CHAPTER 79: CHAPTER 79: TAKE IT TO HEART

"I’ve always been willing to stay by your side," Grace Yowell said with a gentle smile, but deep in her eyes, there was a hint of fear. She knew very well that with his personality, if he ever discovered the truths she had been desperately hiding, it would surely lead to her downfall.

However, she would never let that day come.

She would not let him and Mabel Quinn meet, no matter what, she had to keep Mabel far away.

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Even though Mabel Quinn wanted to avoid meeting Kyle Kinston, she couldn’t do so when he directly walked into her room to see her.

At that moment, she could only stare blankly at Kyle Kinston, completely at a loss for words. Just last night, she had been kissing and hugging him, taking advantage of him plenty.

He looked at her and glanced at the TV screen in the room that was on, "Watching TV?"

"Yes, this show... it’s pretty good," she replied awkwardly.

Then he simply sat down next to her on the sofa and started watching the drama that was playing.

Mabel Quinn was dumbfounded, he... he couldn’t possibly mean to watch TV with her, could he?

But given the current situation, watching TV with him was her only option. So, Mabel Quinn silently sat down beside Kyle Kinston.

Her gaze inadvertently started to secretly study him, wondering what his purpose was for coming to her room so late. Surely, it wasn’t just to watch TV with her.

But if not, then what could it be? Surely, he couldn’t have feelings for her!

Oh my God, what was she thinking! Even if there were feelings involved, it should be the women interested in him. Thinking about what she did to him last night, she didn’t know whether to admire her own audacity when she was drunk or to mourn her own embarrassment.

"If you want to look at me, you can do it openly. I told you, I don’t mind you looking at me," Kyle Kinston’s voice suddenly cut in, making Mabel Quinn’s face instantly flush with heat.

"I’m... I’m sorry," those three words slipped out of her mouth.

He looked at her with interest and said, "Sorry for what?"

"For what I did at the barbecue shop yesterday... please don’t take it to heart. I was drunk at the time and couldn’t really control my actions..."

"What if I do take it to heart?" he interrupted her.

Her eyes widened in shock, barely believing what she had just heard. No matter how she heard it, those words sounded incredibly ambiguous.

He lightly smiled, as if enjoying her surprise, "Mabel Quinn, do you think I’m someone you can kiss and touch whenever you want?"

She dumbly shook her head, still in a state of surprise.

"I took yesterday’s incident to heart, so you must too, understand?" he said. His words sounded more like a command, and for a moment, she felt that if she really insisted on not taking it to heart, this man might turn hostile, or even explode in rage.

She trembled slightly as she nodded, while he nonchalantly turned his head back to the TV screen.

Mabel Quinn’s already confused mind became even more muddled. What did he mean by those words just now? "Take it to heart" — does it mean to remember it for a lifetime?