Ice and Fire

Back at the villa, Joe, Bill and Lily were all waiting for the couple in the living room.

Joe then saw his Daddy furiously coming in the house followed by a man, and then by his Mommy.

He cheerfully ran to his mother, and joyfully cried, "Mommy, Mommy, you're back!"

But Joe was stopped by Bobby before he had the chance to embrace his mother. He didn't allow Joe to come any closer to Cherry.

Joe tried to break away from Bobby's grasp, but all of his efforts were in vain.

"Let me go, let me go, I want my Mommy!" shouted Joe, again and again, but to no avail.

Bill and Lily didn't have the slightest idea about what had happened, so they just stood like onlookers as they watched the scene.

Jackson suddenly shouted at his son, "Joe Shen!"

Joe then immediately became quiet. Looking at the fire burning in his father's eyes and at the terrible expression drawn all over his tensed face, Joe suddenly felt very frightened of him.

After he saw that Joe was quiet, Jackson turned to look at Bobby, and said, "Bobby, arrange for some security guards to watch over the villa, and she isn't allowed to leave the villa anymore."

Jackson's words shocked everyone, and Cherry looked at him in despair. Did he want to imprison her in the house?

"Mr. Jackson, " suddenly said Lily, totally unaware of what had happened between the two of them. Why did Jackson do this? They were always devoted to each other like a loving couple, weren't they? It could be easily seen that he loved Cherry deeply, but what he did now was to restrict Cherry's freedom.

Jackson then turned his eyes onto Lily and Bill, and said, "Listen to me very carefully: what you need to do is just to prepare the food well for her, and as for you Bill, there will be no need for you to drive her to work anymore, you'll only need to drive Joe to school in the morning. From now on, these are all of your responsibilities."

Seeing Jackson's angry face, Lily and Bill didn't dare to say a word, and while they nodded their heads, they briefly answered, "We understand."

his mind, but he wasn't reconciled to it. He eventually got rid of Bobby's grip, and as he turned and walked up to his father, he

by word, answered him, "You are in no position to

know what to say to him anymore. He knew little about his father, but he had once thought that his father was different from the rumors that circled around saying that he had an awful character. He had once believed that his

us to come back to you? We had a good time at my Uncle's home! Why did you ask us to come back if you treat us like this?" Joe resisted his father strongly. How could he tolerate his mother losing her freedom without doing anything to help her? He had to do something

said, "Because she's my wife and you're my son,

Joe's arm, Cherry immediately strode over to him, and without thinking too much, she threw Jackson's hand away from Joe and held her son in

son, " said Cherry in a low voice. She was already too tired to quarrel with Jackson

hugged his Mommy tightly, and said to his father, "You aren't allowed to

Jackson lose his

frowned, and said, "Cherry, you seemed to be kind to

him, and just held her

and looked

it out of his pocket, he saw

voice, trying to hide his anger from Selina, and answered,

powered off?" Selina's voice was

she won't be coming to work any longer, " said Jackson. After that, he hung up, without considering

Cherry and Joe, and

saw Jackson leave, he considered that he should

pretending to be strong, and it was until there were only Joe, Lily and Bill left in the room that

on

Mommy!" Joe was very scared when he saw his mother fall off her feet, and he hurried

to Cherry's side, also very concerned about her state.

She then slowly opened her eyes, and said