The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 479

After Frankie left, Rachel reached out to touch Justin’s forehead, then flinched when she felt the heat. The paramedics from earlier had tried to bring his temperature down with external cooling, but Rachel was still worried about him. She had come close to getting meningitis once when she was a child, and it started with a high fever as well.

She paced around the house anxiously and finally decided to head outside with a small bowl that was filled with snow from outside. When she returned, she tried looking for a bag to hold the snow she had collected, but to no avail.

She sauntered over to the bed, and her gaze fell upon the damp towel folded and laid over Justin’s forehead.

A sudden wicked thought crossed her mind. She began to shape the snow in the bowl into a mini snowman, and once it took form, she set it on Justin’s forehead.

At the sight of the snowman gingerly balanced there, Rachel couldn’t help sputtering aloud, and her shoulders shook as she tried to hold back her laughter.

Just then, Justin’s brows furrowed, and the movement caused the mini snowman to tremble precariously. Rachel’s eyes widened as her hand darted out to grab the snowman, but her fingertips had barely brushed it when it fell forward and landed with a soft splat over his nose, breaking and covering half his face in the snow.

He shivered at the sudden icy sensation and woke up. At that moment, their eyes met, and Rachel wished a hole would open up in the ground and swallow her.

They cleared up the snowy mess in awkward silence, and a minute later, Justin was propped up against the headboard while sipping the hot chamomile tea Rachel had made for him. He was still pale, but he looked a little better than he had when the IV was first administered.

Presently, Rachel flushed guiltily as she stammered, “I… Uh, I’m sorry about just now. I was just trying to help you cool down.”

“With a mini snowman?” he asked with a raised brow, clearly amused. She gaped at him. “How did you know it was a snowman?”

“If I’m not mistaken, it was the snowman’s head that landed on my left cheek. If you hadn’t used green peas for its eyes, I would have thought it. was a frozen powdered donut.”

She turned a bright shade of red, and she was so flustered she almost choked on air. He laughed at how distressed she seemed, and she snapped, “What’s so funny?”

“I never quite figured out where Charlotte got her mischievous side from until now,” he explained with a chuckle. Glaring at him, she asked, “You think she got it from me?”

“Obviously.” “It could just be something she picked up along the way instead of an inherited trait,” she argued. “Ah, so you admit that you have the trait, then?”

Rachel opened her mouth to protest, but she found herself at a loss for words. She wished she could dissect his mind and see just what went on in there and how he could come up with all these clever, witty responses that caught her off guard all the time.

Presently, he added placatingly, “Hey, don’t be mad. I was only joking. Also, how long was I out for?” He peered outside the window, but all he saw was darkness.

“Not too long,” she answered. “The paramedics left moments before you woke up, and I only just put you on the second bottle of IV”

“I’m sorry to put you through the trouble” “It’s not that big of a deal, really,” she said with a shrug. “I’m fine with it. The question is, how are you going to go back to Riverdale in this state?! don’t think you can travel for the time being.”

Justin almost told her he could make the trip, but when he saw the look on her face, he changed his mind and asked instead, ‘I don’t know. What if I can’t? Will you go without me?”

She frowned and pointed out matter-of-factly, “And leave you here on your own? As if. We can push the trip back by a day and leave when your feel better. It won’t make much of a difference, will it?” “But it’s so run-down here,” he remarked.