Ice and Fire novel Chapter 358

Cherry pulled the ringing phone from her bag and saw Mond's name on the screen, and Cherry's smile slowly faded.

"Hello?" Cherry greeted as she answered the phone.

"Are you home?" Mond asked, guessing that Cherry would be getting home about now.

"No. Why are you calling?" Cherry asked bluntly. She didn't want to talk to him much at all.

Mond realized Cherry must be at the amusement park with Joe still and went on, "I wanted to tell you something."

"Fine, spit it out." said Cherry indifferently.

"You don't need to be so impatient." Mond heard the unfriendly undertones in Cherry's voice.

Mond continued, "I told you that I'd tell you what I know in regards to Jackson." "I can meet with you now."

"What?" Cherry was taken aback, unsure what Mond meant at the moment.

"You know where the Island Coffee House is, right? If you go there, you will learn everything and it is what you wanted." When he finished giving Cherry the information, Mond hung up.

Cherry stood there a moment listening to the dead call tone in a state of confusion. She pondered Mond's cryptic message, 'What did Mond mean? The Island Coffee? Why would he tell me to go to the café? Is that where Jackson is?'

Seeing his mom in a daze, Joe gently tugged at Cherry's sleeve and asked, "Mommy, what's wrong? Is everything okay?"

Cherry stared ahead with a dull look in her eyes. Her thoughts and emotions were mixed. She did want to know Jackson's past, but she felt a knot in her stomach twisting at the thought of what Mond had just said; that she would know everything if she went to the cafe. She was reveling in the joyful day she spent with her son, and she wasn't ready to let go of that or to hear bad news. She also wondered though, could she really discover more about Jackson's if she went to the Island Coffee.

Cherry looked down at Joe and asked, "Joe, would you like to go look for Daddy?"

Judging from his mom's frantic look, Joe knew something was wrong. He wondered if it was because of his daddy.

"Okay, " Joe agreed nodding.

Cherry took her son's hand, walking briskly to the car and they got in. Only, now they were headed to the café instead of the military residential compound.