Shane stalked over to Jackson. “Where is Jacqueline?”

Lowering his eyes, Jackson murmured, “Please have a seat, and we’ll talk.”

“I asked you where Jacqueline is!” Shane kicked the desk so that that it screeched across the floor.

At the sight of the askew desk, Jackson knew that his best friend was truly livid and no longer dared to keep him in suspense. “She has left,” he answered honestly.

“Left?” Shane stared at him without a trace of emotion in his eyes.

Stricken by guilt, Jackson hung his head. “I-It was me who let her go. After leaving the villa, she left by herself. Even I have no idea where she’s gone right now.”

“Ah, what a great answer!” Shane gave a bark of sardonic laughter. “Jackson, I want to know why you did that.”

“Jacqueline contacted me and begged me to save her. She threatened to commit suicide if I didn’t agree to help her. Shane, you know she would’ve had no qualms doing so, considering her extreme personality.” Jackson looked at him beseechingly.

However, Shane merely snorted in response. “I don’t deny that, but I’ve already removed all dangerous objects from her room. As such, she couldn’t have done so.”

“While that’s true, a person who seeks death has thousands of ways to go around it that you can’t guard against all possibilities,” Jackson argued.

 

balled into fists. “So, you capitulated

love her. I’ve always loved her, so I can’t twiddle my thumbs while she loses her mind or dies. I’m sorry, Shane. Since I’m the one who freed her this

 

for I’ll definitely do so. However, I won’t let her off either.” After saying that

Jackson called

that, Shane halted in his

“Shane, can you please spare her this once since she has already left? Perhaps

Canting his head, Shane ruthlessly scoffed, “Do you really think she has repented? No, not at all! If that’s ever possible, she would’ve seen the errors of her ways long ago. She wouldn’t have asked you to help

“I know, but…”

Shane interrupted

moment, Jackson was

you really love

Jackson frowned. “Of course.”

seems to me that it’s not love at all. Instead, it’s an indulgence,” Shane asserted. “You claim to love her, yet you never once considered getting her to go for treatment despite knowing that she has a severe mental illness. You knew that she had done something wrong, yet you never thought of having

as though he wanted to protest, but he simply couldn’t

indulging her by doing all that, merely reluctant to see her

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