A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Jack continued to comfort and assure Beryl. With his undying patience, Beryl realized how much force Jack was placing so as not to hurt her, and maybe, this man really wasn't going to hurt her at all. She finally calmed down gradually. As soon as Jack felt that Beryl wasn't going to run away, he placed her down and let go of her. He then gave her a reassuring smile once she turned to face him. Despite that smile and the assurance, Beryl knew she still couldn't trust this man.

Once everyone had calmed down, instead of forcing information and details from the little girl, Jack decided to buy her a new set of clothes. They booked a room in a small hotel afterwards where Jack awkwardly helped the little girl take a bath and change into fresh clothes.

Not long after, Beryl was once again the beautiful princess she was straight from a dirty little beggar. Jack smiled and felt relieved that he didn't walk away, because this little girl in front of him was the kid he recognized.

Jack then ordered some take-out. Since Beryl had been hungry for so many days, that was why as soon as Jack placed her share in front of her, she immediately wolfed it down in a flash without even raising her head.

Jack was still holding his chopsticks and watched Beryl almost devour half of her food. When Beryl choked, he immediately expected that and handed her water and said, "Slow down, Beryl. Nobody's going to steal your food."

Beryl drank from the water and finally glanced at Jack before returning to her food, eating properly this time. Jack sighed. Looking at Beryl like this almost broke his heart. How did she ever gotten where she was now? How did she dirft out and wandered alone in the streets looking like an abandoned little girl? Where did Emily go? Why did she let her kid wander off like this? How about Jacob? Was he dead? He wouldn't let his precious daughter experience this kind of situation if he was still alive unless something really happened to him and Emily rendering them unable to take care of their little princess.

Jack let Beryl focus on her food first while he, too, started to eat. As soon as he noticed that Beryl was done, he offered the rest of his food, knowing that she might still be hungry. When the little girl shook her head, he placed his food and utensils down. He wiped his hands with a napkin and asked in great confusion, "Beryl, can you tell me why you're out there alone in the streets?"

It really was a great wonder, because from the moment she was born, she was an apple to everyone's eyes and almost everyone loved her and adored her. Now, Jack had no idea how she came to be in that situation he found her in.

Beryl blinked and moved her eyes as if she was thinking whether or not she was going to tell Jack. Besides, she still hadn't decided if he could really be trusted.

Jack looked at the little girl and chuckled under his breath. "You still don't trust me, do you?" He sighed and leaned back on his chair. "Well, I can do nothing for you now. I already did what I had known I should do. I gave you fresh clothes and food to eat, and now I have nothing. The only thing that's left is that I am sincerely worried about you and your mom. Did something happen to her? How could she let you in this situation?"

Beryl stared at Jack, thinking about whether he was really genuinely concerned. A moment passed, and Jack was about to talk again when Beryl opened her mouth to speak. "If I tell you, will you take me to my daddy?" She asked to sound him out.

"What did you say? Take you to your daddy?" Jack's eyebrows furrowed into a frown, but he caught the key point at once. A strange look flashed through his eyes as he sat up straight once more. "All this time you were trying to find your daddy? Isn't it easy for you to find him? You can just go to the Gu Consortium, and once you tell them your name, they will allow you to enter and meet your daddy."

Jack wondered in confusion. Beryl hadn't met Jacob yet?

Well, it was true that Jack heard that they, all three of them, left for D Country together. Later on, Jacob returned to Z Country alone and not together with Emily and Beryl. Did something happen in D Country that he hadn't heard about?

If so, then it must explain why Bery was stranded alone on the streets with barely anything to eat and dirty and thin clothes covering her small self. There really was something strange going on.

What had happened in D Country? What had happened to Emily and Beryl?

"If I could go in, I wouldn't have been left alone in the streets." Beryl bit her lower lip and shook her head.

defenses were gradually unloading as she thought that maybe this man could give her hope and could help her with

and left no details - from being separated from Anna as soon as they stepped into this country to being abducted and sold and

how far this little girl had gone and yet here she stood still safe and

her lower lip and tried to hold back the tears from flowing down her face. She swallowed a lump on her

"Locked? As in, like a prisoner locked? Why? Why would your uncle do that to her?" If his eyebrows were knitted into a frown, this revelation made it scrunch

don't know. I just really want to save my

a sudden, Jack's eyes

Emily would just let her little princess away like this if

hell then was this so-called uncle of Beryl planning to do

Jack's adrenaline rose, feeling restless, and that

going to

was once discouraged after remembering what happened to him like a balloon that was

jail. Although he finally was able to escape, right now he was still a man without anything,

how could he save Emily? Being in such a situation, how could he be

abroad, Jacob's men or

floor, thinking. 'What to do? What to do?

Beryl's hope started to slowly fade as she noticed how helpless Jack looked. She gasped

Beryl could ask, Jack spoke with great conviction. "Well

chance of exposing himself by doing so, it

time that he wished for her to live well and live happily.

her life at stake, Jack knew that this was definitely

Beryl showed no surprise at all. Instead, there were doubts on her eyes and a little form of mistrust. As if his being able to

that her defenses and boundaries might had been put up thicker and stronger because of what she had suffered after coming here. It felt like he was stabbed multiple times by a sharp knife. Oh, how he wished he could punch and tear all the people that had hurt this little girl into pieces! Beryl surely didn't deserve to have been treated this way, but those who did all this to her certainly deserve whatever he thought he could do once they get a hand of them. Then again, right now,

promise. I won't ever do what others did to you. Will

and after a moment, she said in a low voice, "Thank you,

well is already the greatest reward for me." He then stretched his hand out to reach for Beryl's hair and stroke it,

and with a bitter feeling in

him nervously. Her hands crumpled the hem of her shirt restlessly and stammered, "I… Uncle Jack, I'm

doing such a thing. Especially now that he was the only person she decided she

out of his promise and decide that she wasn't