My mute bride novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 92

Chapter 92

“Who is it?” Janice asked,

My grandmother. Rachel assumed that the whole picture would become clearer once she found out who her mother was, but things only seemed more complicated. Somehow, her mother was Involved in the Hudson Family’s fight for their inheritance that happened all those years ago.

The sun was shining bright on top of her head when Rachel left the restaurant. She saw Hans jogging toward her from a distance away. “I’m sorry I’m late, Rachel. Are you and Janice done talking?”

Yeah. We’re done. Rachel wore a rather stiff look on her face.

“What is it? Why do you look so pale?” Hans asked.

It’s nothing. There are just some things that I need to clarify with my grandmother.

Hans held onto her arm. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

Rachel gave him a nod, but it was clear that she wasn’t paying attention to his question.

“Hey, why don’t you let me send you back?” he offered.

I drove here.

“No. I’d be worried if you had to drive back now,” he replied. Rachel couldn’t reject his stubborn determination in the end. However, neither of them realized a moving figure that had been standing on the street just opposite the restaurant. There were a few cigarette butts lying right beside the man’s feet. “Hello? The person you told me to keep an eye on is going into a car with a man. Do you need me to continue following her? You’ll have to top up some cash for my car ride then,” the person said.

A woman’s voice came from the other end of the line. “Who did she go off with? Did you take any pictures?”

“How am I supposed to know? You didn’t tell me to take pictures,” he replied.

“Take them now.”

“I told you that she already got into the car with someone else. They’ve left.”

“Are you an idiot? I gave you a simple task, and this is what you managed to accomplish?” the woman cried.

The young man’s face darkened when he heard the woman shouting at him through the phone. “Are you scolding me right now? You watch out! I’m not going to entertain you anymore if you scold me again.” The young man ended the call right after finishing his words. He grumpily threw his cigarette butt onto the ground. “F*ck! What was that? How dare she shout at me!”

The young man turned to look at the car opposite the street. He studied the details for a while, even memorizing the car plate number.

Hans stopped his car in the alleyway and stayed there even after Rachel left. He glanced up to look at the light turning on in one of the units. Nancy was both surprised and glad to see Rachel showing up at her front door. “What brings you here today?” she asked.

I have a few questions for you, Grandma.

It was rare for Rachel to be so serious, and Nancy seemed rather taken aback by this. “What is it? Come in and have a seat before we talk.” There was a faint scent of lavender that lingered on the couch. No dilly-dallying was involved-Rachel got straight to her point once she sat down.

I’d like to ask you about my mother, Grandma.

The smile on Nancy’s face faded a little as she looked away to avoid Rachel’s gaze. “Why would you ask about your mother all of a sudden?”

“No,” Nancy said with a stern expression. “You probably wouldn’t have guessed it if I don’t tell you now

-It was Jefferey, that horrible, evil man. He made a deal with Circa Pharmacy just for the sake of inheriting the family business. He knew that Old Mr. Hudson had given all of the medicinal recipes to Miss Selena, which was why he chose to kidnap her.”

Rachel felt like her mind was spinning in circles. She was too confused by everything she had just heard. Technically, her mother and Jefferey were siblings based on their titles. Yet, Jefferey went against Selena for the sake of some medicinal recipes. But how could that explain Rachel’s existence? How was she brought into the world?

How did my mother give birth to me? Did Jefferey do something to her

“Pfft. That b*stard doesn’t deserve a woman like her,” Nancy mumbled. “If Lionel hadn’t passed away so abruptly, the Hudsons had already planned to host a wedding. Miss Selena and Lionel had agreed to explain everything to Old Mr. Hudson once things were over, but they hadn’t expected a sudden accident to occur.”

Are you saying that my father is Lionel?

“That’s right. You are the only inheritor that descended from the eldest child of the family. Who does

Jefferey think he is? He’s nothing more than a crazed psychopath and a b*stard who plots and schemes to benefit himself!” Nancy was tearing up as she got emotional. “After Miss Selena and I managed to escape from the boat, we stayed in my old house in the mountains. But a few years later,

Jefferey managed to find us. There was a huge fire after that-the fire practically engulfed my whole village,” Nancy said.

Rachel had vague memories of such an incident. She couldn’t recall much from her past, but she often had a dream in which there was a large fire that wouldn’t end. She remembered how she couldn’t seem to run out of the fire no matter how much she tried. The dreams made sense to her now since it was actually what happened.

“Your guess was right, Rachel. Jefferey was the one who murdered your mother, and they thought that they could get all the details for the medicinal recipes after that. Unfortunately, there were no quantities or measurements in the recipes.”

Right then, Rachel jumped up in surprise once more. She thought about the prescription that Jefferey had shown her in the Hudson Vineyard. The tiny handwriting she saw then belonged to her mother.