A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Only the sound of Jacob's voice echoed throughout the empty valley.

Jacob's eyes were burning and his chest felt heavy as if it were filled with lead. He could no longer see clearly.

'Is she really really gone? Forever?'

All of a sudden, some memories flashed through his mind and as much as he tried to hold it in, the pain came out like an uproar from his throat in the form of a silent scream. The muffled sobs wracked against his chest.

'I wonder if she felt fear and helplessness before she fell off the cliff?'

Emily was so delicate that she should be taken good care by him, but he failed to fulfil his duty towards her. ·

'Why...why wasn't I the one to fall instead of her ?'

When Cherry finally calmed down, she rushed to the edge of the cliff only to see

a man on his knees staring down the cliff with two eyes filled with sorrow as if he'd lost the most precious thing in his life. ·

Cherry noticed Jacob's tears, and the scene

squeezed the life out of her heart.

In her eyes, Jacob was a strong man with an indomitable spirit who shouldn't have to cry for a woman.

'Why is he crying over a woman?'

The idea that, "men are superior to women" was ingrained in Cherry's mind. The thought of a man crying over a woman was so foreign to her, she felt jealous of Jacob's love for Emily. However, a part of her felt fortunate

that Emily fell over the cliff and died. ·

In that case, Jacob's strong feelings for the woman would belong to her eventually. ·

Cherry sat beside Jacob cautiously and gently comforted him, "Don't be sad. There's no use shedding tears for the dead. You can take me in her place. I will replace her and live for her..."

her, ' Cherry added in

sneered and all of a sudden his voice

had imagined it, Jacob's sweet words didn't feel as good as she thought it would. Instead, she felt a sense of malice in his

up and

grabbed her arm before she could escape and pulled

not himself anymore. "What the hell do you want to do

into her face. His sight, as sharp as a knife, could cut her into pieces, and he asked, "You pushed her down, didn't

frightened that she denied immediately, "It wasn't me! I didn't

Jacob replied with certainty, seething in anger

to surmise the truth, since every evidence showed that

by the cliff just to get his hands on this vicious woman! Revenge was so close he could almost taste

me!" Cherry denied desperately.

and for a brief moment his cruel eyes turned tender. "Emily, don't

from him with all her

didn't want

way to win Jacob's love,

ignored her screaming and carried her to the edge of the cliff. He

she looked down the the cliff before, but now every cell

admit it! Bear! Please forgive me. Let's

and wished he could crush her skull between his fingers. "You

to die as well,

Although, he had lived without Emily before, he couldn't imagine

that could cry no more, he longed to see her once again. Wherever she was, he wondered whether Emily felt cold. or alone. Did she long to have him

want to

as he'd send this bloody culprit to

let go of one hand, which made Cherry cry out in fear. She pleaded, "Please don't do this. I don't want to die!

don't want to die. Nobody

that

not to let me go! Emily isn't dead! Your dear