The Moment I Let You Go Chapter 09
After our last conversation, Daniel grew more and more uneasy.
At night, he did not sleep, only stood on the balcony in a daze, who knew what he was thinking about.
Now he could not swallow a single bite.
Staring at the seaweed on his plate, he suddenly said, “Ms. Lexington, I want to go to work!”
I was startled.
“You don’t need to.
I can still cover your daily expenses.
“Besides, you can’t be away from water for too long.
Human jobs aren’t suitable for you.”
He was unusually insistent.
“Society is so advanced now – there has to be work that suits me.”
“Like what?”
“An aquarium.”
“I saw online that lots of visitors are obsessed with checking in with marine life.”
“I think I’d be a good fit.”
I said nothing, assuming he was just bored from being cooped up at home for so long.
It was not until the next morning, when I was treating a goat.
Worried about Daniel going out to take a job, I drifted off and nearly got kicked by the goat.
But a pair of handsome hands was faster than I was and pinned it down for me.
I looked up in confusion.
It was Killian.
The one who used to complain that the little courtyard had too many sick animals – too noisy, too smelly – and who had refused to come even once, had actually come.
I did not speak.
Not until noon, when I finally had time, did I ask, “What is it?”
Killian looked delighted; even that dispirited air he had in the hospital was gone.
“What I told you last time was true.”
“Do you know what a low-grade werebeast the merman you’re keeping is?”
“He can’t even cry.
His former owner tried everything to make him shed tears – knives, electric shocks – and he wouldn’t spill a single drop.”
“You adopted a completely useless werebeast.”
He spoke to me in a tone that was practically celebratory.
“What is even more terrifying is that during one of his beatings, when he fought back, he accidentally killed his former owner.”
“He was dumped at the Werebeast Administration, and no one dared to adopt him.”
“Later, he escaped and got caught by a street vendor.
If that vendor hadn’t injected him with a weakening agent, he’d probably have been killed too!”
“Ms. Lexington, let me come back to your side!”
“He can’t cry, you have to shoulder all his expenses, and he’s far too dangerous – like a time bomb that could go off at any moment!”
“But I’m different.
I get a stipend every month, and I’m paying Nadia’s ransom on schedule.
It’ll be paid off soon.
After that, I’ll hand over all my future stipends to you.”
My head was a mess.
I understood every word Killian said, but put together, why did it have to be so complicated?
I shoved my fingers into my hair and covered my head in irritation.
“Are you done?”
“If you’re done, you can leave!”
The buoyant look on Killian’s face faded bit by bit, replaced by anger, resentment, and hurt.
“I understand.”
“You’re completely in love with him now – so bewitched you can forgive anything he does, right?”
“If you don’t care about any of that, then you don’t care that he’s going to work at the aquarium for Nadia either, do you?”
I frowned.
“What do you mean?”
Killian pushed a photograph over to me; there was an address written under it.
But no matter how hard I tried, I could not make out the writing in the address.
All I could see was that, in the image, Daniel was smiling at Nadia with a gentle warmth.
After he had seen Nadia, did he also feel she was better than me?
