Winner Takes All novel Chapter 230

The sudden scolding.

It seemed like the air was frozen.

Amber covered her mouth with her hands and almost yelled.

Was... this really Jack?

From the time she returned to Jack and knew Brent.

Although Jack and Brent really had different as master and servant, they were friends instead of master and servant actually.

Furthermore, Jack treated Brent as his older brother!

His words and behaviour never displayed the heir’s superiority that commonly showed in front of servants.

Besides, Brent was not the servant of the Hughes family yet.

In the family, everyone was treated equally.

Jack even showed his respect to Mr.Ward who was the actual servant of the Hughes family and treated him as an elder.

But now, Jack... slapped Brent?!

“Young master, you drank too much.”

There was Brent’s voice outside the door.

“Nope. I wasn’t. You, get away!”

Jack was trembling while saying, “You slave, open the door immediately. I want to sleep with Amber together!”

Amber was stunned and she could not believe what had just happened.

“Young master, Madam Sophie taught you to respect Miss Amber. Do you forget about it?”

Brent raised his voice and said, “If young master goes crazy tonight, I will contact Madam Sophie and Mr. Ward immediately.”

It was a real threat.

It turned silence outside the room.

“He!”

After a few seconds, Jack smiled and said, “Take me back to my room.”

The voice and tone were not polite at all and it was like a master giving an order to a slave.

Not even treated equally.

Followed by the sound of footsteps, the corridor soon became quiet.

Amber was still dumbfounded and covered her mouth with her hands.

What had happened just now made her panic and restless.

There was also a sense of illusion.

Had Jack... really changed?

Her mind went blank and the thought she had dropped was growing wildly in her mind. 

After a while.

Dong.

There was a knocking sound at the door.

Amber was frightened and did not say anything.

It followed by Brent’s deep voice outside the room.

“Amber, please sleep early and the young master has already fall asleep. Perhaps he was drunk, and everything should be fine. Please do not mind it.”

Although it was a consolation, the words “perhaps” and “should be” showed that they had the same confusion. 

“Alright, Brent.”

Amber replied gently, “Brent, please do not get angry.”

“He is my master and why do I need to be angry? My life belongs to the master.”

Brent laughed and left.

The surrounding was very quiet.

But, Amber hesitated and terrified.

She walked quietly to the door and locked it.

After thinking of it, she felt that it was not enough.

So, she dragged a chair and blocked the door with it. Only after doing so, she went to bed but she found that she could not sleep anymore.

Her mind was running fast and her eyes looked puzzled under the light.

...

Jack curled himself up in the wooden box.

He looked at the light coming from the small crack and his expressions were lifeless.

In such a closed space, he was blurred and could not remember how long he had been like this.

The chinks and the small crack above him kept blowing in the chilly wind.

The coldness had made him stiff.

Oh, he remembered that the small crack above him was opened by someone outside not long ago.

It was to give him some food and water when he was dying of hunger or thirst. They were keeping him alive.

This also caused the cold wind in the wooden box to become increasingly piercing. The wooden box seemed like an icehouse.

But he did not care.

He wanted to survive.

Freezing would not cause death immediately.

But without eating or drinking, no one could survive after a few days.