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.

believes the Reeves family owes her something. Recently, she’s been cozying up to the Hayes family. She must be trying to sow discord. This was our problem to begin

gaze shifting between Kallie and

experienced a sharp pain in

in Melinda’s arms, had scampered to the floor. In her tiny grasp was

hurled insults.

words were few, yet she articulated them with chilling clarity, a testament to someone’s

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

pain, Kallie gently pushed the little girl

and immediately began to

echoed as she charged toward

gripping Melinda’s wrist firmly. He shoved Melinda aside, and she tumbled to the floor. Despite the pain, she bit back a

Kallie’s reddened thigh, his expression growing even icier. He turned to confront Dean, whose face registered

warning. “If you refuse to believe that your beloved wife orchestrated this, I’m ready to hand over

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

Jake took Kallie by the hand and led her

her face. “They have the evidence, and you’re still

a cold splash of

family was wealthy, they lacked the

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

in her side. She

Melinda could

who looked down on Kallie, began

Melinda and Dean had

within the Reeves family. If they really got divorced, all the

my irresponsible cousin. I only found out yesterday. There was an issue with that shipment. The fault lies with my cousin as he took his team out for drinks that day, confident that after years on the job,