Chapter 191

They all ran in the same circles, so Ines had, of course, heard rumors about this woman.

What she hadn't expected was that the team had managed to survive all this time thanks to Jessica's financial support.

Jessica continued her gentle deception, using sign language to deliver a white lie: "I don't want Timothy to know about this, so... could you keep the money for me for now?"

Ines agreed without hesitation, promising to keep the secret safe.

As Jessica left Ines's studio, she couldn't help thinking-if, when she was a child, she and her grandmother could have sold their paper cuttings for this kind of money, maybe her grandmother wouldn't have died so young.

Back in that tiny town, they never had access to anyone from high society. They had no idea there were people out there who collected paper art, let alone paid such a high price for it.

Jessica's heart felt unbearably heavy.

Her grandmother had done everything she could to cure Jessica's voice, sacrificing so much in the process.

On her deathbed, her grandmother was wracked with guilt-not for dying, but because she hadn't been able to cure Jessica's mutism, because she would never again hear Jessica call her "Gran."

All these years, Jessica had longed to speak.

Once she started earning her own money, she'd gone to see doctors.

Every appointment ended in disappointment.

Later, she married Timothy.

Timothy and Henry most, she'd secretly sought out

she could talk, she would have

a blessing, after all, that she'd never spoken those

more humiliating would

ago, Ines had mentioned Mr. Smith's movie

Should she try again?

pushed

Lawson Group,

in right away. She'd seen enough business dramas to know that

company knew she was Mrs. Lawson. If she tried to explain herself to the receptionist, she'd probably be laughed right out

guard had

wasn't about to humiliate

Instead, she texted Timothy:

I need to talk. Could you send Secretary Allen

to keep up appearances as Mrs. Lawson, to cover for his affair

pretty sure

the middle of a meeting when his phone buzzed. It was

out to him in

read the message, stood up, and announced, "Let's

boardroom was

most critical point. Why end it

Timothy was already striding

by the main

her slim figure from behind. His voice softened as he

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