Ice and Fire novel Chapter 56

Jackson and Jean both looked towards the direction the voice sounded.

A familiar face came into sight. Jackson let out a name, "Walter!" Walter Wang was the one that had cried out Jackson's name. He had been living abroad for a long time, and had just come back for a few days and wanted to hang out with his old friends.

"Jackson, why is she here?" asked Derek. He was next to Walter Wang, and he was a bit surprised to see Jean there.

When she heard Derek asking about her, Jean loosened her grip on Jackson's hand, and played innocent.

Walter Wang, not sure about the situation, mistook the woman for Jackson's wife. He had heard about Jackson's marriage when he was still abroad, and based on the intimacy he saw between Jackson and Jean, Walter thought that the pretty woman must be his wife.

"Jackson, your wife is a beauty!" he bantered. He looked at Jean up and down, and said, "Such a nice figure, and such a nice look. She definitely beats all of the girls abroad. What a nice lady!"

Flattered by what Walter Wang had just said, Jean's hidden inside vanity got significantly satisfied. Jean smiled like a lady, and said, "Thank you."

But Jackson's face darkened, and he looked at Walter Wang, and said, "What are you saying there? She's John's wife, not mine!"

"Dude, you should have really said something wiser, " said Derek. After many years of living abroad, this guy, Walter Wang, had not changed a bit, and his eyes still lit up instantly whenever he saw a pretty woman.

Walter Wang was startled. He had heard John get married, but he had never thought that he could ever find such a gorgeous woman.

In a wired tone, Walter Wang said, "Oh, so she's John's wife? Sorry man, my bad, I misunderstood things. I should have not said that."

His eyes were glued to Jean for the whole time he spoke. He still couldn't believe how gorgeous she was.

Jean acted like an innocent girl, and meekly said, "Never mind, it doesn't matter."

Jackson felt sick when he saw how bitchy Jean actually looked like. He did not want to stay there any longer, and asked, "Where are the rest of you?"

"Room 302, " said Derek.

"Let's go there, " said Jackson. He then left with Derek first, and left Jean and Walter Wang behind.

When he saw them leaving, Walter Wang turned to Jean, and said, "If you're John's wife, then why not come with us? We're hanging together to celebrate my coming back from abroad. Why don't you call John and also invite him here?"

Jean awkwardly said, "Is that ok? No one invited us in the first place..."

"Of course it is, why wouldn't it be? We're good pals, and besides, Jackson is John's uncle, and we're family. Just relax, and let's go to the room, " said Walter loudly.

Jean tagged along behind Walter Wang without uttering another word.

When he heard that Walter was back, John came over as soon as he finished his work. When he entered the room, he ignored Jean, who was chatting with some guys in one of the corners of the room, and instead went straight to Walter to greet him.

Over the course of the whole evening, Jean only talked to strangers, and didn't have the slightest chance to get close to either Walter Wang, or Jackson. Jackson was indeed too noble for her to get close to, but she couldn't even approach Walter, whom she had just met. Jean felt that all of her efforts were in vain, and what was worse, her best friend, the aristocratic daughter, whom Jean was supposed to have dinner with, might have been very angry at her, because Jean had told her that something had just come up for her, and that she had to leave immediately.

Jean got angry when she thought of this, because she had accomplished nothing. She couldn't allow that to happen, and felt that she needed to do something about it.

Jean excused herself to go to the bathroom, and then walked out of the room. When she returned, she saw that Jackson, Walter and John were sitting together, and she immediately got excited because this was her chance to mingle with them. Jean then walked right over to John, and sat down beside him.

John felt disturbed when he saw that Jean took a seat beside him, and said, "Why are you sitting here?"

"Why can't I sit here? After all, you're my husband, " she said. Her face turned stiff, because she clearly saw that he loathed her.

John gave Jean an angry stare, but said nothing more.

In the following time, Jean felt extremely frustrated by the fact that she didn't have the chance to speak to either Jackson, or Walter. Jean's prior target had been Jackson, but she had utterly failed in her two attempts at approaching him. Jackson was too hard to get, but her new friend, Walter Wang, whom she had just met, had perfectly matched her taste in men. However, since Walter Wang had entered the room, she had clearly noticed that he was completely different from the guy that she had met in the corridor before; it was not easy to hit on him either.

When the party was over, everyone drove their cars home. Jean drove her own car., and didn't go with John.

On her way home, Jean contemplated what had happened. She could not go on like this, because she had failed to hit on either Jackson or Walter Wang. John, who clearly could not let go of Cherry, was not someone that she could count on.

The hatred towards Cherry was growing deeper and deeper inside Jean. How come Cherry was able to approach Jackson but she couldn't? Why was Jackson only nice to Cherry? Even her husband, John, could not get Cherry off of his mind, although he was already married to Jean. All that her husband could think about was Cherry.