Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 135:

After Dean finished speaking, he shot Jake a wary glance. “Let me guess. You’re stirring up trouble with the Hayes family using my name and planning to throw me under the bus, right?”

Jake couldn’t help but burst into laughter upon hearing this.

Even Edgar, standing behind Jake, had a hard time suppressing his chuckles.

Jake’s reaction only infuriated Dean further, his gaze turning icy and hostile. He despised feeling this way more than anything. Was Jake really taunting him, suggesting he wasn’t smart?

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As Dean’s anger reached a boiling point, Jake finally stopped smiling and exhaled a heavy sigh. “Why are you so quick to suspect me? If I were really behind something, do you think you’d still be standing here?”

Dean clamped his mouth shut, his cheeks flushing with embarrassment, at a loss for words. Perhaps Jake had a valid point. What was Jake trying to say?

Jake tapped his fingers one by one on the table, as if tapping on Dean’s heart.

“Listen, you’ve been deceived by those closest to you. Instead of constantly doubting me, maybe consider if someone right beside you has crossed a line.” As Jake spoke, his eyes locked intently on Melinda, conveying a depth of meaning in his gaze.

Melinda, unnerved, trembled noticeably, her eyes widening in alarm and nearly causing her to drop the child in her arms.

Initially, Dean missed the subtext in Jake’s words. However, realization struck him like lightning. Turning to Melinda, his face darkened with barely controlled rage, and he hissed, “Idiot! What have you done?”

Melinda, defiant and unwilling to confess, shot back, “What are you suggesting? Just because he insinuates something, you suspect me? I’ve been with you for years, raising your child and caring for your mother. I’ve held up my end. Plus, I know nothing of business. Why point fingers at me?”

Her words broke off as tears began to flow. In her distress, she noticed Kallie.

feels wronged and believes the Reeves family owes her something. Recently, she’s been cozying up to the Hayes

expression darkened, his gaze

sharp pain in her

had scampered to the floor. In her tiny grasp was a sharp object, which she was

sweet-faced little girl hurled insults. “Stupid

them with chilling clarity, a testament to someone’s deliberate

torn between her anger at the child’s premature exposure to such animosity and her fury toward Melinda for weaving her

in pain, Kallie gently

girl toppled to the floor and immediately began to

she charged toward

shoved Melinda aside, and she tumbled to the floor. Despite the pain, she bit back a scream, cowed

fell on Kallie’s reddened thigh, his expression growing even icier. He turned to confront Dean,

as he issued a stark warning. “If you refuse to believe that

to the truth, I’ll discuss with the Reeves family elders whether it’s wise to leave such a crucial

took Kallie by the hand and led her

the evidence, and you’re still trying to deceive me? You’re unwilling to talk? Fine.

cold splash of reality, and panic surged

Brooks family was wealthy, they lacked the

Melinda had married into the Reeves family, she had faced scorn and derision due to her

thorn in her side.

very least, Melinda could talk while Kallie couldn’t due to her damaged

who looked down on Kallie, began to treat Melinda with a bit more

and Dean

the Reeves family. If they really got divorced, all the effort and scheming she had invested over

lies with my cousin as he took his team out for drinks that day, confident that after years on the job, nothing could go