Chapter 1303: Chapter
"Mabel..." A gentle voice murmured as his forehead lightly rested against hers. "Please don’t leave me, okay? I know I was wrong, so very wrong, and hurt you deeply. I realize now I shouldn’t have kept things from you, shouldn’t have insisted on you aborting the child. Punish me however you want, but... please come back to me? Without you, I... I would die, truly die..."
His voice was like a deep temptation, causing her to lose herself... Today, it seemed particularly easy to recall those scenes from the past, their first meeting, their love, and the sweetness once shared between them.
"Do you... really want me to die?" His voice was like the night breeze, passing through her eardrums and caressing her heart.
Would he... die? In that instant, she felt a discomfort in her heart.
And his face, coming closer to hers, until his lips touched hers, she was still in that daze.
The kiss... was so tender, yet full of yearning... This kiss, though unfamiliar, felt so familiar... Just like back then, he always kissed her this way, and she so adored his kisses...
This kiss, from beginning to end... reminded her of those times, until his fingers gently caressed her lips reddened by the kiss. With a voice full of longing, he said, "You won’t let me die, will you?"
Mabel Quinn jolted back to her senses.
Heavens, just now... How did she let this happen? Mabel Quinn suddenly pushed Kyle Kinston away, lips burning fiercely, as if the sensation of the kiss still lingered there.
"If... if you’re worried about the Blood Curse acting up, then... then on full moon nights from now on, I... I can hold hands with you through them, so... you won’t have to worry about dying." She stammered slightly, turning to leave the room.
It always felt that if she stayed in this room any longer, something would happen between them.
But he took a quick step forward, blocking her path. "Do you think when I speak of dying, it’s only fear of the full moon’s pain?"
She paused, wanting to say, isn’t it? Yet under his gaze, the words stuck in her throat, unable to come out.
"Mabel Quinn, the Kinston Family has never feared death!" Kyle said. "If it were merely the full moon’s pain, the worst would be to end it ourselves. Do you know what the Kinston Family truly fears? Do you know what I truly fear?"
There was a heavy feeling in his tone.
She thought of the Kinston Family’s tablets in the Ancestral Hall, thought of the story of Florence Kinston he once shared with her.
"Not receiving the love of the one you love is the most terrifying thing. If I never met you or loved you in this life, then perhaps death would be a relief for me!" He said, but upon meeting her, upon loving her, he began to cherish his life, finding living in this world to be a blessing.
Mabel Quinn only felt her heart beating faster and faster, as if it were about to leap from her throat. Death... for him, was it relief? Deep down, a voice kept shouting, don’t let him die, don’t let him die!
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