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.

nothing compared to the other merciless things she had heard from him before. She held his hand and answered gently, "It's disgusting! I don't want

are acting now only arouses my suspicion even more. Is it a fake wound? Are you playing this trick to

his hand. She took a deep breathe

to see. Every

it, he ripped

of his action, a bit of skin accidentally peeled off with

killed her as

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 off the skin on the back of her injured hand.

tell me about this? It looks so

glance at the back of her hand. The skin under the gauze had peeled

was absolutely

and said, "I told you, but

But he didn't know whether the

raw and

had to bite her lip from the pain of

something had

study. A minute later, he

to take the first aid kit. "I can do it myself.

it seemed as though he was trying to

the first aid kit and took

know. You tell me. Did I

do you know how to dress

got irritated by the lack of faith

lips and

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

touched her wound, Emily shook in pain and subconsciously

will only make your wound worse." Jacob forced her fingers apart and put her hand on his. He continued to clean the

were quivering, yet she

thumped painfully, as if something had punched a big hole in