Laurence was very satisfied with Ethan's attitude and started to smile.

"Chairman Parker." Laurence leaned his body forward, looking at Ethan with a serious face. "I think you already know our family very well. I'm not qualified to be Kylie's father, but I still will do my best to protect her."

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"Dad..." When Kylie wanted to say something, Laurence stopped her by shaking his hand.

"I hope you can cherish Kylie," Laurence said.

Ethan put down his overlapped legs and sat upright. "I promise I'll take good care of Kylie, and I only love her during this lifetime. No matter what will happen in the future, I won't allow anyone to separate us apart."

Kylie stared at Ethan, who seemed more serious than ever.

This was the first time Ethan had said to Laurence in that tone.

He made a promise and also swore an oath of loyalty.

Laurence's eyes were wet with tears. He was glad that Kylie finally found a man who understood her, loved her, and cherished her.

He smiled and lowered his head at once, then used his hand to wipe his face. "Well, you know, old people cry a lot..."

"Dad," Kylie whimpered. She held Laurence's hand and said with a happy smile, "Dad, you'll always be my dad!"

"Great, good girl!" Tears fell down through Laurence's face.

"Dad, don't be too excited." Kylie smiled and wiped tears off Laurence's face. "Don't forget you have heart disease."

"It won't kill me." Laurence wiped his eyes at the same time.

All of a sudden, the sofa softened, and Kylie turned her head to look over.

Ethan already stood up and raised the cup of coffee placed in front of Laurence. "Dad, please enjoy it."

Seeing that, Kylie was struck dumb.

Laurence also rounded his eyes in shock.

Was Lord Ethan serving him a cup of coffee? He even called him his dad? Laurence stood up at once, staring at the coffee with a smile on a face, but didn't know what to do.

Ethan never had formally severed anyone a coffee before, and he also felt embarrassed after standing for a long while with the coffee in his hands. Kylie reminded Laurence without hesitation. "Dad, your son-in-law, is serving you the coffee. Take it now!"

"Oh, right!" Laurence got his mind back. When he just reached out his hands to take it, he drew them back and wiped on his suit several times before he took the coffee cup. "Thanks!" After that, he had a drink of it.

However, he forgot this coffee was still very hot. Therefore, he spouted the coffee out the second he drank it into his mouth.

Luckily, Ethan pulled Kylie to his back with surprising agility.

Three of them exchanged a glance, then laughed out together.

Someone knocked on the door again, and the secretary walked in with a glass of milk. This time, she put it down before Kylie with great respect. "Manager Finch, please enjoy it."

"Thanks," Kylie said politely.

When the secretary left the office, she still looked at Ethan and seemed unwilling to leave. Nevertheless, Ethan's eyes were on Kylie's body all the time.

The secretary had to give up because it was quite obvious that Kylie was his only love.

The door was closed again, and Laurence remembered the reason why he called Kylie to meet him here.

"I have something to give you." Laurence drew out a box from the bottom of the desk.

He put it on the table, then opened it. "Here are something that once belonged to your mother. You can keep them to remember your mother."

There are several Emily's diplomas in the box, along with a photo and a diary.

Kylie picked up the diary at first. It was a book with a cowhide cover, but it was all blank inside. Besides, it was obvious that the front pages had been torn off.

"Dad, why is it blank?" Kylie turned the pages and asked at the same time. "Who has torn off the front pages?"

Laurence gave it a glance, then said with certainty, "This is your mother's diary, but I've never seen her writing anything down on it after we got married. I really have no idea when the front pages were torn off."

Kylie put the diary back into the box and noticed Ethan was looking at the photo. It was a black and white photo taken on a college campus. Around a dozen students stood together, and they must have attended a certain activity beforehand.

"Can you find my mother?" Kylie smiled. "She is as beautiful as me."

However, Ethan seemed serious and compressed his thin lips in silence.

"This one!" Kylie couldn't wait to point it out.

"This is your mother?" Ethan asked. He sounded like he couldn't believe it.

"Yes, don't we resemble each other?" Kylie wanted to put the photo next to her face to help Ethan see it clearly, but she rounded her eyes in shock when she saw another woman in the photo.

How is it possible?

She abruptly raised her head and looked at Ethan. They exchanged a knowing look.

"No way..." Kylie looked at the photo again, then pointed at the woman standing by Emily's side. "This... Is this your mother?"

"Really?" Laurence was surprised and took the photo. "Wow, Seattle is really small, and it seems you two are meant to be together."

He gave the photo back to Kylie and said, "I've met the woman once before. She came to send us when Emily and I left Seattle, and she also gave us five thousand dollars."

Five thousand dollars wasn't much nowadays, but it was a lot back in 30 years ago.

Even though Emily and Ethan's mother were good friends, it wasn't an easy decision for Ethan's mother to give Emily five thousand dollars!

They must have made a deal.

Kylie observed the woman in the photo once more. She was tall and beautiful and closely resembled Ethan's mother, but the short hair seemed the same as Agnes's.

On the way home, Kylie joked leaning against Ethan's arm in the car. "I think my mother and your mother had settled a deal to marry me into your family when they were in the same college!"

Ethan, instead, said with a serious face, "My mother didn't finish her college because she was carrying me. And Emily didn't get pregnant until she met Michael after her graduation. It's impossible according to the time."

Kylie rolled her eyes. She just wanted to cheer him up because he remained silent along the way after they left Garcia Entertainment. To her surprise, he took it so seriously.

"Well, then why was your mother so generous and gave my mother five thousand dollars all of a sudden?" Kylie leaned against the car window and thought for a while. "Did my mother pay the money back to your mother?"

At short notice, Knight XV came to an abrupt halt, which scared Kylie.

She turned to look at Ethan, and Ethan seemed as shocked as her.

An idea dawned on them at the same time, and they said with one accord, "Hush money!"

Kylie took out a pencil, and the diary in a hurry then started to smear graphite on the first page.

The yellowish paper was covered by graphite over time and gradually showed the writing.