A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Jack, guilt-ridden, answered, "No! I just wanted to give Beryl a surprise. I didn't mean to..."

Grim-faced, Emily said, "My Beryl doesn't need your surprise. And she will not accept a puppy you snatched from who knows where. So spare me the drama."

"Well, then, I will take it back," answered Jack. However, Jack was afraid that the dog would bite him again if he took it back.

"That's entirely up to you," she answered. Emily turned around and let Beryl in the house without further delay.

"Wait! Wait! Miss Lu!" implored Jack, as he quickly wedged his hand between the closing door and its frame. He sincerely begged, "I just want to apologize for what I said last time. It was too abrupt and offensive. I'm sorry for..."

Emily glanced at his wounded arm, and without a care in the world, she said, "Go away!"

"No!" Jack persisted. Disregarding Emily's displeasure towards his determination, he threatened, "If you do not forgive me, I will not move from here."

With a deadpan expression on her face, Emily slowly pulled the door inwards, pressing his hand tightly. "Go!" she demanded.

"No!" Jack refused again. It was as if all shame and dignity had abandoned him. "Even if my hand breaks, I won't move from here," he said, confidently.

Jack thought that Emily would give in to him by now, but he forgot that she was no longer the woman she used to be. She wasn't going to entertain his bluffs and deceptions anymore.

Without a warning, Emily slammed the door shut!

"Ah!" screamed Jack. Although, the pain wasn't bad enough, he cried out loud just to escalate the situation. In doing so, he assumed he could somehow evoke Emily's compassion.

Such a pity, that didn't work either!

"Zoe, get him out of here right now," commanded Emily.

As soon as Emily's orders registered in her head, the babysitter pushed Jack away without hesitation. "Sir, you'd better leave now," Zoe suggested.

Then she whispered, "Otherwise, Miss Lu will resent you more." Jack froze for a second and drew his hand back. Emily closed the door on him without hesitation. "Bang!"

will stop bothering me from now on.

After a short while, he stopped knocking as he didn't want her to resent him any more than she already did. Jack stood in front of the door and frowned

to the puppy, "I thought you would be of great help to me, but things just keep getting worse

at the door, in despair, he sighed and thought of his

getting more and more irritated

I do?' Jack

easily backfire. Should I try to impress Beryl? I'm afraid that the little girl hates

him? Jack had developed a skull-splitting headache trying to come

head and caught a glimpse of the wound on his arm, his eyes suddenly lit up. Jack

door, and screamed, "It's hurt so much. Could you help me,

nobody in the house answered his desperate

Open the door, or I

completely unaware of Jack's whining, and the

her slippers, carrying a chair with both hands. She slowly placed the

Her eyes were

to comfort her mom. And then she looked through

that the new word your

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said Emily, with a proud look on her face.

talking, Jack silently swallowed his

felt uncomfortable. Suddenly, Jack's stomach lurched and gurgled. Before long, waves of

up. However, the first thought on his mind was whether Emily would be more angry

and his dignity was growing wider and wider.

the peephole, she gave her mother live updates on what was going on. "Oh my God! Mommy, that uncle out there seems to be sick,"

so she ignored Beryl's concern and continued to process

"His face looks so white. He looks like a ghost.

blithe indifference, Emily asserted, "Beryl, you'd better get down from that chair before I

think you need to take a look. The uncle looks

in Jack's tricks, so she lifted Beryl in her arms and gently