A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

At Theodore Villa.

The curtains that hung around the mullioned windows were so thick that light failed to pass through, instead they cast a murky shadow over the room. The atmosphere was dull and depressing, the air thick with a strong stench of alcohol circulating around.

Jack half leaned against the sofa with his hair disheveled. He wore a wrinkled piece of cloth that used to be a shirt once, wrapping his long fingers around an empty bottle. There were also several lying on the floor like soldiers killed in battle.

The shallow depth of his thoughts consumed him, when suddenly he heard a knock on the door.

"Yes?" Jack furrowed his eye-brows and mumbled with a struggling voice.

Jack's condition confused and disheartened his keeper; his aide-de-camp. How did everything spiral downwards to this sorry excuse for a life?

What was so special about Emily that made powerful men, Jacob and Jack, fall for her so madly?

'Emily is a turbulent disaster. She shouldn't have been allowed into the Gu Family in the first place. If it were not for Jacob…' he thought.

"What?" Jack asked indifferently, barely in his senses.

"Sir, we've got Rose," the man reported.

Even in his alcoholic stupor, Jack's heart rate rose a little and his eyes light up with sparks of resentment. He staggered to his feet, swaying a little and asked, "Where is that bitch?"

"Here. She is all yours now," said the man, as he turned around and made a gesture. Before long, his subordinate dragged Rose into the room by her arms.

Rose's clothes were once high end, but with enough wear and dirt anything could look like rags. Her skin was hidden behind layers of grime and her hair hung as a tangled mop of brown and grey. The vain, conceited mask she once wore so proudly was no longer present to hide her ugliness from the world. Considering how she looked, perhaps even a homeless person would have more dignity than Rose at the tip of his fingers.

The guard kicked her from behind, and she immediately fell to her knees before Jack.

Jack sneered down at her with utter disgust. The very sight of Rose made his insides curl up and nauseated him.

earth did he ever betray Emily for a woman

he failed to sniff out her treachery before it was

behind the fire at the hotel," he said.

looked at him with contempt. Having spent days on the streets, living in squalor and running about like an escaped convict had thickened her skin. Now she didn't care about anything

that always find

right across the face so hard that she could taste the blood in her mouth.

glare prevailed. She had lost everything. What was there to be scared of? She clutched her stinging face, where the smack

failed to kill her myself, but there are plenty out

rage. "I will

that you and Emily rot in hell together..." Before

face turned purple as Jack applied more pressure. Her eyes widened, as if they were going to pop out at any minute.

of a sudden, Jack released her

too easy for you,"

soon dragged Rose away by her hair and locked her up in a

rule over Jack's empire of despair.

...

the Tyrone

to work but Jacob wouldn't let her. He insisted that Emily should stay at home for a longer time even though she was fully

because she knew

Jacob did not want to take

safe, in his

that he had caught the person responsible for setting the fire and asked if she would like to come and see. It was a simple message, one that

would have refused him, but after what he had done for her, she couldn't get over her guilt.

okay now?'

her for the rest