He Gave Me Hearing, Then Taught Me What Silence Really Means novel Chapter 86

Later, probably annoyed by her persistent messages, he had changed his number.

After that, they had lost touch completely.

She swallowed hard, her fingertips trembling slightly.

Alistair gently interrupted her thoughts. "It's 3:00 AM. The sun will be up in a few hours. You should try to get some sleep."

Her vice-like grip on her phone slowly loosened. She looked lost. "Okay."

Alistair stood up, his demeanor as warm and steady as ever. Behind his gold-rimmed glasses, there was an anchoring sense of reassurance.

"Juniper, has Nelson always been like this? Harassing you relentlessly, yet rushing to cut ties the moment someone asks?"

Sitting up in the hospital bed, Juniper's hands instantly balled into fists against the blanket.

Alistair watched her quietly, letting out a soft sigh. "You have an incredible temper. To be toyed with over and over and still hold it together."

The veins on the back of her hands bulged slightly, her lips pressed into a bloodless line.

Everyone always said she was a pushover—that her spinelessness made her an easy target.

But Juniper had possessed so little in her life, and Nelson had given her so many of her 'firsts.'

Even a fraction of what he had given her would have been enough to keep her trembling with gratitude. But he had given her so much that it had morphed into a trap. She had crawled her way out, battered and bruised, only to look back and realize her soul was still cowering inside it.

"Dr. Vaughn, it's not that I'm not angry."

But no matter how furious she got, it dissolved into utter powerlessness when it came to Nelson.

He didn't care about her emotional boundaries. Every argument she made, every desperate plea, was met with total indifference.

She wanted to escape him, yet he casually pulled the ropes tighter around her neck.

He was perfectly content playing house with his perfect family while stringing along his pathetic, broken ex.

She hated him. She hated him so much her teeth ached.

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