The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 265

Chapter 265

Victor could only speak against his will in front of the girl. “I was just joking. Are you angry, Charlotte?”

Charlotte replied, “This joke isn’t funny at all, Mr. Wade. If you speak of my dad like this again, I’m really going to get angry!”

“Okay, I won’t say that anymore,” Victor replied helplessly. After Charlotte went far away to cheer Samuel on, he said to Rachel, “The only good thing Justin has done is to take pretty good care of Charlotte.”

Rachel was startled; she seemed to think of something. “She’s his daughter, after all.”

“But I feel that it might be better for Charlotte to be with you.”

“Did Jolly say something to you?” Rachel asked. Jolly would sometimes pick the kids up at school, so Victor had talked to her quite a number of times as Charlotte and Samuel’s homeroom teacher. Because of Rachel, the two soon warmed to each other.

Victor replied, “Rachel, I think you’re justified in wanting to take Charlotte away. No matter what you do, I’ll always side with you.”

Rachel was lost in thought before her eyes were drawn to the race in the distance.

All the teams set out after the referee blew the whistle.

Justin nearly tripped Samuel as soon as he took a big stride forward. “Ouch!” Samuel hugged the man’s thigh right away. “You idiot! I almost fell to my death!”

“Isn’t that because you have short legs?”

Samuel’s face turned livid with anger. “I’m a kid!”

“We’re gonna lose if you keep arguing with me.”

“We’ve lost already!” Samuel rolled his eyes at Justin while standing where he was with his arms folded across his chest. “If I had known this earlier, I’d rather give up on the race than join you. This is so embarrassing.” The other teams have reached the halfway mark, whereas he and I are still on the starting line, he thought. “Let’s forget it. I don’t want to run the race anymore,” he said while bending down in an attempt to untie the strap that tied his foot to Justin’s.

“It’s still too early to give up! Why give up before the end of the race?” Justin replied. Grabbing Samuel’s belt right away, he lifted the boy up in midair and ran toward the finishing line in big strides like a flash, quickly overtaking all the other parents.

The instant they crossed the finishing line, everyone at the scene was stunned.

“Hey! They’re breaking the rules! How could anyone run a three-legged race like this?”

“That’s right! It’s a three-legged race, so how could you run the race with the kid in your arms?”

The teachers nearby hurriedly maintained the order at the scene.

Samuel covered his eyes, feeling extremely embarrassed as Justin tucked him under his arm. He kept struggling, saying, “Put me down!”

Justin put him down triumphantly as he still didn’t know what he had done wrong. “Didn’t we win the race?”

“No, we didn’t! This is so embarrassing!” Samuel shot him a glare. “I’m not gonna take part in races with you anymore!” he said, before running away. Whenever he ran into a classmate, he would say that he didn’t know Justin.

Meanwhile, the referee came over and said to Justin, “You’re Samuel’s father, right? It was against the rules of fairness for you two to run the race like that. We’ll have to disqualify you two from the race.”

“What?” Justin frowned.

“Sorry, but you can’t run a three-legged race with the kid in your arms. Both of you must run the race with both your feet on the ground to be fair to the other teams,” the referee said before crossing out Justin and Samuel’s records in the race in front of Justin, disqualifying Samuel on the spot.

Justin was at a loss for a reply.

Watching the spectacle from a distance, Rachel suddenly gave a laugh.

Justin seemed to sense something, and he looked back to see this scene.