Fell On Deaf Ears Novels & Stories

I don't have the strength to stand up and fall to my knees while my head pounds. I don't see a thing can only hear the growls around me when I get pushed to the ground and fall to my side.

"Didn't know you were such a good actress. Everyone knows your hearing loss is permanent. An explosion caused it. It can't just magically get better." Her eyes widened dramatically. "You don't think Adrian will fall for you again just because you're not deaf anymore, do you? That's some serious scheming. Adrian, don't let her fool you." Deaf. That word hit me like a bullet. But I didn't let it show on my face. Adrian's eyes lit up. He dropped the guilt act instantly, that smug smirk sliding back onto his face. "Daniela's right. Serena, stop causing drama. I never said I looked down on you for being deaf. Why are you lying?"

His eyes widened in shock as he tried to help her up from the floor, but she was too weak to get up after Landon's powerful slaps. Sitting on the ground and looking frail, she sobbed. "Grandpa, my ears hurt. I can't hear anything in my right ear." "What did you say, Zoe?" Cornelius was frightened. Despite raising his voice by her ear, she couldn't hear him very well. Unfurling a trembling hand from her right ear, she gasped at the sight of blood on her palm. She cried out, "My ear! I'm going deaf!" All the Harpers' bodyguards and assistants rushed up to her, calling the doctors and the ambulance in a frenzy. Landon, standing aside, observed the chaos emotionlessly, as if an invisible barrier

he cried out, his voice muffled and distant, like I was underwater. I stumbled toward him, dragging him behind the flipped bed as I tried to orient myself. "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" I yelled, but my words felt mute in the air. The guard shouted something at me, but I couldn't hear him. I pointed to my ears and shook my head, signaling my deafness. He nodded grimly and pressed a finger to his lips, urging me to stay quiet.

CHAPTER 26 PART 1 WATCHFUL EYES Maya had learned how to listen for danger. Not the obvious kind. Not raised voices or slammed doors. Those were easy to recognize. This kind was quieter. Polite. Wrapped in smiles and careful words. It lived in pauses that lasted a second too long. In questions that sounded harmless. In this way the air changed when someone knew more than they should. She felt it the moment she woke up. The apartment was too quiet. Not a peaceful alert.

I couldn't hear individual voices anymore. Only screams. My heartbeat thundered in my ears as another deafening crack echoed beneath me. The floor beneath my feet vibrated as the entire gondola lurched again. Fear unlike anything I'd ever known swept through me. This wasn't a breakdown something was breaking. "Oh, God..." The whispered prayer escaped before I even realised I'd spoken. Please... The Ferris wheel gave one final shudder and then everything beneath me disappeared as the gondola dropped.

However, Calista responded loudly without any hesitation, "What are you worried about? She's deaf. I could scream my lungs out, and she wouldn't hear a thing!" She followed this with several deliberate shouts. Although I had faintly heard Calista's name before my death in my previous life, witnessing this scene firsthand felt like a thunderbolt striking me. For the first time, I realized that being able to hear could be its own kind of cruelty. All those warm, sweet memories I had shattered like glass, the shards piercing my heart. Emmett had not been my intended husband, but an accident had altered the course of our lives forever. Emmett was one of the few college graduates in the 1980s. Af

My body dropped instantly, just like a kite that had lost its string. The wind screamed in my ears as I fell. Faintly, I could still hear the manic laughter coming from the twelfth floor. The overwhelming weightlessness wiped out every thought in my mind. Then, my body crashed into the ground with a violent impact. It felt like every bone in me shattered at once. Pain shot through me like sharp knives, spreading from my right leg throughout my entire body. I could feel the bone in my right leg break. The agony was so intense that I couldn’t stop myself from groaning. Sweat and tears poured out uncontrollably, soaking my clothes in seconds.

I whispered again Ellaine let out a loud sob "Get out" I closed my eyes because of the strength of his shouting I kept falling and my eardrums burst because of the loudness of his screams, I became deaf I glanced at the door for a moment when I saw Ellaine rushing out, but I immediately looked back at the computer screen. "Fuck" I heard Luois say I slowly looked up at him as I hid my face from the computer His breathing was heavy while his two hands were leaning on the side of his big table, his face was red and he was sweating

If she hadn't been female, I would have knocked that smile right off her face. She insists on calling me by their family name even though she knows how much it annoys me. I might be overreacting but it seems demeaning. More like an unnecessary jab. A constant reminder that I'm nothing more than a worthless live-in son-in-law. "Ren, you didn't tell me your husband was mute too," Zoe says, turning to my wife—Renata. Renata sighs and turns to Zoe. "Zo, can you stop bugging him already?"