Chapter 249 Under the Same Roof
Rachel apologized, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do it.” “Do you think an apology will fix the issue? You should apologize to Charlotte herself. After all, she’s the one who printed this picture out.”
She froze upon hearing that. “Charlotte printed it out?” “Do you think it’s possible that I printed it out? I can’t wait to throw all of your belongings away, but Charlotte still treats you as her mom and waits for you to come home everyday. However, she has no clue that you merely treated her as a tool for you to collect evidence!”
“I didn’t treat her as a tool,” she explained. “I never had the plan to use her since she is our daughter.” “You really treat her as your own daughter?”
“Forget it, I can’t possibly explain everything to you.” Rachel refused to speak to the man anymore and immediately walked outside with her luggage.
“Stop right there!” Justin grabbed her wrist. “Where are you going?”
“Of course I’m moving out! Didn’t you just say that you can’t wait to throw all of my belongings away? You don’t need to do that—I’ll move out myself.”
“You have wreaked havoc in my household and you want to leave just like that? Where do you think this place is? A place where you can come and go as you wish?” Justin was beyond furious. “I don’t care what deal you had with Grandpa! You are forbidden to move out from this place without my approval for you to leave!”
“Calm down.” Rachel tried to shake his hands off her but to no avail. With a frown, she added, “I’ve already completed my plan, yet you still want me here to cause more trouble for you?”
“I have already told you that I don’t agree! Can’t you understand my words?!”
He grabbed hold of her wrist even harder as fury spewed out of his eyes.
“Let me go!”
Amidst their conversation, Rachel tried to harshly push Justin’s hands off, making him groan and clutch his shoulders.
It was only at this moment that she remembered that his shoulder was still injured. “How are you doing?”
“I don’t need your fake concern.” Justin leaned against the door with a dark expression. “Aren’t you leaving? Why are you pretending to care about me now?”
When she heard that, her fists tightened. When Jefferey made a scene in the company some time ago, he would have stabbed her with the scissors if Justin wasn’t there. No matter what, it was because of her that Justin sustained his injury.
No matter how much she hated him, there was no way she can absolve herself from this responsibility. “I’m sorry about that. I’ll send you to the hospital. Or, I can also ask Julian to come over.”
“I don’t need any option. If you really feel sorry, don’t move out first.”
When Rachel heard that, she was stunned.
Justin continued, “Don’t think too much about it. It’s just that I told Charlotte that you will be coming home today when she asked me about you yesterday. If you really want to leave, you have to explain to her yourself.”
With that, he shot a glance at the luggage behind her and added coldly, “Compared to never obtaining something to getting it and losing it in the end, which do you think is crueler?”
His words sent a jolt to her heart like a clap of thunder.
Charlotte had always been the reason why her emotions had never fully recovered over the years. She craved for her mother’s company and Rachel also hoped to stay by her side as well.
After a moment of hesitation, Rachel replied, “I’ll stay for the time being then. I’ll leave when your wounds are fully healed.”
It would take some time for Justin’s wounds to make a full recovery while Hernandez would also need a while to prepare for the suit to gain Charlotte’s custody rights. As such, it would be a good plan for Rachel to stay here to avoid any suspicions.
No matter what, she had already made a decision to take Charlotte with her.
It was only at this moment that Justin’s coldness receded slightly.
During dinner, Charlotte was loquacious as she asked loads of questions. “Mommy, why were you away on a work trip for such a long time? I thought you don’t want me anymore!”
Rachel shot a glance at Justin as she replied, “Mommy has been quite busy at work. See, now I’m back! How is it possible that I don’t want you anymore?”
“What about Samuel? Why hasn’t he returned? Where did Godmother bring him to?”
“The signal isn’t excellent abroad, but he will return in two days.”
Justin seemed like he was deliberately giving Rachel a cold look as she was being questioned by Charlotte. As he listened to her lying to Charlotte, he did not utter a single word.
Under his oppressive glance, Rachel felt quite anxious, as though he had seen through her. She peeled a prawn for Charlotte as she said, “Charlotte, quickly finish the meal and sleep earlier. You still have to go to school tomorrow.”
“Without Samuel here, I don’t even feel like going to school anymore,” Charlotte muttered with a sigh, but she obediently finished her meal.
After dinner, Rachel emerged from her room after she finally put Charlotte to bed.
Then, after she saw Justin looking for something in the living room, she asked, “What are you looking for?”
“The medicine Julian prescribed last time.”
“Are you changing your bandage?”
“Yeah.”
Rachel took a medicine kit from a drawer in the living room. Then, she perused the types of medicines in the kit before she passed him a tube of cream. “Here it is.”
“Thanks.”
“Are you able to change it on your own?”
As soon as she asked this question, she regretted her words.
Since Justin’s wound was on his back, it was beyond obvious that he could not change the bandage himself. Unfortunately, the nanny was off duty, so Rachel was the only remaining adult in the house.
“Let me help you,” she offered through gritted teeth.
He nodded slightly as he placed the cream on the table.
Then, he removed his shirt to reveal his tanned shoulders as well as the bandage in the living room. His heaving chest somehow increased the romance in the air.
He wasn’t a buff man as one could tell that he did not work out regularly. His shoulders were rather thin and pleasing to the eye; it was something that he naturally had since he never exercised to build muscle in the gym.
“Have you had enough of looking at me?”
“What?!” Rachel returned to her senses to notice that Justin was coldly staring at her.
“If you would like to feel the life you had before marriage, I don’t mind.”
At once, her face darkened. “You are overthinking. If you want me to change the bandage for you, turn around.” I’m not in the mood to make flirty jokes with him. Once Hans’ matter has come to an end, I don’t need to flirt with him anymore. I see no difference whether Justin is enthusiastic or cold.
Hence, Justin turned around to face her with his back.
After Rachel undid his bandage, the blackened, stitched wound gave her a shock as she thought, It has been so long, but why does his wound still look like this? It even looks as though it was just torn. “Didn’t you say that the stitches will be taken away on Monday? Why are they still here?”
“They have been removed once, but the recovery hasn’t been going well, so the doctor stitched it up again.”
Justin’s indifferent explanation explained many things.
Rachel frowned upon hearing his reply.
Initially, she wanted to ask why the recovery wasn’t going well. However, as she thought about the incidents that happened lately, she figured that it had impacted his recovery, so she did not voice out the question she had in mind.
When the cream was rubbed into the wound, it caused Justin’s back muscle to tense even though he did not utter a single word. His reaction had caused her to be more gentle in her actions.
After that, she bandaged the wound and kept the medicine away in the kit. “It’s done.”
As Justin wore his shirt, Rachel added, “You still have to take care of your diet. Don’t eat anything that’s spicy, raw, and cold.”
“Are you now concerned about me?”
