Serena was speechless.
“Zack York!”
Serena yelled his name through gritted teeth.
“You b*stard!”
All he knew how to do was make her angry.
If he graciously let her leave and allowed her to calm down, they could still have a civil conversation. However, he would not let her leave at all. He was putting her under house arrest!
The enraged and hateful Serena who could not get out finally went back into the house and locked herself in a guest room. She pulled out her cell phone, wanting to ask her sister or best friend for help, but found that it had already run out of battery.
“The heavens sure are testing me!”
Zack did not pester Serena when she locked herself in the guest room.
He was looking for help too.
He went to Josh out of habit.
Josh had just sent Jasmine back to the bookstore after bringing a charger to charge her e–bike.
“Mr. Bucham, could you ask Zack what he did to Seren?”
Jasmine was concerned about Serena, who was forcibly taken away by Zack.
Josh hummed. “I’ll call him now to ask.”
That being said, Josh had a bad feeling in his heart.
He knew Zack inside out.
Zack most likely did not handle it well.
Well, he was suffering the consequences of deceiving his wife.
Of course, he deserved it.
In the beginning, he concealed his identity to examine Serena’s character. This was something everyone could understand. However, he could have come clean not much later on, but he hesitated and harbored all kinds of worries, prolonging the deceit until now.
It would be weirder if Serena did not get angry.
Josh was just about to call Zack when his phone rang. He looked at the screen and said to Jasmine, “It’s Zack.”
“Answer it,” Jasmine said anxiously, wanting to answer the call for Josh.
Josh picked up the call, and Jasmine leaned closer to listen in on the conversation.
“Josh, help me.”
Zack said tiredly, “Serena is really mad. I can’t coax her. I don’t know what to do. Josh, tell me. What am I supposed to do? She wants to leave me. She’s definitely going to leave me. I’m sure she’ll kick me into the corner and bury me away.
“She even said she wouldn’t have married me if she knew I was the heir of the Yorks. She said she’d rather look for Shawn to lie to her sister. Is she going to be with Shawn after kicking me out of the picture? I’ll never allow it! If she dares go to Shawn, I’ll lock her up in my villa so she can’t leave my sight!”
Josh and Jasmine were speechless.
Jasmine snatched Josh’s phone and said to Zack, “Zack, if you want Serena to calm down, you’d better let her out. Keeping her under house arrest will only make her angrier.
“Even if she wants to leave you, she’ll do it out in the open. She won’t sneak off. Serena never runs away when things go wrong. She’ll deal with matters between you both openly and honestly.
“Let her come back and confide with her sister. Let her calm down. This is the most important thing you should do.”
Panic crept in again and he yelled in a low voice, “I can’t do it. I’m scared to do it. It’ll be hard for me to see her again if she leaves. She’s my wife, so she should live where I live. I’m not imprisoning her. She’s just staying in our house!
“She’ll leave me. She said before that a true farewell is done without saying a word. She’ll leave quietly without disturbing me. If I let her out of this villa, she’ll immediately pack her bags and go far away. Where will I find her if that happens?”
Jasmine said, “I know Seren better than you do. I can assure you that she won’t do that, so let her come back.”
“You’re not her. I can’t trust your assurance.”
Jasmine was speechless.
He was like a rock, unwilling to listen to a single word she said.
Josh quickly took the phone back and comforted Jasmine. “Don’t mind him. He’s going crazy. He hasn’t experienced anything like this before, so it’s normal for him to handle it badly. You’ll be the one angered if you take him seriously.”
Jasmine opened her mouth but was at a loss for words.
Zack was usually mature and calm. Although his expression was always solemn, he was excellent at handling people.
Unexpectedly, he was now confining Serena to his side and forbidding her from coming back.
“Zack, how’s Serena now?”
Josh asked with concern, “What did you do to her?”
“I–I didn’t do anything to her. She wanted to leave, so I locked the gate and threw the keys away. She wanted to climb over the wall, so I threw the ladder away as well. Then, she got angry and locked herself in a room.
“Josh, I don’t know what I should do. You must be more clear–headed than me now. Tell me, what am I supposed to do? I can’t think of anything right now. My head is a mess filled with panic and confusion.”
When Zack fell in love, he fell hard.
Serena had already become the most important woman in his life.
He could not bear the pain of losing her.
The reason he never came clean until now was that he was afraid of losing her.
Remy suggested he pick a special day when Serena was happy to confess to her in a different way, which he did.
However, the storm still happened.
He was drenched to his bones and could not see the path in front of him. He did not know which direction to go.
Throughout his thirty years of living, this was Zack’s first time feeling this magnitude of helplessness.
He had always been confident. He always felt that there was nothing he could not handle.
Josh thought about it and advised, “Zack, I think Jasmine is right. Although Serena and you are a couple, you’ve only known each other for four months, while Jasmine has known her for more than ten years. She knows Serena better than you do.
“Do as she says and let Serena come back to simmer down. Let her confide in her sister and Jasmine. I believe everyone will advise her to make up with you, not break up. Right, Jasmine?”
Jasmine answered in her mind, ‘I won’t advise Seren. I’ll support any decision she makes!
‘This is Seren’s life. Even if I’m her best friend, I can’t make the call for her. She’ll decide for herself after she calms down.‘
“I know I shouldn’t do this, but I can’t bring myself to let Seren leave. Yes, I haven’t known her for that long, but I’m her husband. I’m the person she shares a bed with. I know her temperament very well.
“I dare say, as soon as I let her go, she’ll leave me. She’ll pack her bags and leave Wiltspoon quietly to hide somewhere I don’t know. Her sister and all her friends will help her.”
Josh paused before responding, “Zack, I think you need to calm down as well. Don’t keep thinking that Serena will leave you. You need to figure out what you need to do to ease her anger and trust you again.”
Zack said irritably, “I can’t calm down. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do to soothe her. It’s like she gets angrier no matter what I do. I had to knock her unconscious in order to get her to stay.”
Josh wanted to swear at his best friend.
Zack’s stupidity when it came to handling an emotional crisis was really challenging Josh’s perception of him
“Let me calm down, Zack. I’ll call you back when I think of a solution, but your mustn’t do anything to hurt Serena again. Otherwise, you really won’t be able to get her back.”
Josh was so angry with Zack that he wanted to hurry up and hang up the phone. so he could calm down. He did not want to burst out in expletives in front of Jasmine since he was trying to maintain his good image as Mr. Bucham.
After what happened to Zack, Josh decided to be one hundred percent sincere when treating Jasmine. He would not lie or deceive her as Zack did to Serena.
He ended the call before Zack could respond.
“Why did you hang up? I still wanted to persuade him. Judging by what he said, he’ll only make Serena angrier. She might even start to hate him.”
Josh said, “Didn’t you hear what he said? Even I’m speechless and getting angry too. I need to take a step back. How did I get a boss with a negative EQ like him?
“Ugh, why is my life so hard?!” Josh sighed.
He never once complained no matter what problems Zack asked him to solve.
However, when Zack sought help for his relationship problems, Josh got a headache.
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