Deceiving Her Ears: Ignoring Your Call-Chapter 20: Can’t Hear Any Sound

"Did you find Isaac? I just saw him heading this way..."

"He’s not this way."

Jessica Vance turned around, blocking the person talking to her, smiling as she said, "Let’s go check over there."

"Oh, okay."

The person turned and walked in front, with Jessica following behind.

In an instant, the smile on her face vanished completely, leaving only cold indifference.

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"Wait at the entrance, we’ll leave together."

After saying this, Isaac Vaughn turned and left.

Natalie Kendall patted her flushed face, calmed her breathing and heartbeat, and walked toward the villa entrance.

"Nat?"

Suddenly, a female voice rang out.

Natalie was surprised to see Jessica Vance.

"You’re at the party too. Oh right, Jason is here."

Jessica grabbed Natalie affectionately and said, "I just saw Jason over there. I’ll take you to him."

Without giving Natalie a chance to refuse, she pulled her over to the outdoor pool.

Indeed, Jason Grant was there.

But he wasn’t alone; he was with that female internet celebrity.

The female internet celebrity had changed into a bikini, showcasing a slim waist, long legs, and a perky butt, with her chest resembling two hanging peaches—her figure was truly attractive.

Jason had one hand around the female influencer’s waist, and the other hand was affectionately roaming over her body.

Their lips soon locked together, inseparable like magnets.

Later, they staggered upstairs, and it was easy to guess with a nudge of the toes what they were going upstairs to do.

"Oh!"

Witnessing this, Jessica showed a flustered and helpless expression, saying to Natalie, "I didn’t mean to, I didn’t expect... Jason would..."

"It’s okay." Natalie’s expression didn’t change at all, showing no sign of anger at catching them in the act.

She and Jason were just maintaining appearances.

No matter how many women Jason played with, it had nothing to do with her.

"Nat, aren’t you angry?" Jessica asked in surprise.

Natalie looked at her and said calmly, "I have something else to do, I’m leaving first."

After saying this, she took a few steps, only to hear Jessica’s voice coming from behind.

"Is it because you’re with Isaac, so you’re not angry?"

Natalie’s entire body trembled.

She turned around stiffly, meeting Jessica’s cold gaze.

Jessica crossed her arms and walked up to her. "I saw it. You and Isaac."

Natalie didn’t know how to react, her hands clenched at her sides. She could only try to remain calm and composed.

"You look so pure," Jessica patted her shoulder, her tone filled with pity and sighs, "But I didn’t expect you to be so naive."

"Isaac is Jason’s nephew, you’re Isaac’s uncle’s wife, yet you’re involved with him."

"Don’t you think you’ll be discovered?"

A crack appeared on Natalie’s blank expression.

"Aunt Vanya likes you a lot. She praised you so much to me, said you were well-behaved, said you were good at studying. And you?"

After a pause, Jessica’s expression turned contemptuous: "Yet you seduce her son and betray her brother."

"Natalie, you’re really shameless."

Natalie’s icy mask finally cracked.

Just then, her phone rang.

It was Isaac calling.

Probably to ask why she hadn’t yet come to the entrance.

Natalie gripped her phone tightly, took a light breath, and that breath went into her lungs, causing them to ache.

In an evasive manner, she walked past Jessica.

Jessica stared at her back, recalling the way Isaac had kissed her.

The fire of jealousy erupted like a prairie blaze.

At that moment, Jessica thought, if only Natalie would disappear.

"Splash!" A sound of something hitting the water.

Jessica came back to her senses, looked at her outstretched hands, and then directed her gaze to the struggling Natalie in the pool.

Natalie could swim.

But the instant Jessica pushed her into the water, her calf cramped, causing her to struggle in the water for a long time, swallowing a lot of water.

"It seems someone is drowning!"

"Who? Who?"

"Don’t worry about it now! Save the person first!"

Natalie was pulled up, lying soaked on the edge of the pool.

Someone draped a towel over her.

She lifted her head and saw that there were many people surrounding her.

Their mouths opened and closed, but not a sound came out.

In no time.

She realized something was wrong.

It wasn’t that they were silent.

It was that she couldn’t hear.

She immediately reached for the hearing aid in her ear.

It wasn’t there!

There was no hearing aid in her ear.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"Why aren’t you saying anything?"

"Strange, what’s wrong with her?"

Natalie looked at the faces of those people in fear, their mouths kept opening and closing, but her world was silent, with not a single sound.

"Hey, you..."

Someone reached out to touch her shoulder.

Natalie, in panic, knocked away the hand. She opened her mouth but didn’t know if she made any sound, neither did she know if her behavior made them think she was crazy.

While the surrounding people only heard her mumble unclearly: "Don’t, don’t touch... me..."

Everyone exchanged glances, no one approached her again.

At the edge of the crowd.

Jessica watched Natalie coldly, as if she were a madwoman, a sneer forming at the corner of her mouth.

"Get away!"

Suddenly, a cold male voice resounded.

Jessica was shocked to see Isaac Vaughn suddenly appear, stepping forward to meet him.

But Isaac walked past her without a glance, as though she were just air.

"Natalie!"

Isaac knelt on one knee in front of Natalie, gripping her shoulders, "What happened to you?"

Seeing him, tears instantly filled Natalie’s eyes.

But she watched Isaac’s lips move and still couldn’t hear a word.

Isaac quickly realized something was wrong with her.

The hearing aid in her ear was missing!

The next moment.

Isaac withdrew his hands from gripping her shoulders.

Natalie looked at him in shock.

She heard him speak.

Not quite right.

To be precise, she wasn’t really "hearing" but "seeing".

Isaac was signing.

He told her not to be afraid, and asked if she was okay.

Natalie suddenly calmed down.

She shook her head to indicate she was fine.

He also asked if she knew where the hearing aid might have fallen.

Natalie thought it might have fallen into the pool while she was struggling.

So she looked toward the pool.

Isaac followed her gaze to the pool.

On the water’s surface, a small white object was floating.

It was her hearing aid.

Without hesitation, Isaac jumped into the water.

The pool water only reached his chest; he stretched out his long arm to retrieve the hearing aid, then sprang back onto the shore.

The hearing aid Natalie’s using is waterproof, and once it was placed back in her ear, she could finally hear again.

"Can you hear?"

Natalie looked up at Isaac and nodded.

After thinking for a moment, she spoke, "I can hear."

Isaac helped her up, asking, "Who pushed you in?"