Chapter 146 Care for Nothing but Emily


    Jacob''s face clouded. He cast a look to Sam, who was waiting at the door, and coldly told him toe


    inside.


    Sam hesitated for a second before entering the room, then he went inside. "Mr. Jacob, Miss Emily,"


    said reverently.


    Emily blushed and went silent for embarrassment. Jacob instead sounded clearly annoyed by this


    inappropriate interruption; "Sam, what''s the matter?" asked him bitterly.


    "Mr. Jack came to his senses."


    "Is Jack awake?" said Emily,ing immediately out of her silence. "How is he doing?"


    Sam was going to tell them that Jack was badly injured. But before he could say anything, he noticed


    that Jacob was staring at him, a dark and slightly worried look on his face like he was not willing to


    know whether Jack recovered since that bad injury. Then Sam went on,"Mr. Jack is all right."


    "Okay good, we hope for the best. Now I must ask you to leave," said Jacob. He sounded very upset


    like it was unwise for Sam to stay longer in the room. ''I will cut his pay, '' Jacob thought.


    Following his instruction, Sam walked out and closed the door behind him.


    However, it was toote to continue their conversation: Jacob was fine, but Emily couldn''t think about


    anything but Jack. She didn''t even notice that Jacob was as displeased by the news as a kid when


    given broli for dinner. Then she asked,"Jacob, can I go to see him? After all, if he was injured, it was


    also because of me..."


    After what happened, Emily still cared for Jack, and this was making Jacob very irritated. "No," he said


    harshly.


    "What? You... How can you do that?" Emily said in disbelief.


    "Do what?" He replied, with that arrogant grin stuck on his handsome face.


    "You are very mean. You don''t have the right to tell me what to do... I tell you. If you do not change your


    attitude, I''ll stop loving you..." With that said, Emily hoped that Jacob would change his mind and let her


    go. Instead, something that she wasn''t expecting happened: Jacob kissed her on the lips again.


    Emily was caught by surprise, but she did not move as Jacob kissed her. Then he bit her lower lip,


    slowly moved back and said,"This is your penance for saying you won''t love me anymore. Next time


    you tell me something like that, it will be worse"


    "……"


    Emily was staring at Jacob, her mouth shut.


    After a while, Jacob moved and let go of Emily. Her face was so cute; her look was sweet and her body


    so delicate. He thought to cast his arms around her body again, but Jacob kept hisposure and just


    rubbed her head with his right-hand fingers. "First you tell me, what happened after you left the


    barbecue yesterday?" he asked.


    Upon mentioning what happened, Emily panicked. Her fingers were trembling as her hands grasped


    Jacob''s jacket tightly. She took a deep breath, then said,"Yesterday I wanted to go out to take some


    fresh air. I didn''t go far from the vi. Then there was a river nearby... I was washing my hands into the


    water when someone behind suddenly pushed me!


    I never learned how to swim, so I was dead scared! I struggled to climb out of the river, when I was


    almost out on my feet, someone hit me with a stone and I fainted... From then, its all ck!"


    While she was speaking, Jacob was holding her hands tightly. He wanted her to know that she was out


    of danger now. He looked at the bandages wrapped around her forehead; if he could, he would take


    the pain for himself. He continued,"Then?"


    "Then when I woke up, I was already lying on the ground along the riverbank. So I got on my feet and I


    looked around in search for something familiar. I was close to a small, but dense forest. It was there


    when I met the ck bear..." While she was speaking, her eyes told Jacob she was reliving that


    horrifying moment as she continued with her trembling voice,"Finally, Jack appeared and saved me, but


    he was injured trying to scare away the bear. So can I go to..."


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    Jacob interrupted Emily again. He didn''t want her to go and see Jack in this condition even if he had


    saved her life. "Whoever hurt you needs to pay for this. I swear I will find him."


    Emily nodded approvingly. All of a sudden, an image pictured in front of her eyes, a detail that she


    thought she had forgotten. "I remember a purple dress. I remember it looked like a woman dress..." she


    said.


    A woman who wore a purple dress…


    At these words Jacob already thought about some suspects, then he stood up and said,"I''ll take care of


    this for you. Do not worry. Just stay here and rest. If you need something, just call me..."


    "Okay…" After a few seconds, while the man was leaving the room, Emily spoke with a high


    voice,"Jacob! I want to see Jack. Can I go?"


    However, Jacob neither stopped nor answered. He just walked out of the door.


    Emily punched her bed angrily. ''This man ignores me and thinks he can tell me what to do. He''s going


    too far!''


    ……


    Just after Jacob was out of the vi, he met with Sam.


    "Mr. Jacob, our men caught the ck bear during their search. Now It is anesthetized and locked in a


    cage," said Sam.


    Jacob asked,"Are you sure it is the one that attacked Emily and Jack?"


    "Yes, Mr. Gu." said Sam promptly,"Our men found out that ck bears disappeared from d many


    years ago. We believe that this ck bear came from outside. In this season the ck bear is typically


    hibernating, but here in d the climate conditions favors the awakening of those beasts. Thus our


    idea is that the bear was transported while it was asleep, and once it arrived here on the ind, the


    bear woke up. When Miss Emily found it, the bear was probably still confused, that is why it attacked


    her."


    Jacob stared intently at Sam without saying a word. When Sam was about to repeat himself, thinking


    that perhaps he wasn''t listening, Jacob spoke.


    "Tsk," he snorted,"A woman pushed Emily into the river. She tried to drown her. Even if Emily would


    have been able to swim, the river stream was too strong, and she would be carried until the sea, where


    she would have surely died. Plus, even if Emily would have been lucky enough to survive and get


    safely out of the river, there was still a ferocious beast waiting for her. This woman was trying


    everything to kill Emily."


    Shocked by his words, Sam kept listening to Jacob, his face incredulous.


    "A woman wearing a purple dress… Come on. Go and find this woman for me! Bring here even all the


    men wearing purple clothes at that damned barbecue," Jacobmanded.


    No matter what it would take, Emily had to be avenged and the responsible must be punished. This


    was how Jacob was thinking in this moment. He was ready to kill them if he had to.


    "Yes, sir."


    It was not a big deal to find all the people invited at the barbecue. Then, Sam identified all of those


    wearing a purple dress or clothes from some pictures taken by a few guests. Now, all of those people,


    both females and males, who wore something purple at the barbecue was gathered in the hall on the


    ind.


    Jacob was in the hall as well in front of all of them, his facepletely cold.


    Jacob cast pierced looks to each one of them. That gaze was like a stab into their hearts. Everybody


    had a pale face and they were trembling as like the temperatures in the room dropped suddenly.


    "Which one of you left during the middle of the barbecue yesterday?" Jacob asked.


    Everybody heard about the ident, and it was also known that Jacob and Emily were close. Clearly,


    Jacob thought that one of them was the responsible, but no one had the guts to admit to having been


    out. Jacob''s eyes were red with anger, and the people were too scared. Suddenly the quiet room


    became very loud.


    "Mr. Gu, I never left the barbecue!"


    "Yes, he saw me."


    ……


    "Shut up!" The room turned quiet again. Jacob was losing his temperament and said,"I''m not interested


    in your nonsense. I know that the person who tried to kill Emily is among you. If he or she will not stand


    up and speak the truth, I will have to consider all of you as the aplices."


    The way he talked and moved made him look like a mad man. He paused for a second and


    continued,"I will kill all of you rather than let that person go. I can tell the media that all of you were


    involved in an air crash on your way home, and they will believe me. Your poor families will get


    compensated, of course."


    Their blood chilled out as Jacob said those words. In the room was breathed an air of madness and


    terror.


    In fact, everybody knew that Jacob was not joking at all. He had money, and even more importantly, he


    had power. People like him could do whatever they wanted to do.


    Jacob was believed to have softened over time, most probably because of Emily. It was a huge


    mistake. Theypletely forgot that the cold-blooded Jacob, the one that did not care about anyone


    was always there, especially now when his beloved woman''s life was in danger. He would have


    climbed high mountains, swam through a whole ocean, or even killed those people if necessary. And


    those poor folks knew it.


    Jacob cared about nothing except… His beloved one, Emily