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.

she pointed at Kallie. “Or perhaps it’s Kallie who’s meddling. She feels wronged and 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

expression darkened, his gaze shifting

sharp pain in her thigh and instinctively bowed her

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

little girl hurled

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

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

pain, Kallie gently pushed

to the floor and immediately began

shout echoed as she charged toward Kallie, her hand

intercepted, gripping Melinda’s wrist firmly. He shoved Melinda aside, and she tumbled to the floor. Despite the pain, she bit back a scream, cowed by the severe look on

even icier. He turned

refuse to believe that your beloved wife orchestrated this, I’m ready to hand over the evidence right

you’re still blind to the truth, I’ll discuss with the Reeves family elders whether it’s wise to leave such a

took Kallie by the hand

to her face. “They have the

cold splash of reality, and panic

was wealthy, they

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

been a thorn in her side. She

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

Kallie, began to treat Melinda with

Melinda and Dean

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

down her face, responded, “It was 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