Chapter 509

Nara had just finished writing a sentence and was about to show it to Gary’s mother when the latter knocked the notebook out of her hand and pointed at her, cursing angrily. “You can’t even speak. What makes you think you’re good enough for my son?”

Nara looked at her in astonishment.

She waved her hands frantically, her mouth opening and closing as if she wanted to say something but couldn’t manage to speak.

Gary’s mother immediately stepped forward and slapped Nara across the face with a swing of her hand!

Nara toppled to the ground. She was already frail, and now, she could taste blood in her mouth once again…

This taste was all too familiar to Nara lately.

Jackson and Austin had abused her. When she jumped off the rooftop, her mouth was filled with this very

taste…

Clutching her face, Nara looked at Gary’s mother in

shock.

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Gary’s mother continued to glare at her. “Let me tell you, stop messing with my son! Stay away from him!”

Nara was utterly dumbfounded.

She looked helplessly at Gary’s mother, wanting to say it wasn’t like that…

Between her and Gary, Gary had always been the one

who took the initiative.

Being mute, she always felt inferior and had been struggling for life since she was young, fighting to escape poverty. How would she have the time to fall in

love?

Gary courted her at university, helping her…

She remembered that Gary looked down on her at first, thinking she didn’t deserve to be the top student. Since she was mute, he wondered how she could

succeed in medicine if she couldn’t communicate with

patients.

lab, Gary got frightened by a dissected mouse and vomited until he was half dead, while only Nara remained calm, undisturbed by

day, Gary started following her

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academic questions

at school, eating alone in the cafeteria and reading alone in the library… but somehow,

taken? May I

are you reading alone? There’s no one

and carrying a water bottle, the boy with a bright smile would suddenly appear and take things from her hands. “Let me

had refused him at first.

when she felt sleepy from studying or wanted to

weariness…

heart wasn’t made of

if he minded that she

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find them so annoying. When I’m with you,

didn’t know how to

away, he didn’t let go. “Nara, give me a chance and give yourself one too.

for two years since

looming, Gary had been talking about taking her home to meet

nervous, always afraid that Gary’s family would disapprove… Gary said they wouldn’t and even mentioned that

her for his

home,

to school.

had been in touch recently. Gary would message her, asking how she was doing and

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his

to my mom, and my mom listens to me. I

she doesn’t

didn’t mind and was looking forward to meeting the

had happened, Nara didn’t want to burden Gary. She would lie to him, saying everything was fine and she was doing very well…

had been swallowing all the bitterness alone.

through shouldn’t be Gary’s problem…

one was that she hadn’t seen her brother Matias get married and

sister–in–law for her.

she

yet…

longed for a family, longed

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