The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 261

Chapter 261

Rachel frowned. Continuing to ignore the man, she picked up another tent pole, asking, “Victor, which side

should this belong to?”

Victor replied, “Over there. Just put it through.”

“No, you can’t put it through directly.” Justin dug out a connector from the bag next to him. “Connect it to this

first.”

Reaching the end of her patience, Rachel immediately tossed the tent pole aside. The tent pole produced a dull sound as it dropped to the ground and bounced back up. “Since you’re so good at it, do it yourself. I’ll go gather some firewood,” she said. Then, she turned around and left the campsite without looking back.

At first, Victor wanted to go after Rachel, but Justin grabbed him before he could do so. “What are you doing, Mr. Wade? Come and teach me how to pitch the tent.”

Victor shook him off peevishly. “Don’t you know how to do it yourself?”

“I’ll only pitch one tent. If you can bear the sight of me sharing a tent with Rachel tonight, then leave as you please.”

“In your dreams!” Victor immediately decided to stay. “I’m gonna keep a close eye on you even if I won’t get to

sleep tonight. Don’t you dare think about taking advantage of Rachel! You can fool her about what the hell you’re coming for, but you can’t fool me!”

Justin confessed right away, “Indeed, I came for Rachel, and I’m not denying it. Why would I fool you?”

“Bah!” Victor gave him a scornful look. “You think Rachel’s gonna fall for you? You and whose army? I’m telling you, Justin-Rachel will never choose a scumbag like you again even if she’s blind!”

Justin retorted, “Who else is Rachel gonna choose if she won’t choose me? You? She’s got quite a lot of men protecting her, eh?” Including Victor, there are already three men revolving around Rachel at present. All of them are reckless and courageous men who itch to risk their lives fighting me for Rachel’s sake, he thought.

“Rachel can marry anyone, but there’s no way she’ll marry you again,” Victor said coldly after hammering the tent peg into the ground. “There’s no way I’m gonna sit by and watch what has happened back then happen again.”

Justin was totally uninterested in what had happened back then. Seeing Victor hammering the tent peg busily with his head down, he looked around and left quietly.

Meanwhile, Rachel went to gather firewood alone in the mountains. In the dry weather, there were many dead branches on the ground, so she didn’t have much trouble gathering them. In the blink of an eye, the back basket behind her was full.

“Mommy!” Just then, Samuel trotted up to her. “Mommy! Charlotte is missing!”

Rachel was startled. For a moment, she thought Samuel was joking with her. “Samuel, I don’t have time to play hide-and-seek with you two right now. Just be good and go back to the campsite and go to Victor after playing on your own for a while, okay?”

“It’s true! Mommy, Charlotte really is missing!” Samuel looked very anxious. “Charlotte ran away just now, saying she wanted to see if there’s any squirrels in the mountains, but she hasn’t returned yet. Also, I can’t reach her by phone anymore!”

Rachel finally stopped gathering the firewood. She asked Samuel what had happened at the time, saying, “How much time has passed since then?”

Samuel replied, “It’s been a long time. When Charlotte came, she heard there were little squirrels in the mountains, so she brought lots of nuts with her. You were quarreling with Justin just now, so she ran away on her own since nobody was watching over her.”

“That girl is simply reckless!” Rachel put down her back basket right away. After running a few steps, she looked back and asked, “Which way did she go?”

Samuel hesitated for a moment before pointing in a direction up the mountain. “That way.”

“I’ll go there right away. Samuel, go back to the campsite at once and ask the other teachers to help search for her.”

“Okay,” Samuel replied. As soon as he promised Rachel, Justin emerged from behind the ancient tree behind him; the man and the boy gave each other a knowing high-five.

Having given Samuel the instructions, Rachel immediately went searching for Charlotte. The sky was darkening at the moment. If Charlotte went deep into the mountains by mistake, even if there weren’t any wild animals around, she might get killed by a snakebite.