Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 717:

Keely smiled and prompted, “I had your daughter deliver that doll to your brother’s study. No one suspects it’s bugged. That little gadget might just solve our problem.”

“You made Elma do it?” Cara asked, fixing Keely with a sharp glare.

Terrified by Cara’s intense stare, Keely immediately assumed she had messed up. She quickly dropped to her knees. “I’m so sorry! It was my fault!” she blurted out. “I shouldn’t have involved your daughter, but it was the only way to get the bug into his study.”

This was Clayton’s private study, a sanctuary where he conducted his research and stored his confidential documents. If they were caught, Keely would definitely be fired, and who knew what else Clayton might do to her. He was a powerful and ruthless man.

Keely had a plan of her own to protect herself. If their scheme was exposed, she would simply pin the entire thing on Elma. Anyway, Cara despised Elma. But Keely hadn’t anticipated the shift in Jake’s demeanor toward Cara. Was Cara going to be nicer to Elma now?

Keely trembled, convinced she was about to face Cara’s wrath. But to her surprise, Cara burst into triumphant laughter. “Excellent!” she exclaimed, her eyes gleaming with wicked delight.

approvingly. “Just make sure they don’t suspect my involvement. They’re so fond of that

flicker of jealousy crossed Cara’s face as she spoke. Others might not know,

stories

the child of Jake and that woman, Kallie. Elma was Chloe, the child everyone thought had been lost. That was why

beginning, Cara had told the world that Elma was her and Jake’s daughter, solely to fulfill her dream of a family of three. But over time, Elma

loathing. She was terrified that everything she had worked

of Cara

had

drug made Elma appear much younger than she actually was, like a three or four-year-old. In reality, she was close to Calvin’s

serious side effects that could potentially shorten Elma’s life. But Cara couldn’t care

Cara dragged poor little Elma along to those