The President’s Stubborn Love

“Impossible.” The man’s face was unmistakably cold, ripping open the collar of his shirt and blowing the wind off the quay as if his whole being was caught in an infinite quagmire.

“Mr. Swift, please cooperate with the investigation.”

Only after repeated prodding by the officer did Aaron slowly turn his head, a tremor in his voice, “Even if, even if a person fell from this height, there is a chance of survival, right?”

“The accident is still under investigation and no conclusions can be drawn at this time, you are now required to determine if these items belong to Sherry.”

At this moment, Aaron is completely unable to find his usual calmness.

The churning waves looked so fierce and cold in the night, his hand clenched the fence, his voice dark, “Yes, it was hers.”

And he bought it for her, and watched her walk out of his house in it!

As soon as the words left his mouth, a figure rushed up from behind and thumped Aaron in the face.

Aaron, unprepared, stumbled and turned around again, and the man had been grabbed by Andrew’s collar.

“You guys, finally got her killed, are you, now, satisfied?” Andrew’s eyes were scarlet as he stared at him, his wrists shaking uncontrollably.

“Nola did so many things to her that went too far and you pretended you couldn’t see it.”

“Now she’s putting her life on the line to make up for a mistake that wasn’t hers, and you … you’ll never know what she gave for your BROTHER and SISTER, you don’t deserve to know! ”

Aaron frowned.

“Mr. Swift, Miss Monica is missing.” Eral hurried over.

Andrew let out a snort, “Aaron, it’s about time you got a taste of what it’s like to be in the middle of a crowd.”

Without arguing with him, Aaron ran up the steps, the waves still lapping at the shore, and Andrew looked out at the night and the busy police officers.

Slowly and deeply, he closed those eyes.

“Sherry, is this your choice?”

Word of Monica’s disappearance spreads quickly and that evening the Nola family are summoned to the police station to ask about Sherry’s whereabouts.

Aaron returns home and finds the letter Monica left for him.

Every word was engraved into his heart.

Aaron clutched the piece of letterhead, his bony hand tightening more and more.

“Brother, if it wasn’t for Sherry, I’d probably be out of this world by now. When that happened, they were going to burn me and it was Sherry who desperately tried to get me out.”

“These past few years, I’ve been living in pain, trying to pretend to be crazy for the rest of my life, but I really don’t want to see you all suffer as much as I do, and you should stop hating her, you know, it’s not her fault, ah, my life is already ruined, so why lose another one.”

“I just want to get well now before I come back to you as a new me, I’m safe, don’t read.”

Yes, he knew it wasn’t her fault that all these years of confinement and torture were only consuming the anger in his heart.

“Mr. Swift, got Miss Monica’s flight information.”

“Fellow travelers, who else!”

Sherry couldn’t have died.

“Kirsty, there’s no one else.” Eral knew what his own president meant too, but Sherry was now classified as a missing person by the police.

Those flight details must have been checked a long time ago.

Aaron stood in the living room, his mind going over and over the words Sherry had said when she left.

Does he, in fact, hate her, or …

“Eral, let me know first thing if you hear anything.”

“Yes.”

Aaron raised his hand and Eral hung his head and left.

The living room was empty and he moved over to the wine cabinet and pulled the door open, his fingers just about to touch a particular bottle when his eyes became startled and he gave a sharp pull.

The entire wine cabinet fell to the floor, the glass shattering all over the place.

He didn’t even know his hand had been cut.

“Sherry, you must be hiding somewhere, how can you be dead, how can you … without my permission”

The next morning, when Eral brought the latest news, he saw Aaron sitting in the middle of the mess, the wound on his arm no longer bleeding, but with a disheveled look that was frightening.

He hadn’t been this devastated since Monica’s accident.

“Mr. Swift?”

There was no reaction from the men.

Eral silently gathered up the shards of glass on the floor and came to Aaron once more, “Miss Monica’s engagement is off, the sanatorium she was staying at has some connections to Miller, maybe he knows something on the inside.”

Aaron looked up only when he heard Monica’s name.

Those inky eyes were deserted, and when he opened his mouth, there were only those two words, “Sherry, where is it?”

“The police are still investigating.”

When Eral finished, he saw the look on his own president’s face and added, “The situation in that area of the sea is complicated and the rescue search will be difficult.”

Aaron’s thin lips pursed fiercely and he would not speak again.

For the next week, all of Night Group’s projects were put on hold.

Sherry stood in the middle of the square, looking up at the news captions that swept across the big screen, tightened her hat a little more, covered her mask and hurried into an alleyway.

“Mom, I’m home.”

Kate has recovered well from her surgery and is able to walk on the floor.

“I bought the raisins you like, try them, they’re sweet.” Sherry entered and took in all that had happened outside.

Miller sent help to prepare this rental house.

In three days, after the search period for the accident, she could leave by boat, go to a place where no one knew her, and start again.

“Sherry, we don’t have much money left do we, you shouldn’t buy such expensive things.” Kate sighed silently, “It’s my fault for dragging you down.”

“Mum!”

Sherry’s voice suddenly heaved a few notches.

“It’s only right that I be dutiful to you, I’ll figure out the rest of the problem.”

She still had a card in her hand that she didn’t use.

The Garcia Family is under a cloud at this time. Although they can be released on bail, the Garcia Family has police officers at their doorstep and everyone in the Garcia Family is a suspect after Sherry’s disappearance.

“Dad, can’t you just ask someone else what it has to do with us that Sherry is unaccounted for!” Nola was so mad.

“It’s all your doing, you had to bring her into the house and now, well, the whole family is being dragged down by you.”

“I …”

Nola’s face was bloodless with anger.

“No one can prove now that Sherry left our house in good condition, and this will never be resolved if she keeps disappearing.”

She is a person who will be a nightmare for everyone in the Garcia Family.

“No!”

Nola couldn’t suppress her anger and dropped everything in the room.

“That bitch …”

She called Jeremie and the call was still disconnected.

And at that moment, Jeremie watched the phone screen go dark and looked over at the woman in front of her, “Miss. Tacy, I’m curious, why are you telling me this? Aren’t you, like, getting married to Aaron?”

Tacy raised her eyebrows upwards.

“That was all just an act, now that I know the news, of course I can’t go on with him, an illegitimate son who can’t see the light of day, everything he gets is stolen, he doesn’t deserve me at all!”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Jeremie’s eyes were dangerous, “What do you want me to do?”

“Wouldn’t Jeremie like to take this opportunity to get some more interest for the Carson Group? The auction is tomorrow and there’s absolutely no way Aaron will be there in his current state!”