Ice and Fire novel Chapter 317

Jackson lay on the bed with Cherry tightly held in his arms. He took a deep breath and smelled the sweet scent around her that had always made him fall into her charming aura.

"Jackson, go to sleep, I'm a little tired, " said Cherry, with her eyes closed. She had been busy all day long at the JS Group, and now all she wanted was to get a good night's sleep.

"Okay, " gently replied Jackson, with his arms still tightly wrapped around Cherry.

He held his wife firm in his arms every night they lay together in bed. Cherry had already gotten used to this, so she closed her eyes and fell asleep almost instantly.

At midnight, Cherry suddenly woke up startled from a nightmare. She couldn't help but scream and gasp for breath, suffocated by panic in the total darkness of the bedroom. Her back was drenched in cold sweat trickling down in streams, but she couldn't feel it.

Jackson was also woken up startled by the sudden commotion. He saw his wife sitting stiff as a board on the bed next to him, and he immediately sat up and reached out his arm to turn on the bedside lamp. He put his hands on her shoulders, but before he could ask her anything, Cherry already denied him.

"Don't touch me!" desperately cried out Cherry. She then tightly gripped the quilt in her trembling hands and wrapped herself in it, as if she were defending herself from a ruthless and uncanny enemy, who was Jackson.

Jackson could feel that Cherry was trembling like a leaf in the wind under the quilt, and he thought that she must have had a very bad nightmare.

"Baby, it's me, don't be afraid. What's wrong?" asked Jackson. He didn't come close to her, but instead simply stared at her with all the love and tenderness that he could reflect in his eyes.

But Cherry didn't reply, and she just silently sat on the bed with her head lowered and still panicked.

It almost killed him to see her in that state. Jackson carefully reached out his hands and gently asked her, "Baby, are you alright?"

With one hand on Cherry's shoulder and the other under her chin, Jackson slowly turned her face to the light and gazed for a moment in her eyes. After he saw the horror written on her face, he gently asked, "Did you have a nightmare?"

After she saw that it was Jackson, Cherry began to slowly recover from her shock and slightly nodded.

Jackson then embraced Cherry tight in his arms. He spoke to her in a gentle voice, and comforted her, "It's alright, baby, I'm here. Don't be afraid, it was just a dream and it's not real."

As she lay in Jackson's arms, Cherry felt a lot more secure, but she still couldn't get the nightmare out of her head. She had dreamed the most terrible thing since she had married Jackson, and it had felt so real for her that she still couldn't convince herself that it was only in her imagination. She could still see the horrible scene unfolding right before her eyes.

Jackson comforted her in a soft and gentle voice, "It's alright baby, it's alright; I'm here with you."

After a long silence, Cherry slowly began to regain her composure. As she stretched out her arms and tightly clung to Jackson's waist, she thought to herself, 'I'll always be safe with Jackson around me. I'll never be in any danger and I'll never need to be afraid ever again, because he will protect me; he's promised me that he will always protect me.'

The moments she had spent in the elevator earlier in the day swarmed again into her mind. She had completely panicked when she was faced with the horrible event, but it was Mond, not Jackson, who had saved her. She wondered whether it was because of her dangerous experience that she had or something else that made her feel so extremely insecure and feeble. She had never thought about death before, but now she understood what it meant. She was suddenly afraid that she would lose everything that she had, her dear husband, her lovely son, their love.

"Jackson, " whispered Cherry in her soft tender voice.

"I'm here, " quickly replied Jackson.

"I don't want to leave you and Joe, " earnestly said Cherry, acting like a child. That was her absolute truth, and she meant every word of it.

"You'll never leave us, because we'll stay together forever and ever, " said Jackson. He knew that at the moment she desperately needed some sense of security, and she wanted to make her feel safe and protected. She was just like a fragile and vulnerable child, asking for the adult's comfort whenever she was in trouble.