After Enrico’s previous incident, the Lautners family members were obviously much more restrained and no longer dared to speak out in front of him.
The way they looked at Kevin also became complicated.
It may not have occurred to them that Enrico actually does not eat this set of male and female matters, or let Kevin hold to the backing, which makes them unable to continue to be unrestrained.
Paige could see the hidden thoughts of the Lautners family, and she thought that Kevin really had some energy problems and couldn’t take care of everything, which made these people want to do something.
The dinner wasn’t so much a joint meal, it was all in their own way.
Paige hadn’t seen any disputes of interest in two months, and it turned her stomach, so she dragged Gabriel off to set off fireworks.
The fireworks on the ground were lit and rose sharply into the air, bursting into brilliant colors in the darkness of the night, like a flower cascading into bloom and livening up the night.
“Ahhhhhhhh, it’s blooming it’s blooming!”
Gabriel stood in front of the flower bed and jumped up excitedly, turning his head back to Paige, “Mommy squat down, squat down, Gabriel will cover your ears.”
Paige laughed and squatted down, Gabriel hastily covered her ears and looked up excitedly at the bright and dark sky.
Enrico stood on the high porch, leaning his arms on the parapet and looking down at the two below, the light from the fireworks illuminating their smiling faces.
When the fireworks exploded, Paige put Gabriel into her arms, and Gabriel desperately stretched out his little hands to cover her ears … the whole look of a life together, mother and child love.
Looking at the two tightly snuggled together, Enrico snorted.
Is it necessary to hug so tightly?
“She was sedated by me the whole way from The Capital to the border to carry her over.”
A calm voice sounded behind him.
Enrico lowered his eyes and looked coldly down at the ground.
A pair of leather shoes appeared in his line of sight, and Kevin took a step over and stood beside him, looking down at Paige and Gabriel, and said to himself, “After she sobered up, she wanted to run to The Capital, to get to you.”
He was talking about when Paige first arrived at the border.
At that, Enrico’s face showed little expression.
“By the time I got to Wind Island, she was probably used to life there, she was calm and self-possessed, sensible about everything, and I’d never seen her like that before, knowing that everyone out there wanted her dead, and yet she still seemed like she was going crazy trying to run to The Capital.”
What calmness, what sanity, she had none in that moment.
Kevin laughed mockingly and looked at Paige, “Then I talked her down, and she stood there in that spot and said that in three years, three years at the most, she would definitely kill her way back to The Capital and would come back to you.”
The mother and son duo at the bottom were still engaged in watching the fireworks, and Gabriel was so excited he kept wailing.
“…”
Enrico listened without interrupting.
“I knew from that moment on that she was set on you.”
Kevin smiled bitterly, “During the time you lost your memory, I didn’t think you were good enough for her, I thought if you were okay like that, why shouldn’t I be okay, but when I thought about it later, I lost at the beginning long ago.”
“…”
“Wind Island is so close to me, if I exhaust everything, may not be unable to rush before you to save her, but I have too many scruples, my legs, and THE Lautners family, the border, scruples that gang of plutocrats including you, but also scruples the presidency … ”
Kevin looked down, his face lit up by the fireworks and full of astringency, “So all that being said, it was never a question of whether or not I was better than you, it was that I didn’t do enough from the start, and there was no need to compare behind me.”
Enrico knew where she was headed in the future when he dared to take everything he had, take his own life to protect her.
Him, on the other hand, he was willing to save her, but never put it all on the line.
“That goes without saying.”
Enrico said coldly, he didn’t have the patience to listen to Kevin’s heartfelt dissections because it was none of his business.
At that, Kevin let out a low chuckle and took out a carton of cigarettes and opened it, handing it to him, “Want one?”
“Don’t smoke.” Enrico refused.
“It’s a rare occasion you come here, so I’ll tell you about it, her living here?” Kevin said.
Enrico reached over and cupped a cigarette.
Kevin took one too and put it in his mouth, taking out his lighter to light it for him, and when Enrico ignored him, he lit it for himself.
Kevin turned and walked forward, pointing to the observation deck in the distance, “When we first got here, Paige loved to go there alone, with a pale face on top of her head, not knowing what she was looking at, and I was always worried she’d suddenly jump off.”
Enrico cupped his cigarette in his hand and looked over at what he said.
Under the black night, fireworks lit up every now and then, reflecting the observation deck, empty and nothing, just standing alone on a distant height with extremely low railings on all sides.
“During that time, she was so thin that her hands were sticking out, her knuckles and wrist bones were very obvious, and the whole thing looked as if it was just a skin over bones, her eyes were sunken in, and she couldn’t talk about being pretty anymore.” Kevin said.
When he said that, he heard a snort and Enrico lit a cigarette next to him.
A match was struck, and Enrico looked down and gathered his hand around the green flame to light the cigarette, the sparks reflecting his deep profile, the darkness under his eyes more than the silent night.
The cigarette is lit.
A splash of scarlet lights up and goes out in the night, the smoke lingering.
Kevin looked at him and continued, “They said that Paige and I chatted, in fact, during that time, she was not willing to say anything to me at all, just dive headfirst into her business, leaving early and returning late, doing things day and night, she also entered my intelligence organization, but all that she could find out was what kind of miracle doctor to cure your illness.”
“…”
Enrico listens and takes a hard bite of the cigarette in his mouth, but bites into a mouthful of astringent bitterness.
“One time I just couldn’t stand to see her in that state anymore, so I had a big fight with her, but as a result, she wouldn’t listen, she felt it was a waste of time to even bother with me, so I sent someone to lock her up, forcing her to rest.”
Kevin smiled lowly at the memory, “And guess what, she jumped out the window and ran away, the same room you’d been in before, it wasn’t short, scraped a big chunk of skin and bled so much she couldn’t stop.”
“What happened?” Enrico asked down the line.
“Then, just when I thought, sooner or later, she was going to die on me, she suddenly got better.”
Speaking of which, Kevin looked over at Enrico with complex eyes that seemed bleak and envious, “She found out she was pregnant with your child.”
“…”
Enrico’s heart begins to wander.
“Gabriel’s presence finally made her face up to how bad she was, and she started eating well and started sleeping on time …”
Kevin said, “You have this son of yours to thank for that, without him you might not even see Paige.”
Enrico leaned against a wall to the side and took a deep drag on his cigarette, then, expressionless, he took it down and cupped it in his hand, his voice was cold and low, “Give me your intelligence organization and I’ll return it when you’ve solved your troubles.”