Winner Takes All novel Chapter 826

It was dark inside the room. Only the occasional flare of the cigarette sparks pierced through the darkness as smoke lingered in the air.

Jack sat by the slightly opened window and slowly smoked a cigarette. The moonlight shone through the gap in the window and lit his gloomy face.

Mr. Ward opened the door without knocking and came in with the wheelchair.

“Master…” He softly greeted. When he noticed that Jack did not react to him, he left the wheelchair next to the bed and walked to Jack and said, “Master, I’m sorry I misspoke.”

Jack’s eyes lit up, looked at the closed door and then at Mr. Ward and smiled, “You didn’t. I was overly worked up.” His tone was disappointed and absolute.

Mr. Ward smiled bitterly and said with regret, “It was my failing but what the mysterious man said made sense. What if that really was the case?”

“Continue.” Jack raised his eyebrows and grinned.

“Your father really did let down you and your mother over the last twenty plus years. But now he had been trying to make it up to you.” Mr. Ward started to explain.

“Of course I know that he is trying his best to compensate me.” Jack shrugged and continued, “But certain things cannot be compensated!”

“For example?” Mr. Ward frowned and asked.

“For example kinship, for example mutual love, for example blood ties, for example his responsibilities as a husband.” Jack said sternly and continued, “If he can’t help me, then forget about me. If he chose to reunite, then he should go all out to make up for the past. I certainly cannot do what he did.” Jack became agitated as he said.

He stood up in anger and then continued, “For example, does he know what my mother likes? Does he know what I like?”

“He doesn’t!” Jack yelled furiously.

Mr. Ward pursed his lips and did not know how to reply to Jack.

“I know what my wife likes and what my mother likes.”

“I can never let go of my wife because I am not Patrick Hughes. I will never allow my wife to go away. I will never allow myself to become like him and abandon his wife and child for twenty over years and then one day remember, oh… I have a wife and child and I need to look for them again!”

“Mr. Ward, based on age, you can already be my grandfather. Do you think that it was right for my father to do what he did?” Jack’s anger lingered within the room. Mr. Ward could feel his pain and agony. Mr. Ward smiled bitterly and could not reply to Jack.

Outside the room.

Amber, the mysterious man, Brent, and Daisy looked quietly at the bedroom door. They could hear every word that Jack said even when Jack suppressed his voice.

The four of them were unsettled and looked at each other awkwardly. But what Jack just said truly was… Just as they were pondering…

Jack continued, “Now, just this very moment during this Bloody trap, he could simply say that he can’t deploy his men, he was unable to help. This… is this what a man does?”

It was dark inside the room. Under the watchful eyes of Mr. Ward, Jack took out another cigarette, lit it, and took a long draw.

He smiled as he exhaled the smoke as if he was releasing this frustration, “He said that he wanted me back. Now we are facing the bloody trap, all the ridiculous entities want me dead. Which one of you aren’t hurt for protecting me?”