Ice and Fire novel Chapter 326

Jackson's words irritated Cherry. She stood up, and as she looked into Jackson's eyes, she furiously said, "Yes, Mond has indeed told me something!" She paused for a moment to think of something, and then continued to say, "Jackson, I've always been worried about you because I thought that it was dangerous to have Sally around you, but now I know that I was wrong; now I realize how much you actually loved her years ago."

Jackson also furiously stood up, and in a thundering mad rage asked Cherry, "What the hell did Mond tell you?"

Jackson hadn't expected that Mond would tell Cherry things about him and Sally. What the hell did he want to do? What was his scheme? He had thought that Mond would tell Cherry something about his past life and background, not about Sally.

"He told me some of the facts that you tried to hide from me, " said Cherry. She obviously knew that Jackson was very angry, but she didn't fear him anymore. She had been very anxious after knowing the truth and she felt that it didn't make any sense to be still afraid of him.

Jackson then suddenly came closer to Cherry and tightly gripped her arm. In an infuriated tone, he said, "Tell me, what did he say to you? Tell me now!"

Cherry wasn't scared of him anymore; she calmly looked into Jackson's eyes, and word by word uttered, "Jackson, I had never expected that you would be able to give up everything you had for Sally. It's no wonder that you left me alone at home for her sake five years ago. I always thought that you indeed loved Sally, but I had never expected that you would love her so deeply as to sacrifice all that you had!"

"Enough! Shut up!" shouted Jackson, as a hot burning fury started to blaze deep in his heart. It was true that he had once loved Sally, but that was long before he had met Cherry. He knew better than anyone that he had gone maybe a step too far with what he had done to Cherry five years ago, but he tried to think better about it, and it seemed that he had cherished her even more than before after her return. He wanted to love and care for her with all of his heart, because he had no feelings left for Sally whatsoever. How could Cherry still mention of the past when he loved her so deeply in the present moment?

"Why? Why should I shut up?" retorted Cherry. She stared at Jackson, and continued to say, "You have made so many sacrifices for Sally, your beloved and cherished woman, but tell me, Jackson, what have you done for me? I'll tell you what you've done! You ruined the Shen Group and let my father become homeless! Jackson, how dare you treat me like a mongrel, but treat your sweet Sally like a goddess? You said that you loved me, was this the way to show your love to me?"

"Shut up!" Jackson's body then started to shiver and he gripped Cherry's arm even more fiercely.

Cherry knitted her eyebrows in a frown. She felt a sharp pain in her arm because of Jackson's grip, but she still bore it nevertheless, because under no circumstance would she have begged him for mercy.

When he saw that Cherry didn't say a word, Jackson went on to say, "I admit that I indeed protected Sally like a madman in the past, but as for what I did to the Shen Group, that was my revenge for you running away from me. You are the only one to blame, because if you hadn't left me at that time, the Shen Group would've been doing pretty well today."

"How funny you are!" said Cherry. She put on a helpless bitter smile on her lips, and as she squinted at Jackson, she said in a disdainful voice, "Do you feel better when you say that? That you are completely innocent and I just ran away from you? Don't you know why I left you? In your heart, Sally was much more important than I was! How could I still stay beside you when you cared about her so much? How could I feel safe to give birth to Joe with you and Sally around?"