Ice and Fire novel Chapter 129

When she saw Jackson's cold face, Caroline immediately put the ice down. Cherry sat up straighter as she was also nervous.

Jackson walked up to Cherry, grabbed her by the arm, and dragged her into Selina's office.

When the office door opened, Selina was still sitting at her desk. She became intrigued when she saw Jackson drag Cherry in with him, but before she could even ask what had happened, she heard Jackson's following words.

"Get out!" commanded Jackson seriously. After he finished his words and stared at Selina for a few moments, he grabbed Cherry's hand again and dragged her to the resting room.

There was a small resting room in Selina's office, but Selina had never slept there. Instead, whenever they came to the JS Group, Jackson and Derek would lie inside there for quick naps, or sit on the couches to watch TV.

Jackson pulled Cherry into the resting room, closed the door, and pressed Cherry against it. He then stretched out his hand, and raised up Cherry's face.

Cherry didn't say a word to him, and instead just avoided his eyes. Since she had already noticed that Jackson was very mad, she knew that every effort to resist him would be futile.

Looking at the red marks on her fair face, Jackson couldn't help but feel a sharp sting in his heart.

"Did she do this to you?" asked Jackson.

With her head turned sideways, Cherry said, "You already know the answer to this question."

"Why didn't you dodge her?" questioned Jackson. He hadn't witnessed the scene, but if he had, he would have never allowed Cherry to be slapped.

Cherry instantly got angry when she heard this. She obviously wasn't feeling great, because she had been slapped, and to top it, now this wretch in front of her was blaming her for not dodging the blow.

Cherry gazed at Jackson, and said, "Jackson, do you really think that I wanted to be slapped?"

He didn't say any words, but instead showed his heartache in expression. He wanted to touch her face with his hands, something that Cherry avoided. She didn't want to look at him, let alone be touched by him.

Cherry took a deep breath of air, and said, "Jackson, if you don't want to leave her, we can divorce. Then you can justifiably marry her and she won't come here to harass me anymore."

As soon as Cherry finished her words, Jackson wrapped Cherry into his arms and embraced her tightly.

Although Cherry strongly resisted him, Jackson still refused to release her. How could he ever stay away from this woman? He would never divorce her, for anything or anyone in the world.

"I'm sorry, " said Jackson slightly.

Cherry suddenly?grew?quiet when he apologized to her, but wasn't it Sally's fault? Why was he apologizing to her now? Did he want to take the blame for her? Was he protecting her?

"You even reduce yourself to apologize for her, " said Cherry peacefully, as she wanted to see how important Sally really was in Jackson's heart.

Jackson instantly released Cherry, and as he carefully fixing his eyes on her, asked, "Do you think that I'm apologizing to you because of her?"

"Well, aren't you?" asked Cherry.

"What if I apologized for not protecting you better?" Staring into Cherry's eyes, Jackson wanted to pierce with his gaze into her soul.

For a brief moment, Cherry was?stunned?by Jackson's words. She then peacefully said, "Why do I even need your protection? I'm not..."

But Cherry was interrupted by Jackson before she could finish her sentence.

"Because you're my wife, and as long as I'm alive, I'll always protect you, " said Jackson in an extremely serious manner and with his gaze still fixed on Cherry's eyes.

Cherry caught Jackson's look in his eyes, and all of a sudden didn't know what to do anymore. She immediately turned her head sideways again to avoid him.

Cherry's heartbeat began to beat faster and faster, and she was almost moved by his words. He said that he would always protect her, and Cherry thought of how happy she would actually be if she were to stay with him forever. All of these things were, unfortunately, just fantasy.

Jackson gently touched Cherry's face and looked at her with eyes sparkling full of love. He wanted to bury her into his heart.

To Cherry, this conversation was going nowhere. She pushed Jackson's hands away, and said, "I have to go to work."

She then intended to leave.

However, immediately after Cherry turned around, Jackson grabbed her again, and then pressed her underneath him on the bed nearby.

When she found herself between the soft bed underneath her and Jackson's heavy body on top of her, Cherry instantly got nervous. She tried to slap Jackson's back with all of her strength, and said, "Jackson, let go of me! Go away!"

Jackson was overbearing, and he didn't want to leave. If he had to leave, he'd rather bully the woman and to make her surrender to him.

Jackson got closer to Cherry's ear, and whispered into it, "Be good, and let me hold you for a while."

"You wretch, stop it!" Cherry still didn't want to listen to Jackson's words, because there was nothing that he couldn't do if he got mad. Furthermore, they were on the top floor of the JS Group's building, not in their own home, and she surely didn't want anything to happen there.

"If you keep on resisting me, I'll do it, " said Jackson coldly.

Cherry then gradually became quiet, and couldn't do anything but let Jackson stay on the top of her. She calmed down, because she clearly knew that she could never defeat the wretch pressing against her. 'How could I possibly escape him when everything is in his control?' she wondered.

When he saw that Cherry became quiet, Jackson kissed Cherry's lips. He tried not to touch the swollen part of Cherry's face, because he was afraid that he might somehow hurt her.

Cherry closed her eyes and just let Jackson kiss her.

After a long time, Jackson left her alone, although he was unwilling to do that. Staring at Cherry, he said, "If I make a clean break-up with Sally, would you come back to me? Come back to the apartment?"

Cherry opened her eyes and gazed at Jackson. Judging from the look in his eyes, she could see that he was earnest, and Cherry firmly believed that he was actually serious and not joking. However, could she actually go back to him? If she had been alone, she would have instantly said yes, but things were different now, and she had Joe beside her. How could she return?" and let Joe go to the Chu family, which was filled with so much complicated enmity?

Cherry started to be hesitant, and didn't know what to do next. She was immersed in her thoughts, and wondered what had happened in the Chu household while she had been gone. Although Andrew had treated her well, she had still seen the Chu family's dark secret in his eyes, and was very afraid that Joe might then be in danger if she brought him there.

Looking at Cherry's expression, Jackson became curious. He made such a grand concession for her, but she still didn't say yes to him.

"Baby, " called Jackson softly.

Cherry hadn't heard this word in a long time, and it seemed that Jackson had been the only one who had called her like this. Was she really his baby? If she was his baby, then why did he leave her for Sally? If she was his baby, then why did he keep Sally at his side for the past five years? Didn't he already know that she didn't like that?

In the end, Cherry firmly shook her head, and said, "I have no intention of coming back at the moment."