Fortunately, Emily had figured things out. She knew that whatever Jacob said and did was for her own good, but she had been in denial from the start. She had brought this upon herself, so when Jacob brought it up again, she no longer reacted the way that she had in the past.
"I see." Emily nodded obediently. "I will distance myself from Jonas in the future."
"Really?" Jacob was ecstatic.
"Yes," Emily said and nodded again.
This way, everyone was happy.
It seemed that all of Jacob's hard work had finally paid off. Faking an illness had solved two big problems at once.
Until the following day, Jacob felt overjoyed. At the company, he could not wipe the smile off of his face, and he actually greeted his employees for a change. This intrigued everyone in the company. All around him, people made jokes about how the sun had probably risen in the west that morning.
Of course, in addition to discussions about the sun's rising, other things were on everyone's lips.
"He's so handsome!"
"That's right! Such a good-looking man, with business skills to match!"
"Who would have thought that such an attractive, successful man would notice me and smile at me?
I'm so happy!"
That day, Jacob's out-of-character greetings and smiles made many people feel like they were going to pass out.
the man looked so happy. After all, he was the one who had booked the hospital room and informed Emily about
take some time off work to travel?" Jacob nodded slightly at
expected Jacob to actually agree. He immediately continued, "Honestly, I want to travel a bit and meet someone, probably
girlfriend?" Jacob asked, nodding again.
just moments ago, suddenly noticed that the smile on Jacob's face no longer seemed that genuine. He swallowed hard. "That's
before he continued, "Then you can
I really do that?"
you go, make sure
' Sam
rooms to book where you're going,"
just when Sam thought
one who deserves such luxuries,"
that Jacob was not really blaming him
Sam had been so casual with his response, he could not help but
girlfriend! Just focus on work, ' he scolded himself.
eye, Sam had calmed down and gone back to being the serious, hardworking employee that he was. He handed Jacob the folder that he had been holding and said, "We are ready to start work
report today. Moreover, he had asked Sam to accomplish all of this as early as possible. They needed to make a move before Darren did. Now that everything was almost ready, there
his arm to look at his watch. He instructed Sam, "Tell them to arrange a
"Okay."
to prepare for the press conference," Jacob added
The next day...
spot!" It was still early, but a large number of reporters
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