A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Having run out of patience, Jacob said, "Mind your own business!"

His words didn't infuriate Emily. However, she giggled as though she were amused by his outburst.

Suddenly, Jacob noticed that her left hand was bandaged. He paused and frowned. "What happened to your hand?"

Emily drew her injured hand back at once and answered, "Nothing!"

She hastily blurted an answer to Jacob as she felt embarrassed and didn't want him to find out that she had foolishly fallen for Bonnie's trap.

Emily's answer didn't convince Jacob as much as she would have liked. He strode towards Emily and gripped her arm to force her to reach out her injured hand. He stared at the white gauze, tinted red with blood.

"Spill it! What happened?"

'How foolish is this woman? I go out for a few days on a business trip and you end up hurting yourself like this!' Jacob kept his complaints in his mind.

Emily bit her lip and shook her head slightly.

Her persistence angered Jacob even more and he yelled at her, "Fine! I will check it by myself."

Emily knew how bad her wound was, so she refused at once. "Don't! It's not a big deal. You don't have to..."

"Don't take this the wrong way. I don't really care about you." Flames of anger burned in his eyes, and he continued, "I have eyes and ears everywhere. There's nothing you can hide from me. You've just crossed the line."

Whether it was his business or his subordinates, everyone and everything was under Jacob's control. That also included Bonnie.

However, Emily was an exception.

She was out of his control. He knew nothing about her thoughts and purpose.

This feeling that he had lost control over her displeased him.

merciless things she had heard from him before. She held his hand and answered gently, "It's disgusting! I don't want

the way you are acting now only arouses my suspicion even more. Is it a fake wound? Are

of his hand. She took a deep

course I want to see. Every

it,

of his action, a bit of skin

The pain almost killed her as beads of sweat trickled down from

froze in horror. He didn't expect her wound to be a serious one. As if it weren't bad enough already, he had made it worse by ripping

tell me about this? It

serious glance at the back of her hand. The skin under the gauze had peeled off, revealing raw,

was absolutely

and said, "I told you, but you

felt a sharp pain shoot up to his chest, leaving him breathless. But he didn't know whether the cause of it was his rage or something

was still raw and unhealed, he would

sucked in a sharp breath as the pain from her wound spiralled all across her body. She had to bite her lip from the pain of

immediately. As if something had just occurred to him, Jacob ordered, "Sit down!

out the study. A minute later, he came back with a first

and reached out her hands to take the first aid kit. "I can do it

down and be quiet!" Jacob dismissed her. However, it seemed as though he was trying to hide his real

opened the first aid kit

I bring the first

you know how to dress a

got irritated by the lack of faith she had in him and asked, "You don't think

her lips and said

shook his head quietly. He then paused to take a good look at her wound, before he dipped a cotton swab in

antiseptic swab touched her wound, Emily shook in pain and subconsciously

worse." Jacob forced her fingers apart and put

face was as white as a paper, and her lips were quivering, yet

painfully, as if something had punched a big hole