Chapter 4

Sophia and Martha were both stunned. "So you're not actually mute?"

Of course I wasn't truly mute. After seeing my parents die in a car crash when I was six, the trauma just made me choose silence—I simply didn't want to speak anymore.

Sophia Grant stood there, arms crossed and full of herself, letting out a cold, mocking laugh. "Mute or not, it doesn't matter. You and those two geezers are getting kicked out for good. From now on, the Grant family fortune is mine alone. You won't see a single cent, not ever!"

Martha's eyes shifted craftily. She turned…