He then patted Jackson's shoulder, and in a much more tender and calm voice said, "Jackson, promise me that you won't let Cherry and Joe know about any of it! If Cherry knows everything, then those people will never let her go!"
"But I..." started Jackson to say, but before he had the chance to finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Andrew again.
"Both Mond and Stephen now know about Joe's existence. What do you think they will do to him?" asked Andrew.
Jackson's then thought about Joe. He pondered, 'Even If I tell everything to Cherry, the two of them will still be in danger. It doesn't matter whether I tell her or not, Cherry and Joe will be in great peril, and what I should do right now is to protect them and not struggle with the thought of whether I should tell Cherry or not about what happened in the past.'
When he saw that Jackson didn't say a word, Andrew continued to say, "Jackson, do you now know what you have to do?"
Jackson nodded his head.
After he stayed with Andrew for a while longer in the living room, Jackson stood up from his seat and said that he wanted to go to the JS Group. Andrew nodded, and then Jackson turned around and left.
Not long after Jackson's departure, the butler walked in front of Andrew, and said, "I will go out to buy something."
Andrew was in a mess in those moments, and didn't care much about what the butler said. He just waved his hand and didn't ask him anything.
After he left the military residential quarters, the butler dialed a number.
"Where are you?" asked the butler.
A woman's voice then sounded in the phone's speaker from the other end of the line. "I'm in the villa."
"In Mond's villa, you mean? Wait for me, I'll be there soon, " said the butler.
Half an hour later, the butler arrived at Mond's villa. The moment he walked inside, he saw Mond, Sally and Jean sitting together in the living room.
"Why are you in so much of a hurry?" asked Sally.
The butler didn't answer her, and instead directly walked to Mond, and asked, "Did you see Cherry earlier today?"
Mond squinted at the butler, and said, "Go ahead."
"Jackson almost killed Cherry at home!"
When he heard the butler's words, Mond's eyebrows immediately got knitted in a frown. He looked at the butler furiously, and thought, 'What the hell had Jackson done?'
Sally got excited by the news and quickly stood up from her seat. In a frantic tone, she asked, "What's going on?"
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