitting across from her on the couch. After some small talk, she asked, "Julian, I heard Amber is now an intern in your hospital?"

"Mm-hmm." Julian was a little absent-minded.

"Amber is the second daughter of the Hudson Family. Not only is she educated with a good family background, but she's pretty and innocent too. I've met her before. She's a kind girl. Do take care of her more since she's working with you now."

Julian replied indifferently, "She doesn't work with me."

After seeing how Amber hurled insults at a patient in the morning, Julian decided that he would definitely not accept someone like her to become his assistant intern. Regardless of how she got into the hospital he was determined to ask for Amber to be replaced.

"Did Rachel tell you something?" Sue furrowed her brows. "That mute, she can't talk yet she's good at gossiping. She just can't bear to see her sister doing better than her."

Julian wore a solemn expression. "Mom, can you stop judging a book by its cover?"

He was well aware that his mother was a mean woman. In addition to Justin's attitude, Julian knew Rachel's situation would be full of hardships in the Burton Family, so he felt sorry for her.

"I'm not judging a book by its cover. I've investigated it before," Sue explained to Julian patiently. "The mute's mother was a mistress and caused Amber's mother's death back then. A woman like her is a jinx."

Julian frowned. "Who told you that?"

"Amber told me personally." Sue sighed. "This afternoon, that girl came to me, weeping. She told me that an unpleasant incident happened in the hospital this morning and that you've misunderstood her. After hearing her explanation only did I realize how pitiful that girl is. She lost her mother at a young age. It must have been tough for her."

So, it's Amber.

Julian's frown deepened as the guilty party was actually filing a complaint first. "Mom, you can't just

listen to a story from one side."

"What's wrong with you?" Sue's expression changed all of a sudden seeing how Julian was still siding with Rachel after all that she had told him. "Did the mute bewitch you? Why do you keep siding with her?" "I'm not siding with her; I'm just siding with the truth. Also, Mom, you should stop interfering with

Justin's household matters. He has his life, and we have ours." Julian looked at Sue seriously. "What do you mean? You,"

"I'm tired, Mom. I'm going back to my room to have some rest first." Julian placed his mug forcefully on the table to interrupt Sue. Thereafter, he went straight back to his room. Meanwhile, Sue was hot under the collar to see Julian leave.

Rachel was resting in her room and was shocked when she heard a bang from downstairs all of a sudden. Although the room door was closed, she could still hear Sue's angry yell from downstairs. "After all these years of raising him, he started rebuking me now that he has some achievements?!"

"Please don't be angry, Madam. I'm sure that's not Young Master Julian's intention."

"How is it not? He thinks I'm shameless for staying in the Burton Residence, doesn't he? Even Justin, his cousin, has never complained about me, but he on the other hand-is he really my son?" "Please calm down and have some tea, Madam."

Just then, another loud bang emerged, which sounded like ceramic shattering.

Rachel tightened her grip on the book, feeling puzzled.

In fact, she thought it was weird all this while. The Burton Family had an extensive family business. Even though Justin had lost his parents at a young age, he didn't necessarily have to be raised by Sue, his youngest aunt.

On the other hand, given Julian's attitude, it seemed like he didn't prefer Sue to stay in the Burton Family

A while later, Rachel finally heaved a sigh of relief as the noise downstairs gradually ceased. Flipping to the next page of the book, she just had no intention to care about these matters of the Burton Family But alas, the peace did not last long. Before she could finish reading a page, someone flung her door open from the outside without even knocking on it.

Shocked, Rachel lifted her head in puzzlement.

Standing at the door was Sue, who was staring at her furiously as she had nowhere else to vent her anger but at her. "Stupid mute! Pack up your stuff and get out of the Burton Residence immediately!" Rachel's heart skipped a beat as she gripped the page tight.