She was momentarily taken aback, then nodded, "Is it that tonight, we have to be together all the time again?" They’ve been living together for several months now, and she’s noticed that each month, there’s always one day when he insists on staying with her from nightfall onwards. Sometimes, they would hold hands watching TV or reading books together. Other times, he would hold her as they pretended to nap or even insisted on bathing together—essentially, not being separated for a moment.
At first, she found it a bit uncomfortable, but he persisted. Eventually, it turned into a habit over these few months.
"But Kyle, why do we have to do this one night every month?" Mabel Quinn asked, puzzled.
Kyle Kinston lowered his gaze, his voice sounding somewhat ethereal, "Just consider it a kind of ritual."
"A ritual?" She was slightly stunned.
"A ritual that belongs to the Kinston Family; in the future, you’ll understand." But for now, it’s not the time, not yet the moment to tell her the Kinston Family’s greatest secret.
Unless one day, he could truly be sure that she could never leave him, only then would he tell her, revealing his greatest secret, letting her hold his life in her hands.
But for now, it just wouldn’t do...
Mabel didn’t insist on probing further, and smiled, saying, "Alright, I’ll wait to know in the future." No matter what the reason is, she would wait for the day he was willing to tell her.
If this so-called ritual was a kind of test, she would gladly accept it.
When Mabel arrived at the Corporation, Lilith pulled her aside and said, "Nothing happened to you last night, right? Mr. Kinston called me, and it shocked me. Didn’t you take a cab back? There wasn’t an accident on the road, was there?"
Mabel broke into a cold sweat, hurriedly explaining, "No, no, it’s not what you think. I just accidentally dropped my phone yesterday, and Kyle couldn’t find me for a while, so he got a bit anxious."
"That’s good," Lilith said, "But Mr. Kinston really cares about you. When he called me yesterday, I could hear the anxiety in his voice. I truly envy you for having such a devoted boyfriend. I wonder when I’ll find a boyfriend who loves me that much?"
"You will; you’ll also find a good boyfriend," Mabel smiled, "By the way, until when did your banquet last yesterday?"
"Shortly after you left, Director Harris also left, and then Grace Yowell left right behind him. With the main characters gone, the banquet naturally ended, and everyone dispersed," Lilith said.
Upon hearing that Daniel Harris left soon after, Mabel’s face showed a slight uneasiness. After chatting with Lilith a bit more, she returned to her seat.
The matters between her and Daniel Harris should perhaps end here. Childhood memories, after all, are just memories to be buried deep in the heart. From now on, Daniel Harris is just Daniel Harris, Isaac Zimmerman, just someone in her memories.
Mabel silently told herself this in her heart, if spending moments without separation with Kyle at night was a Kinston Family ritual, then at this moment, in her heart, she was performing another ritual—one of saying goodbye to the person in her memory.
After quite some time, Mabel finally turned on the computer on her desk and began to enter work mode.