My Mute Wife

“Back then, after your mother died, you also got your voice burnt by the fire, in order to save you, I just told Peter that only you knew the prescription, that’s why he took you back to the Mitchell family and claimed you as the Mitchell family’s illegitimate daughter to the public.”

[But I don’t remember anything.]

“Lexie, memory is something engraved in your bones, you remember everything your mother has told you, you just forget it for a while, one day you will remember.”

Grandma took out a photo of Daphne, exactly like the one on the tombstone.

As Lexie looked on, she suddenly felt a pang of sorrow and tears fell from her eyes.

Grandma hugged her, her eyes also moistened, “My Lexie, if Miss Daphne knew in heaven that you were now so well grown, so beautiful and kind, she would be so happy.”

Lexie cried for a while, having a hard time digesting these past events.

Even if Peter had treated her badly, she had treated him as her father, and there was no parent under the sun who really didn’t care about their daughter. But she was not his daughter at all, so no wonder he was so cruel.

Thinking of what Flora said, Lexie wiped her tears.

[Grandma, do you remember what the person who killed your mother looked like?]

Grandma clenched her fist, “I can remember him even he is in ashes. He set the mountain on fire to destroy the body, almost burning the people in the whole village to death.”

Lexie swiped open her phone, flipped out a wanted photo and handed it to her grandma.

“That’s him, I remember he had a big mole on his face.”

Grandma’s voice was shaking, as if she was remembering something very terrible, and her face was pale.

Lexie gripped her phone tightly and slowly calmed down.

She wanted to avenge her mother’s death and to make sure that those who have not been punished to be duly punished.

It was already dark.

When he saw Lexie coming downstairs, Myles got out of his car and greeted her.

“Are you okay?”

Lexie shook her head, [Grandma has told me everything, get in the car, I will let you know.]

“Okay.”

Myles pulled open the door, “Get in.”

As they were talking, there was a sudden, piercing sound of a siren in the distance.

Lexie looked up and saw the black car across the street and her face changed instantly.

“What’s wrong?” Myles noticed that something was wrong with Lexie.

Lexie didn’t have time to answer and the mobile phone in her pocket kept ringing, she looked at the caller number and her hand shook along with it.

“You have one minute to get over here and get in the car.”

On the other end of the line, the man’s voice was grim.

“Lexie,” Myles also saw the car across the street and pulled Lexie’s arm at once, “is that him?”

Lexie gritted her teeth and pushed Myles away, [You go back quickly, I’ll contact you later.]

After delivering this, Lexie hurriedly ran across the street.

Alan had always been a man of his word, and if she delayed any longer, she was afraid that Myles would not be safe.

In the black car, Alan’s face was grim, his eyes were so quiet that it was alarming, quietly looking out the window at the man’s figure across the street in front of the white car.

Lexie got into the car from the other side.

“Drive.”

As his words fell, the car drove away from the alley.

On the way, Alan didn’t say a word, but Lexie’s heart felt as if it was about to jump out of her throat.

The driver did not take them to the Howard’s villa.

The road outside the car window was getting stranger and stranger, and Lexie’s heart was getting more and more panicked.

In the country house.

As soon as he entered, Alan took off his suit jacket and threw it on the sofa.

Lexie stood apprehensively in the entrance hall, looking around, the furnishings in the house were new, there was a smell of new decoration, and there was not a single person in the large house.

Alan tugged his tie loose and suddenly turned around.

“Ah…” Lexie screamed, her scalp seeming to tear.

Alan grabbed Lexie’s hair and pressed it fiercely against the wall, “You disappeared for two days and didn’t come back just to go see this man, right?”

Lexie almost fainted from the pain, tilting her head with a horrified look.

“Myles, an LLM graduate from California University of Political Science and Law, a young lawyer who is well known in the industry. What are you doing meeting a lawyer behind my back? What? Planning to sue for divorce?”

Lexie shook her head desperately and tried to push him away.

“What’s the reason you’re going to use? Domestic violence? Or something else?”

Alan roughly yanked her by the hair and viciously threw her out.

Lexie cried out in pain and fell on the edge of the sofa.

When she lifted her head, Alan had already approached, “Tell me, what do you want?”

Lexie backed away in terror, but her legs were trembling.

[No, I don’t want a divorce].

“So what are you doing with a lawyer?”

[I … I just asked him for advice on something.]

“What is it?”

Lexie gritted her teeth and made up a haphazard excuse in her haste, [something about my inheritance in the Mitchell family].

“Oh? Nothing else?”

[No.]

“Is that so? There’s nothing left to hide from me?” Alan’s gaze sank so hard that the last glimmer of light disappeared, “Other than his status as a lawyer, he has nothing else to do with you?”

Lexie was stunned.

“Isn’t it always the first love that women find most difficult to let go of?”

Mad jealousy sank into his dark pupils.

Lexie’s face lost all colour at once, as if she had fallen into an abyss.

He already knew that!

In the next second, Lexie cried out in pain, and her whole body was lifted up from the floor by her hair and slammed onto the sofa.

Alan pinched her cheek and said fiercely, “In order to hide this first love from me, you went to the trouble of using Kevin as a shield, you really went to great lengths!”

Apart from cries of pain, Lexie could no longer think of any reaction.

The pain of her scalp tearing almost made her die of pain, but Alan didn’t have the slightest intention of showing mercy and ripped open the collar of her shirt.

“Where did he touch you?”

“Here? Or here?”Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Lexie’s body trembled with fear, and that fear extended to all her limbs, her pale face without a trace of blood, her eyes red, staring deadly at Alan, unable to utter a sound.

Not knowing where the strength came from, she suddenly and viciously pushed the man on top of her away.

There was a loud ‘bang’.

Alan hit the coffee table, he grunted and strained to get up, his hand feeling over the back of his head, his hand covered in blood.

Lexie retreated to the corner clutching her collar, stunned.

Alan sat on the ground and looked at the blood all over his hands, instead he calmed down, “Good, you still want to keep your purity for that man?”

[Don’t you come any closer.]

Lexie cowered, her gesticulating hands were shaking, [You only married me to control the Mitchell family, I can actually help you.]

“What can you do to help me?” Alan coldly laughed, “Don’t forget you’re just a bastard daughter, you’re of no value to me other than a bed warmer.”

[I can help you by acquiring the Mitchell Group].