The Mute Wife's Silent Escape

Chapter 7

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ldings, a Montblanc pen poised over a multi-billi

reen. It was Leo. He

ears. "Aunt Seraphina fell! She was helping m

he heavy metal clattering against the polishe

o his assistant through the intercom, already grabbing his

ing on the bottom step of the grand staircase, her han

ped her up into his arms an

he drove Leo to school. "You're late, but the teacher will understand," Julian said curtly

"Dad, can we take Aunt Seraphina out for a reall

ert on his calendar for a dinner he no longer intended to host for its original guest. He glanced in the

lost in her drawing, her pencil flying acros

phone. She saw the date on the lock screen: O

xt message from Julian to her old number, as if

hink your little disappearance will ea

r wedding a

a dull, numb ache. She couldn't ev

t card charge. The location: The Azure Room, the most e

months ago, he had promised to tak

d switched her phone to silent mode, severing the la

ded to go out to buy some prop

her black trench coat, the cold wind w

ne vibrated in her pocket. She pulled it o

own number, but the messag

m back in New York. We need

elegant signature on the corner of the ol

ntom sensation of a lecture hall and the smell of charcoal

p in front of her. For a moment, she could almost s

he cold, typed back a single message: the addr

ed open the door, a small

er by the window and ordered a hot tea, wr

e. Deep inside her, a flame she thought h

utside. A woman in a stylish, professional tren

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“Aurora stood in the freezing New York wind, clutching a late-stage liver cancer diagnosis in her trembling hands. She had rushed to her son's school seeking comfort, only to find her husband, Julian, and his adopted sister, Seraphina, playing the roles of the perfect parents. Seraphina had even signed the school register as the "Mother." When Aurora appeared, Julian looked at her with cold disgust. "Don't show up today, Aurora. It will just embarrass Leo." Her own son, the boy she had carried for nine months, shoved her hard against a table. "All my friends have normal moms! You're a mute! I hate you! I wish Dad would marry Aunt Seraphina!" Instead of stopping him, Julian coldly told her to face reality, while the family patriarch called to threaten her with immediate replacement if she dared to be jealous. Six years of silent devotion and swallowing her trauma for this family meant absolutely nothing. In their eyes, she was just a defective stain on their perfect, wealthy lives, easily discarded and already replaced. She didn't shed another tear. She took off her diamond wedding ring, cut off the long hair Julian loved, and left the luxury penthouse with nothing but her old sketchbooks. When Julian arrogantly transferred four million dollars to buy her submission, she ignored it, picked up her drawing pencil, and prepared to spend her final days living entirely for herself.”