The Silent Wife novel (Rachel and Justin) novel Chapter 68

Chapter 68

Everyone’s gaze immediately landed on her while some of those in charge of the meeting had already headed over with some tissues to help clean up the mess.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

“Look at this! All of our materials are soiled now.”

“Tomas, grab five fresh copies of the meeting materials.”

The spilled beverage continued to drip from the table to the ground, forcing all the executives at the first row to stand up. As a result, the scene quickly became chaotic.

When an anxious Rachel tried to grab more tissue papers from another helper to clean the table, she was stopped by Sandy. “Rachel, you can head back now. You’re not needed here anymore.”

“You can’t just let her off without getting her to apologize for causing the meeting to end up like this, can you? The library is really generous to allow someone with professional qualities such as hers to continue working here, huh? Is there even a need for an expansion at this rate?”

Although Tina’s voice wasn’t loud, her cold voice still echoed in the huge meeting room.

Rachel’s expression immediately changed before Sandy quickly came to her rescue. “Miss Burton, this is really a misunderstanding. She’s not doing it on purpose by not apologizing.”

“Can’t you let her speak for herself? Does she need others to help her explain herself?”

Sandy frowned. “Miss Burton, that’s because-”

Not wanting to cause any dilemma for Sandy, Rachel interrupted with a sign gesture. I’m sorry. I didn’t do it on purpose.

“This…” The planning department’s vice executive looked stunned. “She is…”

At this moment, everyone gave Rachel strange looks. Although it wasn’t her first time being stared at like this, it didn’t make her feel any better.

Sympathy as well as ill-intentioned looks were both humiliating for her.

“You can’t speak?” Tina gave her a side-eye before she intentionally added, “It’s my bad, then. Since everyone is raising awareness to be nicer to the disabled, my apologies to you.”

“Rachel, is it?” Tina continued her acting and glanced at Rachel’s work permit. “I’m sorry. You won’t blame me for this, won’t you?”

At this moment, a bitter smile appeared on Rachel’s face. It’s fine.

“It’s just a misunderstanding.” Sandy came to her rescue again.

After giving the crowd an apologetic nod, Rachel decided to turn and leave with clenched fists.

“Hang on” Tina called out. “Miss Patterson, since we need to understand more about the library’s historical and cultural background, you should allow her to be in charge of providing us with guidance.”

A stunned Rachel gave Tina a shocked look before Sandy explained, “Miss Burton, Rachel has never been in charge of any foreign exchange work. Moreover, as you can see, she’s not really suitable for this job.”

“Is that so? From what I see, she’s quite suitable for it. Besides, since she has been working at the library for a long time, she should know her workplace’s historical background well, am I right?”

“Of course! No one else is better than Rachel in terms of how familiar she is with the library. She even won first place in the library’s historical quiz last year.”

Another woman’s voice rang out behind Sandy and it immediately attracted everyone’s attention.

Rachel felt her heart clenching up at that moment as her ears rang from that woman’s sharp voice.

Then, she turned around to see Adelyn staring at her with a hostile look.

Sandy still wanted to defend Rachel, but the library manager shot Sandy a warning look. “Sure. Since this is someone whom Miss Burton has handpicked herself, it would be easier to communicate with each other in the future.”

As Burton Group was the main donor of the library’s reparation and expansion, even the executives of the planning department had to listen to Tina. Even though it was obvious that Tina was targeting Rachel, they didn’t want to offend Burton Group because of an employee.

“Well, I’m looking forward to working together with you.” Tina looked at Rachel with a cold glint in her eyes, causing Rachel to quiver a little.

When the meeting had finally ended, Rachel started to pack her stuff to leave the office.

Her intuition told her that Tina was up to no good after Tina selected her to be in charge of docking.

“Rachel!”

Rachel stopped in her tracks after one of her colleagues called out for her.

As she turned around, she saw Olivia, who was in the same department as her, running toward her with two more colleagues. Do you guys need anything?

“Rachel, have you forgotten that you were supposed to bring us to meet your husband after work?”

Rachel was stunned as she had completely forgotten about this.

Since I got off work late today, he won’t be coming anymore, so I’m taking the subway home.

This was the excuse that she prepared beforehand.

“Huh? Why didn’t you tell us about it earlier? We even waited for you for such a long time.”

“Exactly! We wouldn’t have wasted our time if you had told us earlier.”

I’m sorry.

Justin actually is here? I already texted him to tell him that he didn’t have to, though.  

I didn’t know that he would be coming.

I’ll ask whether he wants to see you guys.

Hold on. Don’t open the car door yet.

Rachel hesitated for a while before she asked cautiously, Those are my colleagues and they said that they want to meet you.

I’m sorry. You can just act like I never said it.

Then, she continued, Please wait for me for a bit, I’ll get down and explain to them.