Ice and Fire novel Chapter 181

"Jackson, why don't you look deep inside yourself for your answers instead of asking them from me? Everything was your fault! Why do you need to blame others?" cried Cherry.

"It wasn't my fault, it wasn't!" yelled Jackson. He then looked into Cherry's eyes, and said, "Cherry, you chose to leave me, and you chose to keep my son away from me! You were happy, weren't you?"

Cherry's couldn't help but cry when the past five years instantly flashed in her mind. She looked at Jackson, and while she shook her head, she said, "Do you really think I was happy? When I gave birth to Joe nobody was there for me! I refused my family's help and I brought up Joe alone. Do you really think that I could have possibly been happy?"

"Then why did you leave me? Wasn't I capable of providing anything that you ever wanted?" Jackson almost shouted with his face twisted with anger. He stared at Cherry, and thought that she deserved every bit of her sufferings.

Cherry didn't lose her train of thought. She calmed herself down, and carefully said, "Jackson, you still don't understand, not even now... I wanted a family!"

After she paused for a moment, Cherry continued, "I couldn't bear a third person getting between us! I just wanted a simple life, but then, what did you do? You got tangled up with Sally, and after she killed Emily, the only friend that I ever had, and walked away unpunished...did you think that I could also afford to leave my son to you?"

Jackson's heart was punched badly by her words. He knew very well how Cherry had been when Emily had passed away.

Cherry turned her head away from him, and didn't want to look at him anymore.

After some time, she broke the silence between them, and said, "You should go now, I don't want to see you anymore."

"Are you just going to let me go like this? Do you really think that I can leave like this?" asked Jackson intensely.

Although she had a bad feeling about it, Cherry suddenly turned around to face Jackson again, and with fear in her voice, asked, "What do you want?"

"You tell me! Do you really think that I'll still allow you to keep my son away from me any longer?" asked Jackson with fury echoing in his voice.

Cherry shivered, and her uneasiness was intensifying with each passing moment. After she grasped Jackson's hands, she fiercely started to shake her head, and said in a tearful tone, "Jackson, please don't! Joe is all I've got, you can't take him away from me! You can't!"

Jackson, regardless of Cherry's pleas, stared into her eyes and stonily replied, "He's my son too."

Cherry tightened her grip on Jackson's hand, and continued to beg, "Please, don't take Joe away from me! Please, you can't!"

She knew very well that Jackson got everything he wanted, either by himself or by others.

Jackson felt heartsick when he saw Cherry begging him like that, but the thought of his son inside the ward got him enraged again.

Suddenly, Jackson let Cherry go, and turned around to leave.