Natalie takes his hand. “Then teach me to hear again the hard way.” She rejects the memory wipe. One year later. Natalie’s hearing returns to 95%—not perfect, but enough to hear Samuel’s heartbeat. They run the library together, and he reads aloud to the deaf children in sign language and spoken word at the same time.
Samuel Kael is now the most powerful man in the city. He’s also dying—a rare genetic condition accelerated by the same accident. His ruthless board doesn’t know. His ex-fiancée, a socialite named Celeste, is plotting a takeover. The Promise Of Happiness Novel Natalie And Samuel Pdf
They move into his penthouse. Samuel is distant but obsessive: he learns ASL in three weeks; he installs vibrating floor sensors so she never misses a door knock; he fires a chef who laughed at her hearing aids. Natalie takes his hand
When Samuel learns that Natalie’s new landlord is threatening to evict her library, he anonymously buys the entire building. Then he appears in person—taller, colder, with silver threading his dark hair. Natalie’s hearing returns to 95%—not perfect, but enough
Natalie begins to notice things. The accident wasn’t random—it was an inside job from his own family. Samuel took the blame and left her to protect her from them. The note? It was forged by his mother. Chapter 5: The Truth Heats Up One night, Samuel has a seizure. Natalie finds his medical file: “Weeks to live without the new stem-cell therapy.” The therapy is ready—but Celeste has frozen the company assets.
Celeste is ousted. The therapy is approved. But Natalie faces a choice: the hearing implant will work perfectly, but it requires her to forget the last six years (the trauma, the silence, and Samuel ) to rewire her brain’s emotional memory.