Even though Mo Xi knew that Donovan wouldn"t hurt her, she didn"t want to talk to him alone because she could see that Donovan loved her. That made her felt a little uncomfortable, especially because, be it in the past or now, she only saw him as a close friend. Although Alexander used to like her as well, unlike Alexander, Donovan doesn"t bother to hide his feelings.
Mo Xi could see all those emotions, mixed emotions from Donovan"s eyes as he looked at her hoping to find an answer that he desperately needed from her.
Donovan looked at Valerie and Yan Chu for a moment and realized that they were not going to move. He didn"t even realize that Valerie was someone that he knew in the past because he was too focus on what he wanted to say to Mo Xi.
Donovan sighed and decided just to speak as though they weren"t around.
Donovan looked at Mo Xi in the eyes once again before he spoke, "You finally remember me?"
Mo Xi couldn"t stand his burning stare, especially when she knew that Jing Mo Chen"s in her heart.
Hence, Mo Xi looked away while she spoke, "Why do you want to talk to me? I don"t think we have anything to talk about."
"You know why. I know you don"t want to talk to me, but I have a lot to say to you. A lot to say to my little star..."
Mo Xi was shocked for a moment when she heard Donovan calling the name that he used to call her when they were still young. Although she knew that he knew who she was, it was still very shocking to hear about things related to their younger days.
"How did you know?"
Donovan smiled happily and thought back on their past, "You have a habit of rubbing your thumb and index finger when you are thinking deeply. You used to do that when you are reading as well. You love to read up on things that you didn"t know and understand, and each time you read something new, you would rub your thumb and index finger as you tried to think."
Mo Xi looked at her hand in surprise as not many knew about this habit of hers. She was even more shocked because she herself didn"t realize that she had this habit until Jing Mo Chen point out one day, and she asked the others if she really had that habit. That was when Yan Chu and others who had followed her closely for a long time told her that she did have that habit.
Yan Chu and Valerie also looked at Donovan and Mo Xi in shock as they don"t know what was going on. They couldn"t understand why Donovan would know about Mo Xi"s habit, nor do they know why he called her my little star. They were also stunned by how casual the two were as though they had known each other for their whole lives.
Donovan smiled happily once again because Mo Xi"s reaction told him that she remembered him.
"You really remember me…"
Mo Xi put down her hand and turned back to look at Donovan, "I always remembered you. I just didn"t expect someone that was said to be dead would come back alive. I also didn"t expect that our lives would be linked in such ways."
Donovan then recalled that his grandfather told him that he was to wipe off his past when he went back to their family. Hence, that meant that his grandfather had removed his existence from whatever he had done before since that day.
"I could say that about you as well…"
"Did you wish that I was dead?"
"No! Of course not!"
Mo Xi"s question made Donovan lost his calmness immediately.
"I never wanted you to be hurt."
Donovan went forward and tried to take Mo Xi"s hand. However, she dodged away and turned towards the gla.s.s window again.
Donovan"s presence reminded Mo Xi about their childhood, and that was why it was even more insulting that they had such a great time together when his parents had killed her parents. Their lives had already linked up before they knew it.
Mo Xi knew that whatever his parents did had nothing to do with him, but she still couldn"t help but think about how funny everything seemed.
Donovan"s heart sunk when Mo Xi moved away from him.
However, Donovan didn"t want to give up this chance to explain to her what she meant to him.
"I wanted to save you that night, but my grandfather locked me up. I tried to get out many times, but I couldn"t... Please. Believe me. I would never want you to be dead. I tried to stop their plans many times before also, but the outcome is always the same..."
Mo Xi sighed when she heard Donovan"s explanation. Although he did not create those plans, the fact that he was part of Poker was enough to make her unable to let go of everything at once.
If she hadn"t thought about the plans of disappearing way before that incident on the hill. If Cayden and the others weren"t prepared that day. If they were a few seconds too late. If she didn"t know how to fight. If something happened to Yang Zhen Ying or her babies.
What was she going to do?
How could she live her life as usual? Nothing would ever be the same anymore if they weren"t prepared.
Something could have happened to Yang Zhen Ying if she didn"t try to rescue her that day and tried to keep her babies safe. Although Jing Mo Chen and the others are capable of rescuing Yang Zhen Ying, there was a possibility that they couldn"t. How could she let that possibility, be it high or low, happen?
Although she never spoke about it, the image of the fire, that engulfed the house when the bomb, was donated was still imprinted in her mind.