A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 36 What's The Difference

Since Emily couldn't see anything, she was cautious and reluctant to follow his words. "What do you want to do..."

Before she was done talking, she felt her head being pushed down by a big hand. When she tried to struggle, her eyes suddenly felt a sense of coolness.

The man was pouring water on her face to get rid of the chemicals from her eyes.

"Try to open your eyes a little bit, " He suggested.

Emily didn't sense anything alarming about him, so she obediently followed his suggestion. He then poured a small amount of water in the palm of his hands and carefully cleaned her eyes. He was very gentle and caring with his movements.

All of a sudden, a strange realization dawned upon her. Emily asked tentatively, "Jacob, is that you?"

Although he had kept his voice down on purpose, Emily's instincts were telling her that she was right.

The man didn't seem to pay heed to what she said, instead he looked at the red circles around her eyes carefully. His fingertips touched her wet eyelashes softly, causing a single drop of water to fall from her eyelashes.

"Such a silly woman."

'I can't believe she pepper sprayed herself. I have never seen such a clumsy woman before.'

The man placed a soft handkerchief in Emily's hand. She fumbled while using it to wipe her eyes. It took a while before she could completely open her eyes, but it still burned, slightly.

"Sir?" She looked around her, but the man who helped her just now had long gone.

Alas! Was she wrong about the guy?

Emily returned home, with thousands of questions on her mind.

The next morning, Emily met Jacob in the company.

Every time Jacob visited LA company, he always kept a low profile by using the VIP channel. Therefore, no employee in the whole company, apart from the senior executives, could ever meet him.

This time, however, Jacob came out of Victor's office. They two walked side by side in the corridor, with a deadpan expression on their pretty faces.

Emily tried to avoid being seen by her two bosses, but, unfortunately, she had failed. In order to make it look like she wasn't deliberately avoiding them, she decided to bite the bullet and walk forward.

"Mr. Gu, Mr. Gao."

Jacob did not even look at her, as if she had been just a transparent mass of air.

However, Victor nodded at her and said, "You have done a good job lately. Keep it up."

Victor wanted to pat Emily's shoulder for encouragement, but he stopped his hand in mid air and pulled back, at the thought of how jealous Jacob could be.

"Thank you, Mr. Gao." Emily didn't pay much attention to Jacob either. Victor's compliment had made her as happy as a pupil who had just been praised by the teacher.

Seeing them interact in such a way, annoyed Jacob, as his face darkened immediately. There was an unnatural aura of darkness around him.

Victor cleared his throat, and finished his words quickly, "I will have to go abroad for some time, so I intend to leave the company's affairs to you temporarily. If you have any problems, you can ask Mr. GuOwned by NôvelDrama.Org.

for assistance."

Emily quietly looked at Jacob and nodded her head, "Yes, of course."

"All right, that's it then."

Victor walked forward with Jacob as soon as he finished speaking, while Emily walked away in the opposite direction.

"She's already walked away. What are you still looking at?" Victor's voice was filled with banter.

Jacob turned around, and cast a short glance back, "None of your business."

"Tsk, now you can just burn your bridges."

Seeing as how Jacob pretended to be oblivious to her, Emily couldn't tell for sure whether it was him near the subway station yesterday. On the bright side, at least they maintained a clear line between them.

After work, an Aston Martin pulled up ostentatiously in front of LA jewelry, attracting the attention of the bystanders.

It only took Emily a glance to see Jack in the car, when almost instantly, a flicker of disgust flashed in her eyes. She turned around and walked away at once.

Nonetheless, Jack had seen Emily. He got out of the car, and strode with his long legs to quickly catch up with her. "Emily, I'm here to see you."

"What do you want from me? Are you trying to humiliate me again?"

"Emily, you know that's not why I am here."

Emily stopped on her tracks and turned to him, "I don't think a man who enjoys humiliating me for pleasure will do me any good."

Jack was stabbed in the heart by her words. "Emily, I know it was my fault before, but my reasons are justifiable. What man wouldn't be mad if he found out that his woman had cheated on him?"

"You need to get your story right. It was you who cheated on me first."

"Fine, let bygones be bygones." Jack didn't want to bring up the past. He was afraid that he might lose his temper with her again. "Did you think about what I asked you?"

"There's no need to think about it, it is impossible." Emily was completely resolute and decisive.

Rose told her, it was Jack who had arranged for the men to humiliate her. However, when he started to regret it, he acted like a hero to rescue the damsel in distress.

Jack was so vindictive that Emily believed most of Rose's words. However, whether it was true or not, she had no intentions of getting back together with him.

Jack couldn't take it anymore and said, impatiently, "Emily, are you really that heartless?"

"Shouldn't you be calling yourself heartless? It seems like you've suffered from short term memory loss..."

Before she finished speaking, Jack hugged her and stuck his thin lips to hers, trying to melt her stony heart with a kiss.

Emily did not run away; with a pair of sharp eyes, she fixated on him. "If I don't agree with you, are you going to take the hard way?"

"Are you going to rape me, like those hooligans the other day?"

"Jack, what's the difference between you and those disgusting hooligans?"

Suddenly, Jack froze. His face turned stiff within seconds. Soon after, he pulled himself back and let her go slowly.

"Emily, don't look at me that way."

Without answering him, Emily shoved him and walked away.

Jack pressed his aching heart. Watching her back as she walked away, he slowly clenched his fist and said, "Emily, I won't give up on you."

'This woman belongs to me.'

In the following days, Emily received many flowers in the company. She didn't even have to look to see who had sent them, because she already knew who they were from. Eventually, every bouquet of flowers were thrown into the trash can.

Meanwhile, when Emily received her wages, she found out that it was doubled. She was scared a little at first, but seeing the more or less salary raise of her other colleagues, put her worries to rest.

Although, she still owed the company and Jacob a lot of money, with her current salary, it wouldn't take her long to pay off her debts.

After she returned part of the money to the company, Emily went to the mall at lunch break with the money she had saved for herself.

Emily remembered her promise to Jacob, after all, she owed him a suit jacket. Regardless of how things were between them, she intended to keep her promise, even though it was up to Jacob whether he would accept it or not.

After careful selection, Emily bought a suit jacket and wrapped it nicely. Then, she mailed the package to Gu's Consortium.

The receptionist who received the package took a quick look at it, and assumed it was just another gift from her boss' fans. It wouldn't be the first time something like that had happened, so she nonchalantly left it aside.

After all, not everything could be sent to the Big Boss.

The cleaner threw the packages that were unclaimed into the dustbin. Coincidentally, when he was throwing them out as a rubbish, Sam was passing by and saw the package inside.

"Wait a minute."