The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 307

Chapter 307

“President Burton, we have arrived.” Frankie’s voice was heard from the front.

Before Rachel could even return to her senses, Justin alighted from the car and walked around the vehicle toward her side. The moment Frankie opened the door, Justin carried her out of the back seat.

As she no longer had the strength to even struggle, she allowed him to carry her.

“Put me down.” She patted him on his arm when they arrived at the foyer so that she could change to a pair of flip-flops.

She was contemplating about Bucky’s matter. Although she was afraid, she had to consider other possibilities, after which she sat on the couch with a distracted mind.

“Are you alright?” Justin poured her a glass of water.

Rachel nodded. “Yeah, I’m fine.”

“You don’t look well, though. Do you want to get some sleep?”

“I can’t sleep.”

“I’ll sit here and accompany you then.”

As Justin spoke, he took a seat opposite her and retrieved a few packets of snacks from under the coffee table and shoving them to her in the process. He seemed to find nothing wrong with his actions.

When Rachel moved in with Samuel, he seemed not to know where the snacks were kept in the house, but last night, he had taken a magazine from the book shelf to read.

Since he didn’t bear any intention to explain about his actions, she merely allowed him to have his way.

After mingling with him for such a long time, she had noticed that Justin had one fine quality. Whenever she was with him, they rarely needed to talk; the two of them could each read a book and spend the entire afternoon just like that without any of them finding it strange.

As she used to be mute, reading was her greatest hobby since she was little. Even after Julian had cured her illness, she still retained her old habits and seldom talked whenever there was no such need to do so.

The afternoon soon flew past.

During that period, the Riverdale Investigation Bureau had called them twice to ask questions regarding the crime scene in the afternoon, to which both Rachel and Justin answered in the best possible way.

In the evening, Rachel fell asleep without realizing it.

By the time she woke up with a groggy head, only the kitchen was bright and she heard some clanking sounds of the kitchen utensils. It was those sounds that woke her up.

When she arrived at the kitchen entrance, what she saw made her close to doubting her eyes.

“Are you cooking?”

Justin looked behind him. “You are awake. Did I wake you up?”

“Yes.” Then, Rachel directly entered the kitchen. “What are you doing?”

Before him was a pot of noodles on the heated stove. “I thought about it and still find this an easier choice.”

She hesitantly asked, “How long have you been cooking the noodles?”

“Twenty minutes.”

“Twenty minutes?!” There was an incredulous look on her face.

“What’s wrong? Is that not enough?” Justin was confused. “How long does it usually take?”

The corner of Rachel’s lips twitched. “Just turn off the stove. It’s more than enough.”

Talking about cooking with this man, who had barely entered the kitchen all his life, would be akin to casting pearls before swine and she had no intention to waste her time teaching him how to cook either.

It was only when Justin attempted to take the noodles out from the pot that he realized his attempt at cooking seemed to have failed. The noodles had practically become so mushy that it broke when he tried to dish it out with a pair of tongs; he couldn’t take them out at all.

“We’ll serve it with the pot.” Rachel found a coaster from the cabinet and placed it on the dining table. “Just place it here.”

This was the first time she ate noodles from a pot and it surprisingly felt refreshing.

As Rachel was starving, she took a fork and spoon to scoop the noodles and blew on it before placing it into her mouth.

“How does it taste?”

“Not bad, but it will taste better with a sunny-side up.”

“A sunny-side up?” A hesitant Justin glanced at the kitchen.

“I was teasing you. A simple meal will suit me fine. Do you want some?”