A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Jacob put his hand over Emily's hair, firmly leading her head into his passionate kiss. His tongue searched her mouth for all the wrong answers.

"Oh…" Emily moaned, "What's the matt–" Emily, who was hesitating to kiss Jacob, was distracted by the sight of a person standing behind her lover. Her heart was racing out of fear that the person she saw was the person she thought it was.

She angled her head to see a better view of the person and indeed saw who she had always feared to see during the specific circumstance. It was Beryl.

Emily pushed Jacob towards the door way and kissed him harder so that she could block his view. Once she was able to get Jacob out of the room, she shut the door and broke away from the kiss. She took a brief moment to pause and attempted to leave.

But how could Jacob let her go? He could not let her off easily as he was caught in the moment. He pulled her in again and once again made their lips meet. His fingers made way to touch her lips as he asked Emily, "Did you kiss me on purpose?"

"I didn't." Emily denied. She turned and pushed him away.

Jacob immediately expressed his grief through a painful frown and Emily noticed this; she got scared and thought maybe she accidentally touched his wound.

"You… Are you okay?"

Jacob replied, "It hurts."

Emily searched Jacob for where it could still be hurting. "I'll take you to the hospital." she insisted

but Jacob took her by the waist and told her, "You don't have to. You could just kiss me and the pain would go away."

Emily processed what Jacob just said to her and when she finally understood what he meant, she pulled away with great force and conviction. "Don't fool me. I know you're not hurt. Leave my house and don't stand in front of my door waiting for me to come back into your arms."

"Alright," Jacob simply agreed to her wishes and took her hand. They walked down the stairs together like nothing bizarre just happened.

Emily couldn't help but get a little nervous from thinking about Beryl, so she tried to take her hand off Jacob's. She pulled away but Jacob, being the stubborn man that he was, refused to let go. She had no choice but to follow his lead.

Emily noticed a Maybach parked downstairs. She wondered how that got there and asked Jacob, "When on earth did you get here? Is that your car?"

She left out some questions like how Jacob knew where she lived because she thought it was a silly question to ask.

"Just a moment ago." Jacob answered, "Not too long ago. Don't worry about it." He was clearly leaving a lot of parts of the truth out. "I'll give you a ride to the company." Jacob offered.

Emily shook her head, "I don't need you to do that. I have my own car."

do you want to sit in the passenger seat or would you prefer to be more comfortable in the back?" Jacob asked as if Emily hadn't just turned his offer down. He opened the door and smiled, "Please,

had the guts to be consistently insistent even after she gave

stop lying to her to get what he wants and she was not surprised at this Machiavellian act. Lying as a means that justifies the ends without exception is

of her premises

however for some unknown reason she felt that it's better to keep it

persistence made Jacob smile. He got inside

quiet ride. None of the two initiated conversation and settled for the white noises

to emotionally detach from Jacob, had found a

just let it all be.

silence. "I have to

was staring at her. She quickly looked away and asked him

to

could be in turmoil. Why would

something."

"Can't you go some

an emergency." Jacob answered

head of the clan, intently made him go at this very moment in time. If the war comes to a halt before Jacob could set foot over the country,

you have

Jacob answered.

anything else. She knew she was in no position

that he has to risk his life?' she thought, 'Why would anyone in their right mind

Jacob leaned over to pop the seat belt out for

deep voice echoed into Emily's ears, making her heart beat fast. However, at the same time, she felt

reciprocate his sweetness and just told him her parting words, "Have a safe trip." she took her stuff and left the

at Emily's back as she walked away

could not focus on her

noticed was that there were no signs of Beryl who would usually come out to greet her, but the puppy was excited to see Emily with

a little strange and suspicious about the situation, Emily asked Zoe, "Why didn't Beryl

glanced at the door, "She hasn't spoken since this morning. It looks like she's mad about

all came back to Emily; could it be that Beryl had