Ice and Fire novel Chapter 312

"Well, thank you so much, for saving me, " embarrassedly said Cherry. She then thought, 'I'm not acquainted with Mond at all, how could I stay in his arms? How could we act so intimately? I'm Jackson's wife. I need to behave with my self-discipline.'

"Never mind. As long as you're okay, it's fine, " said Mond.

Cherry thought for some time, and then asked, "Have you been waiting for me for a long time? Did you find out that I was trapped in the elevator because I never showed up to meet with you? That's why you came here and saved me, right?"

Cherry thought in her mind that this was what had happened. Mond had asked her to come there and meet with him in an hour. Since she hadn't shown up in the given time limit, he had went out to look for her.

But Mond didn't answer her.

At that moment, one of the maintenance personnel came out with Cherry's phone and her bag in his hand. He then looked at her, and asked, "Miss, are these your belongings?"

Cherry then walked towards him and took her bag and phone. She said, "Yes, they are. Thanks a lot!"

"It's alright. Do you live here? The elevator won't be running until later this evening, so you'll have to take the stairs now or come back tonight, " said the maintenance man.

Cherry nodded, and said, "Okay."

After she saw that the maintenance personnel walked into the building, Cherry said to Mond, "What should we do? We can't go upstairs now."

Mond looked at Cherry, and calmly said, "You'd better go back and rest; I'll call you some other time."

After she heard him, Cherry firmly shook her head. She tried to be brave, and said, "I'm fine, don't worry about me."

In Mond's view, Cherry flaunted her superiority because of her love to Jackson. The reason why she had come there in the first place, was that she wanted to learn something about Jackson from him. Although she had been trapped in the elevator for such a long time that her face had become dead-pale, she still said that she was okay. She was very good at pretending.

Mond then looked at Cherry, and in an extremely cold tone, said to her, "Don't you even care about your own life for Jackson?"

After Mond finished his words, Cherry said, "He's my husband!"

Cherry's firm eyes made Mond feel very angry in his heart. He thought, 'Husband? She really loves Jackson! She still sincerely calls him as her 'husband' even though he beats her! What a stupid woman!'

"But what if I don't want to tell you anything today?" said Mond. He had the initiative in his grasp; he could do whatever he wanted to.

"You..." Cherry suddenly didn't know what to say anymore. Was he playing with her?

Mond then said to Cherry with a resentful look in his eyes, "I'm not really in the mood to tell you now. Go back and wait for my call."

After that, Mond turned around, got inside his car, and drove away.

Cherry stood in the same place and stared at Mond's car until it disappeared from her sight. She then lost her balance and stepped back a few paces, but when she saw the stone bench next to her, she quickly walked to it and then sat down.

Cherry knew very well about her current physical condition; she was weak. She had come there with excitement and the intention to learn everything about Jackson, but she had found herself in such an awkward situation at that moment, that Mond had left and she had gotten nothing out of him.

Cherry then told herself in her mind, 'I should adjust my mood first and then wait for his call, since he said that he would still tell me all of those things about Jackson the other day. He shouldn't be a bad person, and since he saved me today, I need to trust him. After such an unexpected event, maybe I would also change my mind if I were him, so I should make allowances for him.'

Cherry sat on the stone bench for an hour until she felt that her emotional state had gotten better. She then got in her car and drove away.

After Cherry had just entered her office back at the JS Group, the intercom rang.

Cherry picked it up, and said, "Hello, this is Cherry speaking!"

"Cherry, it's Caroline. Are you back?" Caroline's voice came sounding from the other end of the line.

"Yeah, I just arrived in my office, " said Cherry.

Caroline then said, "Selina looked for you in the morning but you weren't in your office. Could you come up here if you have some time now? She's waiting for you in her office."

"Okay, I'll be right there, " replied Cherry.

After she hung up, Cherry again took out her mirror from her bag and checked on her appearance. After she was sure that her expression looked just as it usually did, she also checked her clothes. When she was finally assured that nobody could tell from her face and clothes that something had happened to her, she walked out of the office.

She entered Selina's office and saw that she was browsing through some documents. Cherry called her tenderly, "Selina!"

Selina then looked up at Cherry, and with a smile on her lips said, "Cherry, you're back!"

"Yes. Caroline said that you looked for me earlier in the morning, but I wasn't here. What's the matter?"

Selina stood up from her desk, and as she approached her, said, "It wasn't anything important, I just wanted to ask you some questions about a document. Jackson was worried sick about you, by the way. He called me to look for you, because you weren't answering your phone. Anyway, he eventually calmed down after I told him that you were out to meet with one of our customers."

"He called you to look for me?" asked Cherry with surprise. She hadn't expected that Jackson would call someone else to look for her. Was he worried about her that much?

Selina nodded, and said, "Yes. Oh, call him back; he asked me to tell that when you were back."