The Blue Eyes

His foster parents were against his idea at first. It felt like they were fighting against a zombie, and they would be safe as long as they stayed behind the tall gate.

Kevin wanted to let the zombie in at first, but his parents were strongly against the idea because it was beyond dangerous. They thought they would be safe because Kevin said that he understood, but the next sentence uttered by the young scientist was like a disaster coming in another form.

They would be safe from the zombie, but it was Kevin who would sacrifice himself to the zombie by going outside the gate.

Both Benjamin and Charlotte were panicked, but then Kevin assured them by saying that he and the lady would just talk inside the car in front of the orphanage, and they could always observe them from afar.

Kris looked worried as well, but when he saw Kevin's assuring smile, he knew that Kevin had a plan for it. Kevin wouldn't risk himself for anything.

Sometimes Kris would be an annoying man for not believing in his lover when his lover was around another man, but in a situation like this, he always believed in his lover without any doubt in his heart.

That was why Kevin and Grace ended up having a private talk in the car. Grace was sitting behind the steering wheel, while Kevin was sitting on the passenger seat next to her.

"I'm not the one who ordered those people to attack the orphanage," Grace broke the silence between them that had been enveloping them for a few minutes.

"You can say that, but I need proof," Kevin replied without turning his head to the short-haired lady.

Kevin was the one who questioned the lady, and the lady was willing to give him an answer. However, he wouldn't believe in anything without proof.

"I don't have any proof," Grace spoke again nonchalantly. "It's your choice if you can't believe in me, but that's the truth. I'm not the one who ordered those men to attack the orphanage."

Kevin smirked upon hearing the lady's answer. Even if Grace didn't have any proof, he also didn't have any proof to prove that the lady was indeed behind the attack earlier.

"Why did you leave my mother?" The man suddenly brought up a different subject. He had the feeling that Grace Hasler wouldn't give him a satisfying answer related to the attack earlier, so he decided to use the opportunity to question the lady about another matter.

"Ah, so that's the information you got from your foster parents? They said that I left your mother when she needed me the most?"

Grace Hasler looked relaxed, but her question stunned Kevin. The question sounded like a normal question to ask for confirmation, but in Kevin's ears, Grace sounded like she was ridiculing him for believing his foster parents' words.

"You asked me that question, so do you mean you didn't leave my mother back then?" Kevin asked the lady again.

He knew that it wouldn't be easy for him to get the answer to his question. Grace Hasler always looked down on him, and even if they were technically step-siblings, Kevin had the feeling that the lady wouldn't change her attitude toward him.

Grace had known their real relationship, but she still acted coldly and ruthless toward him from the start. Grace had no intention to build a good relationship with him.

"I did leave your mother back then," Grace answered Kevin's question calmly. "Do you want to hear the story from my point of view, or you are enough with your foster parents' point of view of the story?"

Kevin still remembered how his adoptive mother said that Grace probably would brainwash him if he gave a chance for the fierce lady to talk with him. He had expected that the lady would ask him that kind of question, and even if he disliked Grace Hasler from the start, but he was still curious about the lady's version of the story.

"You can tell me your version of the story if you want to," Kevin finally decided.

The two people inside the car didn't look at each other during the conversation. Both of them chose to look ahead at the street that was getting darker as the sun had completely left the Earth.

The party probably would still go on if there was no attack, but the situation changed because of the unexpected attack.

"I met your mother when she was hiding from your father. That was just one day after the 2021 war ended, and that was the last time I saw your mother. I was only 14 back then, and I didn't understand what happened with her."

["Why are you hiding from Professor Joseph Beischel, Mom? I heard the news that he died in the explosion in the laboratory, so why are you still hiding from him? He's your husband, but why do you look so afraid of him?"

The young Grace held the older lady's hands tightly as she gazed at the lady with her warm eyes. The lady in front of her, Selena Beischel, stared back at her while smiling gloomily.

"It's a long story, my daughter," the professor replied. "Joseph is not a good person and will cause harm to the world, so I have to stay away from him. And you believe that he died in the explosion? The police couldn't even find his corpse, so you can't believe in some rumors easily like that."

Grace's face displayed a confused expression, but she still managed to respond, "I don't understand what happened between you and Professor Joseph, but what are you planning to do, Mom? You even bring Kevin with you, right?"

There were only the two of them inside one of the rooms in the abandoned building, but Grace knew that Selena was not alone in her runaway. 

"I indeed bring Kevin with me, but he won't be my son anymore starting from today, Grace."]