A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 260 Emily Is My Girl

Although the doctor quickly arrived at Tyrone Mansion, Jacob felt like he had been waiting for an eternity. Burning with anxiety, he held Emily in his arms like a helpless child.

"Mr. Gu, please lay Miss Bai flat on the bed. We'll have to run a check-up," said the doctor. She was an elderly woman, renowned all over the world for her remarkable skills. Behind her was an entourage of medical staff attending to her requests.

Jacob carefully placed Emily on the bed and then stood aside with a nervous, compunctious expression in his eyes.

Before long, the doctors diagnosed and treated Emily's bruises, before they finally gave her an intravenous drip.

"Miss Bai will be okay, but she needs to rest. In the next few days, be sure not to engage in any sexual activities with her..." the elderly doctor advised.

Jacob's face darkened when he heard the doctor's last sentence. He cast a cold look at her and replied, "I don't need to be reminded of that! I know how far to go and when to stop." Original content from NôvelDrama.Org.

Although he was offended by the doctor's words, he eventually calmed down and refrained from getting angry.

After the doctor and her entourage left, Jacob sat in front of the bed and looked at Emily pensively. Jacob's eyes reflected the way he felt about the world: dark and cold. Its depth resembled that of a black hole in space, an air of sorrow and unsettling pain emanating from his gaze.

Suddenly, Emily's breathing sped up, and her long eyelashes trembled, as if in pain. However, she kept her eyes shut the whole time.

Jacob realized that she was awake and she was just refusing to open her eyes because she did not want to see him.

In consideration of her health, Jacob stood up slowly, reached out to tuck Emily in, and then walked out of the room.

When the door clicked shut, Emily opened her eyes. Muddled, she looked at the ceiling, deep in thoughts. A crystal clear drop of tear, slipped down her face and landed on the pillow.

The next day, rays of light cast squares onto the glossy stone floor, reflecting onto several objects in the room. The warm ball of light filtered through her thin eyelids and woke her from her slumber.

Emily's eyelids fluttered open and her shifting gaze found Jacob's face looking at her, expressionlessly and silently.

A few seconds later, Jacob opened his mouth and said in a peaceful tone, "You should get up and get some breakfast."

Emily lowered her eyes and did not reply to him. She reached out her hands to steady herself and sat up slowly with great effort. The whole time her frail body trembled with pain, reminding her of the dreadful night she had spent with Jacob.

Jacob gestured one of the servants to bring Emily some food. They placed a hot bowl of porridge on the nightstand and walked out just as quickly as they had walked in. Jacob picked up the hot bowl with his bare hands to feed her, just as he used to do.

However, when Jacob brought the spoon to her lips, Emily could not help but shudder with fear, and then dodge him instinctively.

A spasm of pain contorted his face and shot through his heart. Black clouds seemed to have appeared over his face, as he dropped the spoon back to the bowl angrily.

Feeling humiliated and rejected, he stiffly put the bowl on the little folding table that had just been set up on the bed. Without a word, he then turned around and straight away walked out of the bedroom without even looking back at her.

Sitting as still as a statue, Emily looked down at the bowl of porridge, pensively. She waited until the porridge had cooled down before she started to eat it.

Since then, Jacob and Emily gave each other the silent treatment. In Tyrone Mansion, the atmosphere was so tense, you could cut the air with a knife. Even the servants were in a blue funk, afraid of getting into trouble or stepping on their boss's toes.

Moreover, even the top managers of the Gu Consortium were complaining about their boss's recent bad temper. On top of that, Jacob's mood swings had everyone running for the hills, trying to avoid getting scolded by him in his office. As if that weren't bad enough, the menacing expression he casually carried on his face intimidated all the employees, stopping them from being able to do their work properly.

Helpless, they could not help but wonder what had happened to their benevolent leader, transforming his usual disposition to an unforgiving beast of malice. If he continued to treat them like that with his explosive temper, before long, all the employees would be driven mad.

Soon, they figured out the real reason behind his anomalous behaviour. Everyone had heard the news about Jacob transferring Jack to a branch office in Africa.

What was the contradiction between Jack and Jacob? Plainly, the answer was Emily. Yes, Emily, Jacob's girlfriend and Jack's ex-girlfriend. So Emily was a key to unravelling the great mystery of Jacob's recent breakdown.

"You're all a bunch of bums! You can't even take care of such a trivial proposal! What are you thinking about every day? Hot girls? Parties? Or you are wasting time in my company with nothing better to do? Stupid morons! If you still can't come up with a good proposal by the end of the day, you'd better resign and get out of my company!" Jacob yelled.

In the office, Jacob was scolding his subordinate, who had angered him by presenting an unimpressive draft to him. That was when Jack was just about to let himself inside Jacob's office.

When the door creaked open, the subordinate looked up to see Jack. Immediately, his face lit up, as if he had found his savior.

Sure enough, he was right to think so. When Jacob saw Jack, all his attention and anger was diverted towards Jack. Jacob glanced at Jack hatefully before he looked at his subordinate and said, "Get out of here!"

Without hesitating for another second, the subordinate breathed a sigh of relief and rushed out of the office, after that he considerately closed the door behind him to give the uncle and his nephew some privacy.

"Jacob, I heard that you're going to send me to the branch office in Africa. Why are you doing this to me?" Jack asked with an angry expression on his face.

Much to his chagrin, Jack had no idea why his grandfather had changed his mind in such a short period of time. Mr. Gu was determined to weaken Jacob's position in the family and strip him of his powers before, but why did he give up so easily and let Jacob come back to the company and even drive Jack away from home? 'Jacob is still running things down here and if that weren't bad enough, now he wants to send me to Africa!' Jack reflected, resentfully.

"Do you really want to know why?" Jacob sneered. Suddenly, he grabbed Jack's throat and push him hard against the wall, and continued, "Since you had the courage to touch my woman, now you must

be ready to face the consequence of your actions!"

Needless to say, since the branch office in Africa was far from Jingshi City and far from Mr. Gu's influence, it would be a piece of cake for Jacob to get rid of Jack permanently and call it an accident. This time Jacob was determined to let Jack die abroad.

Jack looked up and met with Jacob's murderous eyes. Fear gripping his spine, as he wilted under Jacob's glare. Jack's voice trembled, "You know what happened between me and Emily?"

Irritated by Jack's question, Jacob pulled his hair and slammed his face against the wall. Clearly, Jacob was not in the mood for any kind of discussion.

Angered, Jack, wasn't the kind of man who would take a beating obediently. He was just as strong as Jacob, so he quickly responded and punched Jacob on the the chin.

Before long, the two men were engaged in a fistfight. They swung at each other relentlessly, exchanging blow after blow. Coincidentally, since Jack had been working out and training how to fight, he had improved his fighting skills remarkably.

Jacob wasn't thinking when he let out his boiling antipathy and swung his tight fist, too quick and potent, into Jack's defined jaw. He regretted sending Jack to Africa, because he couldn't wait to end his life here and now.

Jack was a bigoted man who seldom suffered losses. He drew his fist back and threw his body weight behind the fist that hit Jacob's abdomen like a freight train.

They stumbled apart for a brief second to catch their breaths before diving back at each other, eyes narrowed in determination. As time went by, they became more murderous, showing no intentions of stopping unless one of them was dead.

Suddenly, someone pushed the office door open from the outside.

A man walked in, followed by a group of bodyguards. He was Mr. Gu's squire, Arthur. Baffled, he looked at the two men with surprise and then disappointment, as his forehead knotted in a frown. Without further delay, he signalled the bodyguards to separate them.

"Master Jacob, Master Jack," Arthur greeted them.

Despite Arthur's politeness, the two of them did not reciprocate a response to him. Althoug Arthur was Mr. Gu's representative, his confidante and his consigliere, the two furious men couldn't care less about anything except fighting to death.

However, Arthur wasn't offended by them. He just wanted to pass down a message from Mr. Gu himself. "Master Jacob, Mr. Gu is very concerned about your marriage. He personally has asked me to tell you that, you should bring Miss Bai back home when you are able to, as he would like to see her. He also wants you to invite Miss Bai over for dinner with him," said Arthur.

Almost instantly, both Jacob and Jack's faces tensed up, and they were unwilling to believe that Mr. Gu would change his attitude towards Emily so quickly and suddenly.

Moreover, Jacob had too many problems on his own that needed his attention. Moreover, fearing for Emily's safety, Jacob had no intentions of taking Emily to see Mr. Gu.

"We can talk about it later. Now let me shoot this bastard first!" Jacob said in a cold tone, as he looked at Jack, with his eyes burning with strong hatred.

Within seconds, Jacob drew a gun from the bodyguard's waist and loaded it quickly, before aiming at Jack's forehead and pulling the trigger without hesitation.