Looking at the man as he sat on the sofa and fiddled with
the safe on the table, she said softly, “Griffon, thank you for preparing all these for me.”
Griffon entered the pa*sword on the safe and looked up at her with his beautiful eyes, “Come here.”
When he said “come here”, Taya was reminded of the past.
At that time, they were also in Mansion No. 8. When he saw her, the phrase he said the most to her was “come here”.
However, he used to be domineering and indifferent, while he was loving and affectionate now. It was as if he had reserved all his tenderness for her.
Taya stopped thinking about the past and walked over before he pulled her into his lap.
Wrapping his arms around her from behind, he reached out his hands and opened the safe on the table.
Taya was surprised to see the beige scarf inside, along with her photo and a torn letter held together with many tapes.
She reached out her hand to touch the scarf and lowered her gaze thoughtfully before remembering that it was something she left behind in Mansion No. 8.
And that photo was of her lying on her side while sleeping in bed.
She picked up the photo and looked over her shoulder at Griffon, “When did you take this?”
The man gazed at her remorsefully, “You wanted to leave me a photo, so…”
Before he could finish, Taya caught on.
Back then, she thought she was going to die soon, so she begged him to take a photo of her, hoping that he would keep it as a souvenir.
But at that time, Griffon probably heard her calling Sila s’s name in her sleep and turned her down.
Taya thought that he wouldn’t think about it afterward, and had not expected him to take her photo in secret. Knowing this, she felt somewhat relieved of the regret that had bugged her.
She looked at Griffon and smiled, but he said solemnly, “I kept looking at it during those few years.”
If it wasn’t for this photo, Taya’s image in his mind would have been blurry, and he wouldn’t have suffered so much missing her.
Hearing this, Taya gently kissed his forehead, “That was the past. Now that I’m by your side, you don’t need it anymore.”
She put the photo back into the safe, “I’ll take more photos with you in the future…”
Hearing her promise, Griffon, who couldn’t get over the past, was gradually filled with warmth.
Taya’s fingers caressed the letter that had been taped back together, “I remember I tore it.”
The man behind her replied softly, “Even if the thing you left me was torn, I would restore it.”
Just like their relationship, even if it was once broken, he would do his best to repair it. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have gotten engaged now.
Taya scolded him for being foolish, but her fingers picked up the suicide note written with few words.
Seeing what she wrote and a few lines that had been added below, her eyes gradually turned red.
Her letter read:
“Griffon,
He said, ‘Do not wishfully think that I would love you!
It turned out that he doesn’t love me…”
Added underneath her message was in Griffon’ handwriting:
“Taya,
It was I who wishfully thought you would love me.
Unfortunately, you don’t.”
What he wrote had been smudged many times and looked a little blurry. It must have been written a long, long time ago.
Taya could guess that after she tore the letter to pieces, he had picked them up and pasted them together before adding his message.
She did not know how much the man behind her had
struggled when he wrote these three lines.
All she knew was that when she was holding the crumpled letter, her tears couldn’t stop falling.
“Some people say that when we want something or think about someone badly, we would surely receive a res
Her tears dropped on the back of his hands and startled the man who was immersed in his memories.
Loosening his arms, he let her turn around, then pulled her over to sit on his lap again.
His hands held her palm-sized face, then gently wiped her tears away with the pulp of his fingers.
“I didn’t show you this to make you cry, but to let you know that I have always loved you.”
He couldn’t go back in time, so this was the only way he could let her know that he used to love her in secret in the past.
Feeling his love, Taya nodded, then asked untimely, “Have I ruined my make-up?”
Harper helped her put on makeup for half an hour just to make her look beautiful on the night of the proposal, but she knew she must have ruined it and looked ugly with all the crying.
Hugging her tight, the man curled his lips into a half-smile, “I don’t mind about it, but crying is not good for your eyes.
Please stop, okay?”
His voice had always been cold, but talking to her, he tried his best to sound gentle. This warmed her heart.
Putting her hands on his shoulders, she lowered her head to look at him, “Has anyone ever told you that you actually look good when you smile?”
He seldom smiled, but when he did, his beautiful eyes and his thin lips would smile together.
Hearing this, Griffon nodded, “Yes.”
When Taya heard his answer, she suddenly felt jealous, “Who was it?”
“Doesn’t he seldom smile? Who would make such a comment?” She thought, “Usually only a woman would make
such a comment. I wonder who she was?”
The smile in Griffon’ eyes deepened, “Take a guess.”
Taya’s calm face was tinged with unhappiness, “I’ve no idea.”
Raising his head slightly, the man leaned against the edge of the sofa and looked at her with a smile, “Mrs. Knight, are you jealous?”
As he guessed correctly, a look of embarra*sment flashed across her face, but she refused to admit it, “I’m not, okay?”
Griffon held her waist and pulled her closer, then parted his lips to kiss hers.
As their moist and warm lips met, the man said in a deep voice, “Mrs. Knight, I’ve waited few years for you to get jealous.”
Taya wanted to tell him that after they separated, she had always been jealous of him and Tara, but he didn’t give her a chance to speak.
His bony fingers pressed the back of her head to tilt her perfect chin up as he kissed her madly and pa*sionately.
Sitting on his lap, Taya enjoyed the kiss, but she still tried her best to push him off her, “You still haven’t told me who said that.”
Griffon, whose eyes were dreamy, saw her jealously demanding an answer and suddenly chuckled, “Who else but you?”
Taya blushed in embarra*sment and thought Griffon knew her so well that she had failed to get the upper hand even once.
Not wanting to admit defeat, she snorted, then got off his lap, hoping to hide in the bathroom, but he scooped her up.
“Remember what I said before about the one-time compensation?”
That husky voice was seductive, but she was unaffected and shook her head, “Nope.”
Seeing that she couldn’t be seduced, the man gazed into her eyes with his sparkling eyes, “It’s okay, as long as I remember!”