Chapter 13 - Dominic Finally Told Me Why He Had Been Afraid to Hear Again—and the Answer Was More Painful Than I ExpectedOne evening, Dominic and I sat outside.
He looked at me.
“Can I tell you something?”
“Yes.”
“I was afraid.”
“Of what?”
“When Marcus removed the device, I was terrified.”
“Why?”
“Because I knew if I could hear again, I'd hear everything I had spent three years trying not to remember.”
He told me about the night of the attack.
His father's voice.
His mother's betrayal.
The gunshot.
The screams.
Then silence.
“For three years, silence protected me.”
I reached for his hand.
“But now?”
He smiled.
“Now I know silence wasn't protection.”
“What was?”
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He looked toward Marcus.
“Family.”
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