Chapter 8

Jackson finally figures out the truth of that drunken night with Evely. She had decided to commander his bed as her ship, while he crawled around on the ground, trying to reclaim his bed as a bed. Evely happened to capture the moment he said ��Me and you��, which in his slurred state sounds like ��I love you�� He laughs delightedly at having figured it out. There was never a confession! He wakes her up and starts excitedly explaining how it was all a misunderstanding. Qing is alarmed to find him on top of her and quickly shoves him away. They start bickering about whose fault it is: hers for hearing him wrong, or his for mumbling? Jackson suddenly looks intently at her and asks what she would do if it weren��t a misunderstanding? But, don��t they already know? She already rejected him, after all. Jackson got a call that his grandmother is in the hospital. Qing offers to go with him. She has a way of getting him to talk even when he��s not in the mood for it. She chatters on the car