The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 331

Chapter 331 It’s Too Late for Regrets

Irwin trembled as he continued, “I treated Rae like my own granddaughter. She wept so hard and insisted that I release you. I thought… I was thinking that it wouldn’t be easy to deal with a ten-year-old child, anyway. If you were released, then so be it. Besides, it’s impossible for you to escape far in the forest located so deep in the mountains. You could never go home—”

Before he could finish speaking, Justin suddenly lifted him up by his neck. “What the hell are you talking about!? The person who rescued me was a little girl named Katie! How could it have been Rae?!”

The man was shaken so badly that he could barely breathe. “Rae… is Katie…”

Those words were undoubtedly a huge shock that exploded violently in Justin’s mind. Rae is Katie?! That’s impossible! “Explain clearly!”

“President Burton, he has already passed out!” Frankie saw what had happened from the side and quickly stepped forward to stop Justin. He was afraid that if things were to continue, it would only lead to the man’s death. “Hurry up and send him to the hospital.”

Irwin was an old man. Moreover, he was bleeding non-stop from where his finger had been chopped. If they did not send him to the hospital soon, there was a high possibility that he could die from extreme loss of blood.

Justin snapped back to his senses. “Send him to the hospital! Contact the hospital!”

This old man is the only person who knows the truth of what happened back then. I can’t let him die. His hands were covered in blood and his thoughts were a chaotic mess while they were on the way to the hospital. How could Rachel be Katie?

All the clues from the past suddenly surfaced in his mind. Rachel had been kidnapped and sold when she was a little girl. Her grandmother had a good relationship with Irwin as the two of them were neighbors. Jefferey brought back an illegitimate daughter twenty years ago and claimed that she was a congenital mute…

Along the corridor in the hospital, Frankie hurried over with a document in his hand. “President Burton, this is the hospital’s medical records.”

Justin took the documents. His complexion immediately turned pale at the sight of Rachel’s name on the document. After pursuing the medical records written inside, he stumbled without any warning and had to lean against the wall just to barely maintain his balance.

Rachel’s muteness was not congenital. The cause for her condition was clearly written on the medical record—she had sustained damage to her vocal cords in a fire twenty years ago. The record also contained the signature of her attending doctor, Julian Peters.

Rachel is Katie from back then. She is the Katie who saved my life in the past. I thought she was dead. Justin went through a lot just to succeed the Burton Group on his own for the sake of avenging Katie. He later discovered the financial loophole in Hudson Pharmaceuticals, suppressed them, got hold of Jefferey’s weakness, and tried to bring Jefferey down.

However, as it turned out, the person he took revenge on was the same person who rescued him in the first place.

“If she is Katie, then why did Jefferey set the fire? He set his own daughter on fire!” Justin leaned against the wall and muttered to himself. All of a sudden, he recalled the scene that he witnessed during the fire.

The burning thatched cottage had revealed a woman’s figure on the ground while the man who emerged from the house wore a vicious expression. Even across the hill, the two children had clearly witnessed the scene. Justin could still remember the coldness in that man’s eyes even though so many years had passed. So, that was the person whom Jefferey sent to kill Rachel’s mother, Selena Hudson. He then set fire to erase the evidence and disguised the murder as an accident instead.

The secret room hidden inside Jefferey’s study in Hudson Vineyard flashed through his mind. The innocent woman who died in vain…

An influx of images filled his mind, which all pointed to Rachel’s real identity. There was no doubt that she was Katie from back then.

“Blaargh.” Justin abruptly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

“President Burton!” Frankie exclaimed in shock and hurried forward. “Are you alright, President Burton!? Doctor! Doctor, come and take a look!”

However, Justin pushed Frankie aside and staggered away before he suddenly burst into hysterical laughter. “I was wrong! I was wrong! Rachel, I was wrong!”

I found the wrong person. I took revenge on the wrong person. All the evil consequences should have fallen on me, but, why!? Katie has never done anything wrong! Why does she have to be unfairly victimized just because she met me? I was wrong! I was very wrong!

The scenes from five years ago flashed through his mind once more. When he recalled everything, he felt as though he was suffocating. He leaned against the tables and chairs while trying to head toward the exit with great difficulty.