Catrin took the brown book in her and Ryan, who stood on the side eyed it suspiciously.
"You can go back and do your work, Mr. Carl," she said, and nodding to her, the butler soon left.
Once he was gone, Catrin turned to look back at Ryan.
She didn’t say anything; simply kept her gaze on him. Ryan waited for a while but when he felt his patience thinning, he asked, "What is that?"
Catrin heard him and tilted her chin a little with a confident smile. "Didn’t you ask me how I can make you believe?" She raised the brown book in her hand and tilted her chin towards it. "Here," she said, "I will do it with this diary."
"Diary?" Ryan glanced at the brown book and then turned back to look at Catrin, who nodded to him as sure as before.
"Since Arwen’s early years, neither I nor Idris have time for Arwen," she said as she walked closer to take a seat down across Ryan. "We were too busy with the company, so most of the time, Arwen used to stay alone at home. At that time, she developed this habit." frёeωebɳovel.com
She put down the diary on the table. "The habit of journaling her talks, her emotions, her feelings, her wishes and everything. As long as she would feel something, she would write it down," she said and then slowly pushed the diary towards him.
Ryan’s expression turned complicated. He stared at the diary, trying hard to decipher the meaning behind all that he was listening to. But still, everything was sounding so surreal that it was difficult to bring himself to believe.
"Y-You mean she wrote about me in this book?" he asked, trying to confirm his thoughts for real. Deep in his eyes, one could see the desperation.
Catrin matched his gaze. "What don’t you take a look and see if she had mentioned you in there or not," she said and then nodded to the intention she suggested to him.
Ryan gazed down at the brown book and hesitated. It was Arwen’s diary. Looking into it wouldn’t be something she would want, but he was truly desperate to know if she had written about him anywhere or not.
He struggled for a while to decide whether he should or should not. In the end, his desperation got the best of him and he leaned forward to grab the book in his hand. His fingers tightened around its corner, making the padded cover of the book press under his strength.
"This …"
"It’s fine, Ryan," Catrin spoke in an empathetic tone. "Take a look. You should look into it to know if what was there between you and Arwen was just an arrangement between the two families or something more.
Ryan swallowed the lump he felt deep in his throat. Sifting his thoughts, he finally decided and opened the book to check. He didn’t begin from the first page, rather he chose to randomly open the book.
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