Clearly, compared to the others present, he preferred having Ariella Sawyer sitting beside him.
Ariella was noticeably different from other actresses; she never initiated conversation and stayed quiet, respecting Ryan Walyon's silence without disrupting him.
Since he was young, Ryan Walyon's mind had always been filled with thoughts of just one girl.
The girl who loved cats, who appeared at the Walyon Family for the first time, holding a cat and smiling as if surrounded by beams of sunlight!
Aside from her, everyone else in his eyes was merely air.
The same went for Ariella Sawyer.
He didn't particularly like Ariella, but when she was sitting beside him, he didn't feel the resistance he usually felt around other women.
It wasn't that Ariella was special to him; it was purely because she understood how to read the situation, remained quiet, and knew when not to disturb him.
They sat together for quite a while before Ryan Walyon spoke first, "Why haven't you gone back?"
