Unspoken Hearts: My Neglected Mute Wife’s Escape

Chapter 1132

Chapter 1132:

Jake blinked and said, “What else? Do you not want to feed me, or can’t you stand to look at me?”

With a sigh, Kallie gently tilted his chin, guiding the glass.

Jake leaned into her touch, his compliance both unexpected and disarming. He drank from her glass, his head reclined and his eyes fixated on hers.

His eyes glimmered with an enigmatic light, sending a flutter through Kallie’s heart. An inexplicable emotion began to stir within her.

Kallie cleared her throat, her face burning, but a sudden thought of Lacey intruded, souring the moment. Did Jake look at Lacey the same way?

The idea stung, and Kallie’s irritation got the better of her. In her distraction, she tilted the glass too far, making Jake choke. He coughed violently, his eyes watering.

Still, Jake didn’t let his frustration turn into anger with Kallie. Seeing Jake like this, a wave of unease washed over Kallie.

“Sorry,” she said hurriedly, patting his back.

“It slipped out of my hands. I didn’t mean to.”

drunk

how Jake had always been light on his feet

waved her off, his

“It’s fine.”

but Jake caught her wrist. With a

her voice sharp as her hands braced against

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around her, holding

I upset you somehow? Yell at me or hit me if you have to. Just don’t shut me out like this. It’s all

relieved, though, seeing Jake like this, thinking he might actually be a bit

subtle coldness. Her heart did waver as Jake

hand, her tone deliberate, a little

this, I’ll forgive you and won’t be angry anymore. Don’t you want to see

chugged it down in

on a show for her. It was all fake. He wasn’t being genuine. If he were, how could he be involved with Lacey? Kallie repeated these

gently caressing her face, as though she were

are you still

forced a smile, shaking