Favo Novel
Chapter 262 The Reason
Chapter 262 The Reason
"Right, I took you all the way to the hospital and you asked me to shut up before you fainted!" Seth started grudgingly.
Susan glanced at him, feeling like he had an animated spirit flickering fervently behind him.
"You - I'm so... but you... Previously I... and you..." Seth ran his mouth to his heart's content and he was going t o stop when he suddenly realized something and gazed at Jacob strangely. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot about it! You were fine, but why did you suddenly get a n attack? Didn't the doctor say that your recovery was going well a few days ago during the routine checkup?"
Jacob squinted his eyes, a complex emotion running behind them.
Susan was struck with a reminder and could not help asking, "Say, where’s Jenny Carter?”
"Jenny?" Seth was confused for a moment before he remembered. "You mean that two-faced b*tch?" Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.
That was all Seth had to say about Jenny Carter.
Jacob rolled his eyes. "Be nice."
"You're still speaking up for her? You..."
To prevent Seth from talking too much again, Jacob cut him off. "I'm not speaking for her. I just think that the words tumbling out of your mouth are sabotaging your status."
"Oh, so you're being considerate of me?" Seth was inexplicably gleeful. "That's right. Who am I? How could that woman and I..."
Susan palmed her forehead and asked weakly, "So where's Jenny?"
Seth was stunned once again before he said, "I don't know. I took Jacob to hospital directly when he fainted. I've been staying here after that. No time for m e to care about Jenny Carter.”
Susan looked toward Jacob. "You've been alright, Jacob. Jenny came and stayed for a few days and you got yourself in the hospital. I won’t believe it if you say that these two things aren’t related to each other."
Susan wore a grim look and Jacob pursed his lips to that, sighing, "Susie, since when did you turn so sharp?"
"Are you calling my past self dumb?" Susan glared at him. “Jacob Shelby, be honest and come clean right now! All of us know that Jenny isn’t the nicest person. You’re the one who said that you'd keep your guard up and so I didn't probe further and I decided to let you resolve it on your own. This is how you resolve it? By getting yourself admitted into the hospital? Don't you think that you should explain it to me?"
Susan stared at Jacob in all seriousness. The latter rubbed his temples.
"Susie, what you look like now makes me think of my disciplinary teacher in middle school.”
"Jacob!" Susan could not help baring her fangs. "Stop changing the topic."
"Okay, okay," Jacob chuckled dryly. "Since we’re on this, let's start right from the top. Susie, there’s something I've never told you. You only know that Mom and Dad passed away in an accident but you don't know how they passed away right?”
"Is there some sort of story I don’t know?" Susan widened her eyes. She was still a small girl back then, only understanding that her parents were not around anymore since then but could not grasp a deeper sense of tragedy.
There was a wry chortle from Jacob. "Dad died from a heart attack back then and Mom didn’t have the greatest health. Dad's passing was a huge blow to Mom and she followed him not too long after.”
"Dad passed from a heart disease too, so...” Susan had a thought she was unsure of.
Jacob nodded at her. "Our family has had a history of hereditary cardiovascular disease (CVD) all this while. Grandpa and Dad passed away from the same cause. I t doesn't show in the beginning, as it’s latent, but it's triggered easily if there's some major shock.”
There was a bitter chuckle from Jacob before he continued. "Back when I dated Jenny and she... found a better choice and broke up with me, my CVD got triggered due to it. I almost went with Grandpa and Dad. I was lucky that you found me in time and sent m e to hospital, Susie. Then I was saved after the costly rescue.”
"So your heart attack was triggered by this woman too!" Susan was furious.
The doctor said that Jacob's condition was complicated and he must have suffered from a shock that he could not take.
The shock did not only trigger his heart disease, but it also caused his mental illness as he was trying to deny it.
Everything was because of Jenny Carter.
A dab of regret flashed across Susan's eyes. If she had known, she would take a step forward and push the woman into the river when they were there back then.
"She can't take all the blame." Jacob looked calm. "I believed that my system was valuable back then and resigned to concentrate on developing the system, but ordinary people did not know these things. It's normal that she didn’t believe that I could give her a future. If I could provide her more
sense of security back then, maybe she wouldn't have left me. Besides, once the hereditary CVD is latent, it'll be triggered sooner or later. It's good that I triggered the bomb when I was younger. My chances of survival would probably be lower if it happened a few decades later." "Yes but! I still think that Jenny is horrible!" Susan waved her fists like a child.
Jacob let a chuckle escape him and said gently, "If I didn’t meet her, I don't know how long it'd take for me to recover my memories. From a certain point of view, I may have to thank her."
"Thank her?" Susan was speechless. "Jacob, you're too nonchalant. Why do you keep on speaking for her? If i t were me, I’d beat her up before talking."
Jacob laughed even more. "Forget beating her up. It can’t change reality and it drains our energy instead."
Susan was still huffing when she asked, "So what happened this time?"
Jacob chuckled and told her honestly, "I knew that Jenny didn’t come with the best intention, but I’ve decided to fully let her go. I thought that I had control over things, but I didn't make it."
Casting his gaze toward the window, Jacob’s voice was reminiscing. "I set up a trap, making up a partially fake program right in front of her. Then I saved it to a flash drive before keeping it in the drawer that uses her birthday as the password."
"I left and gave her the space."
Jacob's smile grew bitter. "She took the bait.”