Jackson's eyes suddenly turned stormily gloomy.

Contradictory… She was certainly right. He had indeed been self-contradictory! He was afraid that he would love her too deeply—that the same fate that had befallen his father would befall him. He was afraid that he would discard his dignity, even his life, for love, and all his happiness and sorrows would be completely in her control!

But after they had broken up, he still could not suppress the urge to see her and the desire to keep her by his