While listening to her words, Magee remembered another face. Yes, once there was also another woman who loved him like this and also regarded him as her savior.
How ridiculous! In this dirty world, who would consider saving anyone but themselves? Since everyone was living in sin, none was cleaner than the other.
A mocking sneer settled on his face, and suddenly he turned, pressing the woman down beneath him.
"Since you ask for it, I won't restrain myself now," he grinned evilly.
"Ah..."
Groans of pain and enjoyment from the woman clung to the dark night sky. The tent was host to shockingly wild movements all night as the man and woman became tangled up together inside.
Cherry finally got what she wanted. Now she was immersed in great joy and also felt a growing sense of vanity, for she had become Magee Lin's woman.
The next day, careful that Jacob was out, she went to meet Emily. Walking into the yard, she found her sitting in the sunshine, bathed in a glorious glow, ceremoniously making tea.
Cherry walked up to her with her head tucked in the air, full of pride and brazen immodesty, "I have been with Mr. Lin," she promptly declared.
Her words stunned Emily momentarily and, as expected, she raised her head to look at Cherry in surprise, "You?"
"Yes, me! What do you mean?" Unsatisfied with her attitude, Cherry countered, "What's wrong with that? Why can't it be me? I love him and he loves me, too. Can't we be together?" she kept explaining, exaggeratedly trying to make it seem like a love story.
When it came to "He loves me, too" Cherry swallowed down her guilty conscience. She soothed her heart, reasoning that he would not have lain with her, if he didn't love her at all.
So, in her mind they really loved each other.
"It's none of my business whether you two are together or not." Emily patiently continued brewing her tea, not willing to give Cherry a second glance. "I just felt a bit surprised. It is a little strange. That's all," she said dryly.
"Why? What's strange about that?" Cherry didn't seem to understand at all.
"The women he usually had relationships with were those with big breasts, slender waist, long legs and fair skin. You're not his usual type, but maybe he's changed his taste?" Emily explained calmly.
"He used to have relationships with a lot of women?" Cherry nearly couldn't believe her ears. She couldn't help feeling jealous, "What about you? Did you sleep with him, too?" she asked.
To Emily, the question, coming from Cherry, couldn't sound more ridiculous. Her face turned cold then, "Just shut up! Not everyone is such a minx like you. The man that you think a treasure, is as nothing in my eyes."
"You!" Cherry was shamed and turned to anger, "As I see it, you are just jealous!"
What a big joke this was to Emily! She couldn't help but laugh, "I have the man I love. Why should I envy a woman who has nothing?"
"I have Mr. Lin."
"If only you did have."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Simply what you hear." No longer interested in the conversation, Emily turned back to her tea-ritual with a lowered head. She focused on the crude tea set, but spoke over her shoulder, "You don't have to come here to show off. I am not interested in Magee at all. You are simply neurotic."
Anger twisted Cherry's face, "You..."
For a long time she searched for words to refute Emily's observation, but failing, she felt ready to explode.
She did come here to show off. She wanted to prove to Emily that like her, she could also get an excellent man, just like Jacob!
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