My Mute Wife

Closing the door to the room, Grandma pulled Lexie.

“What are you introducing David to jobs for?”

Lexie wondered, “Grandpa David is a neighbor, he was very nice to me, if he comes to this neighborhood, it is also convenient to have a care with you, you do not know anyone in J City.

“You don’t have to worry about me,” said Grandma, frowning with a worried look.

[What’s wrong with you?

“This David …” grandma wanted to say, “forget it, see he is not easy, old, no children, so let it be, at first he really did not help us.”

Lexie laughed and touched her grandma’s hand, [Grandma, I know what you are worried about, always worried that the people who approach us are not with good intentions, where in the world are there so many bad people?

[And when I saw Grandpa David today, I suddenly remembered a lot of things from my childhood.

“Really?” The grandmother’s eyes lit up.

[Hmm.]

Lexie nodded solemnly.

The fragments of childhood memories pieced together a lot the moment she saw Grandpa David, and she even remembered the time when Grandpa David came to the house carrying meat loaf bought from the town and it was her mother who opened the door.

“Brought candy for little Lexie, happy or not?”

“Lexie, say thank you to Grandpa David.”

Her mother’s voice was in her ears, indistinct and not quite real, but the first time she had thought about it in twenty years so far.

The grandmother was thoughtful, “probably destiny, there are some things that you should think about.”

Patrick soon bought leeks and Grandma cooked the dumplings herself.

Lexie specifically asked the property owner about the janitorial work, and they were very lenient about it.

[Where do you live? Tomorrow I’ll help you move to the staff dormitory here.

Grandpa David shook his head straight, “no need to bother you, I have nothing, I go back today, tomorrow I will come, Lexie, you busy with your line, after your grandma here, I facilitate care it.”

Grandmother frowned, quite a bit of disgust.

“Here are the dumplings,” Patrick said as he brought up the second pot of dumplings, bustling around with vinegar and chili and other dipping sauces.

“Grandma, sis, you guys eat while it’s hot, I’ll go home first.”

Grandma was busy saying, “Patrick, you sit down and eat together.”

“No, I still have to go home to have dinner with my grandmother, it’s a little late.”

Lexie pulled him in, [I’ll give you a ride.

“No need, sis.”

Lexie gestured to her grandma and grabbed her bag and changed her shoes to go out.

Grandma said, “Go ahead and drive carefully on the road.”

Patrick followed, scratching his head in confusion, and could only keep up.

After dropping Patrick off at home, Lexie handed him a portion of dumplings that she had already packed, gesturing for him to take them home and eat them with his grandmother.

Patrick froze for a moment, “Sister, there’s no need to be so polite.”

Lexie slipped the box into his hand and took another envelope from her bag and placed it in his lap.

Patrick froze for a moment, opened the envelope and saw the neat hundred dollar bills inside, his face changed, “Sister, what do you mean by that?”Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

Lexie showed him the edited message.

[The money is what I lent you, give me an IOU, you take the money to enroll in a night school, learn something you want to learn, so that you can take better care of your grandmother in the future, so that she can rest assured.

Patrick stared blankly at Lexie and suddenly turned his back on her face.

A small choked voice came from the passenger side.

Lexie looked at him and wanted to say something, Patrick actually opened the door and got out of the car, looking as if he was afraid that she would see him crying, and ran far away before he shouted, “I will definitely pay you back!”

Lexie smiled, started the car, and drove off into the night.

She did not notice that the car had just left the mouth of the alley when Patrick was stopped by several dark shadows.

“What are you doing?”

“Hold it down!”

The brief two words fell, Patrick was pressed down by two big men, cheek dead on the drab concrete wall, struggling to rub blood.

The dumplings and envelopes all fell to the ground.

In the shadows, out of a pair of feet in high heels, the woman leaned down to pick up the envelope, “I said it, so long no contact with me, so it is to find a new gold master?”

“You give me back my stuff!”

“Give it back to you?” The woman approached him, took the envelope and slapped it twice on his face, her face turned sharply and she pressed his head hard, “This is what you did for me?”

“I bah! Who promised to do something for you? You begged me to do it! I can do it if I want to, but not if I don’t!”

The woman was spat on and was instantly annoyed, “You’re looking for death!”

“If you have the guts, beat me to death!”

“You really think I wouldn’t dare?” The woman took a step back, “Fight! Hit it to death!”

In the cramped corner, the teenager’s muffled grunts of pain rose and fell.

I don’t know how long it took, Patrick was stepped on the ground by high heels, and the woman stood tall and poured out the money in the envelope, sprinkling it on his body like snowflakes.

“Today is just a small lesson for you, before the end of this month, if you still can not do what I want you to do, I can guarantee that you die without anyone to collect your body! I gave you face before! Dog!”

“Go.”

After the group left, Patrick lay on the ground for a long time before he got up with difficulty.

He picked up the bills on the ground and smoothed them out, and looked at the dumplings that had been trampled all over the ground, his eyes tightened, and he could not easily find a few intact ones and put them in the box, holding them like treasures.

After all this, he wiped the blood from his face and turned his head home like nothing else.

This night, Lexie had a nightmare.

Inside the dream, she runs through the grass holding the hand of her child.

But suddenly the sky was dark and her hands were suddenly empty, no matter how she searched she could not find her child.

Alan’s face suddenly appeared in the darkness.

“Do your part and that’s enough, don’t presume what you shouldn’t have.”

The screen flashed, Myles suddenly appeared with a bloodied face, “He broke my leg and killed me, and you had a baby for him and lived happily ever after with him, can you afford me Lexie?”

There were countless other voices mocking her ringing out around her, and those glowing green eyes in the darkness staring at her.

“Ah…”

She cried out hoarsely, jolting awake, her back already drenched in sweat.

At this moment, it is already dawn.

With her chest still heaving violently, Lexie subconsciously touched the small of her back.

It’s only been two months, yet it’s as if she can feel the signs of this little life in motion.

Baby, are you comforting mommy?

But mommy is too weak and does not have the ability to protect you.

So many people don’t want you to be born.

Myles is dead. Uncle Myles, who was the best to Mom, is dead, and your father is not to blame.

How can a mother still bear and raise children for him?

Sorry, baby!

Lexie’s nose got sore and tears fell down her face.