Chapter 245 Are You So Shameless As to Ask


    Envy eventually appeared in Jack''s eyes, and it grew thicker with every passing moment. His voice


    was soft but cruel, "So what, Emily? You''ve been tainted by me. Even if hees back, he won''t want


    you..."


    "Pat!" Emily pped Jack hard across the face!


    Jack staggered back, a red welt showing ghastly across his cheek. He turned slowly and came across


    Emily''s hateful eyes.


    "Jack, knowing you has been the most regretful part of my entire life," she said.


    Jack''s heart stopped beating for a moment and his stomach fell into a bottomless pit of despair. He felt


    like he was going to copse at any moment.


    Desperate to gain her trust, he wanted to tell her the truth about that night, but he swallowed his words,


    instead he said, "There''s no point in living in regret, because I will be be tangling with you all my life."


    "Don''t make me hate you more," said Emily.


    "You already hate me, don''t you? So you might as well add a little more hate to it," he teased. Jack


    curved his lips upward and smiled menacingly, "If you are doomed not to love me, then I''d rather have


    you hate me.


    Either way, I want you to remember me all your life!" he said.


    "You''re a disgusting psychopath!" she eximed. Emily had lost the will to continue arguing with him.


    She got up and turned around to leave, when Jack grabbed her hand from behind. "Where are you off


    to?


    Emily, where are you going?" he asked. Jack gently tugged her arm and added, "Your foster parents


    want to hurt you. What do you n on doing about that?"


    "It''s none of your business. Let me go!" she yelled.


    "No, I will not! Emily, please, let me help you! I don''t want you to get hurt!" he insisted.


    "I don''t need your help. And most of all, I don''t need your pity..." Emily''s head throbbed in agony.


    Squeezing her eyes shut, she willed the pain to go away. "Please, just let me go and stop pestering..."


    she pleaded.


    "Let you go? Then what about me?" he asked. A bitter smile graced Jack''s sullen face. The heartache


    he endured was no less than a hurricane. "You only have Jacob in your heart, don''t you?


    He won''t being back anytime soon, so you should stop waiting for him..." he said, vaguely.


    "What do you mean by this?" she asked. Emily keenly grasped the important message in the words. A


    spider of fear skittered along her spine.


    Jack, suddenly, realized that he had said too much. Wild, mad-eyed, he whipped his head around


    looking for an excuse.


    "Tell me! What on earth did you mean by that? What happened to Jacob?" asked Emily.


    "Emily, he is fine..." said Jack.


    Emily trembled in fury, and pushed his hand away as she turned around to leave.


    "Emily!" Jack cried out. He ran after her as fast as he could, but Emily was quick to hail a taxi by the


    road, as she left him trailing behind.


    A muscle twitched involuntarily at the corner of Jack''s right eye, and his mouth formed a rigid grimace.


    Emily got inside the car, and immediately broke down in tears, gasping for air. The only thing she was


    really aware of, was the sound of her heart throbbing against the cage of her chest.


    Emily missed Jacob, his soft voice and his warm embrace... But now, she couldn''t even tell where he


    was. She had no idea whether he was dead or alive!


    Jack''s vague attitude gave away more than he had intended. ''Something must have happened to


    Jacob, or else, why would Jack say that?'' she thought.


    To relieve her curiosity, Emily gathered her courage and called Jacob, but there was no answer. She


    dialled again and again, but the end result was the same.


    The dread creeps over Emily like an icy chill, numbing her brain. In this frozen state her mind offered


    only one thought, ''Jack''s words were probably true.''


    What was wrong with Jacob? Why wouldn''t he answer his phone? No wonder he hadn''t contacted here


    in such a long time. It wasn''t like Jacob at all...


    The more Emily stressed, the more nervous she became. When she got home, she paced around the


    apartment restlessly. In the end, she decided to book a ticket and look for Jacob herself. Fortunately,


    Jacob had told her where he was going for the business trip.


    Unease blossomed from within her, as she dreaded every second of anticipation. The earliest ticket


    she could book was for tomorrow morning.


    A few minutes after Emily had booked her flight tickets, Debby and Andrew showed up at her doorstep.


    When Emily opened the door, she didn''t look particrly excited to see them. With a wearisome look


    on her face, she asked, "Mom, Dad, why are you here again?"


    This time, however, Emily did not invite them in.


    Emily''s parents stood outside the door, feeling embarrassed. Debby was at aplete loss. Puzzled,


    her mind scrambled to find the right words. "Emily, how can you speak to us like that?" she asked.


    Silent, Emily continued without hesitation, expressionless as she studied the dark beads of their eyes.


    She noted the pallor of their face, and darted a quick, suspicionden nce at them. "You''vee


    here to see if your poison had worked, right?" she asked.


    A shiver raced through their spine, freezing their body from the inside.


    "Emily, what are you saying... What do you mean by that?" asked Debby. Emily''s mother bit her lower


    lip. Her face flushed with the heat of terror and her eyes desperately trie to rid itself of the guilt.


    Emily''s father was furious. "Are you using me and your mother of poisoning you? Be careful of what


    you say, girl!" he said.


    Although, on the surface, they somehow managed to fight off Emily''s suspicion, but deep down inside


    the both of them were praying for a miracle in their heart.


    ConTEent bel0ngs to N?v(e)lD/rama(.)Org .


    Why didn''t Emily look any different?


    They saw her drinking the soybean milk with their own eyes. Did it not work?


    "You don''t have to pretend any more. I''m tired of ying games with you," she said. Emily threw the


    test report in front of them. Her voice gradually became fragmented, "The cup of soybean milk you


    personally put in my hand was mixed with drugs... Why? All I want to know is why would you do such a


    horrible thing? What did I ever do to you?" she asked.


    In the end, she couldn''t conceal the sadness in her tone anymore.


    At that point, Debby''s face fell faster than a corpse in cement boots. She had nothing to protect her but


    empty words. There was no point in trying to reach for an excuse. "You didn''t drink it, right?" asked


    Debby.


    "You want me to drink it, don''t you?" she asked. Emily''s facial expression was one of absolute disdain.


    In that instant her skin became greyed, her mouth hung with lips slightly parted and her eyes were as


    wide as they could stretch. "I''m sorry to disappoint you... Why, mom?" asked Emily.


    "Why? How dare you ask me why?" yelled Debby. Suddenly, Emily''s mother went berserk. Her lethal


    stare felt painful and piercing, as if her re was tearing Emily''s heart apart with a blinding teal light.


    "Do you know what you have done to my dear Tina? Have you no shame? How dare you still call me


    mom?" said Debby.


    "Mom... I didn''t..." Emily mumbled. In truth, Emily had never caused Tina any harm. Tina''s downfall was


    her own fault. It was Tina who tried to do Emily harm, but why couldn''t anyone see that? Why did


    everyone put the me on Emily?


    What did the world have against Emily?


    "Shut up! Never call me mom again!" Debby screamed. Debby''s eyes shed with resentment and


    anger, much like lightning on a pitch ck night. "I wish I never had a daughter like you! Look at what


    you''ve done. Are you even human?" asked Debby.


    "Never call me mom again", that was thest straw for Emily. A burning animosity was developing in


    her amber orbs, but the pain in her heart almost choked the life out of her. She had never felt so lonely


    and abandoned in her life. The harshness of reality, deprived her of the ability to deceive herself.


    Words seemed to have lost its weight and meaning now.


    "Okay, that''s it," she said to her parents. Emily mmed the door, and returned to her own room with a


    sad expression. Her parents were outside cursing at her. Their indistinct voices pierced her heart like a


    thousand needles.


    Emily''s facial expression was cadaver-like, not just sagged butcking its usual livelinesspletely,


    as if she had left her spirit somewhere else.


    Emily''s mother, did not want her.