Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 97:

Murmurs spread through the crowd.

Kallie felt the sting of sarcasm and mockery, her fists tightening slightly.

Then, someone couldn’t stand it anymore and spoke up. “That’s how it is, but let’s not discriminate against people with disabilities. She hasn’t cheated or done anything wrong. You’re being too harsh.”

Sarah, seething with anger and clenching her teeth, stood her ground. “Kallie was the one who raised the paddle. It’s only right that she answers. Let’s hear her speak for herself.”

Each word struck deep in Kallie’s heart.

“You!” Ethan’s temper flared, and he moved to confront Sarah.

Kallie quickly grabbed Ethan’s wrist, feeling the urgency of the situation but not realizing how inappropriate her actions were.

With a worried glance, Kallie shook her head at Ethan.

Kallie felt that if Ethan provoked Sarah, Jake would surely react since Sarah held a special place in his heart. By then, she was powerless to stop Jake. After all, they were nearing a divorce, and it wasn’t her place to dictate Jake’s actions.

Jake, seeing Kallie’s actions, felt a pang in his heart, his gaze turning colder. He strode forward and seized the rabbit lantern.

Commanding the room with his presence, no one dared intervene.

After taking the lantern, Jake handed it directly to Sarah.

Jake stated evenly, “I was the one who spoke out first, and that alone should earn us the prize. While we should empathize with those with disabilities, it doesn’t automatically make them correct. If so, every dispute would boil down to who is more deserving of pity, and that wouldn’t be just, would it?”

Kallie abruptly looked up at Jake upon hearing his words. She moved a step closer, her hands half-raised in a futile attempt to clarify her intentions. She had never meant it that way. All she sought was to reclaim what was rightfully hers.

Yet, Kallie hesitated. If Jake had thought like that, would her explanations make any difference?

like yarn mangled by a cat’s

and suppressed her tears, turning to Ethan to gesture her

Kallie’s eyes. He turned to

between the two

Ethan escorted Kallie away, Jake’s restraint

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going? You saw me without even a hello?” Jake inquired, his

too weary to respond,

over,

cologne mingled with the smell of nicotine, leaving a bitter trace in

past her. It seemed to signify the inevitable end of their

quickly

reached his car, he fired up the engine without

eyes pleading, “Jake, weren’t you going to take me out to

cold and distant. “I have to handle some business. I’ll send

welled up in Sarah. “Aren’t we supposed to

tight-lipped silence spoke

She had thought she was finally making progress, but Jake clearly had

Jake’s car disappear into the distance, Sarah stormed back to her room. A

meant she had little to fear, and an alarm system was installed in

Kallie opened the door, only to find Jake standing there, his

the door, but Jake quickly stepped forward,

the door nearly closed, a muffled grunt

Kallie swung the door back open. Yet, there he was in the doorway, a look of displeasure

his wrist, couldn’t suppress a chuckle at Kallie’s icy manner. “So,

to rest and urged him to leave since her

made it a point to stress that she preferred not to see either him