He Gave Me Hearing, Then Taught Me What Silence Really Means novel Chapter 267

He was so utterly useless. He had been a failure for thirty years, and even now, he had to rely on his younger sister.

"Juniper, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I spent years resenting Mom for cheating on Dad. I thought she was the villain. I didn't know Dad had cheated first. I swear I didn't know. So all these years, I deliberately made her life miserable as payback. If I had just paid more attention to her... she wouldn't have been... she wouldn't have been scammed."

"Juniper, she wanted to cure you. She fully believed you were suffering from a mental illness. I don't know where she got two million dollars, but she put all her trust in the director of that institute. He promised her he could cure you, that he could make you 'normal' again. She hasn't been eating or sleeping right for days. I thought she was stressing over the houses, but she had given the money to that man. He told her he was coming to the city to find you and fix you."

"She gave him the money and waited... and waited. What she got was a phone call from him screaming at her, calling her an idiot. He told her you never had a mental illness in the first place, that he had been paid off years ago to frame you. The day before yesterday, I heard her breaking down and sobbing in her room. I was so annoyed. I was the one who lost everything, why was she the one crying? I yelled at her. And then... then she disappeared. An hour ago, the police showed up. They said she had called them, but never showed up at the station. I've been looking for her everywhere. Juniper, I can't find her... I can't find her anywhere."

Juniper's throat felt like it was lined with glass. She knew exactly where that two million dollars came from. Beatrice had taken it directly from Yvonne Saint, right in front of her.

She had hated Beatrice so much for that. She hated her for failing the little girl she once was, and for betraying the woman she had become.

She had resented her endlessly. Why was she always destined to be betrayed by her own mother?

But she never could have imagined that Beatrice took the money without telling anyone—not even paying for Walter's life-saving surgery—because she was saving it for her.

Juniper had spent all this time believing Beatrice was just a selfish, greedy woman.

Beatrice had always been obsessed with money. When Juniper was in school, Beatrice would delay sending her living expenses for as long as possible, always sending the absolute bare minimum.

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