Chapter 7
orally Anika could vaguely hear some sounds even without hearing aids
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She sat up took the medicine from the bedside table, and placed it in her mouth. The taste was bitter.
Yesterday Anika left Rafter Villa, where she had lived for three years.
Then she went back to her parents‘ place
Howevel, just as she reached the doorstep, she overheard Mireya and Eli talking
“How did I end up with such a useless daughter? It’s been three years, and Joshua hasn’t touched her!
“She can’t even be considered a complete woman, yet she’s thinking about divorce.”
Mireya’s angry words were like sharp knives stabbing into Anika’s heart.
She didn’t know what Mireya’s standard for a complete woman was.
Was it being loved by a husband or having children?
Elis words were even harsher,
‘Anika doesn’t look like a Carey at all. I hear that Joshua’s first love is back in town. Even if Anika doesn’t get a divorce, she’ll be kicked out sooner or later.
“Such being the case,we should plan for the future. Mr.
Morrison’s wife died recently,right?Although my sister has hearing problems,she fits well with that old man in his 80s.
Those words rang in Anika’s head, and her eyes were dull.
She tried not to dwell on that.
She picked up her phone and found a new text message.
Instinctively, she thought it was from Joshua,but it turned out to be from Maurice.
The text message read as follows.
“Anika,l gave the transfer agreement to Joshua,but he didn’t seem happy about it. In the future, you should look out for yourself”
Anika texted Maurice back.
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Thank you twitt
She pressed the send button
Returning all the assets she had to Joshua wasn’t an act of nobility
She just didn’t want to owe him too much…
Unfortunately, she couldn’t produce as much property as the prenuptial agreement stated Perhaps she
would have to carry the label of marriage fraud for the rest of her life.
Anika hadn’t had anything for two days,but she didn’t feel hungry.
She just found the dead silence around her scary.
She had put on the hearing aids and taken her medicine,but why couldn’t she hear anything?
She was afraid that she wouldn’t hear the ringtone when Joshua called to arrange the divorce
Anika took a ride to a nearby hospital for a check up,
The doctor conducted some basic tests and found dried blood in her ear canal
She received restorative treatment and finally got some hearing back.
“What’s going on?How long have you had this condition?”
the doctor asked.
Anika replied honestly,’I was born with weak hearing
The doctor looked surprised. This girl was in her early twenties, and she didn’t strike him as a patient with
that condition when she just walked in.
The doctor felt sorry for Anika and said, “To be honest, if this condition continues, you might go deaf
completely.
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“By then,hearing aids won’t be able to help you.”
The glint of hope disappeared from Anika’s eyes, and she was choked with emotions.
Anika remained silent for a long time.
The doctor glanced at the door“Did you come alone?
What about your family or friends?”
Anka thought about her mother, who despised her her brother who wanted to marry her off to a man in his
nd her husband who had hated her for three years.
Fincher memories froze at her father’s reluctant expression before passing away
1 don’t want to leave this world. If I’m gone,who’s gonna take of you,Anika?”
Anika finally understood why her father didn’t want to die after the car accident despite being attached to
vanous medical equipment and suffering unbearable pain
was because after he left she would have no family left
Anika held back the urge to sob and finally told the doctor, “My family has passed away.
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