Love Is Deaf and Dumb

Magda had been in love once.

Once, when she was young and wasn’t Mrs David Maximoff. She had fallen in love with a boy from the hills. His father worked at the Xavier Manor as a driver, and his mother was the head cook.

Erik Lehnsherr was his name, tall and lean-muscled. Erik couldn’t hear, speak, read, or write. But he had a fast brain and a quick wit. He had eyes of quicksilver that screamed troublemaker.

Sometimes, when her heart is heavy and the days are woeful, she wonders if her Erik will ever come into her life again.

When her Erik does come into her life again many years later, he doesn’t come alone. He comes along with Charles Xavier, the boy who had disappeared abruptly from the Xavier Manor after his mother remarried Kurt Marko.