He Gave Me Hearing, Then Taught Me What Silence Really Means novel Chapter 403

Juniper stood up and offered him a faint smile. "I just take a while to warm up to people. I'm going to bed."

She turned to head toward her assigned room, only to be yanked backward with terrifying force. A second later, a cloth drenched in chemicals was clamped tightly over her nose and mouth. She struggled violently for a moment before her body went completely limp.

All trace of the smile vanished from Leo's face. Once he was certain she was unconscious, he slowly released his grip.

But as he looked up, his eyes locked with Reggie's. Reggie had just stepped out for a glass of water.

Reggie was slightly buzzed from the wine, his vision a little blurry, but the moment he registered the scene in front of him, his eyes widened in sheer terror. Before he could even react, Leo was closing the distance with long, predatory strides.

Instinct screamed at Reggie to retreat and lock the door, but the chemical-soaked cloth was swiftly clamped over his face, too.

Beneath Leo's boyish, collegiate exterior lay a body coiled with explosive power.

He leaned against the doorframe, taking a slow, steady breath. He waited for the night to deepen before dragging both Reggie and Juniper's unconscious bodies away.

Recent heavy rains had left the mountain roads slick with mud.

Leo drove straight to the vicinity of Cillian Xavier's grave. He callously shoved Reggie off the nearby cliff, flawlessly staging a fatal, accidental fall. Then, he dumped Juniper a short distance from Cillian's headstone.

The drugs were still surging through her system. When she was abandoned in the dirt, she was completely comatose, unable to move a muscle.

By the time Leo finished and returned to the house, it was five in the morning.

He scrubbed his shoes meticulously until not a single speck of mud remained.

When the old lady woke up, neither Juniper nor Reggie was anywhere to be found. Only Leo was there, seemingly just getting out of bed.

Leaning on her cane, she called out to him, "Have you seen Juniper and Reggie?"

Leo shook his head. Seeing the anxiety on his grandmother's face, he quickly offered comfort. "I'll go ask the villagers. Maybe Juniper and Reggie went out to check out the vegetable patches."

The locals grew plenty of crops; if you needed anything, you just left some money and picked it yourself.

But the old lady still looked sick with worry. "Juniper didn't seem to get along very well with the people around here."

The moment the words left his mouth, he slammed his foot on the gas.

The sudden, violent acceleration slammed the old lady back into her seat. The car veered off the edge, plunging violently down the steep slope.

Leo smelled the sharp metallic tang of blood. The passenger side was deathly silent. At her age, a crash like that was unsurvivable.

He truly had come here with a mission. Glancing at the lifeless figure beside him, he murmured, "This was to ensure you could rest in peace, Grandmother. Don't blame me. Even when I was right beside you, all you ever talked about was Nelson."

She remembered every single detail of Nelson's life, right down to the things concerning Juniper.

Leo didn't feel sad, just deeply cynical. He was severely injured himself, and he closed his eyes, allowing the darkness to take him.

It didn't take long for the Saint family to realize they had lost contact with the old lady. They sent men over that very day. After a frantic search yielding nothing from the confused villagers, they finally spotted the wrecked car at the bottom of the slope and a mangled body hanging off the cliffside.

The old lady was dead. The sudden, violent nature of her passing sent shockwaves of fury through the Saint family. A thorough investigation revealed that of the four people who had gone to the countryside, only Juniper remained completely unharmed by the cemetery, claiming to know absolutely nothing.