Chapter 372 Heartless
A week later, Rachel’s foot injury had finally healed.
Early in the morning, Rachel went to Gloria’s residence to pick up Charlotte and Samuel.
Due to her foot injury, she didn’t have time to take care of the two children for the whole week. Jolly was also too busy with the approval of the Northlane project, so both children were entrusted to Gloria.
“Charlotte, your mommy is here to pick you up for school. Go wash up and come have breakfast.”
Gloria shouted outside the bedroom, but there was no response.
“This brat.”
Rachel smiled before uttering, “That little piglet must still be asleep. Samuel, go and wake Charlotte up.”
“Okay!”
As expected, after Samuel went into the bedroom, he dragged Charlotte, who was still in her pajamas and seemingly still in slumber, out to wash up.
When Rachel and Gloria saw them, they exchanged an amused smile.
“Take a seat. Do you want a drink?”
“I’m fine with anything.”
“Is coffee okay?”
“Yeap.”
With that, Gloria brewed a cup of coffee for Rachel.
“You could’ve saved the trouble of coming over. I can send Charlotte to school, and you can pick her up afterward.”
“I came here not just for Charlotte.”
“What else are you here for?”
Rachel blinked her eyes. “I heard Victor made you upset?”
Taken aback by her question, Gloria turned her head to avoid Rachel’s gaze. “Nah. That’s not true.”
“If there’s nothing going on, why would he call me, asking how you’re doing lately? And you didn’t answer his calls either. Even the security guards at the music room aren’t letting him in.”
“That’s because he’s dumb!”
Gloria accidentally made a slip of the tongue due to anger.
Rachel looked at her and waited for her reply, so Gloria had no choice but to cough awkwardly and explained, “Well. Hear me out. The other day when it was pouring heavily outside, I invited him to dinner and offered to pick him up, but he…”
Last week, there was a heavy rainstorm in Riverdale.
Victor was on duty at school that day, and he happened to get off work a little late. Gloria had just finished practice in the music room, so she drove to the school to pick him up. Since she wasn’t driving a school-owned car, she had no choice but to park her car in the temporary parking space across the road. Fortunately, she brought two umbrellas, so she brought them down the car and looked for Victor.
“Guess what he did, Rachel?”
“What?”
“He gave his colleague the umbrella I brought for him.”
“Didn’t you say there were two umbrellas? Isn’t it enough for both of you to share one?”
“If that was what happened, I wouldn’t have said that he was dumb. He…” Gloria complained through gritted teeth. “After giving the umbrella to his colleague, he said he didn’t want to have dinner together anymore because it was raining. He said he had to stay back and prepare for his lessons, so he decided to stay overnight in school and told me to have dinner by myself.”
The more she storied, the angrier Gloria became, and she put down her mug heavily on the table.
“Seriously, Rachel, why does someone like him exist? We promised to have dinner together, and I even went all the way to pick him up. Why didn’t he tell me sooner if he had to work overtime? How dare he stand me up? Who does he think he is?”
When Rachel heard that, she furrowed her brows. “Did he really say that?”
“I told you what he told me word for word. I finally understand now. That b*stard had never seen me as a friend, not to mention a woman.”
“That’s not entirely true. Victor is quite a straightforward person. If he didn’t want to be friends with you, he wouldn’t even have talked to you.”
“Whatever. You don’t have to defend him. I swear I’m just going to ignore him from now on!”
Gloria was so irritated that she downed the coffee in one go. The bitterness of the coffee made her face scrunch.
At the same time, Rachel felt helpless. “Why are you behaving like a child in an adult’s body?”
While they were talking, Samuel came out of the washroom and climbed onto Gloria’s dining chair by the table with the help of all his limbs, exclaiming, “I want this!”
Gloria adored Samuel, so she immediately pushed the sandwich in front of him and uttered, “Here you go. Eat up.”
“Where’s Charlotte?” inquired Rachel.
“She’s changing.”
Gloria glanced down at her watch. “I think she won’t be able to make it to school after breakfast. Let me just pack her some food so she can have it in the car.”
Before this, she just seemed like a child being sulky with Victor, but now, she looked like a responsible adult running up and down for Charlotte.
All of a sudden, Rachel thought of something. One would usually show their most childish side in front of their crushes.
After changing, Charlotte still looked groggy as if she wasn’t fully awake yet. Hugging Rachel’s thighs, she yawned continuously, mumbling, “Mommy.”
“We need to go now, little piglet. Say bye to Aunt Gloria.”
“Bye, Aunt Gloria.”
“Bye, Charlotte.”
Gloria then sent them off downstairs, but before they left, she suddenly recalled something. “Rachel, have you heard about what happened in the Burton Family?”
“What happened?”
“Old Mr. Burton has been hospitalized.”
“Huh?”
Rachel was stunned to hear that. “When was he hospitalized?”
“Last Saturday.”
Rachel thought about it. Wasn’t last Saturday the day Old Madam Sutton almost took Samuel away?
On that day, Justin was having dinner with them but eventually lost Samuel.
Gloria replied, “Old Mr. Burton has a cerebral infarction, and it seems to be quite serious. He has been in the ICU since the surgery last week. Oh, and Julian is the doctor who treated him. Didn’t he tell you?”
In response, Rachel shook her head. “I just met Julian last Sunday but didn’t see him anymore recently.”
Since Julian only came back last Saturday, didn’t it mean that he immediately treated Arthur’s cerebral infarction right after he returned?
Was that why Jason contacted him? Was it because of Arthur’s surgery?
But Julian didn’t even mention Arthur’s condition to her when he treated her wounds last Sunday.
All of a sudden, Rachel was in confusion.
“Are you okay, Rachel?”
Gloria’s voice brought Rachel back to reality.
Tilting her head up, Rachel inquired, “Has Justin been in the hospital for the whole week?”
Gloria shook her head in return. “Nope. Once Old Mr. Burton’s condition became stable, he was dispatched overseas by Robin, but Julian is in the hospital, so he isn’t all that worried.”
“Robin is such a heartless man.”
Rachel grabbed the steering wheel as her eyes darkened.
The reason behind Robin’s success today was the Burton Family. If it weren’t for Arthur who recommended him as the new president of Burton Group, how would he have achieved what he had today?
How could he send away the closest family to Arthur overseas during this time?
“Don’t worry. Justin will be back within these two days. I just wanna remind you, Rachel. If Old Mr. Burton kicks the bucket and Burton Group falls into Robin’s hands completely, he will be a difficult person to deal with.”
“Yeah. I got it.” Rachel nodded lightly.
After sending the two kids to school, Rachel drove to the hospital.
She had to know about Arthur’s current condition.
“Hello, may I know which room is Old Mr. Burton in?”
“And you are?”
The nurse in the reception scanned Rachel from top to toe.
“My daughter is the great-granddaughter to Old Mr. Burton. I’m just here to see him and will bring the kid over later,” replied Rachel.
Only then did the nurse inform the ward.
Just when Rachel was about to head over, the nurse called out to her. “Um, wait a minute.”
“Yes?”
