Such a Rude and Noisy Woman novel Chapter 345

Rachel opened the door and found Lydia and Gavin.

She tried to speak, but her voice was dead as if someone had trampled on it and no words came out.

The next thing Rachel knew was, she had slapped Lydia.

"I knew that you were bad luck the moment you came back from abroad! I was kidnapped and my own mother is behind bars now! Are you a devil in angel's clothing, my dear sister-in-law?"

She sneered at Lydia and started to shake in anger.

If thoughts could kill, Rachel would have killed Lydia many times over.

"Why slap me, Rachel? It was your mother who committed the crime and it's only fair she pays for it! I don't see why you blame me for that!" Lydia said as she soothed her pain in her cheek.

Gavin stood up tall in front of Lydia and said,"Rachel, you can't lay all the blame on Lydia. Listen, I'll tell them to look into this again and find out what really happened. If your mother is innocent, I'll kneel down and apologize to her!"

The words had no impact on Rachel's ice-cold heart. She sneered at Gavin and said bitterly,"Dad, even if my parents weren't good with Landy at that time, I think things are even now since I've given birth to a son and a daughter! Blood is thicker than water! You know it better than me!

Why did you put her into jail? She's old now and I don't think she has a lot of time left to live. Why can't you just let us live our lives in peace? Why do you insist on doing that to her?"

Rachel had no idea what had happened during that time and even if her parents had been involved in Landy's death, she could not believe it. Maybe because Landy loved her father deeply and couldn't believe he had married someone else.

This was why she let her mother live in XH village by herself for the past four years. She thought that taking a step back would avoid a fight between her mother and Hiram's parents. Therefore, she tried her best to keep them from meeting each other and she endured all this because she believed the problem would go away on its own one day.

After all her efforts, they put her mother into jail finally, and Rachel was speechless on them.

"Stop talking to my dad like that, Rachel!

Did Aunt Landy do anything wrong? She was young and at her best age. She got pregnant after meeting your father! What's more, your mother killed her baby out of jealousy! Did you ever put yourself in her shoes? Did you?

Your mother lived an easy life all those years and she has had enough! It was generous of us to leave her untouched till now. How could you ask my dad to let her go?" Lydia yelled.

She gave Rachel a look that could kill.

Lydia never considered Rachel as a family member and since Hiram wasn't here now, she took this chance to create hatred between Gavin and Rachel. She had been waiting for this day for long.

If she added enough fuel to the fire burning now, the hate would grow bigger. The bigger it would be, the harder would be the reconciliation.

Rachel was taking everything away from her - Hiram's attention, her parents' trust and more. It was the time for Rachel to suffer for this. She would take everything away from Rachel in return and let her languish the rest of her life.

"You'd better go home now, Rachel. I'll tell them to zip their mouth. No one will learn what happened to your mother," Gavin said and then closed his eyes with a sigh.

Rachel laughed instead of going away. "Fine, I'll go home with the children."

"Wait!" Gavin opened his eyes immediately and exclaimed,"I don't think you have the strength to take care of them now. Let them stay here. Joanna's willing to look after them for some more time."

"Dad, I'm the mother of Jonny and Joyce. No matter what happened or will happen, you can't change it. I don't think there is anyone that can replace a child's own mother, is there?" Rachel disagreed and walked to the staircase without waiting for Gavin to reply.

Joanna stood at the door of the study.

She had been eavesdropping on them all this time.

She noticed Rachel's unusualness the moment she walked in and then she followed her upstairs. But she hadn't expected to learn all this.

"How could you do this to Fannie, Lydia? I thought you had changed and asked Hiram to allow you to come back home. But look what you have done? You're really disappointing me!" Joanna blamed Lydia in her thoughts as she clutched her chest in agony.

Rachel had gone downstairs and headed to the room where Jonny and Joyce were. She couldn't stay away from her children anymore.

"Go and stop her taking the children with her, Joanna! Hurry up!" Gavin yelled in desperation.

Joanna stamped her feet and glanced at Gavin and Lydia in despondence before she went down for Rachel.

"Rachel? Please!" she pleaded as she rushed down the stairs.

"Rachel, calm down! Please listen to me! You must trust me now. I know you are worrying about Fannie. Remember I'm their grandmother. Believe me, I can take good care of them for you now! You can come and pick them up at any time after this matter is over. I promise!"

Joanna blabbered as she grabbed Rachel's hands to stop her.