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.

to talk him out of it. But it was Jake’s decision, and she couldn’t stop him, so she came with him. She

finally found him again, she saw Clayton forcing him to jump off the

said that she saw him jump, Jake wouldn’t have believed her. It would have seemed too coincidental. But Lacey had mentioned the body, and that

and was lying to him, it would mean she had been working with Clayton the

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couldn’t figure out. Every time he tried

Jake was silent for a moment before saying, “I’m sorry, Lacey. I didn’t mean to doubt

there might still be a chance. Kallie hasn’t left yet. I saw her today. She was standing at the edge of the cliff, and she almost fell. I pulled her back.

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widened, and he gave a bitter smile. How ridiculous! Even now, hearing Lacey recount how Kallie nearly fell, a sharp pang of worry shot

come, like Clayton, to gloat over his supposed demise? To

had always trusted Kallie implicitly, never daring to question her decency. But the evidence against her was piling up,

any longer. Lacey’s concern seemed genuine,

away, his