Chapter 218 - 208: First Love
In the darkness, inside the quiet room.
The two of them lay facing each other.
Kevin’s hand stretched over from under Daisy’s neck, letting her rest on it.
His other arm was placed on her back, touching her soft hair.
As they lay quietly for a while, Kevin suddenly asked in a low voice, “Are you thinking about how to not want me?”
The voice was right in her ear, and Daisy could hear a trace of grievance. She looked up at him.
Though the room was very dark, she could still faintly see Kevin’s eyebrows and eyes.
“Does this silence mean… you think I came here today to break up?” Kevin said.
Daisy still didn’t say anything, almost as if she agreed.
Seeing her acquiescent response, Kevin gritted his teeth, and after a while, he clenched his teeth and said, “I came here to settle the score.”
“Settle what?”
“Whatever I remember, I’ll settle.” Kevin exclaimed angrily.
Daisy:
“Do you think I’d hear Edward Kirsten babble a few words and then come over here to break up?” Kevin forced his voice to soften somewhat, then pinched her face, “Little girl, you really know how to annoy someone.”
“He wasn’t exactly babbling.” Daisy said calmly.
Kevin was silent for a moment, and then couldn’t help but feel heartache. He hugged Daisy closer and kissed the top of her head: “Then tell me, which parts of what he said were not nonsense?”
“Most of it was true?”
“What about the small part?”
Daisy thought for a moment and decided to clear things up. In a flat voice, she said, “This is my first love affair.”
Kevin seemed to be stunned for a moment, then he laughed, “Oh, I’m your first love.”
Suddenly, Daisy felt that this man’s mood changed too quickly, and even had reason to suspect that he had learned the art of face-changing in Peking opera at home.
“Little girl, I like you, and I’ll get to know you little by little. My eyes can see, I only want to believe what I see for myself. I know what kind of person you are, and I don’t need anyone else to tell me.”
Daisy quietly rested on his arm, and because they were closer, she could even hear his heartbeat.
“Do I seem like a jerk? I say I like you and I like you, and then I don’t like you after hearing a few words from others.”
Daisy still didn’t say anything.
Kevin’s hand gently patted her back: “Don’t think too much. It’s easy to be Mrs. Clark. You don’t have to do anything, don’t need a great ability, high education, or a good family background. You just need to be yourself, and you’re the best. I
like it when my little girl is happy.”
After he finished speaking, Daisy suddenly leaned against him and buried her face in his shoulder.
Kevin hugged her a little tighter, touching her head but not saying anything more.
After a while, Daisy said, “I was the one who found Mason Davis’s address.”
Back then, Edward Kirsten lied to her, saying that Mason had cheated him and taken something very important from him. That’s why she helped him.
She didn’t expect that a few days later, she would see the corpses of their family of three.
Edward Kirsten kept everything from her and didn’t let her know anything.
That day, Alice Eugene suddenly came back and said he would take her to a place.
She didn’t think much about it and just went along with him.
That was the first time she found out that there was a basement where she lived.
There was a strong smell of blood downstairs, and Alice took her all the way.
She first saw Edward Kirsten, and then she saw the corpses of Mason Davis and his family.
She remembered it very clearly. It was the first time she saw such a ferocious and twisted expression on Edward Kirsten’s face.
It was also the first time she saw Edward Kirsten lose his temper and hit someone. He slapped Alice Eugene very hard, questioning why he had brought her there.
“It’s not your fault. Mason Davis was never innocent.” Kevin Clark didn’t use a comforting tone, he was just stating a fact, “He must have known that thing was harmful. But after he made enough money, he didn’t want to continue doing it, so he ran away.”
“But…his wife and child…” Daisy Zane personally investigated their family of three’s information, “The child was only four years old.”
Because her face was buried in his shoulder, Daisy Zane’s voice was somewhat muffled. But there was still no emotional fluctuation. Flat and cold.
As if she was describing something that had nothing to do with herself.
Kevin understood why her hacking skills were so good, but she never used them.
She felt guilty.
“You don’t need to take on the sins of others, said Kevin.
Daisy Zane was silent.
Kevin remained silent for a while before saying, “Tell me, what happened after that?”
After that…
For a long time, she ignored Edward Kirsten. At first, Edward would try to coax her nicely.
But as time went on, his malicious nature was exposed.
He became more and more irritable because she ignored him and rejected him.
Unable to accept his twisted values, his crazed reasoning, and his so-called “truth” in his heart.
The more she refused, the harder Edward tried to force his ideas on her, until she became highly resistant.
How could Edward accept her turning away from him?
So he kept provoking her, brainwashing her. If she couldn’t accept it, he would forcibly make her just like him.
So he was like a madman, telling her every day that the death of the Davis family was her fault.
He told her that even though she despised him, she was already that kind of person.
And threatened her with the people around her.
Telling her that the Davis family tragedy was just the beginning, and she would use her hacking skills to kill even more people in the future.
And if she didn’t obey, he would kill someone who frequently took care of her.
So… Daisy Zane cut off her own ten fingers.
Edward was frightened at that time, and he didn’t dare to provoke her for a long time afterward.
The two entered a standoff period.
Later, taking advantage of Edward’s reluctance to visit her frequently, Daisy Zane planned an escape.
She didn’t tell Kevin much about it, but simply said, “I tried to escape once, Jack Amos helped me. But… it wasn’t successful.”
Kevin realized why Edward wanted to kill Jack Amos.
“I was only away for 22 hours before I got caught and taken back,” Daisy Zane said, “It’s because of this that I got Jack Amos killed.”
Twenty-two hours… Kevin remembered she had said that Jack had been stabbed 22 times.
One knife per hour, how could his little girl have endured that.
Kevin held her a little tighter, his voice slightly hoarse, “Little girl, the sin is Edward’s, you shouldn’t feel so guilty for his sins.”
Daisy Zane’s fingertips circled his front buttons, listening to him quietly.
“Also, there is something that wasn’t done right,” Kevin said, “Although it was your hacker technology that found Mason Davis and made you feel that hacking wasn’t a good thing for you. But your skills can have other positive uses, like… saving Olivia Lane. There’s no need to give up a valuable skill just because of one bad experience.”
Daisy Zane listened to his words, remained silent for a moment, and said softly, “You sound like someone I know.”
Who?”
Daisy Zane lifted her head from his shoulder, resting it back on his arm, and said, “Someone who looks a lot like Anisa Cooper.”
“So…. do I resemble Anisa Cooper?”