Feel the Way You Feel, My Love

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.

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.

into fists. “So, you capitulated because you think that she’ll

my thumbs while she loses her mind or dies. I’m sorry, Shane. Since I’m

so. However, I won’t let her off either.”

Jackson called

Shane halted in

can you please spare her

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

“I know, but…”

you really love her?” Shane interrupted all

Jackson was

asked if you really love her,” Shane

Jackson frowned. “Of course.”

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

he simply couldn’t utter the words that were right on the tip of his

her by doing all that, merely reluctant to