Ice and Fire

Chapter 183 Because I Love Him (Part One)

Cherry couldn't believe her ears. She looked at Elsa surprised, and asked, "I heard that everything was

going well. How on earth is he in trouble all of a sudden?"

She had some knowledge about the business world, and she knew that financial troubles always cast

their shadows on a company first before falling on it. There had to be signs to indicate that Wilson's

company would get into trouble, but she had been aware of none.

"I don't know; Jacob knew nothing about it until this morning when he received a call. Your brother is at

the company now, and your uncle just left earlier, " said Elsa nervously. Although Wilson wasn't her

biological son, she regarded him as such because he hadn't rejected her when she had married his

father. He had treated her very well, and now it seemed that he was in trouble. How could she possibly

feel at ease when something like this was happening to him?

Cherry immediately comforted Elsa, "Mother, don't be so worried about it. I'll also go to my brother's

company to have a look on things, and again, please, relax, uncle has many friends that might be able

to help us. It'll be okay, you'll see!"

Cherry then said to Joe, who was standing behind her, "Go and eat your breakfast quick, and after that Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

I'll take you to school."

"Okay, " said Joe, and then strode to the dining room in a hurry.

After she took Joe to school, Cherry went straight to Wilson's company. She informed Caroline that she

will be arriving later at the office, and asked her if she could help her deal with some of her

assignments first. Afterwards, she also called Selina, and her generous boss said that Cherry didn't

even have to come to work if she had something urgent to deal with.

After she arrived at Wilson's office, Cherry saw him sitting in front of his desk looking morose. She also

saw Jacob on the sofa, seeming to be as helpless as her brother was.

Cherry immediately walked to Wilson, and asked, "What happened, brother?"

Wilson just shook his head, and replied, "I don't know... The bank just advised me that I should repay

the loan in advance, even though it was supposed to be paid at the end of the next month. We can also

repay it at the end of this month, after we receive the arrears from the other companies, but now the

bank has advanced the pay date, and gives us just three days to do that. If we can't, then..."

Wilson didn't continue his words, but Cherry already guessed what he intended to say.

"How about we go to our other partnering companies and ask them for some financial help for this

problem?" said Cherry after she thought about it.

"It doesn't work, " said Wilson with a distressed expression on his face. "They don't want to help us;

they instantly rejected me."

But before Cherry could think of another piece of advice, Jacob, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly

said, "There has to be something more to this than meets the eye!"

After they heard Jacob's words, Cherry and Wilson looked at each other. Cherry carefully thought

about it, and also agreed that things couldn't possibly be as simple as they were; unfortunately, nothing

else popped into her mind.

At that moment, a secretary ran into the office and went straight to Wilson. He hastily said, "I've found

it, I've found it!"

Jacob, Wilson and Cherry turned all of their attention on the secretary, and waited for him to tell them

what he had found out.

The secretary took a brief moment to catch his breath and to calm down. He then said, "A man called

Bobby! He's the one who gave the order!" He then continued, "I went to the bank just earlier now. One

of my classmates from my university years is working there, and she told me that a man called Bobby

met with the bank's president and told him that we should repay the loan as fast as possible."

"Bobby?" Wilson was somehow puzzled, because he didn't know him, and the name also didn't ring a

bell to him.

However, Cherry knew who the troublemaker was. The man behind Bobby's order had to be Jackson!

"I know him, " suddenly said Cherry.

Wilson and Jacob then looked at Cherry surprised, and so did the secretary. "Who is he?" asked the

secretary.

Cherry didn't answer his question, and instead turned her gaze onto Jacob, and said, "He's Jackson's

guy. Jackson must be the one who instigated him to do this."

"Why?" asked Jacob, perplexed by the whole situation.

"He did this to force me to move into his apartment with Joe, " answered Cherry. "I'll go and find him

now."

Cherry then wanted to leave, but Wilson quickly grabbed her arm, and said, "Cherry, if you don't want

to go back to Jackson, then don't; I prefer to sacrifice my company than to let you go back to him so

reluctantly."

Cherry stared at Wilson and tried to put a smile on her face. "Brother, it doesn't matter, because sooner

or later I still have to return to him. Don't worry about it, I'll talk to him and everything is going to be

okay."

After that, Cherry pulled herself from Wilson's grasp, turned around, and left.

After she left Wilson's company building and got into her car, Cherry called Jackson.

"Hello, " said Jackson calmly.

"Where are you?" quickly asked Cherry.

Jackson was already expecting Cherry's call. He said, "You called me faster than I thought."

Cherry knew what Jackson meant with his reply. She said, "Tell me, where are you? I'm coming to see

you; isn't this what you want?"

"I want even more than this, " said Jackson patronizingly. He continued, "Come to the villa in the

suburbs. You know where, because you've already been there."

What Jackson said softened Cherry. She thought, 'Is it the one that Jackson wanted to give me as a

present?'

Cherry then drove to the villa, and after she arrived and entered it, she saw Jackson sitting on the sofa

in the living room. She then looked around the place and saw that it had been redecorated according to

her tastes. She would have been very happy if she hadn't come to deal with Jackson.

She walked towards Jackson and stopped at just a short distance away from him. After she fixed her

gaze on him, Cherry asked, "Why did you do that?"