My mute bride novel (Rachel and Justin)
My Mute Bride Chapter 348

My Mute Bride Chapter 348

Chapter 348 Fallen From Grace

In an instant, the conference room was so silent that one could hear a pin drop. Someone let out agasp. After all, Justin was Arthur’s only grandson. Even if he had now been removed as the BurtonGroup’s president, no one would dare to speak to him like this. Essentially, Robin was testing the man’slimits.

Despite his suggestion that Justin stay in the company as vice president, everyone knew howcompletely incompatible he and Justin were. If Justin were to stay in the company’s headquarters, hewould definitely have a hard time.

Just when everyone thought Justin would definitely lose his temper, Arthur suddenly spoke. “Soundslike a good suggestion to me. Staying at the top for too long would make one forget that one shouldhave their feet on the ground at all times. What do you think, Justin?”

Isn’t Old Mr. Burton gonna stick up for him?

“Old Mr.—”

Justin raised his hand, cutting Frankie short. He stood up and fixed his eyes on Robin across from him,uttering, “I accept it.”

As soon as the meeting ended, Frankie followed Justin out of the conference room. “President Burton,how could you agree to stay in the headquarters as vice president? Now that the company has beenhanded over to Robin, he’ll definitely give you a hard time at every turn if you stay here. This is—”

“Do you think I’m scared of him?”

“That’s not what I mean. President Burton, I’m just worried that you’ll be humiliated.” In Frankie’s eyes,Justin was a proud and aloof man who had stayed in a high position for many years without ever letting

Robin have his way regardless of what the latter did. Now that Robin had triumphed over Justin, whatFrankie feared most was that the former would play dirty tricks on Justin. “President Burton, why don’tyou talk to Old Mr. Burton? It’s okay even if you have to go to the branch office. In any case, it’s betterthan staying here and running into Robin often.”

“It’s not necessary.” Justin’s brows furrowed, but his tone of voice was peremptory. It was preciselybecause Robin had become the company’s president that he had to stay. If the Burton Group werereally to be handed over to Robin, no one knew if he would lead the company down a path of self-destruction.

Seeing that Justin had made up his mind, Frankie had no choice but to hold his tongue.

The pair had reached Justin’s office when they saw Miss Evergreen standing at the door with anuneasy expression. “President Burton, Frankie. President Gunson, he…”

Frankie’s face tautened at her words. He pushed the door open, only to see Robin sitting behind thedesk with his feet on it. Not only that, but he rested the heels of his leather shoes on a book on thedesk that Justin hadn’t finished reading, tearing its pages.

Frankie turned red with anger at the sight of the scene. “What do you mean by doing this, PresidentGunson? This is President Burton’s office!”

“President Burton?” Robin smirked. “Watch your language, Assistant Beckham. I am PresidentGunson, the president of this company. You should be calling him Vice President Burton from now on.Adding or skipping one particular word makes a huge difference in its meaning.”

“How dare you—”

“Frankie.” Justin came in while looking indifferently at Robin with a stony face and cold, piercing eyes.“What are you doing here?”

Robin looked around the office with his hands clasped on his stomach. “I’m here to ask you if weshould swap offices. After all, I’m the company’s president now.”

Frankie got agitated at once. “Don’t go too far, President Gunson!” This office had always belonged toJustin ever since he officially took over as the Burton Group’s president 12 years ago. Without hispermission, no one could ever step into his office as they pleased.

“Am I talking to you?” Robin looked incredibly smug. “Justin, tell your lapdog to stop barking!”

“Robin!” Justin’s voice turned chilly all of a sudden.

Seeing the chilling gleam in the man’s stony eyes, Robin shuddered at once. There were certain timeswhen he was still somewhat afraid of Justin. In an instant, he straightened up and stared warily at theman across from him.

Justin regained his composure soon afterward, though. He said nonchalantly, “You like this office? I’llgive it to you.”

“President Burton!” Frankie was in disbelief.

Justin unhurriedly walked up to the desk.

Robin was a little nervous, and he subconsciously pulled his feet off the desk while gulping somesaliva. Then, he straightened up, asking, “What are you doing?”

Justin picked up the book on the desk and dusted it off with his hand before pointing at the room’sfurnishings. “If you like these things, you can use them as you please. If you don’t like them, you cantake them apart and have them reinstalled. As for these books, I’ll be taking them with me.” He wavedthe French book in his hand. “You can’t read these books anyway, so let’s not keep them here to takeup space.”

Robin’s face instantly turned livid one moment and pale the next. Although he had a master’s degree infinance from abroad, he had only earned it from a diploma mill, so he couldn’t speak any foreignlanguage other than very poor Latin. He was able to fool the nonexperts by having his underlings workhard for him all these years, but his academic qualifications were completely worthless in front ofJustin.

“Frankie, get someone to pack up my stuff and move them downstairs.”

“Yes, President Burton.”

Despite having fallen from grace, Justin maintained his dignity with an innately noble air unmatched bya vile character like Robin.

As soon as the man left, Robin swept everything off the desk in anger.

Startled, Miss Evergreen, who was tidying the office, shuddered with fright before turning to look at himin a panic.

“What are you looking at?” Robin’s face was sullen. “Starting from today, I’ll be calling the shots in theBurton Group. Justin, on the other hand, is nothing!”

Meanwhile, Justin left the Burton Group right away.

“President Burton, I’ll have your office cleaned up as soon as possible.”

“There’s no hurry for that. Give me the car keys.”

“Are you gonna drive by yourself?” Frankie’s face showed a look of surprise. Since losing his memoryin the car accident five years ago, Justin had been unable to drive by himself. According to the doctor’sdiagnosis, this was a result of post-traumatic amnesia.

Justin didn’t explain much about it, though. After taking the car keys, he said, “You don’t have to followme.” With that, he got into the car alone.

Frankie was startled again as he watched the car whizz off. Could President Burton have regained hismemories?

Meanwhile, Justin drove to Hudson Pharmaceuticals right away. “I’d like to see Rachel.”

The lady at the front desk was startled for a moment. “President Hudson isn’t in the office today.”

Thinking that the front desk lady was stalling him off, Justin stressed again, “I have somethingimportant to talk to her about.”

“President Hudson really isn’t in the office, President Burton. If you don’t believe me, you can call MissCarter to ask her about it.”

Had I been able to get through to Jolly on the phone, I wouldn’t have made a special trip here, thoughtJustin.

Just as they were conversing, the front desk lady suddenly pointed behind Justin. “Miss Carter’s here.You may ask her directly.”

Justin looked back. When he saw Jolly, who had just entered the building with documents in her handswhile dressed in a white suit, he immediately strode up to her.

Jolly had just come back with a stack of documents in her arms, only to scowl the instant she sawJustin face to face. “Why are you here?”

“Miss Carter, I’m here to talk to Rachel. Where is she?”

“I don’t know.” Jolly rolled her eyes crossly before turning around to leave.

Justin strode up to Jolly and blocked her path. “I have something urgent to talk to her about.”

“It’s useless no matter what you want to talk to her about. To tell you the truth, Chris isn’t in Riverdale.”

Justin’s pupils shrank at her words. “Where did she go?”