A Handbag and a Heart

Chapter 1

Grandma was suddenly hospitalized with a heart attack.I was too busy with work to handle it myself, so I entrusted my mute boyfriend, Brad Landon, to take care of it.I handed him the bank card with the 10,000 dollars I'd saved and asked him to pay the hospital fees.But I never expected to see him, just hours later, walking into a private room at the bar where I worked part-time. He had his arm around another woman.My pupils trembled violently.This couldn't be right.Brad was shy and introverted, the type who avoided bars altogether, let alone showed up with a woman in his arms.Whenever I mentioned bars in the past, he would use sign language to say, "Places like that are for bad people."In fact, I'd kept my part-time job here a secret from him.Yet there he was, dressed in an expensive suit, a Patek Philippe watch worth millions on his wrist.This was the same man who had no job and relied entirely on me, living with me in a cramped 30-square-meter apartment.I shook m...