My Mute Wife

After a few seconds of hesitation, Lexie shook her head.

She didn’t want to know.

Her grandmother had taught her from a young age that it wasn’t good to know too many secrets.

Alan said, “It’s all been a long time ago.”

Lexie was slightly stunned.

Alan’s parents were dead when he was a kid and he was brought up by her aunt. It was ok if he was born in an ordinary family, but since he was born in the Howard family, he had experienced a lot since childhood.

She suddenly felt that Alan wasn’t as scary as before, and the scar wasn’t as hideous.

Alan asked, “I heard from your father that you were abducted and sold when you were a child?”

Lexie froze for a moment and carefully shook her head, [I don’t remember much about my childhood.

[Why are you asking this?]

“Nothing.”

Alan narrowed his gaze and closed his eyes.

Lexie thought about it.

About the matter of her being abducted and sold, she had heard two very different stories since she was a child; in the mouths of Peter and the Mitchell family’s servants, she had been abducted and taken away by traffickers at birth, and had been stranded for eight years.

But in her grandmother’s mouth, she had grown up living with her in the mountains.

It couldn’t be that Grandma had trafficked her to the mountains, could it?

Something suddenly occurred to her.

In the the following day, Lexie asked Flora to meet her at a cafe.

“One latte, one cappuccino, please.”

“Okay, hold on a second.”

As soon as the waiter left, Flora asked, “Myles has told me you are leaving J City, have you decided it?”

[I can only go.]

“But a method like faking death is too risky, and if something does happen to you, it’s not worth the loss.”

[I know, but there’s no other way.]

“What is the reason for the sudden departure? Myles didn’t tell me in detail on the phone.”

[Alan asked me to find a prescription for him, and I had no choice but to give him a fake one.]

Lexie briefly told Flora about the prescription.

“A prescription?” Flora pondered, “This prescription should be considered a core secret of your family, right?”

[Yes, but the core should be the dose, after all, the ingredients of the herbal formula are written on the box of the medicine, only the dose is the most important.]

“But even you father doesn’t know the dose?”

[Yeah.]

“That’s too strange,” Flora revealed a puzzled look, “Since it’s a core secret of your family and an heirloom prescription, how could Peter not know about it? Didn’t you say that the prescription was in his hands?”

Lexie was slightly stunned.

“Think carefully, what did that prescription you saw look like?”

[The paper is a bit yellowed, it looks like it’s quite old.]

“Sure the dose isn’t labeled?”

[No, there’s not even a space for the dose, so it’s certainly not faded over time.]

Lexie didn’t understand why Flora was suddenly so concerned about the Mitchell family’s medicinal recipe and was puzzled, [What are you asking this for?]

Flora withdrew her serious gaze, “Wait a minute.”

Lexie waited for a while, Flora slid on her phone, then slowly pushed it in front of Lexie, “Look, do you know this person?”

On the phone was a personal file with a black and white photo that looked to be old.

The man was in military uniform, good-looking, about in his early twenties.

Lexie shook her head in confusion.

[No.]

She’d never seen this man before, or this picture.

Flora frowned, “This person is Alfie Mitchell.”

Lexie froze.

This one called Alfie Mitchell was Peter’s elder brother, or Lexie’s uncle.

“You must have never met Alfie, he died before you were born and was suspected to have killed by others, and the police investigated for a long time for this case back then.”

Lexie had heard about it, and when the Mitchell family mentioned Alfie, they would mention the cause of his death, saying that he had accompanied his fiancée to climb a mountain together, but his fiancée had pushed him straight off the cliff.

[Was the murderer caught?]

Flora shook her head, “Those years the police have been investigating, but they never found out where that woman was, it was like she had evaporated, and most importantly, the Mitchell family refused to pursue the matter that year and used connection to hide it.”

[Why?]Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“You really don’t know?” Flora looked at her with some odd eyes.

[I don’t know.]

“Alfie’s fiancée, named Daphne Mitchell, was the adopted daughter of the Mitchell family’s old man.”

It was said that family scandal could not be publicized, the Mitchell family had lost a son, even if he was really killed by this adopted daughter, they had to ensure that it was not out of big deal, in case the reporters were alarmed, the reputation of the Mitchell family would be ruined.

Flora said, “I heard that back then Daphne was already pregnant when she escaped, the Mitchell family did not pursue for the sake of that child. The Mitchell family at that time than now has more right to, so the big murder case was suppressed.”

Lexie looked helpless.

Before Peter took over the Mitchell family, it was true that the Mitchell family had once been glorious.

[But I’ve never heard about Daphne Mitchell, nor have I heard that Uncle has a child.]

“Because they’re dead, and the police tracked them down for some years back then before finally finding the bodies of Daphne and her daughter.”

Lexie only felt a gust of cloudy wind at the back of her head, [Why are you talking about this?]

Flora gave Lexie a meaningful glance, “Because Paul was suspected to kill Daphne and her daughter.”

[Why did Paul kill them?]

“Paul was Peter’s men, and to put it bluntly, Peter wanted to kill them.”

[Why?]

“It’s easy.” Flora looked at her, taking the coffee brought by the waiter and taking a sip.

Lexie gradually came back to her senses, [You mean, it’s for the medicine prescription?]

After all, it was that prescription that started this thread.

“It is understood that Alfie has always been more liked by the old man of the Mitchell family, so originally, if there are no surprises, the one who inherited the Mitchell Pharmaceutical Group should be Alfie.”

[Are you suspecting that Peter killed for an ancestral medicine prescription?]

“That’s a strong possibility.”

[But that prescription I saw didn’t help at all, not even the dose was written.]

Flora looked complicated, “Lexie, have you ever thought that there might be a connection between this matter and you?”

Lexie faintly froze, [What do you mean?]

“Daphne and her daughter died twenty years ago, you were taken back to the Mitchell family by Peter twenty years ago, and at that time had people take care of you, but now they use you …”

“You mean that all this could have been my dad for the prescription …”

Lexie’s heart stuttered.