Chapter 237 Raised an Enemy
Suddenly, there was a cold glint that flashed out amid the loud cries of the crowd. Rachel instinctively took a step backward but she did not move fast enough. Suddenly, the pair of scissors came flying right at her.
She lifted her arm to block it but in the very next moment, she was forcefully pulled into a pair of arms and held in a tight, protective stance. Surprisingly, the pain that she had expected did not hit.
She heard a muffled grunt from the top of her head and the familiar voice that rang out caught her by surprise. She lifted her head, only to see Justin.
She wasn’t sure when he had appeared behind her and right now, he held her tightly in his arms with his back facing Jefferey.
Rachel stared at him incredulously and she couldn’t quite come to her senses for some time.
‘Clang!’ Suddenly, there was a loud clatter and the scissors fell to the ground behind them.
Meanwhile, Jefferey’s voice, which was full of anger and dismay, rang out, “Justin, why did you—”
“Are you alright?” Justin asked instead, his thoughts only on the woman in his arms.
It was at that point that Rachel finally came to her senses. “I’m fine. How about you?”
However, Justin grabbed her hand and stopped her from examining his wound.
“Where are the security guards?” He turned around and exclaimed coldly, “Hurry up and get this lunatic out of the place!”
“Me?! A lunatic?! I’m Rachel’s dad! Justin, even if you don’t marry Amber and choose Rachel instead, that doesn’t change the fact that I’ll be your father-in-law! How dare you lay your hands on me?!”
“I’ve never seen any father like you who would lay hands on their daughter. I’m already being lenient for Rae’s sake by not calling the cops on you!”
Meanwhile, the security guard kept a tight hold on Jefferey, but the latter went on a crazy tirade. “How dare you touch me? Justin, you’re such a beast! My darling Amber spent five years of her life with you and ended up with nothing! That’s five long years and this is how you treat her?”
“Rachel Hudson, I should have just let you die in that fire twenty-five years ago!”
“I’ve raised an enemy for myself! I have indeed raised an enemy!”
Just then, Jefferey’s loud cries dimmed until they finally disappeared.
“Everything’s fine now.” Justin held Rachel in his arms and covered her ears as if by doing that, he could protect her from hearing all those callous words.
Sometimes, only those who were the closest to you would know the most painful spot to inflict pain.
“President Burton, you’re bleeding!” As Frankie rushed over in a hurry, the first thing he noticed was the wound on Justin’s back.
There was a huge, gaping wound on Justin’s back from being slashed by the scissors and instantaneously, the blood stained his shirt bright red as it trickled down his back.
Just then, Rachel noticed the bloodstains on the ground and she finally came to her senses. “Why is there so much blood?” It was at this point that she saw the gaping wound on Justin’s back and she exclaimed, “Call for an ambulance! Hurry!”
At the hospital, Justin endured seven stitches to his back.
“Come back one week later to remove the stitches. Make sure that the wound does not get wet. Do take a seat for a short while and if everything is fine, you can leave after that.”
“Thanks.”
After Frankie had sent the doctor out, he glanced at the two in the room and coughed before saying, “Uh—I’ll go and get the medication. Miss Hudson, could you please help me keep an eye on Mr. Burton for a short while?”
With that, Frankie hurriedly darted out of the room.
And so, Rachel and Justin were the only two left in the room. She stared at the wound on Justin’s back and saw that the horrendous scar—about the length of an index finger—that ran down his back, resembled a centipede. Upon seeing that, she furrowed her brows.
“It’s fine. It doesn’t hurt that much.” Justin grabbed her hand. “I forgot to ask, though. Were you hurt? Jefferey’s a lunatic! How could he have laid hands on you?”
Rachel merely shook her head. “I’m fine. Amber is his precious daughter and she’s been pampered since young. You made her wait for five years in vain and now you’ve decided to call off the engagement too. You’ve caused the entire Hudson family, not just Jefferey, to become the laughingstock of Riverdale, so how could he possibly take this lying down?!”
“Well, he has no choice.” Justin’s expression turned cold at that. “I mentioned earlier that I wanted to call off the engagement, but she and the entire Hudson family insisted on waiting. I think they deserve all this!”
Meanwhile, Rachel was quite shocked to hear that. “Did you say that you requested to call off the engagement?”
“Five years ago as soon as I regained consciousness after the accident, everyone told me that Amber and I were engaged, but how could I possibly marry someone I don’t even know?”
“Back then, did you not have any impression of her too?”
Justin hummed and nodded his head in response. “I had a faint impression of her but I forgot the bulk of everything. Grandpa told me that I wanted to marry her to take over Hudson Pharmaceuticals. In the end, this got overlooked and was delayed for five years.”
The engagement had dragged on until Charlotte had grown older to the age where she was able to roam around and express herself. However, she had shown an intense dislike for Amber so obviously, this marriage would not be able to proceed.
Despite Justin’s drastic change in personality after losing his memories, there was one side of him that remained the same, He would never pay heed to anyone he didn’t care of, no matter how much the other party sacrificed themselves for him.
At this instance, Rachel suddenly sympathized with Amber. The latter had wasted five precious years of her youth on this man and the ridiculous thing was, this man didn’t even remember her. Moreover, he had no plans to marry her at all.
They arrived home after being discharged from the hospital, only to discover that Charlotte and Samuel had just arrived home too after being picked up from school by the servants.
Both kids were seated on the carpet in the living room and each of them had a video game console in their hands.
As soon as they saw Justin and Rachel walk in, both of them immediately flung the consoles in their hands aside and rushed forward one after the other. “Mommy! Daddy!”
Before either of them could run into Justin and Rachel’s arms, they were stopped in their tracks right in time by Frankie.
“Charlotte, President Burton’s hurt, so you can’t touch his wound.”
Meanwhile, Charlotte had run into Frankie and she clung onto his leg. Tilting her head, she turned to glance backward and her expression was full of confusion. “Daddy, you’ve been in the hospital for so long. Are you still hurt?”
Samuel trailed after her and calmly explained, “As one grows old, it does take longer for them to recover.”
In response to Samuel’s words, Justin couldn’t help grimacing. “Who are you calling old?!”
Meanwhile, Samuel sucked on his lollipop and he said in a muffled voice, “Look at you. You’ve been in the hospital for so long but you still can’t walk by yourself without my mommy’s help. Don’t tell me you’ll need her to take care of you for the rest of your life?!”
Just then, Justin’s expression changed and he retorted, “This is just for the time being!”
He couldn’t tell the two kids that he had been wounded again today; otherwise, Charlotte would surely bawl her eyes out. There were already too many things to deal with.
In the end, Rachel couldn’t take it. “Alright, you two can go and play by yourselves, but don’t have too many snacks because I’ll be cooking dinner soon.”
As soon as Charlotte heard that, she brightened up and jumped up and down gleefully. “Yay! Tonight, we’ll get to taste Mommy’s cooking!”
Subsequently, Rachel helped Justin to the bedroom and led him to take a seat on the bed. Then, she stood by the side and studied the medication prescribed by the doctor. “This should be taken on an empty stomach. Take two capsules each time. As for this one, it is to be had after meals—”
At that moment, the dim, warm light hit her face and there was a laid back and gentle expression on her face. It was as if the time had been put to a halt at this exact moment.
Suddenly, Justin grabbed her.
Rachel reacted by exclaiming loudly and by the time she had come to her senses, she was already dragged onto his lap. In this current overly intimate position, they could even clearly hear others’ hearts thudding against their chests. She got a fright and instinctively struggled to get out of his lap.
However, Justin suddenly took a deep breath and mentioned, “It’s painful.”
She suddenly realized that there were stitches on his back so she stopped moving. “Did I hurt you? Let me have a look.”
Suddenly, Justin turned over and he made use of his abdominal force to press against her.
“Umph!”
The soft, delicate silk bed sheets brushed against Rachel’s ears and there was a slightly ruffled sound. Then, there was a shadow that enveloped her and the sound that she was about to make became caught in her throat as her lips were suddenly smothered. Suddenly, her widely-opened eyes lost their focus because of the face that loomed in front of her.
