Mabel Quinn was stunned for a moment before she realized that the Daniel Harris before her was deeply haggard, his usual elegance and nobility had been replaced by a sense of profound desolation. His beautiful dark eyes were filled with a look of pain.
This version of Daniel Harris was something she had never seen before. Mabel was somewhat surprised and asked, "Mr. Harris, is there something you need?"
The words "Mr. Harris" made Daniel laugh, but the laughter was filled with sadness. "To you, am I just Mr. Harris? Why didn’t you tell me your real name back then? Why didn’t you tell me your name was Mabel Quinn? Even if you had whispered it to me secretly, even if you just told me a single character of your name! Instead, it took all these years for me to learn that the girl who accompanied me through that dark world was actually named Mabel Quinn."
They had missed too much between them, had they not? Was it destined from the start, when she used the name "Grace", that they would miss each other?!
Daniel gazed at Mabel, and the sorrow seemed to spread ceaselessly inside him.
Mabel’s body shook violently, her eyes widening at Daniel. After a while, she finally said, "I don’t know what meaning there is to your words now, Mr. Harris."
"I got the manuscript of your book, Sound of the Wind, from a servant of the Grant Family. I also saw the words you wrote at the end of that manuscript," Daniel said. Those two sentences pained him each time he read them. "You wrote that your greatest wish was that one day I could see this colorful world with my own eyes. You also wrote that if I needed your eyes, you were willing to share one of your eyes with me. I was blind, I was foolish, I was arrogant, thinking everything could be determined by superficial evidence while ignoring the feeling. You were clearly in front of me, I clearly felt something for you, but I refused to believe your words..." Thɪs chapter is updated by novel⦿fire.net
How many mistakes had he made? Every time he thought about everything between them, it felt unbearably painful.
Mabel pressed her lips, looking at the Daniel before her, suddenly finding it all absurdly laughable. That manuscript—who would have thought it survived all these years and ended up in Daniel’s hands?
Back then, the feelings she had when she wrote those words at the end of the manuscript, she actually still remembered them now. She thought if there was a day she reunited with her cherished brother Isaac Zimmerman, it would be one filled with joy and emotion.
And now, that brother Isaac had finally recognized her, yet all she felt was bitterness. What good was it that he recognized her now? In the past, she told him she was the one who stayed with him as a child, and he chose to believe Grace Yowell. When she was victimized by Grace Yowell at the police station, he sided with Grace and forced her to apologize.
Those scars were engraved so deeply, they broke her spirit and made her decide to completely bury that past.
Yet, just when she had let him go, he came back to tell her he recognized her. How absurd and yet, how utterly pitiful.
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