The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39

“Who did he want to kill?”

“Lionel Hudson.”

This name had disappeared in Riverdale for many years. It had been so long that even Arthur was unfamiliar with him, but it was easy to tell that Lionel’s incident was strongly related to Jefferey.

“Jefferey’s older brother?”

Justin nodded. “After the fire, the shares in Jefferey’s hands had increased by more than 130 percent. He became the biggest shareholder of Hudson Pharmaceuticals and took over the company after that.”

Arthur’s gaze became more serious. “Justin, this is the private matters of the Hudson Family.”

The casualties resulting from internal battles within rich and prestigious families were usually covered up pretty well. It was meaningless to recount such a mysterious incident from so many years ago.

Meanwhile, Justin’s tone was extremely cold. “There’s karma in murdering someone. Jefferey should pay the price for this.”

After seeing that it was useless to advise him anymore, Arthur controlled his expression and sighed helplessly. “I’m tired. You may go back first.”

Without another word, Justin left.

After that, the butler came into the room to pour a cup of tea for Arthur.

“Sir, the young master is still young so he is more impulsive. It’s natural that he cannot tolerate the occurrence of such an incident. After all, the fire that year almost killed him.”

Back then, the members of the Hudson Family stopped the Burton Family from putting out the fire. If

Justin did not get lucky and escaped, he would have died in that fire.

“Do you really think that it’s because of his own life that he never let the Hudson Family off the hook?” A worried expression shrouded Arthur’s face. “I’m sure that another child died in the fire back then.”

The butler froze. “You’re saying that the young master is doing this because of the child?”

Arthur nodded in response.

Everyone else knew that Justin Burton, the first young master of the family, was a cold blooded man with a heart made of stone. He would do anything to achieve the greatest profit. However, only Arthur, his grandfather, knew that Justin valued loyalty and decency.

Upon hearing that, the butler sighed. “In that case, this is a tricky matter indeed.”

Ever since Justin returned from the summer villa, he was not in a good mood at all.

In the evening, Rachel brewed a cup of tea and brought it to his study.

However, Justin did not drink tea like how he usually would and neither did he look at her. (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)  He just looked at the page in front of him, but he never even flipped it. The frown on his face was quite

Are you in a bad mood?

Rachel looked at him tentatively.

He shot a look at her and clenched his hands around the page, but he did not reply to her.

She asked worriedly, Is it because your grandfather asked us to have a divorce? If he asks about this again, how do you want me to reply?

She merely wanted to be clear about what he thought, so that she would not make any mistakes that would offend him in the future.

“It’s none of your business.”

After hearing those five cold words, Rachel pursed her lips and took a step back tentatively as she prepared to leave.

Justin’s temperament was changing quite fast and it made her unable to anticipate anything at all.

“Wait.”

His voice suddenly rang from behind her, making her turn around in shock.

With a huge study table between them, Justin was looking at her coldly. His stony expression was accentuated by the ugly scar on his face. As he stared at her with a pair of cold eyes that sent shivers down her spine, anxiety bubbled up within her.

His voice was not loud but it was firm. “Do you hate Jefferey Hudson?”

Rachel’s heart stopped beating for a moment before she shook her head.

Justin’s expression darkened. “Why do you not him? He asked you to take Amber’s place to marry me, and he put you near me just like a chess piece whom he could control. Apart from that, he even threatened you with your family’s life. Why don’t you hate him?”

Even so, he is still my father who raised me for so many years, and he has given me an excellent education and a life that’s better than the average.

Otherwise, with my disability, I’m afraid my life would not be as comfortable now.

What do you mean? Who did he kill?

Perhaps the conversation he had with Arthur just now-the first conversation of this topic that included the truth that he had been finding out all these years-or the nightmares that happened frequently because of Rachel’s presence caused that emotion to bubble up within him again.

Presently, he looked at Rachel in front of him. She had a pair of eyes that were very similar to Katie’s innocent, (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com)  naïve, and pure. It was as if all the adjectives that describe beauty would describe her eyes.

“Oh!” she yelped in pain.

She froze. What happened to you?

After she left, Justin walked to the windows and opened them to let the cold air blow on his face. (This novel will be daily updtaed at www.noveljar.com) After his depressed emotion was slowly brought away by the wind, he slowly calmed down.