Chapter 1196

Chapter 1196 "The speakerphone was turned on, and I faintly heard a man's curse. It sounded familiar..." Kingsley's words reminded Sherman that Luke had spilled the glass of water he was carrying and the hot water was spilled on the back of his hand, so Luke muttered a curse. Sherman leaned over and hugged Kingsley, reclining against him like a cute kitten. "Don't be mad at me, okay?" "OK." Kingsley answered. He told Sherman to sit back. How could he really be mad at her? Especially under that circumstances, Sherman did the right thing. Immediately, Sherman chuckled, "You know what? You look so grim! You've really freaked me out!" Staring at her, Kingsley spoke, "You felt scared?" "I was scared when you were so stern to me. I don't like it when you treat me that way." She said, "Also, what are you going to do about Luke?" Hearing the name, Kingsley's eyes turned cold, without a trace of emotion, dark and freezing. After a moment's hesitation, Sherman said, "Forget it. He already knew he was wrong, and he's come to his senses. At the emergent moment, he pushed me out of the way as the tree fell down when we were running out of the burning cottage, but his legs were hit heavily by the tree." "If he hadn't taken you there, why would you have needed him to rescue you?" Kingsley stated the facts briefly and ruthlessly. "He's a poor man. He keeps blaming himself for Zora's death. He felt that he was responsible for Zora's death. He said he could never forget how Zora had died. Every day, when he sleeps, he dreams about her. It's a nightmare. He could not escape from it. He was imprisoned in the misery." "So he does not allow himself to be happy or to see you happy. He thinks you two are the closest friends to Zora. He also said that he introduced Zora to you." "And that if Zora didn't know you, then the tragedy wouldn't have happened. She was only in her twenties, young and beautiful, with a promising future, but she ended up in that way. He thinks it's all his fault..." Sherman thought a man who always kept his beloved one in his heart wouldn't be too bad. Or maybe she was softened by Luke's involuntary kindness. Slowly, Sherman continued, "People may make mistakes. It's OK if a person goes down the wrong path, but he can't continue down the wrong path. In the woods, he risked his life to push me aside and get the blow. The kindness he showed at the moment made me believe that he was truly repentant. He knew he was wrong, or he wouldn't have saved me in the woods. If you don't forgive Luke, and you don't feel guilty, your parents and your grandfather always feel guilty. “In the accident, if I had been seriously injured, or Luke was still unrepentant, then I would have no problem with whatever you did to him because he deserved it.” “But things are different now. You need to reconsider the whole thing. Maybe it's God's will. If a man falls into a nightmare, he will need something to wake him up, something profound, something that touches his heart, to bring him back to normal. Now Luke has truly woken up…" "…" Kingsley was silent. He just knelt in front of her and kept rubbing the ointment on the injury of Sherman's knee gently with his fingers. He could not say anything. Sherman looked down but saw that he had been applying the ointment to her with one hand, while his left arm was hanging down at his side, and it was barely moving. Then she remembered what Lee had said back in the woods. She frowned. She anxiously went to pull his shirt apart and remove it. Shockingly, Kingsley's shoulder, along with his back, was seriously swollen. She could not imagine how hard the blow was when the tree fell down on him! Immediately, Sherman became anxious. Her heart tensed up. She gently touched the wound with her fingers. "Have you put medicine on it yet?"