He paused, then added, “Perhaps you veiled her existence well during that time, and these pages of your past remained largely unturned.”

Holden maintained a stoic silence, offering no rebuttal to Devin’s words.

His desire to unearth the truth had taken root like a gnawing hunger.

In the past, he had been content to let his memories lie dormant, heeding his grandfather’s counsel that the past was a ship long sailed.

An unsettling feeling gnawed at Holden, unlike any he had experienced before. The hunger to unravel the mysteries of yesteryears ate at him with a relentlessness he couldn’t ignore. For the first time, he felt that he would lose himself if he didn’t know his past.

He remained in contemplative silence for a moment before finally saying, “Devin, I want you to seek out a psychologist for me. I wish I could reclaim the fragments of my memory from five years ago.”

Devin’s heart skipped a beat upon hearing this, as he wondered if Holden had stumbled upon some truth.

merely acquiesced,

it was an unfamiliar number. He glanced at the screen and answered. Melon’s voice on the other end

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