The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 139

Chapter 139

By the time Jason exited the morgue, his weather-beaten face was covered in wrinkles. His eyes were so bloodshot that their vessels looked like they were about to rupture in the next second.

As they both stood at the door, the assistant and the bodyguard fell silent, not daring to take a peep.

“Where is Justin?” Jason’s voice echoed down the hallway.

The assistant replied, “Young Master Justin should still be in Brookville discussing the project. The news | receive from there indicates that he has a high chance of winning this bid. It’s more or less already in the bag.”

“In the bag?” Jason clenched his fists so hard that the veins on the back of his hands bulged. “An eye for an

eye, I say. We shouldn’t have kept this scourge alive in the first place. Any problem that wasn’t completely eliminated is bound to arise again.”

“You mean—”

Suddenly, there was a clatter from the stairwell as if something had fallen.

Jason’s face tensed up.

The assistant and the bodyguard were already yanking the stairwell door open before it immediately revealed a panicked Amber.

“You haven’t left?” Jason questioned.

She was ashen-faced as she clutched the banister while taking two steps back. “I didn’t hear anything, Jason. I’m leaving now.”

“Didn’t hear anything’? Do you think I’ll believe that?”

“I really didn’t hear anything.”

“Stand there!”

As the cold words rang out, the bodyguard immediately understood what Jason meant and caught hold of her.

A frightened Amber screamed, but she was knocked out before she could call for help.

“Take her as a hostage.” Jason gave her a careless, disdainful glance.

If she hadn’t manipulated Tina, Tina wouldn’t have been so careless as to do many foolish things that resulted in the falling out with the Hindenburg Family. Not to mention, Tina’s psychiatric state wouldn’t be in such disarray.

When Amber regained consciousness some time later, she was in an old, abandoned warehouse. “What are you guys going to do to me?”

“President Burton simply wants you to stay here for a while, Miss Hudson. He has no other intention.”

“Jason?” She suddenly recalled the events from the hospital morgue. “Why is he holding me captive? I don’t know anything! It has nothing to do with me!”

“Nothing to do with you?” Jason sneered coldly in the dark, “How many of the people by Justin’s side are clean? I don’t care what you did or didn’t do. As long as you’re in my hands, he’ll be forced to listen to me.”

He had to find a way to cause Justin to lose the bid in Brookville or he’d be in hot water once Justin reported his theft of the patent to the board of directors.

Amber asked with a pale face, “What’s the point of taking me if you wish to threaten him?”

 

“You’re his fiancee. The entire Riverdale knows that and he’ll listen to you. Who would we have taken if not

you?”

“All of that is fake! The person he cares about the most is that mute woman, not me!”

Mute woman? Jason frowned.

“They might be divorced, but did you know that he took her to Brookville? He’s so worried about her safety in Riverdale lest I or someone else hurt her. The person he cares most about is Rachel!”

“What’s the point of telling me this? Do you think I can send someone to take her from Brookville now?”

“You don’t need to take her. She has a soft spot in Riverdale.”

Amber’s cold and sinister voice echoed around the warehouse.

When Justin concluded his meeting and returned to the hotel at noon, he found Rachel asleep on the couch with a magazine propped open on her knee. It was close to sliding off and landing on the floor.

He reflexively reached down to catch it, but perhaps due to him being rough with his actions, she stirred awake.