Ice and Fire novel Chapter 45

The two of them then did some happy shopping. Cherry was in good mood, and bought some clothes that she liked, and three hours later, both of them held lots of shopping bags in their hands.

Cherry and Emily took a rest on the chairs in the shopping plaza. When Emily saw the shopping bags around them, she asked, "Cherry, how will we carry them home?"

Cherry frowned, and answered, "I have absolutely no idea. Although they're not too heavy, carrying them home might not be that easy."

"I don't have a husband, so nobody is there for me to carry them home. What about you, Cherry? Call him and ask him to help you, " said Emily.

"He works at the army base, not at home, " said Cherry helplessly. She regretted that she had married a soldier, and thought that if she had married an ordinary man and had called him, half an hour later he would have been there to pick her and Emily up.

"He's a commander rather than an ordinary soldier. I guess he isn't that busy, is he? Go on, call him and ask him if he has time. If he isn't busy, he'll come here to pick us up, " said Emily with a wry smile shining on her face.

Cherry looked at Emily, and thought of calling Jackson. She remembered that he had told her that she could call him if necessary, and she thought that if he indeed wasn't busy, he could actually meet them there and help them to carry their clothes home.

Cherry then took her mobile phone and called Jackson.

And a moment later, he answered.

Jackson's attractive voice was heard on the phone, and said, "Hello."

"Uh..." Cherry was nervous, and couldn't find her words.

"What's up?" asked Jackson.

"Are you busy now? If you're not, can you come and pick me up?" Cherry was careful, because Jackson's rage was too much to endure, if it was triggered.

Jackson now knew that Cherry was outside, and asked, "Where are you?"

When she heard Jackson's question, Cherry hastily replied, "I'm shopping at the plaza, but we've already bought lots of things and can't carry them home. Can you come and drive us home?"

Cherry said the last sentence in a tender and soft tone, because she was still afraid that she might somehow anger Jackson.

After a long pause, Jackson still said nothing, and Cherry eventually felt disappointed, and said, "If you're busy, we'll find another way to go home, although my feet are aching..."

Just before Cherry was about to hang up the phone, she heard Jackson's voice again.

He said, "Don't move. I'll come in twenty minutes, " and then immediately hung up.

Dazed, Cherry looked at her phone, and didn't even notice that the call had ended.

But Emily saw it, and asked, "What did he say? Is he coming or not?"

Cherry repeated Jackson's words, "Don't move. He'll come in twenty minutes."

Emily smiled, and said, "I told you that if you ask, he'll come. He can't just leave you unattended like this."

Cherry then came back to her senses, and when she realized that Jackson would actually come for her, a big smile appeared on her face.

She boasted, "Hum, how could he refuse me? If he had said no, I would have asked for help from another man."

Emily teased her, and said, "Haha, just look at yourself! I don't believe you for a second that you would ever dare to do a thing like that." She knew that Cherry had said this only to find for herself a sense of achievement.

"Why not?" arrogantly said Cherry.

Emily shook her head, and thought that as long as Cherry felt happy, she could do whatever she wanted to.

Twenty minutes later, Cherry saw a car park not that far away from them, and then Jackson, dressed in his military uniform, got out of it.

Cherry and Emily regarded Jackson as their saviour for the day. They hastily took their shopping bags and walked up to him.

Jackson also picked up the pace when he saw his wife carrying several large shopping bags. He took the bags from her hands, and while he pretended his resentment, he said, "If you can't carry them home, why did you buy them?"

"Because she misses you and wants you to come here, " said Emily, grinning widely at him.

Cherry hastily approached Emily and gave her a slight slap on the arm, and whispered in her ear, "Shut up. I didn't miss him."

Emily then smiled broadly, and said nothing more.

Jackson then put Cherry's shopping bags in the car trunk, while Emily, with only two bags, got inside the back seat.

After Cherry got in the front passenger seat, Jackson started the car.

While she looked at Jackson, she said, "Drive Emily home first."

Although Jackson said nothing, he actually thought of the same thing Cherry did.