Ice and Fire

Jackson and Cherry strolled along the roadside hand in hand while the breeze gently brushed against their cheeks. Cherry watched the beautiful scenery around them, and for a moment felt her heart free of any hardships.

Jackson then suddenly put his arm around her waist and pulled her close to him. He bent over her ear, and whispered into it, "Baby, please forgive me."

Cherry knew for what he was apologizing. He had locked her away inside the mansion for the last couple of days, and she had had little freedom to do anything.

But she didn't know how she should reply to him, and instead kept silent and just continued walking.

When Jackson saw that Cheery didn't want to answer him, he suddenly stopped walking. He then looked at her with earnest eyes, and asked again, "Tell me, are you still angry with me?"

"No, " replied Cherry, as she cast her gaze to his side, trying to avoid his eyes. She didn't know how to face him again.

"Then why didn't you reply to me the first time?" asked Jackson. He stared at her, and thought, 'I've summoned up all of my courage to apologize to her, but why does she still have the same indifferent attitude towards me?'

After Cherry thought for a while, she slowly cast her gaze onto Jackson and called out his name, "Jackson..."

He met her eyes and waited for what she had to say.

me explain to you what really happened. I went to the club to look for Stephen, but when I entered his office, I was astonished to see that he was talking with Sally inside.

continued, "We had been in the hotel room for less than three minutes before you arrived there, and then, well, you know

fell mute. He didn't know that Sally had been in Stephen's office, and he had only thought that Stephen had brought her to the hotel for some other mischievous purposes. Jackson was also angry that Cherry had followed him there, so that was why he had decided to lock her away at home while he had been in his berserk fit of rage. He now knew

I've seen the photos in our apartment's bedroom. I've seen that man together with Sally five years ago, but I had never thought that Stephen also knew him. That's why I visited Stephen

feel, I really do, but could you just listen to my words for a second? You don't need to know about all of these things. You can just

after he finished his words, Cherry slightly covered his mouth with her hand. She then shook her head, and said, "No, I want you to share them with me! I'll always be at your side, I'll always be

all of his love to her, and he treated her as the most important person

moved by her,

tiptoes and

tell me all of it? I really want to know about your things, about your

his arms. He put his head on her shoulder, and said in low voice, "Baby, I'm sorry, I

refused to tell me about it. Does he still treat me as an

on the surface that she understood him, she calmly leaned

mansion until it was noon. After they got back, Cherry found that the security guards had already disappeared from the villa's grounds,