“He said ‘it doesn’t have to be Serena‘. Hah!”
Josh laughed at his drunk friend. “Why don’t you say that to Serena’s face? What’s the point of saying that to us here? I dare you to go to Serena and say that you don’t need her.”
Zack suddenly stood up, grabbed Josh’s shoulders, and shook him fiercely while. yelling, “What else do you want from me, Serena? I was wrong, so I apologized to you. I also let you go back to your sister.
“What else do you want? I’m telling you, as long as I’m willing, there’s a whole line of women out there who want to marry me! You’re not my only choice!”
Josh was dizzy from being shaken. When he heard Zack spewing nonsense. he could not help but say, “You’re right. You can divorce her and go marry someone else then.”
“In your dreams! I’ll never divorce! You’re mine! You’ll be mine for the rest of your life, and I’m yours! I just want you… I only want you. I won’t let go of you. I won’t sign a contract. Don’t mention the contract to me again… I already burned it and flushed it down the drain. You can only be my wife…”
After viciously shaking Josh, Zack fell back to the couch like a deflated ball. He slumped against the couch and closed his eyes, but he continued to mutter, Serena… Serena… I’ll support you. I can afford to support you….
“Don’t leave me… I need you… Mine. You’re mine…”
Zack’s mumbling became softer until there was no more sound.
He fell asleep.
Josh and Duncan exchanged a look.
Josh said, “Thank God he didn’t take me for Serena.”
Duncan asked, “Were you afraid that he would kiss you?”
“I was terrified that he would take me for Serena and kiss me, then force himself on me. You don’t know how scared I was. Say, do you think I should just play dead or fight back if he forces himself on me?”
Duncan was speechless.
He looked at Zack and said, “This isn’t the Zack I know.”
Josh said, “Don’t say that. You’ll be like him too when you fall in love with a woman and fight with her. Maybe you’ll even be crazier than him.”
“The woman who can make me fall in love isn’t in this world yet. I’ll just watch as you guys fall in love, get married, and become fathers.”
Duncan had seen countless women, but there was no one who made his heart skip a beat and made him want to settle down.
His best friends both found a woman they liked. Although they had sweet times, there was also trouble. The Zack York in the past was always calm and collected. He had never lost his cool like this.
It was better to remain single.
“You’re exaggerating. Maybe the woman who can make your heart flutter is right next to you. Anyway, help me pick this drunkard up and get to my car. I’ll send him home. Can you take a cab back by yourself?”
“Yeah.”
Duncan helped pick Zack up. “He’s completely wasted. There’s no one to take care of him if you bring him home. He’ll catch a cold if he lies on the ground all night.”
“I’ll send him to Serena’s place. She’ll take care of him.”
Josh wanted to help his best friend out.
Duncan reminded him, “Zack is drunk and spewing nonsense. If he said those words he said earlier in front of Serena, it would be adding insult to injury.”
Josh paused. “I’ll send him to Wildridge Manor.”
Duncan had no problem with that.
The three of them left the bar. Duncan helped Zack into Josh’s car, said a few words, and watched Josh drive away. Then, he called for a cab for himself.
On the way back to York’s residence, Zack occasionally yelled a few times. One moment, it was “Serena, I love you. Don’t leave me.” The next moment, it was, ” What else do you want from me? It’s not like I need you.”
He kept repeating those words.
It was a fight between his love and ego. His love prevailed one moment, and his ego the next.
More than an hour later, Josh’s car arrived at Wildridge Manor.
He called Grandma May in advance, so she waited for him at the entrance of the house.
“Grandma May.”
Josh parked the car and called out to the old woman. “Sorry for bothering you when it’s so late.”
“No, I’m sorry for troubling you to send Zack back this late.”
Grandma May told the bodyguards to help Zack out of the car. When she saw how he was so intoxicated that he could not even walk, she asked Josh, “How much did that brat drink?”
“A few bottles. He got so drunk that he started talking nonsense, so I didn’t dare send him to Serena. I was afraid she’d get angrier if she heard what he said.”
“What did he say?”
Josh did not conceal it and told Grandma May the absurdity that Zack said.
Grandma May snorted. “I’ll call him a man if he has the balls to say that in front of Serena.”
“Grandma May, Zack is just depressed and venting. When he sobers up tomorrow, he’ll cling to Serena again like gum.”
Grandma May said, “In vino veritas. You should look up what that means.”
Josh was speechless.
Fortunately, he did not send Zack to Serena. Otherwise, like Grandma May, Serena would think that Zack was speaking his hidden thoughts after drinking.
“Do you want to come in for a glass of water before you go?”
“No need, Grandma May. I’ll leave now. I have plans tomorrow.”
Grandma May was aware that Josh was pursuing Jasmine and smiled. “All right. You go back first.”
After Josh left, she ordered the bodyguards, “Move a deck chair to the swimming pool and let Zack lie there for tonight. The cold will help him sober up.”
“Old Mrs. York,” a bodyguard protested.
Grandma May’s expression fell. “Did you not hear what I said? Since he likes to drown his sorrows in alcohol, I’ll help him out. Do as I say. No matter what accident happens tomorrow, he won’t dare do anything to you with me around.”
What would Zack do?
He was dreaming after passing out drunk.
In his dream, he was fighting Serena fiercely, and he shouted at her, “It’s not that I need you, Serena. I can toss you away any time. Don’t regret it when that happens!”
Serena looked at him coldly and then turned to leave.
“Serena! You’ll never leave me! You’re mine! I need you!”
His instinctive reaction was to pull her back and not let her go.
He pulled her and held her tightly, then lowered his head to her for a furious kiss as if trying to sear himself onto her…
“Splash-”
When Zack was fiercely entangled with Serena in his dream, he flipped over and tumbled out of the deck chair. He fell into the pool.
The cold water instantly engulfed his body.
His dream shattered, and the blazing fire in him that had ignited was extinguished the moment he fell into the pool.
F*ck!
It was freezing!
There was so much water!
Why was he in the water?!
Zack was caught off guard when he fell into the pool and choked on two mouthfuls of water. When he came to his senses, he hurriedly swam to the opposite side and climbed out.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.