Sally rushed into the bedroom after she did not find anyone in the parlour.
She stopped short when she saw Cherry, who hadn't aged after five years.
Sally hadn't expected to see Cherry and she broke out a shout, "Cherr…Cherry Shen?"
Only then did she notice that Cherry and Jackson had had sex, looking at the messy bed, and she felt her heart break. Jackson hadn't wanted to touch Sally at all in the last five years, and yet he made love with Cherry at the first instant she had come back.
Jackson was a bit confused to see that Sally had found out that he was here.
Cherry's heart broke even a little more when she saw Sally's furious expression and realised that Sally had been Jackson's companion for the last five years.
Sally cried and said, "Jackson, how could you do this to me?"
Jackson merely ignored her and instead, hugged Cherry closer and put a quilt over them.
Sally understood that Jackson was protecting Cherry.
Cherry, on the other hand, did not resist Jackson's actions and instead, stayed within Jackson's warm hug and kept silent seeing Sally there.
Sally continued, now directing her anger at Cherry, "Cherry Shen, you…"
Before Sally could finish her words, Jackson furiously interrupted, screaming, "Get out of here!"
Sally did not dare to say anymore, because she could see clearly that Jackson was mad at her and she could not afford to provoke him more. If she ever tried, it would not take any effort to turn Jackson to be on Cherry's side.
Sally looked at Cherry with hatred and thought, 'Now that you have come back, get ready to face my attack. I will destroy you, Cherry Shen, because Jackson is mine! He will continue to be mine.'
She turned around and left quietly.
Cherry heard the door shut and then pushed Jackson away, pulling the quilt on herself.
Jackson did not stop her this time and instead, got out of bed and walked into the bathroom.
As Jackson went into the bathroom, Cherry quickly got up and tried to put on her clothes in an attempt to leave quickly. But Jackson returned before she left, perhaps because he knew that she would definitely try to run away. Cherry had run away once, five years ago. Could he possibly risk letting her do that again? The answer for that question was clear without a doubt.
He walked towards Cherry, picked her up and walked back to the bathroom.
Cherry wanted to get rid of him now and exclaimed, "Jackson Chu, what are you doing? Put me down!"
Jackson could barely control his angry voice and said, "don't move, or I will really do something."
After half an hour, Jackson finally took Cherry out of the bathroom, having bathed her well, laid her down on the bed and began to put on his clothes.
Cherry also put on her clothes and decided that she had to leave the disgusting place as soon as possible.
Jackson finished dressing up and moved to leave. He then happened to see a piece of paper on the floor. He picked up the paper.
After he saw what was on the paper, Jackson's anger returned. He stared at Cherry for a moment and finally asked, "Do you work for the JS Group?"
Jackson couldn't believe what he saw on the paper. It was an order of the JS Group.
Cherry, who had now finished wearing her clothes said, "That's none of your business!"
Jackson smiled only slightly and said, "Fine."
His tone somehow frightened Cherry and she was forced to ask, "What are you going to do?"
Jackson stared straight into Cherry's eyes and immediately replied, "I want to torture you, Cherry Shen. You will not be able to get rid of me for the rest of your life. So it's best if you don't even think of running away!"
Jackson then dropped the order, turned around and left.
Cherry had now understood that Jackson hated her and would have taken his revenge on her, if he got to know that she was back. And now that he did, would he just leave her alone? It was not very hard to guess the answer for that. Instead of thinking about what he would do to her, Cherry was worried that he might take Joe away and she was determined to prevent him from doing that, no matter what.
Jackson walked out of the elevator and went towards the reception downstairs instead of leaving the hotel right away.
The two staff members present at the reception desk watched Jackson walk towards them and respectfully greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Chu."
Jackson looked at them with wrath and ask with oozing anger, "Who gave Sally my room card?"
One of the staff member turned to the girl beside her.
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