A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Emily took more cream from the cake, and smeared it on Jacob's chiselled face without reservation. With his eyebrows covered in cream, Jacob looked like Santa Claus.

Jacob could not see his face, but he could tell from Emily's reaction that he looked very funny. He twitched the corners of his mouth and wiped the cream off his face,"You should try it too."

Before Emily could catch his meaning, Jacob smeared Emily's face with all the cream on his hand, and then drew a white moustache on her face.

Emily unwittingly licked the cream off. It was so sweet that she squinted her eyes. The next second, she attacked Jacob again with some more cream.

A grown man and woman playing with cake as if they were children fighting in snow. it was a strange scene indeed. Exhausted, by the time they stopped, they already had cream all over their bodies.

While Jacob went to the bathroom to clean himself, Emily walked gently towards the door, quietly looked through the peephole, and saw Jack still sitting outside, holding a cake with a pathetic look on his face.

It was nearly nine o'clock. Why was he still there? Did he plan on staying there for the rest of the night? Emily was glad that she and Jacob didn't make too much noise a while ago...

But if Jack intended to stay outside the whole night, Jacob would not be able to leave Emily's apartment.

Emily lowered her head and paced back and forth, lost in thoughts. When she turned around again, she bumped into Jacob's firm chest.

Jacob took advantage of the opportunity to hold Emily in his arms but made sure to let go off her quickly in case she was upset about such intimacy. He then asked gently,"What's wrong?"

"Jack is still out there..." Emily whispered.

"He might stay there for the rest of the night, waiting for you to show your sympathy and to open the door for him."

"No way!" Emily said firmly,"I will not open the door for him."

Moreover, Jacob was at her apartment; if she'd have opened the door, it would like setting off two bombs at the same time. She could not let that happen!

"So do you want me to leave, or stay for the night?" Jacob raised his eyebrow slightly and threw the question at Emily.

struggled with her thoughts for a while and then said,"You

in Jacob's eyes suddenly dimmed, but the next minute he recovered himself and retorted,"If I want to take advantage of you, would you be able to stand

from doing anything he wanted to do. If he stopped, the only reasons would be: He had no real intentions of doing it in the first place, or he

words make sense, ' Emily thought, speechlessly. Either way, there was no other choice but

lost in thoughts, Jacob suddenly took out something and handed it

brocade box. "What is

"Open it."

reflecting off the item inside the box almost blinded her—It

a birthmark, with a beautiful daisy in the central disc, and a baby vividly

"This brooch..."

from her design in the jewelry design competition, with which she won the first prize

it did on the paper.

the buyer of my design?" Emily quickly

noncommittally,"A birthday gift for

can't accept it," Emily was familiar with jewelry, so she knew how expensive the brooch must be.

a discontented look on his face. He glanced

mentioned before that Jacob is the

contradict me, I

her lips and asked,"What if

said. But judging from his look, what he actually wanted to say was "You'd better not lose the gift I gave

finally took the box,"I will keep it safe with

satisfied, Jacob stretched out his hand and brushed her hair softly.

Emily liked the brooch very much because it was made from her efforts and

hardly ever touch it, as it was very precious to her. Soon, she

A while later, when she heard the sound of water