My Mute Wife

“Is that why you quit your old job and went to the Howard Group?”

Flora looked at Lexie, “Alan sent you to investigate, huh?”

Faced with Flora’s pressing question, Lexie’s gaze dodged away, [I still have things to do, I’ll go first.

“Hey–”

Flora failed to call Lexie and watched as her car took off.

When she arrived at her grandmother’s house, Lexie rang the doorbell several times but no one answered.

“Are you Grandma Amy’s granddaughter?”

The door across the hall suddenly opened, and a middle-aged woman’s figure poked out inside, surveying Lexie with a puzzled look on her face, “Grandma Amy was taken to the hospital, didn’t you know?”

Lexie blushed.

Renhe Hospital Emergency Department.

Lexie rushed from outside, almost hit the nurse who took the medication, the guide desk, gestured for a long time no one could understand what she meant.

“Sister-in-law?”

A familiar male voice came from behind.

[Kevin.

Lexie turns around and sees Kevin head-on.

After explaining the situation, Kevin asked the information desk and knew that grandma was in the emergency room, so he took Lexie there.

“Grandma.”

“Hey,” on the hospital bed, Grandma saw Kevin and Lexie and froze, “Lexie, what are you doing here?”

Lexie’s eyes were red with anxiety, [Grandma, how are you doing?

“Oh, I’m fine, I just fell and broke some skin, so I went home and put some medicine on it, Patrick was not worried and sent me to the hospital.”

Following her grandmother’s gaze, Lexie then saw the teenager standing next to her.

[Is that you?

The teenager’s blond hair stood out in the pale emergency department.

Isn’t this the teenager who had a sheepish seizure in the neighborhood the other day?

As soon as he saw Lexie, he scratched his head, showing a very embarrassed look, and said in a rushed manner, “Grandmother is old, in case a little hurt, I worry that it is not good, so I brought her here, it is me who made a fuss.”

Lexie shook her head, [Thank you.

Grandma pulled Lexie, “Thanks to Patrick it, help me catch the thief, you said you were coming to dinner, I thought I’d go out to buy a fish, but the bag was snatched, I chased the thief, and fell by chance.”

[Grandma, you’re so old and you’re still chasing thieves, you really are!

Lexie was furious, [What will I do if you have a problem?

Kevin was comforted by the side, “People are fine, I asked the doctor who administered the medicine to grandma, it is a superficial injury, no need to be hospitalized.”

Lexie was relieved, still heartbroken from looking at the gauze wrapped around her grandmother’s knee.

Patrick carried Grandma to the car, and Kevin followed him out, handing Lexie the medicine.

“The dosage and usage are written inside, I will take time to visit grandma in the next few days, you don’t have to worry too much.”

[Thank you].

“No need to be polite with me,” Kevin glanced at Lexie’s car and frowned, “That teenager, do you know him?”

[We’ve met once before, so we kind of know each other.

“Sister-in-law, you can’t guard against people, this teenager looks …”

[I know, I’ll ask for clarification].

Lexie also found it strange that the grandma seemed to know the teenager well.

When she thought of him following her in the neighborhood earlier, she was also a little uneasy in her heart.

Lexie drove Grandma back.

Opening the door, Lexie pointed in the direction of the bedroom and told the teenager to send Grandma to the bedroom.

[Grandma, you take a break, I’ll go cook.

“Hey, well, Patrick stay for dinner too, gotta thank Patrick for today.”

The teenager waved his hand in a hurry.

Lexie, however, nodded, [I know.

After coming out of the bedroom, Lexie poured a cup of tea for the teenager.

[Thank you for what happened today.

A line was typed on the phone screen and she handed it to the teenager to read.

The teenager immediately shook his head, “It’s okay, this is what I should do, you saved me before, I do such a little thing is nothing, by the way …”

The teenager fished an envelope out of his pocket, “This is for you.”

Lexie took it and opened it. Inside were paper bills.

One hundred, fifty, twenty, and even five, in bits and pieces, in thick piles.

“This is the medical expenses you advanced to me before, I have not yet come together, can only pay you this part first, the rest I will slowly work back to you.”

Lexie was slightly stunned and pushed the envelope back.

[No need.]

“No, you have to take it.”

The teenager’s attitude was insistent, “I never owe anyone a favor.”

Lexie had no choice but to leave that out for now.

[So you’re the one who’s been helping Grandma all this time?

She has heard her grandmother say several times, a teenager often help her side, a little what dirty work, are rushing to help do.

Lexie at first thought it was a community volunteer serving the elderly.

The teenager nodded, somewhat rushed.

[You were following me before, weren’t you?

Looking at the words, the teenager’s face suddenly went white, with a look of wanting to explain but unable to speak.

After examining him for half a day and seeing him sweat, Lexie was helpless.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

[What’s your name?

The teenager then snapped back to his senses and jerked to a standstill.

“My name is Patrick.”

Lexie nodded, [I helped you as a favor, you don’t have to think much about it, since the money has been paid back to me, you don’t owe me anything.

Looking at the teenager’s still somewhat stiff face, Lexie added, [Stay for dinner later].

Patrick’s face eased up and he immediately and diligently helped carry the vegetables to the kitchen, “I help you, usually I help grandma pick the vegetables, grandma said I picked the vegetables picked very clean.”

Lexie smiles a little and nods.

Patrick is just 20 years old, an age when he should reasonably still be in school, but he seems to have been in society for a long time.

After accompanying Grandma to dinner, Lexie left.

[Where do you live, I’ll take you back.

“No,” Patrick immediately shook his head, “I don’t live far away, I’ll just walk back, you go about your business.”

Seeing that he ran fast, Lexie could not call him, and the hand that reached out hung in mid-air for a long time, silently retracted.

She drove around the neighborhood, saw Patrick get on the bus from a distance, and followed him.

Kevin is right, you can’t be too defensive.

It was late at night.

Lexie drove for half an hour and waited until Patrick got off at the stop before the terminal. Looking around, it turned out to be the old town, where Flora’s tailor store was located and where she had come in the afternoon.

The surrounding walls are marked for demolition, and Patrick lives in a more isolated, low alley.

Lexie’s car couldn’t drive in, so she had to get out and follow from a distance.

After walking for a while, I suddenly couldn’t see Patrick’s figure.

“You followed me?”

A male voice came from the darkness behind him.