Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 470:

For a moment, Ruth stood frozen in place, but then determination surged within her. She knew she couldn’t let this chance slip by.

With a burst of resolve, Ruth hurried after Kallie, her awkward gait betraying her disability, but she didn’t care. She knew Kallie was her last hope.

“Miss Nixon!” Ruth called out, her voice cracking.

Kallie turned just in time to see Ruth drop to her knees. Shocked, Kallie rushed to help Ruth up. “What are you doing? If you have something to say, just say it.” Ruth wiped away her tears, her vulnerability laid bare for the first time in years.

“You’re right. I’ve lost my ambition, and I’ve been stuck in this rut for so long. But I’m unwilling to give up. I didn’t plagiarize! How could they force me to take the blame for something I didn’t do? Why should I bear the pain?”

into place. She finally understood what Ruth had been through. There was a deeper reason behind Ruth’s actions; the truth was that Ruth and Jenny were half-sisters—a connection that was as painful as

Ruth’s mother was the other woman, unknowingly caught in a web of deception. When Ruth’s mother met Jenny’s father, Barth Patterson, she had

with Ruth, but Ruth’s mother wanted no part in ruining

publicly shame her as a mistress if she left him. The threat was terrifying. If word got out, it would ruin her family’s reputation and cost

stay, clinging to his promise of divorce. A year passed, Ruth was born, and the promised divorce never came. It became clear that Ruth’s mother

finally decided to escape with

Jenny and Ruth ended up at the same university. The past that Ruth’s mother had

mother, already in poor health, was unable to recover with the turmoil stirred up by

decided to confront the Patterson family directly. She went to their home, ready to reveal the

from the building, ending her life. Jenny