Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 642:

His words snapped Kallie back to reality. She raised her head, her vision blurred, and gazed at Jake.

His face was familiar, yet there was something oddly disconcerting about him. His eyes, most of all, held a foreignness. Never had Jake looked at her with such a detached expression before.

Jake paid Kallie no mind. He turned and melded into the crowd. However, he couldn’t help but cast anxious glances back at Kallie a few times before finally distancing himself.

Jake didn’t venture far, though. He lingered nearby, watching Kallie from a distance. He figured they had never met. Yet, he found himself involuntarily showing consistent gentleness toward her, which he struggled to figure out.

Quickly, Jake concocted a justification for his concern. Maybe it was because he had seen her once at the hospital, struggling alone with her daughter.

That memory might have stirred memories of himself and Elma, sparking his empathy. The rationale seemed thin, even to him, but it was all he could muster to explain his sympathy.

approached and helped

sure the two people were Kallie’s friends, he turned and

Sorry, I was held back just now. I’m at the

and loathed. He quickly made up an excuse. “Sorry, something came up. Gotta run. Let’s

stop right

demanded. “And

none of

shouted, her voice cutting

was boiling. He’d been raised to never hit a woman, but if he hadn’t been, he would’ve tossed Cara

voice a

them in a week. You’d