My Mute Wife

It was dawn when Lexie woke up from her nightmare.

She had been having nightmares for days on end, starting from the day Alan told her about Peter’s feud with him in the hospital stairwell, nightmares that haunted her like shadows, night after night.

Fire, Forest …

Everything is d?? j?? vu, unspeakably bizarre.

It was as if something inside the dream had been ‘clanging’ against their temples.

Her eyes snapped open and she woke up with a start for a moment before she reacted to the fact that someone was knocking on the door.

“Sis, Lexie!”

Patrick?

Lexie immediately lifted the covers and got out of bed, opened the door and saw Patrick carrying a big bag of stuff.

Patrick’s face is still wounded, one hand is also bandaged, only one hand left to move, carrying a pile of things, “Sister, I thought you were not at home, no one came to open the door after calling for half a day.”

Lexie hurriedly let him into the house and came with a hot water kettle to pour water.

[What brings you here?

“Sister, don’t be busy, I’m leaving, that is, grandma asked me to send you something over, saying that you can use it.”

[What is it?

Lexie subconsciously glanced at it, her hand shook and almost burned herself.

Several bags are marked with mother and baby products.

Her complexion quickly darkened.

The grandmother should be looking forward to the birth of this child, so she still doesn’t know how to tell her that the baby is gone, just as she didn’t know how to tell her she was pregnant at all.

“Ahem …”

“Sis, you’re not feeling well?”

[Nothing, just a little cold].

Seeing the cold medicine punch on the table, Patrick was a bit chagrined, he should have known he should have come to see her earlier.

After a moment of silence, Patrick remembered the main thing, turned over the bag at his feet, put forward a white canvas bag, “Right, this, grandma said this must be delivered to you, the other … sister, you do not care.”

Lexie looked back and took the canvas bag from Patrick’s hand.

By the time she saw the canvas bag, she already knew what was inside.

The ‘wooden box’, a relic of my mother.

In front of Patrick, Lexie did not shy away from taking things out directly and examining them again.

“Sister, what is this?”

[My mother’s relics, I don’t know what they are.

“It’s still inscribed.”

Lexie shook her head and couldn’t help but cough again.

“Sister, this cold of yours seems to be quite serious, let me flush the medicine for you!” Patrick immediately got up.

The smell of cold and flu flush quickly spread through the room, and Lexie looked at the box of flush on the table, right up against the side of the formula.

Probably because of the cold, her brain has been a little dizzy, and the recipe and the numbers on the wooden box in front of her began to drift, and those numbers seemed to move on their own, wandering haphazardly around the recipe.

There was a sudden thread in Lexie’s head that connected violently.

Herbs, dosage …

Right on.

She gets it.

Looking at the six-sided wooden box in front of her, each side with a different combination of numbers, she was instantly enlightened.

The Mitchell Group heirloom six prescriptions, one by one, corresponding to the dosage, all in this.

“Sister …”

Patrick’s voice pulled Lexie’s thoughts back.

She snapped back to her senses and stared at Patrick in a daze.

“Sis, what’s wrong with you? Your phone has been ringing for half a day.”

Lexie froze, and only then did she see the caller ID on her phone, which was from her grandmother.

“Lexie, Patrick sent everything to you, didn’t he?”

Lexie pressed the speakerphone and smiled slightly toward Patrick.

Patrick understood and immediately said, “Grandma, I’ve already delivered it, don’t you worry about my work?”

Grandmother complained, “I can rest assured that you are strange, a few days away, and a broken hand, I can rest assured ah?”

“That was an accident.”

Patrick lied without changing his face and said with a smile, “I delivered everything.”

“Where are the words? Brought it?”

“Words? What words?”

“I knew you forgot!” Grandma stressed over the phone, “Noodles, for today.”

Patrick also wondered, “What kind of noodles are you eating?”

Lexie, however, came back to her senses, her nose suddenly sour, today is her birthday, she herself had forgotten, grandma remembered.

Grandma said, “There is a fresh bag inside, is long life noodles, there are maids at home let the maids cook it for you, very convenient, you love to eat this since you were a child.”

Lexie’s eyes were red and tears almost fell.

Patrick scratched his head, “Sis, it’s your birthday today, I didn’t even know.”

He immediately rushed to the phone and said, “Don’t worry, grandma, I’ll cook noodles for my sister.”

As she listened to her grandmother’s voice urging Patrick to cook noodles, Lexie fought back the sourness in her throat, but tears were falling down her face.

It was hard to hang up the phone, Patrick was at a loss for words, “Sis, don’t cry, it’s all my fault, I didn’t know it was your birthday.”

Lexie shook her head, forgetting herself.

Patrick was too busy going to the kitchen to cook her noodles and clamoring to order a cake, talking to himself alone, not noticing Lexie’s odd look and being out of breath the whole time.

Lexie stared at the ‘wooden box’ on the table and clenched her fist.

This may be the only card she has left to get rid of Alan.

Even if it’s not for herself, for the sake of grandma, she has to find a way to escape from this strange circle.

On the other side, the black business car sped down the highway.

Alan is on his way back to J City from L City.

“Okay, just have it delivered by evening.”

On the passenger side, Jack just finished answering the phone and turned back, “Mr. Howard, everything you asked to arrange has been sent over.”Têxt © NôvelDrama.Org.

Alan nodded slightly, “How much longer to J City?”

Jack glanced at his watch and estimated, “About five hours.”

Tim, the driver, couldn’t help but say, “Mr. Howard, L City is so far away from J City, you have to rush back today for something urgent, and then you have to go back to L City for a meeting tonight, it’s a lot of work.”

Jack gave a laugh, “Tim, this you do not know it, today the wife’s birthday, Mr. Howard, of course, must rush back.”

“Ma’am?” The driver froze for a moment.

Aren’t they all divorced?

Which wife?

Of course, this is something he did not dare to ask.

The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re getting into.

The carriage fell silent for a moment, leaving only the sound of the wind outside the windows.

Alan looked out the window and was lost in thought.

For the past few days he has been regretting that what he said to Lexie at the hospital that day was too heavy and should have scared her.

But he could not think of any other way to make her stay in J City, her attitude that day really annoyed him, in case she ran away again like last time, the consequences are unthinkable.

This meeting in L City will take a long time, so in case there are any surprises, he may not have time to arrange to respond.

What’s more, the worst outcome is not that she fled, but that someone is secretly scheming.