My Mute Wife

It was late at night and the car drove into the summer resort.

“Mr. Alan, what brings you here at this hour?”

“Where’s Grandpa?”

“Mr. Stanley has gone to bed, so why don’t I have someone arrange for you to stay tonight, and see him tomorrow.”

Alan was stopped by the butler at the door of Stanley’s room, the door closed tightly, as if Stanley didn’t intend to see him.

“Mr. Alan, Mr. Stanley is really sleeping.”

Alan clenched his fist, “Where’s Lexie?”

The servants on the side didn’t dare to speak.

“All mute?” Alan looked around, but none of them dared to answer his question, at once his face sank, “I am asking you guys!”

There was a dead silence in the living room and everyone was silent.

“Yo, a rare guest.”

A mean voice came from the stairs, and Tina plopped down on the stair railing, “I thought I was hallucinating, but it’s really you back, cousin.”

Alan frowned, his face unsettled.

“It’s not your style to come running and making noise at this time of night, anything wrong with the office?”

“Where’s Lexie?”

“Lexie? Oh, my mute cousin-in-law, I heard that she was called back by grandpa today, you should ask grandpa.”

The impatience in Alan’s eyes grew and he didn’t bother to talk to her anymore, “Butler Lee, is grandpa really asleep?”

The butler was helpless, “Mr. Alan, since Mr. Stanley says he’s asleep, he means he doesn’t want to see anyone. Listen to me and stop asking, in the morning, Mrs. Howard will definitely go back intact.”

“Where is she now?”

“Mr. Alan,” he was about to say something more, but was interrupted by the sound of the door opening behind him.

The servant opened the door stood in the doorway while a deep, cold voice came from inside, “Tell him to get his ass in here.”

Alan’s eyes contracted and he immediately entered the door.

The butler wanted to say something, but didn’t have time to stop Alan, so he could only look at the closed door of the room and sigh.

He had watched Alan growing up, and hadn’t seen him like this looking for someone irrationally, and it was no wonder that Mr. Stanley was so angry.

The only one in the Howard family he was pleased at this moment was Tina.

Even in August, the mountains are extraordinarily cold late at night.

Lexie was wearing only a dress and was kneeling in the ancestral hall with chill.

It was dimly lit in here, and she hadn’t brought her phone in, so she didn’t even know what time it was.

“Squeak,” a sound of a door opening came from behind her, and Lexie winced in fear, looking warily at the door.

Heels kicked at the door in the moonlight, and step by step, Tina crossed the door towards her.

It wasn’t until she got closer that Lexie saw the person coming, and her pupils suddenly contracted.

“It’s only been a few days and we meet again, cousin-in-law.”

Tina stood not too far away, still with that overbearing look, “Every time we meet, we are in an odd place, in your last life you owed me a lot of money, right?”

Lexie had no cell phone and no pen and paper to respond to her words, so she could only listen to her talk alone.

Tina stepped on her twelve centimeter high heels and circled around her, holding her arms, smug, “You know what? My cousin arrived half an hour ago.”

Lexie froze.

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“Unfortunately, he didn’t seem to be bothering with you at all; Grandpa called him in to talk about something, and when he came out, he went to the guest room to sleep without even asking about you.”

What?

“Are you surprised? Not believing my words?” Tina sneered, “I’ll tell you why, because there’s no need to be false and playful with a dead man.”

[What did you say?]

Lexie’s face paled in disbelief.

“In a short time, you will be one of these tablets, offered inside this ancestral hall, and claim to the public that you have passed away due to illness. We will give Peter a considerable amount of pension money, do you think he will pursue it?”

Lexie stumbled and got up from the futon.

That was not possible.

She didn’t do anything wrong, so why should they, the Howard family, want to kill her?

“You don’t believe me?” Tina played the recorder, “Just listen to it for yourself.”

After a noise, Stanley’s voice came from the recorder, “Alan, I’m disappointed by what you’ve done recently, the Mitchell family is a tough nut, but that doesn’t mean you can be fooled by Peter.”

“Grandpa, Peter isn’t that capable yet, you’re overestimating him.”

“Don’t think I don’t know anything, he’s good enough at the marriage replacement. You’ve let me down by handling it, you should have let Lexie go a long time ago, she’s worthless.”

“I keep her for the prescription.”

“Didn’t you already have the prescription?”

“It’s still being rationed, and there is no final result yet.”

“So, what are you going to do when the final result comes out?”

During the several seconds of silence, the gloomy wind inside the ancestral hall blew the back of Lexie’s neck.

After an unknown amount of time, Alan said, “I’ll take care of it.”

Mr. Stanley then said, “Did you issue Hopkins’s personnel transfer order?”

“I haven’t posted it yet, I just had the idea.”

“For that woman?”

“For the normal operation of the company,” Alan’s tone was calm, “Since Hopkins dares to do anything just because of Tina’s words, it means he doesn’t take the company’s rules and regulations into consideration, keeping him around will only lead to big problems.”

“What if I say that big problems will happen if that mute stays with you?”

The words emerged from the recorder and echoed through the large ancestral hall.

“Then all at your disposal.”

The brief and concise sentence fell, not a hint of emotion could be heard, as if she was an object to be bought and sold and disposed of at will, existing only for the value on her body.

Mr. Stanley said, “She’ll become a tablet in the Howard family’s ancestral hall, and you’re willing to?”

“Marrying her would have been an exchange of benefits.”

“…”

Lexie was stunned and couldn’t believe what she heard.

After the recording was played, Tina looked at her condescendingly, her gaze actually somewhat sympathetic, “Did you hear that? Grandpa doesn’t plan to keep you, keeping you in the Howard family is Alan’s biggest failure since he lived so long.”

“If you’re still expecting Alan to come to your rescue, then I advise you not to be delusional, he won’t come.”

“Earlier I thought he was so attached to you, but now it seems to be no more than that.”

Lexie dropped down to sit on the futon.

Was she really going to die here?

Tina’s sneering voice felt into her ears, gnawing at her nerves like dense worms.

Just now in the recorder, Alan’s indifference made him different from the one who had been taking care of her these days.

Which one was the real him?

Tina said, “I told you, that if you snitched, I’d get you killed, and now I’m unhappy that you’re not dead in my hands.”

Lexie suddenly looked back at Tina and suddenly thought of something, she pulled out an incense from the incense case and wrote on the ground.

“What are you doing?”

Tina frowned and stared her for a long moment.

[Do you really think I’m the one who snitched?]