Rachel had waited for a week at the hospital, but Justin never came. “Mrs. Burton, the discharge procedures are all done, so let’s go.”
Jennifer came over with Rachel’s bag to help Rachel, who waved her hand.
I can walk by myself.
Back at the villa in the southern Suburbs, there were two bodyguards guarding the door like usual; it felt like they were guarding a prisoner with three shifts among six of them.
Jennifer closed the door and comforted, “Mrs. Burton, don’t mind them. Mr. Burton is also worried about your safety, after all, there was an accident here before, and that,”
Before she finished her sentence, she knew she had spoken too much. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Burton, for talking about something so sad.”
If it weren’t for those people barging in at that time, Rachel wouldn’t have lost her baby. Her complexion was bleak as she barely smiled at Jennifer.
It’s nothing. Justin hasn’t returned from his business trip yet?
“Um, I’ll make a phone call and ask. You can rest for a while.”
Jennifer left with the phone while Rachel sat on the couch and took some newspapers from the coffee table. The villa in the southern Suburbs had not been inhabited for quite some time, which resulted in the newspapers accumulating on the coffee table during this period. Nevertheless, the one at the top was the latest edition.
Rachel flipped through it and she was attracted by the front-page headline of the financial page. President of Burton Group and Fiancée Set Up Charity Foundation to Help Lost Children.
The photo on the page showed Justin and Amber arm in arm as they smiled slightly at the reporters. They looked compatible together and the content of the interview was even more suggestive.
‘It is reported that when this charity foundation was established, Justin personally donated 100 million for start-up capital as an engagement gift to his fiancée…
Rachel put down the newspaper and turned over to the older newspapers of the previous days. It was only then that she realized that all the news since half a month ago were on these, and that the entire Riverdale had known about the charity foundation he founded for Amber. While looking at the picture of the man and woman standing side by side in the newspaper, Rachel’s hand holding the newspaper trembled slightly. This is what Justin meant when he said that he was busy with a business trip abroad?
“Mrs. Burton, Mr. Burton said earlier on the phone that things are almost done and he will come back tonight.” Jennifer came in from outside with great enthusiasm.
Rachel, however, was no longer in the living room. A slight clicking sound of the door closing came from the bedroom and it echoed in the house.
When Jennifer fell asleep late at night, Rachel went to the backyard. The cold wind made her cheeks freeze, and just coming out of the house made her wince. She couldn’t help but wrap her jacket tighter around her arms. After looking for a corner where the wind could not reach and making sure there was no one around, she took the information sheets out of her pockets. Then, she took out a lighter and lit a piece of it. Finally, she put the pile of information she brought into the fire one by one.
The past was meaningless, at least in today’s situation where things already came to this point. If she revealed the truth, it would cause both she and Justin to be awkward. She could not accept that the boy she saved before murdered Hans and her grandmother. Justin probably would not accept that she, whom he had taken extreme revenge on, was the Katie for which he avenged. So, the past could never be mentioned.
“What are you doing?” A cold voice suddenly came from behind her. The man’s rapid footsteps had already
arrived before Rachel could react. Thus, she hurriedly threw all the remaining sheets into the fire. The fire quickly rose high, but Justin quickly grabbed two sheets from the inferno. Although she wanted to snatch it from him, it was too late.
He suspiciously looked at her before he read the scraps of papers in his hands. Then, his expression changed abruptly. “You want to leave the country?”
Rachel was stunned; she looked at the scraps in his hand in astonishment.
Surprisingly, it was the information that Julian had given for her visa to leave the country, but she had not paid attention to it and instead burned it together with those that Janice had given her. Therefore, she hurriedly shook her head.
As he grabbed her wrist, Justin questioned amidst her cries, “Are you afraid that I would find out, which is why you are burning all these? I thought you have been obedient and quiet these days, but you’ve been doing this behind my back!”
No!
Rachel looked at the wall and realized that the fire had quickly burned all her identification, causing all the evidence to turn into soot. As the wind blew and scattered the fragments everywhere, she knew that she had no way to prove herself.
“No? Then, why did you burn it?” Justin suddenly raised his voice and the anger in his eyes was palpable. “Have you gone through all the process? When do you plan to leave?”
She shook her head desperately, but Justin shouted furiously, “Say it, when do you plan to leave?”
I swear it’s not that!
Even though Julian said he wanted to take her abroad, she didn’t even think about really leaving with him. Why couldn’t Justin trust her for once?
Justin ignored Rachel’s struggle as he forcibly dragged her into the bedroom. “Say, who did all this for you? Where do you plan to run to?”
Rachel was pinned against the wall and her eyes were red. Other than shaking her head and denying it, there was nothing else she could say. At this moment, the scar on Justin’s face became incomparably hideous while her vision also gradually blurred. The man in front of her gradually overlapped with the friend she made as a child before the few memories of her childhood became unmistakably clear in her mind. How was she going to tell him that they had already met long ago? Did she want to say it in such an awkward situation right now? No, she did not want to.
Tears instantly swam down her cheeks. However, he thought she was upset because he had discovered her intention to leave the country, so he was consumed with rage. “Do you really wish to run off?”
Then, he accidentally tore open her collar, revealing a large area of skin on her shoulder. Her face turned pale as she struggled to push him away. Let go of me!
As he watched her frightened gaze, Justin clearly felt her resistance too. His expression fell once again and he asked, “Who are you trying to keep your body for?”
Rachel was taken aback, but before she could react, she felt a sharp pain at the back of her head. Then, her whole body was ruthlessly pushed down on the bed. The moment that Justin tore away her clothes, she roughly signaled, Ahhh…
The sense of humiliation rushed through her blood. She didn’t want this! No!
Twenty years ago, the boy had pulled her through the fire and told her not to fall asleep as they would definitely get out alive. Yet, how did he become what he was now? That was one of the few warm memories of her childhood, even as warm as Hans. Even if the memory was dusty and only remembered for a moment,
she still felt that because Justin was there, that deserted forest area had become illuminated by the sun. How could he become like this?
“Rachel, I’m telling you that now that you have become my woman, you will not be able to run away in this life!”
The fabric was ripped open in the air with a loud sound before a cool breeze drifted in through the window. Rachel shivered for a moment, and in the next second, she was held down by his weight without any ability to resist except for a hoarse cry. Ahhh!
In that instant, disappointment washed over her. The flow of her tears could not be stopped and she desperately wanted to open her mouth to tell him everything -even if it was embarrassing for the both of them in order to stop all the humiliation at this moment, but it was all too late.
