Alice Conley felt that words were not enough and swung her fist directly at Kyle Kinston, without a care for her pregnant belly.

She was too angry and full of hate, standing up for her friend. Mabel Quinn was only 23, and now she was gone?

Dorian Howards hurriedly grabbed his wife, fearing that if she made a mistake and provoked Kyle, even if Kyle merely reflexively waved his hand, Alice might not be able to withstand it.

"Let go of me!" Alice Conley protested, still unwilling to accept, "I need to stand up for Mabel. She’s suffered so much, it shouldn’t be like this, she could have been happy!"

"Alice..." Dorian said, "Stop talking, stop fighting. I think Kyle... he’s suffered enough. Mabel to him... she was everything."

She was Kyle’s soulmate! The only soulmate of a lifetime, the only person Kyle has ever loved!

With Mabel Quinn gone, Dorian Howards couldn’t even bear to think about Kyle Kinston’s future.

"The child... the child... she... she boarded that ship to save the child..." Kyle Kinston murmured. To her, that child was so important, why hadn’t he noticed before?

Why did he think she could quickly forget the pain of losing the child and they could soon return to how things were?

When she talked about returning to Falling City, going to the Ancestral Hall... was that already a kind of farewell?!

She wanted to divorce him, to escape... all to give birth to this child.

Why... why did he only realize all this now?!

He stumbled, unable to keep his balance, needing to brace himself on the table to support his body’s weight. In what kind of mood did she talk to him about forgiving him? And in what kind of mood did she say goodbye?

His chest hurt, the intense pain as if telling him what he had lost!

It hurt too much, his heart seemed to be contracting violently, every nerve in his body twisting, aching.

Today is clearly not a Full Moon, so why does he ache so much that he can’t breathe, is beyond himself?

Kyle Kinston’s hand gripped the edge of the table tightly, veins bulging on his hand, and before his eyes, it was all Mabel Quinn’s visage, her laugh, her smile. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

So beautiful, so good, yet it makes everything seem even more cruel now.

Finally, as if he could no longer bear this pain, he let out a low roar, pounding his heart with his right hand, "Mabel... Mabel..."

He called her name, but she would never respond to him again.

Dorian Howards struggled to restrain Alice Conley, watching Kyle Kinston’s state, feeling deep pity. Thus he said, "Kyle, it’s already come to this, don’t think too much about it, maybe you can still find Mabel."

Yet the word "find" was clearly just meant as comfort that anyone could hear.

"It was me." Kyle Kinston slowly raised his head, looking at Dorian Howards, tears continually rolling down from his bloodshot eyes. His face was full of despair, with a look that Dorian had never seen on his friend before.

The pain he expressed at this moment was not physical pain, but mental, spiritual, as if the whole person was trapped in the Hell Realm, unable to escape.