Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 979

Chapter 979:

“Sit down. We need to talk,” he instructed.

Calvin hesitated but complied, though he subtly shifted further away, maintaining a cautious distance.

Jake, surprisingly composed, said calmly, “How have your mother and sister been lately?”

Calvin was momentarily taken aback before a cold, mocking laugh escaped his lips.

“Isn’t it a bit late to be asking that now? I’m hardly a child to be fooled by mock concern.”

Jake’s smile faded into a bitter grimace.

“You’re right. It was foolish of me to ask.”

uncomfortable silence enveloped

a way to

asked, “Why do

by the sudden query,

as a decent person, and it’s clear she harbors no

an eyebrow, a

“Yes,” Calvin affirmed firmly.

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her sights set on you, and we, being your children—and Mom’s too—are just

hearing this, a shadow of concern passed over Jake’s face, his expression

of marrying Lacey, or any other woman for that

icy, reflecting the maturity far

but rather, the fact that she simply cannot be the one. At the dinner the other night, she went out of her way to make a spectacle of us, accusing us

to defend him, yet he couldn’t condone her public disparagement of Kallie. It seemed, perhaps, his judgment was clouded. Despite believing Kallie might wish him harm to gain control of the Reeves

Calvin