The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 372

Chapter 372 Heartless

A week later, Rachel’s foot injury had finally healed.

Early in the morning, Rachel went to Gloria’s residence to pick up Charlotte and Samuel.

Due to her foot injury, she didn’t have time to take care of the two children for the whole week. Jolly was also too busy with the approval of the Northlane project, so both children were entrusted to Gloria.

“Charlotte, your mommy is here to pick you up for school. Go wash up and come have breakfast.”

Gloria shouted outside the bedroom, but there was no response.

“This brat.”

Rachel smiled before uttering, “That little piglet must still be asleep. Samuel, go and wake Charlotte up.”

“Okay!”

As expected, after Samuel went into the bedroom, he dragged Charlotte, who was still in her pajamas and seemingly still in slumber, out to wash up.

When Rachel and Gloria saw them, they exchanged an amused smile.

“Take a seat. Do you want a drink?”

“I’m fine with anything.”

“Is coffee okay?”

“Yeap.”

With that, Gloria brewed a cup of coffee for Rachel.

“You could’ve saved the trouble of coming over. I can send Charlotte to school, and you can pick her up afterward.”

“I came here not just for Charlotte.”

“What else are you here for?”

Rachel blinked her eyes. “I heard Victor made you upset?”

Taken aback by her question, Gloria turned her head to avoid Rachel’s gaze. “Nah. That’s not true.”

“If there’s nothing going on, why would he call me, asking how you’re doing lately? And you didn’t answer his calls either. Even the security guards at the music room aren’t letting him in.”

“That’s because he’s dumb!”

Gloria accidentally made a slip of the tongue due to anger.

Rachel looked at her and waited for her reply, so Gloria had no choice but to cough awkwardly and explained, “Well. Hear me out. The other day when it was pouring heavily outside, I invited him to dinner and offered to pick him up, but he…”

Last week, there was a heavy rainstorm in Riverdale.

Victor was on duty at school that day, and he happened to get off work a little late. Gloria had just finished practice in the music room, so she drove to the school to pick him up. Since she wasn’t driving a school-owned car, she had no choice but to park her car in the temporary parking space across the road. Fortunately, she brought two umbrellas, so she brought them down the car and looked for Victor.

“Guess what he did, Rachel?”

“What?”

“He gave his colleague the umbrella I brought for him.”

“Didn’t you say there were two umbrellas? Isn’t it enough for both of you to share one?”

“If that was what happened, I wouldn’t have said that he was dumb. He…” Gloria complained through gritted teeth. “After giving the umbrella to his colleague, he said he didn’t want to have dinner together anymore because it was raining. He said he had to stay back and prepare for his lessons, so he decided to stay overnight in school and told me to have dinner by myself.”

The more she storied, the angrier Gloria became, and she put down her mug heavily on the table.

“Seriously, Rachel, why does someone like him exist? We promised to have dinner together, and I even went all the way to pick him up. Why didn’t he tell me sooner if he had to work overtime? How dare he stand me up? Who does he think he is?”

When Rachel heard that, she furrowed her brows. “Did he really say that?”

“I told you what he told me word for word. I finally understand now. That b*stard had never seen me as a friend, not to mention a woman.”

“That’s not entirely true. Victor is quite a straightforward person. If he didn’t want to be friends with you, he wouldn’t even have talked to you.”

“Whatever. You don’t have to defend him. I swear I’m just going to ignore him from now on!”

Gloria was so irritated that she downed the coffee in one go. The bitterness of the coffee made her face scrunch.

At the same time, Rachel felt helpless. “Why are you behaving like a child in an adult’s body?”

While they were talking, Samuel came out of the washroom and climbed onto Gloria’s dining chair by the table with the help of all his limbs, exclaiming, “I want this!”

Gloria adored Samuel, so she immediately pushed the sandwich in front of him and uttered, “Here you go. Eat up.”