To be honest, Luke was indeed miserable "You don't seem to be panicked at all. This makes me very unhappy." Luke said. She was so calm and detached that he did not have the slightest sense of accomplishment.
"I think, you didn’t kidnap me here to make me please you." After knowing who the kidnapper was, Sherman became completely relaxed.
"Your answer is indeed right." Luke sat opposite her, holding a glass of water in his hand and sipping it.
"I probably know the reason why you brought me here. If it isn’t due to Merlin,
then it is due to Zora." "Do you know Zora?" Luke grasped the glass more tightly and asked. He was a little emotional.
"Kingsley told me something about her. " Sherman slowly continued. "I know you are indignant about what someone suffered and I don't know whether the person is Merlin or Zora. But I guess you brought me here for Zora."
Luke raised his eyebrows, without uttering a word. But his emotions gradually changed, as he became gradually irritated.
"Speaking of this, I am a little curious about the relationship between you and Zora. It is rare that one remembers a person for such a long time. Generally, there are nothing more than three reasons. The first is that you love her. The second is that you hate her. And the last is that either you owe her a lot or she owes you a lot..."
While speaking, Sherman had been gazing at his face and observing his expression carefully.
She could feel very clearly that his emotions were changing, as his expression was slowly changing. He was more emotional and sensitive than before.
Especially when she came to the last reason, Luke almost suddenly lost his temper. Sherman guessed that something must have happened between him and Zora and those things were unusual...
"Have you ever had an affair with Zora?" Sherman deliberately asked.
"Shut up! How dare you insult her this way? Compared with you, she is so pure. None of you are comparable to her." He shouted coldly.
Sherman smiled and moved to make her numb legs more comfortable. "I heard that you loved her. Kingsley said that it was because of you that he and Zora knew each other. You knew Zora earlier than Kingsley. Why didn't you profess your love for her before Kingsley did so?"
"She regarded me as her best buddy. I
know her well. Buddies are buddies. We can’t be lovers. If I don’t profess my love for her, we could still be friends. But if I had done so, we would not have been friends any more. She was very rational and her word was her bond. I could only see her and Kingsley fall in love with each other. But how dared Kingsley treat her that way?
Both his parents found fault with her. Even Tonell also found fault with her. She was treated badly. She was not happy in the Wright family. I found that she lost too much weight. Kingsley thought he was capable so he broke off the relationship with the Wright family and took Zora to live in the poorest area. Some of the houses in that area were demolished. The rest were not demolished, but the conditions were very dilapidated. Most of the people living there were unemployed or idlers. When he took Zora to live there, didn't he think how dangerous it would be? Zora's death was caused by him alone!
If he had found a better place to live, Zora wouldn’t have ended up that way! All the responsibilities are on him, all on him!" Luke yelled.
"I always thought you were a little crazy before, but now I realize that you are an affectionate man. It is not easy for a man to love a woman for so many years. To be honest, I admire you very much." Sherman spoke half in jest, half in earnest. "But if you let go of the past, it would be fine. I used to think that love was an indispensable thing in life. In the past, I loved my ex-husband very much and then married him. But what I encountered was that he had an affair with another woman and then we turned against each other.'
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