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

remembered how Jake had always been light on

her off, his breath

“It’s fine.”

but Jake caught her wrist. With a gentle tug, she stumbled into his

demanded, her voice sharp as her hands braced

ᵐᵒʳᵉ ᵘᵖᵈᵃᵗᵉˢ ⁱⁿ ᵍᵃˡⁿᵒᵛᵉˡˢ.ᶜᵒᵐ

tightened around her, holding her in

don’t shut me out like this. It’s all my fault, no matter what.

Kallie. She was relieved, though, seeing Jake like this, thinking he might actually

not fully trusting his reaction. She poured him another drink, her gaze tinged with a subtle coldness.

hand, her tone deliberate, a

and won’t be angry

Kallie and chugged it

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 thoughts in her mind until she steeled herself once

her face, as though

you

a smile, shaking her