A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Emily's forehead creased. She wondered whether she was just hearing imaginary voices. She looked at Sean and asked incredibly, "What did you just say?"

Sean heaved a deep breath and patiently repeated, "Jacob is here to take you home."

"Jacob is here to take me home," Emily muttered under her breath. As soon as she said it, her eyes opened wide in surprise as if she just realized what that meant.

Even then, no matter how relieving that sentence was, for Emily, it was like a hammer pounding on her heart heavily over and over again, causing a thousand of ripples.

Emily's mouth gaped open at Sean, still couldn't believe her ears. She placed her outstretched arms down and asked, "Is he really here? Did he really come? You are lying to me, aren't you? This is just another trick to make me come down!"

"No. You have to believe me. I'm not lying to you." Emily eyed Sean intently, trying to find any hint of lie in his face, but his serious expression showed no signs of deceit and falsehood. When Emily didn't speak, he said in earnest, "Oh, come on now. You don't want him to see you as a corpse, do you? Come down here!"

Emily didn't budge. She really didn't believe Sean, but the news he brought was so tempting that even though she suspected that it was a lie, a way to deceive her from not doing what Sean didn't want her to do, she was still going to take this as hope like a moth drawn to a flame.

"Well, where is he?" she asked.

She then walked slowly down the edge of the rooftop.

"He is in…" Sean started, but as soon as Emily was down on the ledge, Sean rushed towards her like a lion pouncing on his prey. He stretched out his long arm and embraced Emily tight enough that she wouldn't be able to break free and do something dangerous that could threaten her life again. "Don't move," he muttered as his body shivered in fear of losing her.

As soon as Emily was enveloped by Sean, she immediately began to kick and thrash around, struggling to break free from his arms. The thought that Sean lied to her completely annoyed and angered Emily. Her eyes reddened once more, and her whole body was burning with rage. Realizing that all her efforts of thrashing around was useless, she lowered her head down to bit Sean's arm.

Her snow-white teeth pierced and sank into Sean's skin, and blood immediately started to ooze out. Emily could perceive the metallic taste of blood, but she kept her teeth on Sean's flesh.

Sean hissed and winced in excruciating pain coming from his arm, but he didn't dare let go of Emily. Instead, he tightened his grip more, making Emily let go of her teeth, feeling deprived of air. When Sean felt Emily's teeth away from his arm, he said, "You bite like a dog, but I didn't lie to you. I will show you that I am telling you the truth!"

Sean carried Emily and placed her lying flat on his right shoulder. Her upper body lay behind Sean while the other half in front. He carried her like this downstairs and held on despite Emily's struggle and cries to put her down.

Finally, they reached the living room downstairs. Sean placed Emily down but held her wrist in case she was going to make another plan of running away. She tried to take Sean's grip on her, but Sean nudged her towards another direction. She glanced towards it and a handsome man with suit and leather shoes caught her eye. He was sitting on the sofa alone, and his face was cold. His eyes looked at them with the same cold and distant stare. His temperament was indifferent, making him look like a snow mountain standing high and dominant in the arctic.

He was standing there, all handsome and difficult to miss, but he was also difficult to get close to, as if one step towards him would turn you to ice.

Sean didn't deceive her this time. Jacob was really here to save her. He came

sounds and cries of Emily before they could reach the room a while ago already caught Jacob's attention. He was waiting for them to come

Emily's wrist. He saw her lips stained with blood, and suspected that she bit on Sean's arm for it was bleeding. This sight made Jacob frown. He couldn't understand why, but his heart was

let go of her arm," he commanded in such a determined but still piercing voice.

found nothing but a cold atmosphere on him,

energy was drained from all the struggling and the thrashing to break free from Sean. More so when she saw Jacob, she felt like all her strength were released from her body. She felt her legs tremble and too weak to support her. Her head started to feel dizzy. She could see black spots everywhere. Not a moment long, she finally collapsed, and Sean was fast enough to catch her before she met the

expression, Sean hugged her tight and heaved a deep breath, taking in her fragrance

taking Emily away from Sean's arms. "Sean, we still have our

anytime," he said, showing

his perspective, Jacob was just a poor man whose memory got distorted. He was one

on Emily, who

Emily. He did not stop him from leaving. Instead, he stood there with a cruel expression now flashing deep into his eyes. He felt confident about what would happened to them next. "I knew you would come. I just didn't expect you to come this early," he muttered under his breath as some of his medical staff moved towards him to treat the

come so fast that he had no time to inject Emily with the new drug.

plan might have failed, but there was

taken Emily away now, for Sean, it was not a final result yet. It was still too

confident enough that Emily would eventually come back to him voluntarily, because by that time, Jacob would

no one stopped him from leaving the villa. He knew he needed to

his heart, because either way, he was confident that no one would defeat

down at Emily at thought about how she had betrayed him once, so he would never trust her again despite saving her

was still unconscious in his arms. During the flight, there were times that Emily would subconsciously clutch his clothes tightly and refused to let go as if she was afraid that Jacob would leave her again and out of her arms.

voluntarily before? Right now, she was acting like a drowning man trying to catch at a straw. Even with Emily's subconscious actions, Jacob didn't believe that she was

just mistook him for another man.

Jacob's mood suddenly darkened and his eyes gloomed. He decided

sensed what he was about to do.

breath over and over until Jacob

coming out of her mouth, his heart immediately skipped a beat. The cold expression on his face slowly broke down, and his heart softened as if the warmth from Emily's touched melted the ice on his

leaving her alone even if just into the next seat was a heinous crime he couldn't afford to bail