Ice and Fire novel Chapter 429

In the afternoon, as Cherry walked out of the H King Building, she spotted Jackson's car parked in the lot so she walked to him and sat into the car.

"Why do you come downstairs so late?" asked Jackson impatiently, while starting the powerful engine of his automobile.

"Are you serious? I came downstairs as soon as you called to say that you had reached the company, " replied Cherry somewhat angrily, as well. She hadn't made him wait for very long. Why did he get unpleasant at every small incident that occurred?

"Did Wilson stop you on your way out?" asked Jackson.

"Why on earth would he stop me? He cannot stop me from meeting my own husband, " responded Cherry.

A smile touched the corners of Jackson's lips as he began to cool down. He took one look at Cherry and then kept on driving, "That's more like it, my woman's the boss."

"Darling, when do you think I'm not like the boss?" Cherry suddenly asked in a pretty tender voice, but she was prepared to change her countenance and get angry in the next minute.

"When we go to bed and you don't listen to my words, " answered Jackson without thought, grinning on the inside, knowing he was going to touch a nerve.

"Jackson, I dare you to say one more sentence, " Cherry raged, glaring at Jackson's profile. This man was always restless?at night, leaving her no chance to resist him. Instead of admitting his mistakes, he was accusing her of not listening to him at all.

Jackson's lips turned upwards lazily in a barely perceptible smile, while he remained silent and not responding to Cherry.

"Jackson, honey, you are going to sleep on the couch tonight, " said Cherry in a dangerously sweet voice, pretending she was angry, "Why would I do that? Don't get angry. You know you'll miss me in that huge bed of ours, " grovelled Jackson, immediately.

"If you won't leave our room, I will!" Finishing her speech off with a triumphant flourish, Cherry averted her sight from Jackson to the scenery outside her window.

"Do you really think I will let you slip through my grasp?" asked Jackson, grinning. How could he allow his woman to leave him? Cherry was the only thing in his life that mattered, apart from their child. He wished she could be by his side at all times.

Cherry opted to give Jackson the silent treatment and pretended to be very absorbed in the landscape drifting past them.

Having noticed that his lovely wife had gone off on one of her self-ignited anger tantrums and not wanting to worsen the situation, Jackson immediately said, "I'm sorry, baby, I was just teasing. Look at me, please." He tried to get her to stare into his eyes so that he could relieve her anger.

Cherry then turned her head to glare at him and angrily said, "Jackson, that's not all. I know that when you work at the bar, those girls keep flirting with you but you must not engage! You should not even glance or smile at them!"

Hearing Cherry's baseless concerns, Jackson wanted to laugh. Those girls at the bar could not give him anything he wanted. Everything he ever wanted in the world, he had gotten from Cherry. If they flirted with him, it was only because he was so oblivious to them. His entire demeanor had changed after meeting his beloved.

"Baby, are you jealous now? Or is something else going on? You know they have nothing on you, " asked Jackson, delicately.

"I don't care. You'd better be careful, anyway. Don't try to find any excuse to explain it away when I see it, " said Cherry.

"Set your mind at ease. The only ones in my heart are you and Joe. Nobody else can even attract my attention, let alone enter my heart. You should know that our family matters the most to me in this world, " assured Jackson.

Cherry felt a bit comforted after hearing Jackson's reassurances. "That's good, I will keep in mind what you said and so should you!"