He Gave Me Hearing, Then Taught Me What Silence Really Means novel Chapter 409

Macy was dragged into the villa.

Nelson collapsed onto the sofa, finally voicing the question that had been eating at him. "Do you hate me this much because of Cillian? But even if I had never existed, Cillian would have died anyway."

It wasn't his existence that caused Cillian's death. Cillian's fate was sealed long before Nelson ever came into the picture.

Macy let out a broken, hysterical laugh, tears brimming in her eyes. "Yes! I hate you because of my brother! I hate how damn lucky you are! Why couldn't my brother have your luck?! He was so good... why did it have to be him?!"

She screamed until her throat was raw. It was the first time she had ever shattered like this in front of Nelson, her hatred entirely unfiltered.

Nelson stared at her in silence. He had realized this a long time ago—everyone around him despised Juniper.

And everyone around Juniper absolutely loathed him.

Yet, despite it all, they were inextricably bound together. If this wasn't some kind of cursed fate, what was?

From the moment they met over a decade ago, this disastrous entanglement had been written in the stars.

A sudden, chilling thought struck him—maybe he never should have gone to Oakley. Maybe he never should have listened to his grandfather. Maybe none of this would have happened.

An overwhelming wave of exhaustion washed over him. Too much had happened lately, and he was the one frantically trying to hold it all together.

He was just so damn tired.

"Macy, I'm done listening to your garbage. What the hell did you mean about a psychiatric hospital?"

Macy gritted her teeth, seemingly dead set on avenging Juniper. She sneered. "Why don't you go ask that psychopath you call a mother what she did to Juniper the second you left the country?! For over a year, she was locked inside the Blackwood Institute in Oakley! None of us even saw her! God knows what they did to her in there... she was so beautiful..."

Blackwood Institute in Oakley. This was the absolute first time Nelson was hearing about this.

In his memories, after he went abroad, he was told Juniper had dropped out of school to care for Macy's family and had completely spiraled into depression.

Every muscle in his body pulled violently taut. He pulled out his phone and immediately dialed Yvonne's number.

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