Love in Silence, Vengeance in Echo

The Morgan money is her father's, and Nancy Morgan gave up her claim to it the day she walked out of the house. She left after her boyfriend Hank was made deaf and mute by an accident. Zack Morgan told her not to go and she went anyway, and she pretended to be mute herself so that she could stay with Hank. For three years she worked odd jobs and put what she earned toward his treatment. Hank got his hearing and his speech back. He was ashamed of the years behind him and of Nancy playing the poor mute girl, and he started going after Yana, who wanted him for the charm he had come into. He pushed Nancy off with cruel words and long silences. Nancy went back to her family, moved abroad and put a life together there, and that is where she met Noah Vince.