Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 874:

“Lacey, you saved my life. I don’t want to think you’d ever hurt me, so please tell me the truth,” Jake said. “There aren’t many people left in this world that I can trust.”

Lacey’s heart skipped a beat. Did this mean he trusted her? It was too dark in the cave for Jake to see Lacey blushing.

Lacey took a deep breath.

“Jake, I have to tell you something.”

Lacey then recounted how Kallie and Clayton came to the village to look for Jake that day. But she didn’t tell him the whole story.

In the story with twisted truth, Lacey claimed that when she found out Kallie was looking for Jake, she wanted to tell him, but then she heard that Kallie and Clayton had found his body. Curious, she followed them to see what was going on.

She knew right away that the body wasn’t real, but Kallie and Clayton seemed to believe it was Jake and took it away. Lacey emphasized it was then she realized Kallie didn’t truly love Jake, but she kept that to herself.

she tried to talk him out of it. But it was

again, she saw

her. It would have seemed too coincidental. But Lacey had mentioned the body, and that made Jake wonder if she was telling

with Clayton

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couldn’t figure out. Every time he tried to delve deeper, his

listening to Lacey’s account, Jake was silent for a moment before saying, “I’m sorry, Lacey. I didn’t mean to doubt you. I just don’t know who

but there was a strange look in her eyes. She said hesitantly, “Actually, there might still be a chance. Kallie hasn’t left yet. I saw her today. She was standing

Kallie’s business card to prove she

a bitter smile. How ridiculous! Even now, hearing Lacey recount how Kallie nearly fell, a

was Kallie doing here anyway? Had she come, like Clayton, to gloat over his supposed demise? To make sure he was

her decency. But the evidence against

seemed genuine, a stark

his voice laced with