Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 967:

Lacey was struggling to hold her tears back. Never had she felt such humiliation. With no other option, she continued down the street, her high heels clacking unsteadily with each painful step. Before long, her feet were aching terribly, and she nearly sprained her ankle.

On the brink of despair, Lacey sank to a squat by the roadside. Just then, headlights cut through the dusk.

A sleek black car pulled up beside her.

Thinking rescue had arrived, Lacey quickly stood. But as the window slid down, her heart sank. It was the last person she hoped to encounter.

“Miss Payne, my apologies for the intrusion,” Cody said, his smile stark against the iciness in his eyes.

so I decided to pay a

instinct was to retreat, but she found herself quickly encircled by bodyguards. Her complexion

by. If you lay a hand

out, tinged

some time. Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t you just ousted from Jake’s car? You had promised to collaborate with me, yet you’ve ignored all my messages. I assumed you had won Jake over, but I didn’t expect to see you in

flared at his words, her anger casting shadows

now on

your baseless assumptions. Things aren’t as you perceive. I wasn’t

Lacey mid-sentence, his impatience

a lost soul,” he

tag along with me right now or navigate your way back across the city alone. If you choose the latter, you risk wandering through the cold, endless night, potentially succumbing to sheer exhaustion