Contract Marriage; Fated Love

Noah leaned against the car after washing his face. He wanted air to touch his face before he would drive home. He hadn’t come with a driver and didn’t want to bother calling one at that time. He always kept his movements private.

His personal phone rang, disrupting the silence around him. He was surprised since he wasn’t expecting any call.

“Room 128, help me, I am in trouble, I am about…”

This was all he heard, then someone’s footsteps and the line went dead. The voice sounded distressed. The first thing that occurred to him was to save that person. He made the necessary call and in seconds, the security was sent to rescue the lady.

The second and most puzzling question was how the person got his personal number. He rarely came in contact with people, talk more of the opposite gender. Even Benny didn’t have that number. He asked the security to bring the lady over so that he would know how she got his phone number.

Emily looked again to be sure she wasn’t dreaming or seeing wrongly. The man turned around and she saw his face clearly. She wasn’t mistaken. It was Noah Harper. He returned to his initial position.

She dailed the hospital line not Noah’s. She knew she was indebted to him at this point but she wasn’t prepared to meet him.

“Emmm! Send my greetings to him. Tell him I appreciate him greatly and won’t ever forget this good deed. I have to go now,” she said to the men and hurried away.

The men were surprised but they didn’t stop her. She must be very close to the boss and must be treated with caution and maximum respect.

“She left sir. She said we should thank you for her and promised never to forget your kindness.”

“She left?”

Noah looked towards the gate and saw a slender and curvy figure walk out in a rush.

“Is that her?”

“Yes sir.”

“Alright, you may leave.”

“This is strange. She has my personal number which very few people have and she didn’t even say thank you directly. What’s with her?”

He looked at the number again on his phone and shurged.

Emily sat in the taxi and tried to calm her racing heart. She studied the number she called again and compared it with the hospital number which she had seen correctly just now. It wasn’t the same. She had made a very big mistake. She had misplaced the digits entirely but thanks to that, she was saved on time.

She pressed the red button, ‘block’ and quickly blocked the number, then she deleted it. She heaved a sigh of relief. He wouldn’t get her now.

Her letter? Had she lost it?

She looked around for her letter and found it squezzed up in her pocket. It was still safe. She would go again another day.

Three days later, she went back to the hospital. After the necessary check in process, she was allowed to enter the wards. She located Jessy’s room and smiled.

She knocked lightly and entered. He turned when he heard her enter. He looked at her with an expressionless face.

“Good day, Mr. Jessy. Governess Shields sent me to you.”

“Governess Shields?”

“Yes, she did.”

“Why?”

Emily gave the letter to him. He tore it open and read it with an inscrutable expression on his face. After reading it, he tore it into tiny pieces and flung it at her.

“Don’t ever appear in front of me again, you can relay what ever message you like to the governess. No one will tell me how to run my life and affairs. Now, out of my room.”

Emily looked at him in shock. She didn’t know the contents of the letter and she didn’t see this hostile reaction coming.

“Are you by any chance deaf? Young lady, get out! Get lost this instant before I lay my hands on you.”

Emily turned and walked away calmly, shutting the door behind her.

“Nonsense. Governess Shields every time. I have made my stance clear. I will do what I like. Why can’t this woman just hear it and put it into her head?” Jessy mummered as he looked ath the shredded paper on the floor. He picked it up and continued shredding them to make sure that they are too tiny and can’t be read or arranged back. He would ask a nurse to get it burnt soon.

“Mummy, can you take me to the park tomorrow?”

“Ehhh, let me check my schedule. Ohhh! It’s a free day and weekend tomorrow. I will take you to there baby.”

“Thank you mummy! I love you.”

“I love you too, sweetheart.”

She continued her work and after some time, she picked her phone and asked Liam,

“Have you heard from Aunty Yanxi?”

“No mummy, you talk to her often, don’t you?”

“Yeah, I do, but I haven’t heard from her in days. I haven’t had time to call her and I’m sure she might be worried.”

“Oh my! Emily, I thought something had happened to you!”

“Huh? Yanxi, how could you think like that?”

“Why? I haven’t heard from you in days and I can’t even reach you. Did something happen to your phone? Was it stolen and all numbers blacklisted? Tell me, what happened?”

“You’ve been trying to call me?”

“Yes, but I think you have blacklisted my number. Why? What happened?”

“There must be a mix up somewhere. How can I blacklist your number? Who else do I have?”

“Awwwww! Now she is flattering me.”

“Common, don’t say that. You know I’m not.”

“Whatever! So, how are you doing? I hope no one is making things difficult for you?”All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

“No one for now. It’s just that Noah keeps appearing. You won’t believe what happened today. He saved my ass. I would have been in big trouble!”

“What happened?”

Emily proceeded to narrate what happened to Gu Yanxi.

“Are you sure he won’t come after you? Did he see your face? He still has your number!”