Sally, however, insisted on saying, "Cherry, I can only see you this one time. If you don't come, then I'll continue to see Jackson in the future."
"Can you promise me that you won't bother him anymore if I agree to see you?" Cherry knew the right questions to ask Sally.
"You..." Sally choked up with her anger again.
She then paused for a moment, and said, "Maybe I will if you make our meeting possible tonight."
Cherry didn't reply this time, and hesitated for a moment. She had nothing to say to Sally. 'Should I take the risk to meet Sally for Jackson?' she thought.
Eventually, Cherry said, "Tell me where and when."
Sally chuckled on the other side of the line, and said, "At eight o'clock, in the Island Cafe."
Cherry then hung up the phone.
When she went downstairs, she found that Jackson was still making the coffee. She walked over to him and hugged him from behind.
Jackson glanced at her and laughed. He asked, "What's wrong? Why are you acting like a child now all of a sudden?"
"I just wanted to hug you, " said Cherry gently.
"I want that too. Why don't you stay here with me?" said Jackson as he poured the coffee into cups.
When Cherry saw that the coffee was ready, she let Jackson go and reached out to grab a cup. After she took a quick sip out of it, she said, "I'm going now."
"Why not go later?" said Jackson fondly, trying to convince her to stay.
After they finished their coffee, they cuddled in the living room for a little while longer before Cherry went on her way.
She didn't go home, and instead drove directly to the Island Cafe.
When Cherry arrived, Sally was already there waiting for her. She walked straight to Sally's table and sat opposite to her.
Sally put a smile on her face, and asked, "What would you like to drink? It's my treat."
Cherry refused her straightforwardly, because she wanted nothing to do with Sally. She said, "Nothing, thank you, I've just had some coffee with my husband earlier."
Sally felt very uncomfortable when she heard her answer.
When she saw that Sally was silent, Cherry began, "Go ahead, what do you w
“Let's go and register our marriage on your birthday!”
Marrying Daniel should have been her best birthday gift, but everything was ruined the moment when she caught him sleeping with another woman on the day before her birthday.
“He’s going to marry that woman! She... was my best friend!"
hear Sally's excuse and see how ridiculous it was.
However, what Sally said almost scared the heck out of her.
Sally suddenly leaned closer, and as she looked into Cherry's eyes, she enunciated, "Because Jackson has killed people. And he killed these people for me."
Cherry opened her eyes wide and looked at Sally in disbelief. Sally's words echoed in her ears.
Sally then leaned away from Cherry, and continued, "That's why I'm the only one right for him. I can help him and protect him, but what can you do for him?"
Paying no attention to what Sally said, Cherry kept shaking her head, and murmured, "No, no, it can't be."
When Sally saw that Cherry was slowly losing control, she asked her, "Do you really think that the Chu's have earned all they have today only by their eloquence? Cherry, you're too innocent."
Cherry stared blankly with her heart violently throbbing inside her chest with terror.
All of a sudden, it horrified her to think that her life was actually slowly heading into darkness.
Sally cared too little about Cherry's feelings, and said, "Leave him, because you'll be barely helpful to him if something bad actually happens one day, which certainly will. I'm the only one that can help him because I'm also involved in some of the things, not to mention that I also have the wits."
Cherry stared at Sally and could only see a mischievous determination in her eyes.