Female Novel
Chapter 11
Sue frowned in displeasure. This mute simply won’t back down! she thought to herself. “The servantsaround have seen you pushing Amber into the pond. Do you still want to make excuses for yourself?”novelbin
These people were far away in the front hall when Amber fell into the pond. Do they have clairvoyance?She didn’t even bother to tell a more convincing lie, Rachel thought to herself. Her jaw was set. Evidently,she didn’t believe such a ridiculous excuse.
The atmosphere was tense for a moment; the Burton Family purposely said that the surveillance camerawas broken, yet Rachel couldn’t forcibly have the surveillance videos checked. Just then, a familiar andgentle voice spoke from behind them. “I can prove that she didn’t push the other woman.”
Rachel was stunned when she saw who the visitor was. Isn’t he… Dr. Peters?
The slender young man walked toward them and came to Sue’s side. He said, “I’m back, Mom.”
Sue beamed with delight at once as she affectionately held her son’s arm. “Weren’t you supposed tocome back this afternoon, Julian? Why did you come back in advance?”
Julian answered with a smile, “Actually, I came back half a month ago—it’s just that I interned at thehospital for some time. I came back today to give you a surprise at first, but I didn’t expect to see such ascene.” As he spoke of this, his eyes fell on Amber, and his smile faded somewhat. “I clearly saw youfalling into the pond yourself. Why did you accuse Miss Hudson of pushing you into the pond?”
Everyone was stunned upon hearing his words. In particular, Amber had a slight change in countenance,and she bit her lip. “I… I… I felt like Rachel pushed me. P-Perhaps… I was wrong.”
Mrs. Duncan was about to say something, but Sue instantly silenced her with a glance. After all, sheknew how stubborn her son was. Now that he had seen it, the tension would only rise if others continuedto mislead him. At the thought of this, she turned to look at Rachel in a disapproving attitude. “You andAmber are sisters. She isn’t an outsider, so a little misunderstanding isn’t a big deal.”
Amber nodded vigorously as she took the opportunity Sue had given her to get herself out of theawkward situation. “That’s right, Rachel. I must’ve mistaken someone else for you, and I’m sorry aboutthat. Don’t take it to heart.”
However, Rachel didn’t want to accept Amber’s perfunctory apology, so she didn’t give the latter even alook in response. Instead, she fixed her eyes on Julian. This man has helped me once again, shethought to herself. As she was really grateful, she thanked him with a gesture.
Since he understood what her gesture meant, Julian nodded at Rachel. In reality, he was also surprisedat first. He didn’t expect the lady whom he had met once at the hospital and felt well-disposed to wouldbe his cousin-in-law. For some reason, he had a strange feeling; it was as though he found thisregrettable. However, he didn’t give it much thought as he could only turn his eyes back to Sue. “Let’sdrop the matter here, Mom.”
Sue understood that Julian didn’t want them to go on. That’s the kind of person he is. He always steps inwhenever he encounters an injustice because of his particularly strong sense of right and wrong, shethought to herself. Since she didn’t want to upset her son over such a trivial matter, she nodded with asmile and replied, “Let’s go. I haven’t seen you for so many years, so let’s have a nice chat.”
The crowd then left slowly, leaving only Rachel and Amber at the scene. Amber got up from the groundand stared at Rachel with a slightly peculiar look in her eyes. “Do you know Julian in person?”
Rachel ignored her, though.
Amber quipped, “Rachel… As expected, you and your mother are people of the same sort.” She thenleft, leaving a cold-looking Rachel behind.
Ever since Rachel went to live with the Hudson Family more than ten years ago, Amber had beenaccusing her of being the daughter of a homewrecker, insinuating that her mother had given birth to her
by seducing Jefferey. When Rachel was little, she wished she could tell them that her mother wasn’t thatkind of person. Her mother was not only of gentle disposition but also talented and well-versed inliterature; she was the best mother in the world! However, it wasn’t until she had grown up that she foundhow foolish she had been. Why would a bunch of bloodsuckers who couldn’t tell right from wrong careabout the truth?