A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Jacob placed his hand on Emily's belly, but he could not do anything as he was not a doctor. So he stood back up and said,"I will call a doctor for you tomorrow."

Emily nodded in agreement. When she lowered her head to continue her dinner, Jacob dropped a big chicken drumstick on her bowl.

"You should enjoy as much as you can before you start to get morning sickness," Jacob suggested, in a serious tone. Then he glanced again at Emily's belly and said,"Our baby will need more nutrition to grow healthy, you know."

It didn't seem so strange to Jacob that Emily's belly was still flat even though she was pregnant, as he knew that Emily had a slender body type because she never ate too much.

"Okay." Jacob sounded like a father getting his kid to eat vegetables, ' thought Emily, but still she nodded, and then she asked for one more bowl of rice. 'Anyway, Jacob is right about the baby needing proper nutrition.'

"By the way, where did you learn that from?"

Emily asked casually, but she was surprised to see Jacob turn his face away awkwardly as he said,"Everyone knows that."

One thing he would never tell Emily was the truth that he had been reading up on how to take care of a mother during her pregnancy, and he managed to retain most of the contents quite well in his mind.

To his relief, Emily did not inquire much about his unusual reaction. She just wondered whether such knowledge was actually known by all. 'Maybe I should read more books about pregnancy?' she thought to herself.

With different plans in mind, Emily and Jacob finished their dinner in a relaxing and cozy atmosphere.

Before going to bed, Emily decided to pour a glass of milk for herself, as she usually did. However, when she got the glass and looked again at the milk, she found tiny little granules glittering at the bottom.

Confused, she shook the glass again a few times. 'It must be sugar granules, ' she thought. But she never added sugar in her milk. Perhaps it was Jacob? Or somebody else?

With the confusion in her mind, Emily took a table spoon and stirred the milk several times. However, she was even more surprised with what she discovered afterwards.

The "sugar granules" didn't melt even after being stirred. Moreover, every time she stirred they made a strange, crisp sound.

the hell were these

poured the milk into the sink to have a clear look at what those granules were. When she found out

hurt my throat, esophagus, stomach and might have even caused internal bleeding...' Stupefied, Emily could not even bear to

perturbation, she cleaned the mess and washed her face

It was definitely not a coincidence. There must have been some connection between them. 'Someone is plotting against me in secret, and his or her final

is hard to guard against secret conspiracies." Since she did not have any evidence about who was behind all these things, she decided not to

The next day.

went to LA Company after Jacob went to work. As a result, she

she just stood there silently, listening to Jacob's

absolutely ballistic, ranting and raving. 'How could Emily go to the company without telling me, especially since her wounds had not yet healed. Why can't she just take

him,"It's okay. Don't worry about my wound. It does not hurt any more. Look, I can walk normally

Jacob to prove her point. However, since the wound hadn't actually healed yet, it started to hurt again.

Then he held her up into his arms steadily, and bit into her

as he was rummaging

Emily stole a glance at Jacob, secretly wiped the saliva left on her lips, and casually kicked off her

was so careless that one of her shoes directly flew

eyes and raised his hand just on time to catch the shoe before it hit him. He had

want to

as she slowly moved backwards because Jacob was approaching closer to

he reached out, stretching his long arms and caught her delicate ankle as he pulled her

out Jacob only wanted to see whether Emily's wound had reopened or

of Emily's worries were put to ease at the thought of that. She sat still obediently, watching, as the man took off the bandage on her foot and carefully examined the wound. Emily's cheeks suddenly turned red like spring rose,

Emily's leg on his lap, changed the

warm feeling in her heart for everything Jacob had done for her.

she