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 can

that before," the light in Jacob's eyes suddenly dimmed, but the next minute he recovered himself and retorted,"If I want to take advantage

to do. If he stopped, the only reasons would be: He had no

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

Jacob suddenly took out something and handed it

was a delicate and beautiful brocade box. "What is it?" asked Emily.

"Open it."

opened the box, the gleaming light reflecting off the item inside the box almost blinded her—It was

of a ruby in the shape of a birthmark, with a beautiful daisy in the central disc, and a baby vividly lying on the stamen as if it was in its mother's womb, just about to open

"This brooch..."

in the jewelry design competition, with which she won the first prize at the competition. It was her dream made

real life than it did on the paper. "But I sold the copyright of my design a few days ago because I needed the money...

buyer of my design?" Emily

noncommittally,"A birthday

it," Emily was familiar with jewelry, so she knew how

discontented look on his face. He glanced at Emily and asked,"Am I your boss or

quickly. 'He is right. Victor mentioned before that Jacob is the real controller

contradict me, I

pursed her lips and

you should do with it," Jacob said. But judging from

finally took the box,"I will keep it safe

Jacob stretched out his hand

because it was made from her

now and then, but she would hardly ever touch it, as it was very precious to her. Soon, she started to look for a

in a safe spot, she realized that Jacob was missing. A while later, when she heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom, she guessed that Jacob was