Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 263:

While Dean created a commotion in the corridor, Jake paid him no mind.

Seated by Shirley’s bedside, Jake gazed at her with deep concern. “Mom?” he called out softly, his voice barely above a whisper.

Hearing his voice, Shirley turned her head slowly, her voice seemingly weak as she whispered, “Why are you here? Looking forward to my end?”

Jake was unfazed by her response, showing no hint of anger. Instead, he replied softly, “You still have some fight in you and strength to scold me, which means you’re not as feeble as the doctor suggested. Let me guess. You were able to move around recently, but Dean lied, claiming you had been in a coma after the so-called accident.”

A flicker of guilt crossed Shirley’s face as she listened to Jake’s words. But it vanished almost immediately. With a stern expression, she said, “Dean’s lie was motivated by his concern. He wanted you to come to the hospital and visit me, but you were so cold-hearted that you refused to come until today. How could you forsake your own mother for the sake of a woman, Jake? Remember, it’s me who gave you everything.”

Getting carried away by Jake’s provocation, Shirley questioned Jake with a fiery edge, a sharp contrast to her earlier weak performance.

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Jake did not doubt if Shirley had the energy, she would sit upright in bed, pointing an accusing finger at him while letting loose a torrent of reprimands.

Jake gazed intently into Shirley’s eyes, finding his mom unfamiliar, almost like a stranger to him.

Jake continued, “Dean also advised me against visiting you at the hospital. He feared that if I upset you, it might hinder your recovery.”

consider why I ended up in the hospital. I wouldn’t have been

out his smartphone and began swiping across the screen, his voice laced with irony.

through Shirley’s mind, igniting her anger as her eyes welled up. “How could you do this to me? I am your mother, after all. Don’t you fear the consequences of treating me this way? All I have been doing is for your own good. What’s wrong with my intention to surround you with reliable people? Kallie is nothing but a seductress. She bewitched your grandfather, and now she’s

his response icy. “You mistreated Kallie, yet you’ve seized everything that rightfully belongs to

retorted, “That is the Reeves family’s

joining the Reeves family, Kallie had her own assets, inherited from her parents. She was quite young then, and a lawyer helped her manage those assets, but after she was adopted by my grandfather, that lawyer mysteriously vanished. Mom, others might not know what

had overheard this secret as a

even the sliver of attention that Shirley spared him, he began to watch Shirley more closely. This led him to

on a call with her aides, ordered them

was beyond the young Jake’s comprehension. As he grew older, doubts

Frankly, his father was a poor leader. At that

to purchase anything she fancied, regardless of the price, even if it cost

a large villa abroad for Dean, reportedly worth hundreds of

older, something about it didn’t seem right to him, prompting him to investigate

before her, Shirley couldn’t deny it even if she wanted to. Caught off guard by Jake’s discovery, she was so agitated that she began to cough

hollowed and stark, and

hardened as she confronted Jake. “Jake! What the hell are you going to

about what I’m

sharp knocks interrupted their conversation,