Ice and Fire novel Chapter 366

Jackson immediately replied, "No, no! Grandpa, please let me handle everything. I know the best, and please trust me. I promise you that I will never meet Sally again." He didn't want anything unexpected to happen, because if Andrew also meddled in his affairs, then things would only get worse. Mond had already been too big of a headache for him, and he didn't want to be worried about more things than necessary.

Instead of replying to Jackson's words of promise, Andrew sighed, and ruefully said, "If I hadn't agreed with you to save Sally many years ago, we wouldn't have been in this terrible situation now, the people of the An Family wouldn't have been implicated, and Mond's matter wouldn't have been exposed."

Hearing Andrew's scolding words, Jackson just lowered his head in silence.

He knew better than anyone else what had happened years ago. He had been too young and restless at that time, so he had decided to protect Sally, despite the objections that he got from his friends and family. He had even stood up to Andrew to protect her, and in the end, Andrew had agreed to help him as he wished. He had no way of knowing that things would turn out like they did in present times, and he felt that the current situation was complex and difficult to solve.

Jackson didn't say a word for quite a long time.

Andrew steadily stood up, but before he left, he said to his grandson, "Jackson, you should never let Cherry down. Don't be like your father, and be careful to protect Cherry and Joe, because they are the only family that you can rely on for the rest of your life."

After he said this, he turned around and left.

As Jackson watched him leave, he said to himself, 'Grandpa, don't worry, I will protect Cherry and Joe. They are the most important people for me, and I'll never abandon them.'

When he returned to the bedroom, he found Cherry tidying up the wardrobe. His heart wanted him to step towards her, to hold her from her back and feel her warmth and sweet scent, but his mind told him that he should ask her about certain problems first.

He decided that it would be best to sit down on a chair and to talk with his wife about what had happened.

Cherry knew that Jackson was near her, because she saw him when he came in, but she was unwilling to talk to him first. She was still upset because of what had happened in the coffee shop earlier in the afternoon.

Jackson calmly asked her, "What happened at home in the afternoon? Why was our Grandpa sent to the hospital?" He already knew that the event was somehow related to his son, but he wanted to know how everything happened in detail.

Cherry casually replied to him, "You've already know what happened, so why are you asking me again about it?" She didn't turn her head to look at Jackson, not even for a moment, and instead she pretended that she was busy cleaning her wardrobe.

When Jackson saw that Cherry pretended to be unaffected by the whole thing, he started to become angry. He then suddenly stood up from his chair and walked closer to his wife.

He stood next to her, grabbed her arm, and forced her to turn around and face him.

He then asked, "Why didn't you let me explain myself? Why did you let Joe say those things to Grandpa? Was it just because I met with Sally? Why didn't you believe me?"

Cherry stared at him and a helpless smile suddenly curled on the corners of her mouth. She said, "Believe you? Jackson, what did you tell me this morning just before you left home? And what did you do instead? You just wanted to meet with Sally. So what, what's the big deal? You could have just told me the truth, maybe I would have allowed you to see her, but you chose instead to meet with her behind my back. How could I possibly believe you?"

Jackson started to explain, "It was just a misunderstanding! It isn't like you think it is, and actually, I..." but before he had the chance to finish his words, Cherry interrupted him.

She said, "That's enough! I don't want to know what happened between you two!" She didn't know why she yelled this out to Jackson; all that she knew was that she couldn't stay calm anymore and that she was edgy, and her heart had been so easily broken.

Jackson echoed her words, "Don't want to know?" He then glared at her, and furiously asked, "Then why don't you explain to me your relationship with Mond? Why did you meet with him? What's going on between you and Mond?"

"Jackson, you!" Cherry couldn't believe her ears, and as she stared at Jackson, she thought to herself, 'Maybe he believes in his heart that I'm that kind of woman who dates other men while in the same time I still care about him and the whole family. That's so ridiculous.'

Jackson stared at Cherry and wanted to read her mind. He asked, "What? You have no excuses on you, right?"

Cherry lightly replied, "No. I have nothing to do with Mond. We're just friends."

Cherry remembered that Mond had saved her life in the elevator, and even though she didn't know him very well, he was still her lifesaver and her friend. She couldn't pretend that he was a only stranger to her.

Jackson then furiously asked, "Just friends? He has fought Sally for you and stared at you in that disgusting way. Will a friends behave like that?" He had always known that Mond and Sally's relationship was deep and unusual, but Mond had defied Sally for Cherry. Jackson naturally thought that this meant that Mond did care about Cherry very much, and he had also noticed that the way Mond was looking at Cherry was strange. Jackson naturally thought that their relation wasn't so simple as "just friends."

Cherry took a deep breath of air and decided that she didn't want to explain anything more to Jackson. If he didn't believe her the first time, he would still doubt her no matter what she said.