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.

never cooked that chicken soup for

was touched by his aggrieved expression. She found it somehow cute and adorable... Emily's heart melted and

nice chicken soup for you when I back home…" she said. Emily capitulated under

goal, Jacob blurted out arrogantly in a non-negotiable tone.

to get back to work soon," explained

day-off,"

you win. I'm going

birthday present of his life. Jacob took her to bid Rita farewell and then took her

Emily stared at his handsome face and

seen such a ridiculous man in my life. To think that he was jealous of a

your best soup?"

mulled over his question for a while and

she stared out of the window to look at the scenery,

car soon drove to the entrance of the vegetable market. Emily took the lead in getting out of the car and asked Jacob,"

answered without hesitation," I will

However, compared to the supermarkets, the place wasn't very clean, as the ground was muddy, there were vegetables scattered everywhere and occasionally a fish

water on the ground made Jacob feel

dirty

sudden, he lifted her and carried her

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

then put Emily down gently, while she was patting her face with embarrassment.

annoyed by them at all. In their opinion, Jacob and Emily were just two people madly

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

been in a vegetable market before, it was not difficult for him to find the mushrooms and red dates Emily needed. He followed Emily's plans to a tee, as

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

red dates, someone shouted at him," Sir, would you like