He Gave Me Hearing, Then Taught Me What Silence Really Means novel Chapter 408

The person Macy loathed most in the world was Nelson, and the feeling was entirely mutual.

They were practically allergic to each other's existence.

Nelson kept one hand lazily draped over the steering wheel, usually refusing to spare Macy even a passing glance. His voice was laced with pure venom. "If you ever jump in front of my car again, I'll run you over like a speed bump."

But Macy refused to let go of the window frame. They were in the middle of a bustling downtown street, and several pedestrians were already staring.

Macy had always been rebellious and rarely listened to Juniper, feeling constantly suffocated by her lectures. Her mother, Mrs. Lucille, was always singing Juniper's praises, leaving Macy feeling utterly worthless.

Juniper was the quintessential 'perfect child' they had been compared against for years.

But being unable to reach her had left Macy paralyzed with anxiety, unable to sleep. Now, even with her life on the line, she gripped the car window, refusing to back down.

"Did your twisted family murder her?"

She had watched enough television to know that powerful families could make a nobody disappear with a snap of their fingers.

Nelson, already blinded by rage and frantic to find Juniper, snapped back brutally. "Yes! I'm on my way to collect her corpse right now!"

Macy's legs gave out, all the color instantly draining from her face as utter shock consumed her.

A second later, she thrust her hands through the open window, wildly beating at Nelson's shoulders. "Nelson! You owe her a debt you could never repay in a million lifetimes! How could you just watch her die?! I hate you! Do you have any idea what your psycho mother did to her after you left?! She locked her in Blackwood Institute! You ruined her entire life!"

*Screech!!!*

The sound of the tires violently tearing against the asphalt was deafening.

He glanced at the rearview mirror at the sobbing girl and let out a vicious sneer. "You and your mother spent years bleeding her dry, didn't you? Save the crocodile tears."

Macy's sobbing hitched. She violently scrubbed her face and met Nelson's gaze in the mirror. "You know what I despise most about you? That arrogant, god-complex superiority you drag around like you're better than everyone else. If you hadn't shown up in Oakley, Juniper and Brooks would never have fallen apart! Nelson, do you even know when Brooks started treating her like garbage? It was when he overheard you constantly trashing her for having such a useless cripple of a brother! Brooks heard every word, and he heard that Juniper didn't defend him. That was the day the rot started. Nelson, all the misery in the Lane family leads straight back to you!"

Nelson had zero patience left. He parked the car, yanked the back door open, and dragged her out by force.

Macy hit the ground hard, scraping her elbows raw.

Her hair was a mess. After crying for the last thirty minutes, her eyes were swollen shut. Now, she glared up at Nelson as if he were the devil incarnate.

Nelson let out a dark, cynical laugh. He patted his pockets, desperate for a cigarette to numb the suffocating panic gnawing at his chest, but he came up empty.

He knew Macy hated him, but he hadn't realized her hatred ran this deep.