My Marriage to a Mute Girl novel Chapter 40

Since that night, Lexie hadn't seen Alan for two days.

"Mrs. Howard, Mr. Alan has a meeting to attend, so he'll be late."

The driver took Lexie to the birthday banquet, explaining on the way why Alan didn't come.

Lexie nodded to show her understanding, looking a little nervous.

She was well aware of the weight she carried in Alan's heart, not to mention that he had explained that he hadn't come to this birthday banquet at all to wish Peter a happy birthday.

After getting out of the car, the butler of the Mitchell family led Lexie towards the meeting room.

"Miss Lexie, Mr. Howard is meeting guests in the front room, and Miss Edith and her friends are in the side room, so I'll take you there."

[Thank you]

Across the hall, it was the estate's semi-outdoor pool, next to which balloons were stacked.

Lexie was suddenly stunned, and her footsteps slowed down.

Her memory could vaguely remember the first and only time she had been here back then.

On Edith's tenth birthday, Peter spent one point eight hundred million to buy the manor, credited to Edith's name. That day came many guests, relatives of the Mitchell family and business partners of Peter.

Edith, who was only ten years old, was surrounded by the crowd and stood among the children like stars.

"Lexie, if you are my servant, I can allow you to follow me here whenever you want."

"Edith, you have your sister as a servant for you?"

"What sister, what kind of sister is she? Do you have a mute sister?"

"Hahahaha ......"

At that time, Lexie just arrived at the Mitchell family for more than two years, excluding the sickness and recuperation in the hospital for more than a year, the real time to spend with Edith was only about half a year.

"Mute, it's good enough for you to be my servant!"

"Hit her!"

"Ah..."

"Blood, she's bleeding!"

Lexie stood on the inside of the floor-to-ceiling window and suddenly felt a pinch of pain in the corner of her forehead, causing her face twist.

"Miss Lexie," the butler's voice pulled Lexie's mind back.

"Miss Lexie, what's wrong wit you?"

Lexie forced a smile and shook her head.

[It's okay, let's go]

She wasn't born to go against the grain, but she had to behave well. After what she had suffered, she knew that living safely was just not easy.

In the side hall, young men and women were gathered, mostly young people of the same generation of the Mitchell family, as well as Edith's classmates and friends.

"Edith, your sister is here."

"......"

Edith looked back from the crowd, and a hint of contempt surfaced on her face, half joking and half serious, "My sister is not like the old days, she has status now. Everyone is here, just waiting for my sister, it is obvious that she has no us in her eyes anymore."

Lexie frowned and only nodded towards the crowd as a greeting and said no more.

Edith glanced towards behind her and deliberately said in a high voice, "Sister, how did you come by yourself? Where's Alan?"

[He has something else to do and can't come now.]

"How can he be so busy? Can he make time to accompany his wife to his father-in-law's birthday banquet?" The crowd whispered.

"I thought Lexie had been different now, but I guess she doesn’t have a good time."