The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 116

Chapter 116

Rachel’s heart tightened, and she instantly pressed her back against the wall.

Victor emerged from the shadows. Just then, an aged voice suddenly came from inside the alley. “Victor, is that you?”

Before Rachel could come to her senses, Victor had walked up to the person. “Why are you coming out by yourself, Grandma? How many times have I told you that it’s hard to see things clearly at night? What if you trip and fall again when you come out?”

Rachel followed the voices with her gaze and saw the innermost small house. The house was dimly lit, and an old woman was standing tremblingly at its door, supporting herself with a walking stick. Meanwhile, Victor addressed her as his grandmother.

The small house was in a dilapidated condition. It was in disrepair for years, and its walls were mottled; there wasn’t even a decent chair in the house. Victor pushed the clothes away from a corner on the sofa before taking off his jacket and spreading it over the surface. “I hope you won’t frown upon this, Miss Hudson. Please have a seat.”

Rachel looked at the old woman who was bustling around in the house.

Victor explained, “My Grandma is old, so she can neither see nor hear well. But for some reason, she can hear my voice.”

‘Are you and your Grandma the only ones in your family?’

“Yeah, I have lived with Grandma since I was a child.”

Rachel couldn’t bear to listen to such words. After all, she and Nancy had also depended on each other for

survival as she grew up.

Just then, Victor’s grandmother’s voice came from the room inside. “Victor, come and look for the tea caddy. We should pour a cup of tea for our visitor!”

Victor hurriedly went into the room. “Don’t trouble yourself with that, Grandma. We don’t have tea in the house…”

“I recall having some tea around the house, though. How could we let the visitor leave without having something to drink?”

With some difficulty, Victor finally managed to coax his grandmother out of bustling around. He lifted the curtains, came out, and was about to talk to Rachel, only to discover that she had already left with the envelope placed on a corner of the old and shabby table. He was startled by this, and he quickly grabbed the envelope before going out after her, but all Victor heard was the sound of a car engine at the entrance to the alley.

When Rachel got home, Justin hadn’t come back yet. She checked the time, and it was a little past 11.00PM. A dinner wouldn’t have taken such a long time, so it seemed that he must be sending Amber home. Since Rachel didn’t give it much thought, she entered the kitchen and helped herself to some water.

Just then, Julian came out of his bedroom. He asked, “How is Madam Tiller?”

She’s all right. She’ll be fine after getting some rest at home.

“What about the young man then?”

There’s nothing wrong about him either. I have helped him before, so he probably wants to return the favor, which is why he has been helping Grandma around these days.

Julian was still worried, though. “I’ll help you look into his identity. This person suddenly popped up from

nowhere, after all.”

Rachel shook her head. Victor and his grandmother depended on each other for survival, and he was filial to the elderly. Even if he seemed slovenly on the outside, he hadn’t done anything bad, so he probably wasn’t a bad guy.

When he saw that Rachel was reluctant to do so, Julian decided not to insist. “By the way, the results of the

drug analysis you asked me to do earlier have come out.”

Rachel took the documents from Julian, but she was somewhat confused as she read them. She had never studied medicine and had only a smattering of herbal medicine, so she couldn’t quite understand the ingredients listed in the report.