My Mute Wife

Alan’s eyes were stunned.

Lexie’s eyes overflowed with devastation.

The child is gone these days, how she survived only she knows, but Alan still refused to let go of himself.

“We’ll have another child later.”

Alan’s voice echoed down the stairwell, laced with a sooty rasp that put people in a trance.Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

Lexie looked at him in dismay, shaking her head incredulously and stepping back.

How could he say such things?

[You still won’t let me go! What did I do wrong?]

She simply does not want to have any more involvement with this man in front of her.

Let me go! I’m begging you! You hate the Mitchell family, you hate Peter, go get back at them!

I don’t know which sentence offended Alan, his eyes suddenly raised a monstrous anger.

Lexie’s wrist hurts hard, she cries out in pain, her footsteps suddenly fixed, unable to back up again.

Alan’s eyes seemed to spit fire, but his voice was as cold as ice, “Since you know that I hate the Mitchell family, you shouldn’t have such delusions!”

Peter was the culprit in the fire twenty years ago, and no one in the Mitchell family could stay out of it.

“Haven’t you always wondered why I hate the Mitchell family? I’ll tell you now!”

“Twenty years ago, Peter forcibly burned down a large area of mountain forest for property development and drove out local households, burning a man alive who, in turn, had saved my life!”

Lexie’s pupils contracted sharply and she was viciously struck.

Burned to death?

“The father pays the son, do I need to teach you this truth?”

The harsh voice buzzed in the ears.

Perhaps it was the appearance of the old man who was a trafficker, or perhaps it was Peter’s recent move to leave J City that was so obvious that the hatred that had been sealed in Alan’s heart for years had recently spilled out.

He grabbed Lexie’s wrist, “You will never leave J City for the rest of your life, I want you to stay with me forever and atone for the Mitchell family’s sins!”

The hostility in Alan’s eyes frightened Lexie, and the coolness seemed to consume her, quickly spreading from her eyes throughout her body and soaking through her limbs.

From the very beginning this man came to take revenge on the Mitchell family, whether it was himself or Edith, it was just a tool for him to take revenge on the Mitchell family, and he would destroy everyone in the Mitchell family!

Lexie’s face turned pale as great fear invaded her and she struggled in terror.

Let go of me!

Let go of me!

A voice inside kept screaming, causing her to struggle like mad.

Alan snapped at her in annoyance and pinned her violently against the wall, yelling, “That’s enough!”

The back of his head hit the wall with a ‘thud’ and his brain buzzed.

The sound of a vibrating cell phone rang out extra clearly in the hallway room.

Alan’s eyes regained a few moments of clarity.

Seeing the caller ID, he gave Lexie a cold look, “You’d better remember everything I said today, or else you won’t forget that David, and your grandma, aren’t as fit to toss around as you are!”

“When I’m done with the business at hand, I’ll come pick you up and move back in with the Howard family.”

The icy voice echoed in the hallway.

With a ‘pop’, the sound-controlled lights in the hallway went out.

Lexie inhaled a sharp breath of air and coughed violently.

By the time Kevin arrived, Alan was already gone from the building.

Lexie stood alone against the wall, her whole body numb and lax.

“Lexie, what’s wrong with you?”

Kevin was quick on his feet and grabbed her hand a second before she slipped, only to see bright red finger marks on her hand, bruises visible to the naked eye.

“Where’s my brother? What did he say to you?”

Lexie shook her head helplessly, filled with only one thought.

Alan won’t let her go. He won’t let anyone associated with the Mitchell family go.

The illusions that she had before were all destroyed in this moment.

That man, how much he hates Peter, how much he hates himself.

And I can’t believe I thought that he had some warmth and compassion for himself, looking forward to the birth of the child in his belly.

It’s ridiculous!

Alan came out of the hospital holding his cell phone.

The call was from Edith.

“Hello?”

“Alan, guess where I am now?”

“At this moment?” Alan lifted his wrist and glanced at his watch, “You should be at the airport.”

“Yes, but it’s not right either!”

Edith’s tone was leery, “My dad told me that there’s no need to rush things overseas for a while, and it just so happens that I have a seminar to go to, so now I’m back from the airport.”

Alan’s brow furrowed and his cold eyes sank to the naked eye.

“Why don’t you say anything? Is it a surprise? Let’s have dinner together tonight.”

Half a long time, the man’s thin lips turned out a word, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Alan got into his car.

Jack said, “Just heard from over there, Edith turned back from the airport …”

“I know all about it, and it looks like Peter the old fox is aware of it.”

“You think it’s a hit or miss?”

“It may not be, but Peter has always been careful, especially the transfer of funds such things related to his family’s life, so a false shot is to be expected.”

“Mr. Howard, so what’s our next step?”

“Have someone keep an eye on Peter and Edith. Just because they don’t go this time doesn’t mean they never will.”

“Yes.”

Jack glanced at the phone, “By the way, Mr. Howard, there is one more thing, your second uncle’s side of the private move a sum of money, in the name of personal drawdown.”

“What about the amount?”

“Fifty million.”

Alan frowned, “Did you find out where anything went?”

“Not quite sure yet, but Bonnie seems to have made a lot of trouble again this year, no surprise, the money should be filling the hole to go.”

Tina’s mother had a gambling habit, and Lennox was paid to clean up her mess for years, something that was already commonplace in the Howard family.

“Is this something to let the old man know about?”

“With such a large expenditure, we don’t need to take care of it, and grandpa won’t be unaware of it.”

Jack nods his head.

This means that the second house is left to fend for itself, this kind of thing without their intervention, as long as the year-end board meeting before Lennox can not plug the hole, will naturally be found.

A private clubhouse located in the suburbs of J City.

In the box tea room, the fragrance of tea overflows along with the sound of the guqin.

It was late at night outside.

The side of the coffee table, a document from Lennox’s hand slowly pushed out, “This is the patent transfer agreement you want, money and goods, but this thing you can not let Alan know that I did it.”

The other party red lips pursed, calmly sipping tea, “Don’t worry, with so many years of friendship between the two families, I will not make it difficult for you to do, but to take advantage of this matter to say hello to the Howard Group.”

The woman’s voice is not loud, the wind blowing through the slightly curly gray-brown sideburns, revealing cold features, a pair of long, narrow phoenix eyes, sunken with a seemingly cold light.

Lennox couldn’t help but to fight a jolt.