My Mute Wife

After the meal broke up, the crowd left the box.

Alan talks to the others and Lexie stands by the door waiting for him.

The woman who helped her block the drinks came back from the bathroom and saw her and smiled towards her, “You haven’t left yet, I forgot to introduce myself to you, my name is Joanna.”

Lexie nodded gratefully and gestured with her hand, [Thank you just now.

“It’s a small thing, don’t worry about it.”

Joanna walked away before Lexie suddenly remembered something.

This Joanna was not surprised that she could not speak, and, moreover, she seemed to understand sign language.

“What are you looking at?”

Alan’s voice came from behind her, pulling Lexie’s thoughts back.

She looked back, [Nothing, can we go back?

“I have some business to attend to, so go to your room first.”

Thinking about what Flora said, Lexie carefully inquired, [Can’t I join you?

“Business, you’re bored on the side, go back and rest, I’ll be back soon.”

With that, he stroked the back of Lexie’s head, “Behave.”

Lexie nodded without changing her face, but turned around for a moment with a look of disgust.

When she returned to her room, the first thing she did was to tug hard at her hair, and her scalp attacked with a burst of pain, as if that would eliminate the disgust she had just felt from those intimate actions.

Standing in the doorway, she thought carefully about the people at the meal just now.

Alan came to L City, openly for the Howard Group bid, in fact, secretly in doing other things, these people at the table, Lexie has not heard of one, she was in the Howard Group titular work for some time, through the work of finance, and the Howard Group have financial transactions with the customers have touched The Howard Group is the only one of its kind.

And tonight, none of these people are among them.

Something is definitely wrong.

Thinking of this, she immediately went out.

Even if it is not possible to eavesdrop on their conversation, taking a few photos to Flora and passing them on, so that she can check the identity of these people, may be enough.

Two bodyguards guarded the entrance of the conference room on the second floor of the hotel.

Lexie hid at the corner of the corridor, waited for someone to come out of the box, quickly pressed the shutter of her phone and took several pictures in a row.

“Clang–”

A loud sound of breaking glass suddenly came from the direction of the restroom on the other side of the corridor.

“What people?”

The bodyguard at the door immediately rushed over, and Lexie’s heart tightened, not daring to stay longer and rushed away.

When she pressed the elevator, she kept an eye out and only pressed to the next two floors of the floor she lived on, and when she got out of the elevator, she climbed up through the hallway.

Just as I entered the stairwell, I suddenly heard the sound of coughing coming from below.

Stunned, she looked down through the gap between the staircase handrails and was the first to see a streak of blood, dripping down the steps.

In an instant, the blood in her body rushed up and her hands and feet went cold with fear.

“Ahem …”

The cough was suppressed and sounded like a woman’s voice.

Lexie came back to her senses, cautiously descended half a flight of stairs, peeked down towards the stairs and caught a glimpse of the figure leaning against the back of the stairwell.

Joanna?

She was stunned.

Joanna also saw her, first with a wary gaze, and only after recognizing her did she sigh with relief, holding up her index finger to her lips in a ‘shhh’ gesture.

Lexie went over carefully and saw that her white suit sleeves were all covered with blood, which was dripping down her, from the stair network below, everywhere.

[Are you injured?

“It’s okay, don’t worry about me, you hurry up and go.”

[How does that work?

“This is out of your hands, get out of here.”

After saying this, Joanna could not support herself, sliding down the stairwell door to the ground, a beautiful young face is now bloodless, just like the symptoms of fainting from blood loss.

“There’s blood here.”

“It’s up there.”

A man’s voice came from downstairs.Property © NôvelDrama.Org.

Lexie couldn’t care less, looking at Joanna’s dripping sleeve, she immediately tore off a corner of her dress to tie the wound on her arm to temporarily stop the bleeding, and helped her walk upstairs.

“How come the blood is gone by here.”

“It’s definitely on this floor.”

“Go, hurry up, don’t let her get away.”

Listening to the movement of the door opening and closing downstairs, Lexie drew a cold breath and took a long time to calm down, rushing to bring Joanna back to her room.

Lexie took Joanna into the bathroom and tried to unzip her jacket to check her injuries, but she grabbed her hand.

Faced with Joanna’s wary look, Lexie tried to explain something, only to hear Joanna say, “Go find … go find Flora.”

Lexie’s pupils contracted sharply in dismay.

Suddenly there was the sound of messy footsteps outside.

“Mr. Jorden, only this room is not covered by surveillance, the woman must have run here.”

“Nonsense, this is Mr. Howard’s room.”

“No harm, just come in and check it out if you suspect.”

Hearing Alan’s words, Lexie’s heart thudded, glanced down at the blood on her body, and immediately locked herself into the bathroom.

“Lexie …”

Alan’s voice came from outside.

The other rooms and cabinets in the suite were searched and no one they wanted was found.

“Mr. Howard, where is that lady friend of yours?”

The sound of ‘clattering’ water came from the bathroom.

Only the master bathroom was left unchecked.

Alan stepped closer, his large hand landed on the door handle and twisted it, it didn’t budge, “Lexie, you in there?”

Lexie was mute and could not give a quick response whether she was in there or not.

The door lock was forcibly unscrewed in Alan’s hands, and ‘clicked’, the bathroom door was pulled open with a violent shake, and in the bathroom at the moment, Lexie, who was wearing a bathrobe, cried out in shock and covered her chest.

She apparently just finished showering, shoes are not yet worn, bathrobe half worn, towards the bathroom door to reveal most of the snow-white shoulders.

Alan’s face changed and he immediately closed the bathroom door, stopping the group behind him.

“Not here, you can go.”

The bodyguard wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Mr. Jorden, “Well, since there is none, go check somewhere else and leave Mr. Howard alone.”

After saying this, the group left the suite.

Lexie emerged from the bathroom in her robe, her hair still damp, and looked cautiously out into the living room.

[Are they gone?

“Gone,” Alan frowned, “scared you?”

Lexie nods her head.

Alan said, “They were just talking about something, but they were bugged, so they’re looking for someone at this moment, you didn’t see any strange people, did you?”

[No.]

Alan took her hand, “No, it’s good, don’t worry about the outside for two days, just stay here and I’ll take you back to J City when we’re done.”

The air is filled with the unique fragrance of a woman’s body, inexplicably sweet.

Lexie was wearing only her bathrobe, and the drops of water from her hair fell on her collarbone and slid down her pale skin into the gray robe, disappearing.

The knot in the man’s throat rolled a little.

Lexie gave a startled cry and was picked up across the room and headed towards the master bedroom.

She hooked her hands around Alan’s neck, but her gaze fell on the door of the second bedroom bathroom, through which she could faintly see the bloody arm behind the shower curtain.