Sherry has been around Aaron for so long, but she can’t see past the man at this moment.
It was as if he hated her with a passion to break her into pieces, and as if he was frantic to possess her for himself.
That look, infatuation mixed with fondness.
“Sherry, if you have work to do, go ahead and do it, Mum is fine.” Kate gave her daughter a quick wink, she didn’t know the rules of the big companies, but since they had come here, it must be important.
But Kate looked at Aaron again, and the face looked very familiar, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen it before.
For she would never have imagined that the man who hated their family to the core would come to this small village himself, just to find her daughter.
“Mom, I’ll be right back.”
Sherry forced a smile and followed Aaron out, closing the door in her hand.
Looking up again, the pretty, tilted face had alarm written all over it, “What is it?”
Just as she thought Aaron’s expression was unfamiliar, he also felt that Sherry was simply a different person, and when she had left the Swift Family, it had always given him the impression that she was resisting and playing those little tricks that she shouldn’t have.
He had been angry and tired of this, but now, seeing the defensive and distant look in her eyes, he was even more unsettled.
“Come here.”
Those two words came out of his thin lips, just one more meeting with her and he would be able to find out what the cause of his distraction was!
Sherry was unmoved, “Mr. Swift just say what you have to say, my job at the company was handed over a long time ago and there should be someone else who knows the specifics better than I do.”
She didn’t believe it, Aaron was here for work.
But is there anything else to say between them?
Gone.
Clean and tidy.
The crazy thoughts that had tormented her all night had long since disappeared with Monica’s departure.
A sudden chill ran through Aaron’s eyes and he suddenly took a step forward, forcing her against the wall.
She doesn’t feel the chills or the fear that she used to feel, but she just doesn’t understand what Aaron is doing by pestering her so much.
Mentally deranged, and he still has to have everyone tear up before he’s happy?
“You’re still cold-blooded and heartless.” In that moment, as if to confirm something, the man’s eyes suddenly softened, his hand reached up but did not clamp down on her neck, his palm landed with a slight lingering touch at her shoulder, “How’s it going in Garcia Family’s company?”
He, in caring for her.
Sherry’s face was nothing but defensiveness.
He reached out again and was ducked by Sherry. In the corridor, people walked by from time to time and saw the two of them standing facing each other, all of them passing curiously.
Aaron’s face was sullen and cold, and he couldn’t believe Sherry didn’t understand that he was trying to win her back.
“Come out with me and we’ll talk it over.”
He eased his tone, trying not to pressure Sherry, yet Sherry looked at him, her eyes indifferent and emotionless, “I have nothing to do with you anymore, what’s the talk?”
Every word she said felt like it was tearing at Aaron’s heart.
“You have to be so …”
Sherry was relieved to hear the tone of his voice raise.
If he didn’t lose his temper again, she was really going to think he was in over his head.
Aaron was halfway through his low growl, but his tone suddenly loosened, his deep eyes hid a few apologies, his voice low and deep, with a few compromises and concessions, “I just found out from Monica that when something happened to her, she had thought of taking her life lightly, and it was you who pulled her back from the rooftop, with your life.”
It was something that he did not know about.
If it was once or twice, it could have been done with Sherry’s malicious intentions and delusions of using Monica to numb his hatred.
Then what happened back then, she could have used it as leverage and he wouldn’t have, at that time, hated her as much as he did.
A thousand thoughts came to my lips in one sentence.
“Why don’t you say so?”
In that very moment, Sherry tilted her head to look at him, her tone was as calm as it had ever been, even with a faint hint of a smile, “You believe me when I say so?”
“…”
Aaron’s words choked in his throat, unable to retort.
He had indeed misunderstood her a lot, and now that he had counted them all, he only felt sorry and indebted for those past days.
His hands clenched into fists under his cuffs, all this time Sherry carried his hate and was tortured by him …
“Go back to Night Group, whatever you want, I can give it to you.”
The glint of anticipation that swept across his eyes flashed by.
How he wishes, like Nola, he could say that she still wants him.
But in front of her, there was only her cold refusal, “No need, I’m not interested.”
To him, to the Night Group, she was not interested.
“Please don’t appear in front of my mother again, she is not well, and I will slowly pay you back the money I owe you before, directly to Night Group’s private account.”
She did indeed no longer expect to be involved or associated with him in any way.
“Sherry, you don’t …”
“Aaron, did I not make myself clear? I’m not interested in you anymore, and I don’t want to know what you’re trying to do by pestering me now, so open your eyes and see for yourself that you and I are from two different worlds.
She has a mother to support and debts to pay.
She didn’t have a second decade to play the love game with him, simple as that.
“Or do you want me to get down on my knees and beg you?”
Sherry lifted her face to look at him, a sarcastic smile showing at the corners of her mouth, “Yeah.”
In the next moment, she was about to lean down.
“That’s enough!”
The fire he was suppressing came to the forefront of his mind.
Since when did she torment his heart so much with such actions.
The long night spread and came, the two of them alone in the corridor, and when Sherry left, it was just Aaron, standing there alone.
His heart, for the first time, tasted the pain of shattering.
But he could not refute anything Sherry said, and the feelings that she had denied to the end before he could express them were sealed away.
Now Aaron could finally understand what Monica had warned him about in his mind.
“Brother, don’t mess with Sherry again, even if you like her again, don’t hold her life back.”
He didn’t do what Monica said.
So it touched down in front of Sherry.
That night, Aaron sat in the car park outside the nursing home, all night.
Until dawn, he could not think of a reason why Sherry had rejected him. If there had been a misunderstanding, it had now been resolved, and Monica was well, so they had plenty of time to talk about it.
As she had questioned him yesterday, were they okay?
No, he would give her a reasonable relationship.
What Aaron didn’t expect was that the Seattle Garcia Group would send someone to meet with Sherry and the two would talk alone for ten minutes.
“She’s with the Garcia Family?” Aaron wrinkled his brow and wondered what kind of connection Sherry had with the Garcia Family.
Sherry didn’t bother to pay him any mind and walked straight around.