The Silent Wife

The moment Rachel heard the familiar female voice, her back immediately became stiff. Then, she turned around to see Amber standing at the door in a white robe, staring back at her with an arrogant look. Why are you here? Rachel was shocked.

Nancy frowned. Subconsciously, she held Rachel's hand tight and bit her tongue.

"I'm here to do my internship. Do you think everyone's like you-unemployed and living off the elderly?" Amber mocked Rachel nastily.

Internship?

Rachel stared at Amber in shock.

Indeed, Amber was dressed in a white robe of Riverdale General Hospital. Holding the patients' record book, she entered the ward and walked up to Rachel and Nancy. "What a coincidence. I'm assigned to do a checkup for your grandma on the first day of my job."

Rachel instinctively put her guard up and stood in front of Nancy protectively.

"Rae." Nancy patted Rachel's shoulder before looking at Amber and said calmly, "I've never thought that the second daughter of the Hudson Family would leave the family business aside to work in a hospital. What an ambitious girl."

Amber had an arrogant look on her face. "The elderly sure know how to speak appropriately. Unlike someone, who's not only a mute but even irritates the others."

Truth was, Amber had arrived at the hospital early in the morning and the director received her personally. Besides that, everyone in the hospital treated her respectfully.

Hearing that, Nancy snorted, "But alas, a person with an evil heart can never be a good doctor. Amber Hudson, I don't need you to do my checkup. Please ask another medical staff to come." "What did you say?" Amber's expression changed. "Who are you calling evil-hearted?"

"The one who attacks others like a mad dog."

All this while, Nancy's temper wasn't the best thanks to the hostile treatment she had received during the early years when she raised Rachel on her own.

Moreover, she had seen the doings of Jefferey and Amber over the years. If it wasn't that she wished for Rachel to receive adequate education, she wouldn't allow Rachel to stay in the Hudson Family. Amber had never been provoked like this before, so she immediately yelled, "You old hag, don't you be ungrateful! It's your honor to have me do a checkup for you, yet you call me evil-hearted?! The evil ones here are you and your daughter who passed away at a young age. She was a mistress and still wanted to retain a good reputation? Serves her right to give birth to a daughter who is a mute. All these are retributions!"

"You..." Nancy was so annoyed that her face turned pale. With her hand placed at her chest, she was at a loss for words.

Meanwhile, Rachel was stirred up. She quickly helped Nancy with her breathing while waving her hands at Amber, gesturing for her to stop going on.

"What? Did I hit on the nail and make you feel embarrassed? Rachel. You, your mother and your grandma are all the same. Do you think very highly of yourselves? I'm warning you-you better stay away from Julian and stop having wishful thoughts."

Rachel was worried that Nancy would be provoked again, so she shoved Amber to drive her out.

"How dare you touch me? Let go of me! What are you doing?" Amber pushed Rachel forcefully, which caused the latter to stumble backward with a bang and slump onto the ground. Her back hit the edge of the bed, and it was so painful that she almost couldn't breathe.

"What happened?" A male voice emerged from the entrance.

"Julian." Amber quickly changed her expression. Initially, she still wanted to continue humiliating Rachel, but she immediately feigned a pitiful look the moment she saw Julian. "Julian, she pushed me first." However, Julian couldn't be bothered to talk to her and quickly went up to help Rachel get up. "Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?"

Rachel was in so much pain that even her tears rolled down, but she shook her head and looked toward Nancy, who was lying on the bed.

Julian understood her intention. After helping Rachel to sit down at the side, he quickly did a checkup for Nancy with his stethoscope. "Take a deep breath, ma'am. Lie down first and don't think of anything else Try to control your breathing."

On the other hand, Amber was pissed off. "Julian, 1-"

"Shut up!" With the stethoscope in his hand, Julian turned around and shot a fierce glare at Amber. "Who allowed you to come here? Get out!"

It was just her first day in the hospital as an intern, but she actually came to the ward without any doctor's permission and proper training. Worst of all, she hurled insults at the patient. After the situation was settled, Julian reckoned he had to have a talk with the chief doctor who allowed Amber to barge in the ward.

After some time, Nancy finally calmed down and her heart rate went back to normal. She lay on the bed and rested while Rachel sat beside her, holding her hands tight.

Rachel nodded.

'Is Amber going to work here? Can you not let her be in-charge of Grandma's case?'

Julian's face turned gloomy when Rachel brought this up. "Leave this matter to me. Don't worry."

With that, he immediately turned and walked out.

Meanwhile, Amber was still waiting outside the ward. The moment she saw Julian walk out, she quickly walked up to him and explained, "Julian, it's really not like what you've seen. It's her who pushed me first."

With a darkened face, Julian wore a rare, cold expression. "Amber Hudson, do you really think the other patients have not heard what you said to Rachel and Grandma?"

There were other patients in the ward too, so Julian could find out the truth by just asking them.

Amber's face turned pale. The process of her getting into the hospital was so easy with Justin's help that she got too carried away. She merely wanted to humiliate Rachel but had never expected things to turn out this way.

She was even more aggrieved to see Julian siding with Rachel. Gritting her teeth, she said, "Julian, why are you always protecting her? Don't forget that she's your in-law."

With an indifferent look, Julian said, "We're in a hospital and she's the family of a patient. What does it have to do with what you said?"

Amber was rendered speechless. Blood boiled, she stomped and snapped, "I'm going to tell Madam Parham!”

With that, she ran away angrily.

Standing in the corridor, Julian frowned with an impatient look as he watched Amber run away.

Both Rachel and Amber were the daughters of the Hudson Family, yet there was a world of difference between them. Rachel couldn't even afford Nancy's medical fee, so it wasn't hard to imagine how much suffering she had gone through at home since young.

After coaxing Nancy to rest, Rachel followed Julian to his office to treat the wound.

Rachel's ankle was scratched as a result of being pushed by Amber. Actually, the bleeding had stopped and she wasn't affected too badly, but Julian still insisted on treating her wound.

"Done. Try to stay away from water these few days."

'Thank you.' Rachel wrote the two words and showed them to Julian.

Seeing Rachel's neat handwriting in the notebook, Julian asked out of the blue, "Before this, I've heard from your grandma that you were not born mute. Have you thought of treating it?" Startled, Rachel then shook her head.

Indeed, she wasn't born mute. Back then, a fire accident caused her to lose her voice. Initially, the doctor said it could be cured, but after so many years, she had missed the best timing to treat it. Besides, she couldn't afford the medical fee, so she had never thought about getting it healed at all.

"It's okay. I can talk to you about this later. Did you hurt your back too? Let me have a look."

At that moment, Julian's office door was left ajar. None of them had realized that someone from the outside was taking pictures of them being alone in the room. Snap! A scene of them which could easily cause misunderstanding was captured.