She Read Their Lips and Ruined Them

I'm hard of hearing. The day the Hensons took me back, the fake heiress Sabina Henson leaned close to my ear and smiled.

「Sis, it's actually kind of nice that you can't hear well.」

「At least when people call you a deaf hick, you won't have to feel bad about it.」

She kept her voice low.

My mother, Valerie Delgado, only saw her linking arms with me, all affection.

I nodded and opened the live captions on my phone.

A line of text jumped onto the screen.

【deaf hick】

The whole living room went quiet.

I held the phone up in front of her.

「Do me a favor and say it again.」