A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Seeing Emily getting dragged away by Jacob, made Rita laugh out so loud, her eyes sparkled with tears of joy. Her laughter dazzled David. In fact, she had never seen her laugh so whole-heartedly.

"Do you like chicken soup? I can ask someone to make it for you," David asked softly.

Rita kept a smile on her face as she stared at him, with a flicker of amusement in her cold eyes. "Don't bother. You can go about your business. I will take care of myself," she said.

David was already accustomed to being treated like a lackey by Rita after so many days of looking after her. However, since she wasn't giving him any attention, he felt redundant and unwanted. Was he a masochist?

"I'm not busy. I can stay here with you," said David.

Rita slightly curled her lips and said nothing.

Outside the ward, Emily struggled hard to escape from Jacob's hold, but it was in vain. "Jacob, what do you want? Don't beat around the bush and just tell me. And let me go right now..." demanded Emily.

Just as the words fell from her lips, Jacob let go of her. His face turned sour as if someone had poured mud all over his body.

"What's the matter with you? Why are you so upset?" asked Emily curiously, as she had no idea why Jacob was throwing a hissy fit.

Jacob slowly forced Emily into the corner, with a face like thunder. She sensed something was wrong with him, so she tried to slip away, but Jacob pulled her hands and pressed them against the wall, trapping her in the corner.

"Eh…… What do you want?"

"Emily, you made chicken soup for Rita! Why?"

Emily finally understood why Jacob was angry with her. Nevertheless, she didn't think she had done anything wrong. She made soup for Rita because Rita was her closest friend. Emily did nothing wrong; why would Jacob treat her like that?

Emily tried to calm him down, so she explained," Rita is weak right now and needs to be nourished with a proper home-made chicken soup, so…"

Jacob sneered, and mocked her with a childish tone," I don't want to listen to your excuses."

Emily was baffled. 'Is this guy nuts?' thought Emily.

cooked that chicken soup for

as his pupils dilated slowly. Emily was touched by his aggrieved expression. She found it somehow cute

back home…" she said. Emily capitulated under his expectant

Jacob blurted out

to get back to work

you a day-off," said Jacob.

his demands. "Fine, you win. I'm going to say bye to

up with joy as if he had just received the best birthday present of his life. Jacob took her to bid Rita farewell and then took

handsome face and asked,"

jealous of a

your best soup?" he

for a while and then answered," Chicken

just make that for me," said Jacob,

as she stared out of the window to look at the scenery, and replied,"

the lead in getting out of the car and asked Jacob," Would you like to

without hesitation," I

to buy vegetables here. However, compared to the supermarkets, the place wasn't very clean, as the ground

sight of dirty water on the ground made

she came up to him and helped him. "It is dirty here; don't go any

come with you," he insisted. All of a sudden, he lifted her and carried her across a big

redder than the tomatoes on the vegetable stalls. "Put me down! There are so many people around

clean spot in the vegetable market, and then put Emily down

not annoyed by them at all. In their opinion, Jacob and Emily were just two people madly

so we can buy what we need quickly," suggested Emily. Emily thought carefully and assigned Jacob a task as she said," You can go to the western side and buy some mushrooms and red dates. Remember to buy these from the second shop. There's an old lady who sells the bigger dates.

difficult for him to find the mushrooms and red

sore thumb, mainly because of the way he was dressed. In other words, he

would you like to buy some spareribs?