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.

heard from him before. She held his

have to say, the way you are acting now only arouses my suspicion even more. Is it a

took a deep breathe and answered, "Fine! You can look

course I want to see. Every part of you

it, he ripped off the gauze without a word.

action, a bit of skin accidentally peeled off with the gauze.

pain almost killed her as

one. As if it weren't bad enough already, he had made it worse by ripping off the skin

me about this? It looks

back of her hand. The skin under the

was absolutely

him bitterly and said, "I told you, but you

pain shoot up to his chest, leaving him breathless. But he didn't know

told him that her wound was still raw and unhealed, he would have never ripped off the

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

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

study. A minute later, he came back with

take the first aid kit. "I can do it myself. You don't

seemed as though he was

watched curiously as he opened the first aid kit and took out

know. You tell me. Did I

know how to

irritated by the lack of faith she had

lips and said nothing

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

Emily shook in pain and

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

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

thumped painfully, as if something had punched a big hole