"John!" eventually cried Cherry. She was also very surprised to see him there.
John was accompanied by his secretary. He gestured to him to leave first, and after the secretary left, he turned to Cherry, and said, "Cherr, what are you doing here?"
"Well, uh..." Cherry wasn't quite sure whether she should tell him about it or not. She thought for a while, and finally said, "I'm here to meet Jackson."
"To see my uncle?" John couldn't believe his ears. He continued to ask her, "Are you together with him again?"
Cherry shook her head, and replied, "No, I just have something that I need to talk with him."
John saw that Cherry looked pretty anxious, and it seemed that she indeed had something urgent with him. Concerned, he asked, "What is it about? Can I help you?"
Cherry quickly refused him, "Oh, no, thanks; it's about my brother."
"Wilson?" John immediately guessed that it had something to do with Wilson; he was the only person that Cherry called brother.
"Yes, " replied Cherry, while nodding her head lightly. She didn't know why, but she regarded John as being a reliable friend, and told him everything frankly. "My brother's company is facing financial difficulty, and I want to ask Jackson to help the company pull through."
"Why did you ask him for help?" John felt a little bit strange. He knew his uncle well, and he knew that he would never do anything without gaining a benefit out of it.
John continued to ask, "Did he tell you what his give-and-take conditions were?"
"No, he just told me to see him here."
John thought it over for a while, and then looked into Cherry's eyes, and said, "Cherry, do you believe in me? If you do, then please don't turn to my uncle for help. Don't worry, I'll figure something out how to help you with your brother and his company."
Cherry sensed John's seriousness, and she knew that he was not kidding her. All of sudden, Cherry remembered Stephen's words, and thought that maybe out of all of them, John was the only one who was reliable and trustworthy.
Finally, Cherry decided to believe John, and firmly nodded at him.
John thought for a while and came up with a rough plan in his mind. He said, "I still have some money, and I can lend it to your brother; then, I have some business partners who can also help help him with his business. Everything will be okay."
Cherry felt relieved after she heard John's plan. If there would be more companies to partner up with Wilson's, then things were going to go a whole lot better than
"You're my wife in name only, on paper only. My heart and love will never be yours."
Edward made it clear to Daisy that she was nothing to him. They were both victims of family greed -- the marriage was arranged for them.
Six years passed. She remained quiet, gaining a reputation in the army as a tough-as-nails colonel. When she walked into his life again, Edward fell in love with this woman...
ce after all.
"You've remembered it, haven't you?" asked Jackson. Judging from the look on her face, he guessed that she must have.
Cherry was too shocked to say anything more, and instead just looked around. This was the place where she had lost her virginity, and she had been wondering who that bastard was.
Jackson, who seemed to have read Cherry's mind, whispered near her ear, "That year I met a drunk woman here, and then…"
Jackson didn't finish his sentence, but he was sure that Cherry knew everything, and that no one else knew the details better than she did.
Cherry raised her head and looked straight into Jackson's eyes; she couldn't believe it. Was it really Jackson the one who had taken away her virginity?
"It was you! It was you..." Cherry couldn't help but repeat herself.
"Well, yes, it was me, " said Jackson firmly. He then pressed Cherry's shoulders hard, and earnestly said to her, "Honey, from the very beginning to the very end, you'll always be my woman."
Jackson then seemed to be announcing to the whole world that Cherry was his, and that her virginity, her whole person, everything that concerned her in someway was his. She was his woman.
Cherry didn't know how to express her own feelings at that moment. She should have been happy, but she had never expected that the answer to the thing that had always been lingering somewhere in her mind would be like this. She had disliked herself especially when she had fallen in love with Jackson, and she had hidden it deeply in her heart. She now had finally got to know what had actually happened on that day, and the answer she received both shocked her and made her feel relieved.