A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

In an instant, Emily pushed the man away in utter disbelief. "What did you say?" she asked.

"I said, I am Jack." Jack responded slowly, but his voice was firm. "It's me this time, not... It's not Jacob. It's really me..." he said.

"How could it be you? You are lying to me again, aren't you?" Emily refused to believe what Jack was claiming. After all, this wouldn't be the first time he tried to pull something like this. She pulled the tall grass covered his face, in order to have a closer look under the faint moonlight.

Much to her surprise, the face of the man lying in front of her was Jack's, no doubt.

Amused by her startled expression, Jack laughed bitterly and said,"Disappointed? I am so sorry that I came to your rescue one step before Jacob."

"You... Why did you... save me?" she asked.

Emily looked at Jack's face with scepticism, wondering if all this was real. The warmth from her body abandoned her quickly, leaving her shivering with doubts.

All of a sudden, frigid tears trickle across Jack's face, as he coughed violently. Emily immediately, patted his chest. However, when she looked at her hand, she smelled a metallic stink lingereing in the air... blood!

At the beginning Emily was too shocked to understand, but now she could see the urgency in the man's features. His skin prickled with pain, and his chest ached with the pounding of his heart...

The wounds inflicted by the big black bear were showing all over his body... But he did not show any signs of suffering before, even when he carried her and swam her across the river. Although washed by the river water, his wounds were still fresh and bleeding profusely.

Under a black sky leached of starlight, the moon above them lit up brightly. Awash in white light, Jack's bleeding wounds stood out in perfect detail.

"Why do you look so sad?" he asked. Jack used the last of his wanning strength to raise the corners of his lips and said,"Is there something wrong with my face? After all, my handsome face is my strongest attribute."

"Stop talking." Unimpressed, Emily disregarded his intentional garble, as she helped him take off his tattered shirt to wrap up his wound. Unfortunately, nothing prevented the blood from permeating the layers of cloth.

off my clothes, you need to be responsible for me. Do you hear

"Shut up!"

lot to say right now," said Jack. It was difficult to ascertain whether Jack was speaking to

out angrily,"I told you to shut the hell up! Save it for when we

night, for the very first time, Jack realized that Emily looked beautiful even when she was livid. Oddly

bother you a little more, Emily,"

distressed, Emily bit her lip tightly, unwilling to humor him. She was still wrapping his wound, trying to stop the bleeding...

else. He seemed to have been brewing something in his mouth for a long time before he finally said,"Emily, for a long time now, I have regretted

turned rigid almost

would rather die

Emily, Jack felt like his heart was going to leap out of his throat. He was afraid that if

with shock, she continued,"No matter what you say, I

either. I understand why you hate me and the situation I am in today is because

when he kissed her. The shortlived moment of peace that his soul enjoyed was the happiest moment of his life.

this woman all along. Sadly, by the time he understood that, the

was hoarse, as she continued,"Whatever it is

am afraid I am running out of time..." Jack replied, sounding frail.

with fear. She promised,"You won't! Don't you think I don't know what you're doing! You want me to feel guilty for the rest of my life, don't you? I'll never let

me. I am not happy. Will

tears any more. At last, they rolled down her cheeks like beads of white pearls. "Don't think you can run away from what you have done!

for cheating on her and hurting her feelings. She wanted Jack to pay for all the harm he had