THE LORDS OF THE SHIPS

CHAPTER 10 Solution

1.

The ship docked in the night and Judith laid awake in her room thinking about what she was going to do with Alex's locket. 

Then, she heard someone opening the room door from the outside. 

Judith's heart skipped a beat and she looked at the open door. 

She stood up and saw James standing by the open door with 2 guards.

"I've come to say goodbye, Judith." said James in a very polite manner.

Then he said—

—"I've instructed the guards to stop surveilling the girl's family, so you won't need to worry about them anymore."

Judith was surprised to hear that and felt some relief knowing that Mary and her family was safe.

Then James persuasively said—

—"Despite what you may think of me, I could help you, if you wanted to return. I could talk to my Uncle and things could return to the way they were before."

Then James said—

—"Come with me Judith. You don't belong here." 

Then Judith thought that she would rather stay on the ship and be hated by everyone, than ever go back with James and she said—

—"I've had that said to me for as long as I can remember, all my life. I think I've now come to accept the fact that: I don't belong anywhere."

Then James in a 'Thank you for agreeing with me' way said—

—"Good. Then it doesn't matter which way you choose then, right? If the result is the same, come with me."

Which made Judith angry at his nonchalant insulting comment.

"I Won't go back. Especially with 'You.'" said Judith with emphatic disdain on the word 'You.'

Judith no longer wanted to hide her bitter hatred towards James and took the opportunity to tell him to his face. 

So Judith said—

—"I guess it's something that neither of us will ever be rid of. Me never belonging anywhere, and you, never being able to get over your toxic obsession towards me."

Judith said looking directly at his eyes as if she were burning beams into them. 

Judith continued—

—"Because you know deep down that no matter what you do, good or bad, that you'll never have me. So you've made it so that no one would want anything to do with me."

Judith's words would've hurt James, but he was too concerned with making Judith miserable that he couldn't self reflect on himself. 

Then Judith removed her black wig from her head and tossed it to James.

"Take it."— said Judith tossing the wig and James caught it with his right hand. 

—"I won't be needing it anymore. I'm done pretending." said Judith in a 'Drop the mic' fashion.

That final line by Judith was so scalding that it not only left James speechless with no verbal retort, but it even made Yumi, May and the guards react in silent amazement.

Even Judith was surprised herself by what she was able to say on the spot. 

All that James could do after that was Tsk and give Judith a disappointed 'So be it' look and walked off.

"Let's go." said James to the guards who closed the room door and they departed together.

Judith laid down on the floor.