The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 67

Chapter 67

While Rachel was in the midst of her conversation with Hans, she felt her phone vibrating in her pocket.

Upon reading the message that she had received, she looked stunned.

“What’s wrong?”

Nothing. It’s just a spam message. Don’t you still need to provide legal aid? Go on with it, then.

Hans took a look at his watch. “Aright. We shall leave it at that for now. I’ll talk to Janice if you want to continue with your plan so that she can get someone in the system to help you out.”

After he left, she unlocked her phone again and frowned as she stared at the text.

It was a message from Justin.

‘Don’t go anywhere after work. I’ll come and pick you up.

If it weren’t for his saved caller ID, Rachel would have had a hard time believing that this was something Justin would say.

‘I have a meeting at noon, which means I’ll get off later than usual today. So, I don’t want to bother you!

Still, she didn’t receive any reply after sending him that text.

As Rachel was still busy with her work, she didn’t think much about it and kept her phone in her pocket.

At noon, Sandy, the library’s director, went to Rachel’s department to get a few helping hands.

“We do not have enough manpower, so I’ll need one person from your department to help attend to the guests during the meeting for these two days.”

Upon hearing that, everyone in the office looked down. It seemed like none of them wanted to do something that wasn’t beneficial to them.

Why would someone want to attend to guests when they could just stay at the back and scroll their phone?

“Rachel should be the one.” Suddenly, an ill-intentioned voice rang out from the corner.

A stunned Rachel looked up from her laptop.

“We are all super tired from rearranging the archives, but Rachel took a two month holiday and probably had rested well, so I think that it would be fair to get her to do it. Don’t you think so as well, Rachel?”

However, Sandy frowned and interrupted before Rachel could say anything, “Adelyn, if you don’t want to take the job, you don’t have to make others your sacrificial lamb.”

The woman who was by the corner answered with a voice that wavered, “I was just kidding.”

Sandy glared at her before deciding, “Is this a suitable time to crack a joke? I’ve decided-you’ll be the one then. Follow me.”

Upon hearing that, Adelyn’s expression changed.

Moments after Sandy left with Adelyn, everyone in the office looked at each other before they started to gossip

“Didn’t I mention before that Rachel has someone backing her up? Look at Miss Patterson’s attitude earlier. She was obviously shielding Rachel.”

“Nah. I feel like Adelyn asked for it since she shouldn’t have assigned someone else to do the job that she didn’t want.”

“I mean, Rachel took so many days off this month and she even took sick leave for a few days after returning from her wedding leave. I heard that her husband actually contacted the manager and personally informed him about it.”

“Seriously?”

“Why would I lie to you?”

Some of their gossip had reached Rachel’s ears, which caused her to frown instinctively. Still, she maintained her composure and continued her work to bookmark the overdue books that hadn’t been returned on her laptop.

Nonetheless, just because she avoided trouble didn’t mean that it wouldn’t look for her.

“Rachel.” Olivia, who was sitting right in front of Rachel, knocked at the partition between them. “It’s been a while since you got married, but we still haven’t met your husband. What does he look like? Who is he? When are you letting us meet him?”

When she recalled Justin’s face, Rachel felt her heart tightening.

He’s just an ordinary man. There’s not much about him.

“That’s impossible. Your husband has sent his secretary over to provide us with your wedding sweets after your return from your wedding leave. He even contacted the manager for your sick leave and the manager immediately gave you a month off.”

As she was aware about this, Rachel looked shocked when she heard Olivia’s words. Did Justin contact the manager to take a month of sick leave for me?

Well, he overreacted. I’m fine anyway. Aren’t I at work now?

“Still, we all want to meet him, Rachel.”.

He’s coming over to pick me up from work later tonight.

Rachel lightly added, You guys can meet him by then.

“Sure! We will just observe him from afar to satisfy our curiosity.”

“Rachel, I need you to come and help at the meeting room. We don’t have enough manpower right now.”

It had been a while since the meeting had started and when she entered the room with a jug of water, Mr. Ronin, who was the manager, only informed that the person whom Rachel would serve was seated in the first row.