A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 133 A Belittled Girl

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Jacob. I was just drunk or else I should not have offended your girl. I swear! Please, forgive me!"

Before Juan could finish these words, Jacob's hands clenched around his jacket and pushed him against the wall. "Then I will sober you up!" Jacob growled, his eyes filled with pure rage.

Then Jacob kicked Juan so hard in the belly that this one had to bend down. Juan cried and screamed as he was kicked a second time, and then a third time, at the fourth kick he was almost about to throw up all he had drunk so far. In the end, after being beaten up pretty well, he stopped crying. He seemed to be exhaling his last gasps before falling unconscious to the ground.

Emily was standing beside them, frozen and shocked by the scene in front of her eyes. She shuddered as Jacob turned to look at her, just after he threw Juan to the ground like he was not a human but rather a bag of dirty trash,"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you," Jacob frowned,"Come here."

"... Okay."

Emily walked obediently toward Jacob; as she was approaching she cast a glance to Juan who was still lying on the ground with his face covered in blood. So Jacob assured her,"Do not worry. He won't die."

"Uh," Emily sighed as a sign of relief, and could not help but thump Juan a bit with her foot before running to Jacob.

Emily was so innocent and so cute in doing so that Jacob let out a hearty laugh. Just after, that dark cloud that was into his eyes, slowly faded away,"I don't care. If you want, you can kick him harder."

Emily turned her head back, and without further hesitations, she started kicking the man still lying unconscious.

"Good girl. Now come here." Jacob gently grabbed her hand and slowly dragged it below his nose; after he was sure that the girl was not hurt, he folded his arms around her waist and softly whispered into her ear,"I would put you in my pocket to keep you away from all the harms in this world."

Emily raised her head and unconsciously twisted her lips. Her face looked puzzled, as she was trying to figure out whether Jacob was speaking the truth or not.

"I'm just kidding," added Jacob awkwardly.

Relieved by hearing this, she didn't give much importance to what he said, and turned back to all the chaos around,"What should we do with this mess? Maybe we should clean it up."

But they had not that much time to waste. Moreover, she looked pretty much worried about the situation and seemed very uncomfortable.

"Someone else would clean up later," said Jacob curtly.

He was right. Just after they left, several men, probably hiding around, rushed to the hallway and took Juan to a hospital nearby.

In the end, the plan to cooperate with the Lin group came to nothing. The news came out as Juan's father disinherited him since Juan was beaten up too badly and cast shame on their family's name. The news spread quickly, and by the end of the year, everyone knew that Juan brought it to himself y offending Jacob.

Anyway, this was another story. Emily did not know anything about it.

In the next days, Emily had been busy every day preparing for the charity auction hosted by LA Company. Though she was employed by Gu Consortium now, she still didn't let go of her businesses with LA, especially since this auction was aimed at building a name in the jewelry design circle.

She got hundreds of requests for invitation letters to the auction from all corners of Jingshi City, and this was in great part due to the fact that people knew that Jacob would go to the auction since Emily would attend it and she was considered his favorite girl.

Without any doubt, invitations were sent to Tao family too, since it was one of the noble and most powerful families in the city.

In the meantime, Mark was busying himself in trying to get his sister Tina better off. Actually he was pretty scared she was going to lose her mind once she knew about the auction. When he got the invitation, he went up quickly to Tina's room and knocked to the door,"Tina, do you know how many days you have been locking yourself in the room? Do you want to starve yourself to death?"

Then something hit the door and then broke on the ground. Then Tina's piercing cry came into Mark's ears. "Liar! You are just a liar! You said you would have helped me!"

Tina was still mad at him because he didn't stop it when she was fired by the Gu Consortium. He knew it, but he did nothing to help her.

Clenching the invitation letter tightly in his hand, Mark sighed,"There will be a charity auction in our city. Jacob will be there too. I have got the invitation letter. If you would you like to go..."

Before he could finish, the door flew open.

"I will go with you." Tina looked very scruffy; her hairs were untied; her face was pale and her eyes swollen. She took the invitation letter from Mark's hand and slammed the door again.

"You wanna go with me looking like that? Come out and dress up."

"I will! Leave me alone now!" she cried impatiently, then she gave a vigorous yawn and quieted.

Her brother was standing there, in silence, his face growing darker.

Soon came the day of the auction.

As a staff member, Emily got up early in the morning and headed for the auction center. To her surprise, there she found Tina, who had also arrived very early.

She was wearing a light blue fishtail-style dress. It seemed like custom made and pretty expensive as well. She looked like a famous movie star just before walking above the red carpet. And the nice makeup, covering all signs of the past terrible days, made her appear mature than her age but still very beautiful.

However, Emily was much more like a natural beauty. She was wearing a faint yellow dress; with its delicate design, the dress fitted perfectly her tiny waist. Her makeup was simple and clean, and her hair were pulled up into a bun with small daisy embedded inside—that flower was given to her by Jacob, which was a daisy he took from his garden in Tyrone Mansion, and it was so fresh that still had some beads of dew on it.

All guests were amazed by the view of Emily. She seemed like a princess from a fairy tale, like a thunder in a dark night; and Tina was completely overwhelmed by such a beauty.

Tina was standing beside Mark. Her face was dark and her fists were so clenched that with her fingernails almost pierced the palm of her hands.

'It's her again! Why!' Tina thought to herself.

'How can she be that pretty? Why is she always standing in my way? She is nobody knows nothing. How can she steal my thunder?' Mark's attention was caught by Emily too. As a man of noble family, he always considered Emily inferior and believed that she was nothing special compared to the others.

However, today Emily was such beautiful that, for the first time, Mark looked at her under a different perspective. 'This girl must have something special, otherwise Jacob would not fancy her this much.

Plus, she can always find a way to bother my sister, ' he thought, holding a little smirk under his lips, 'But either way, ' recollecting his thoughts, 'If she or others will hurt just a finger of my sister, they will have an hard time with me, ' he thought angrily.

In the meanwhile, Emily was surprised to see both Tina and Mark here. Even though she sent the invitations to the Tao family just for politeness, she didn't expect that they would actually come.

'They must be here for Jacob, ' staring at them, Emily thought, 'He must be the only reason why Tina is here.'

With this idea in her mind, Emily turned back heading to the entrance; she was waiting for someone. "Oh, there you are!" she cried happily when she saw Rita and David just walking through the door. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

"Rita, I am glad you are here!" taken by excitement, Emily grabbed Rita's hands and tried to give her a hug, but this was impossible because Rita's belly was way too big right now. Emily said,"I'm sorry I didn't visit you. I've been so busy all these days. You didn't have to come. You should stay home and rest."

Rita smiled, took Emily's hands and they both rubbed her belly,"Don't worry. Even my doctor told me to go out a little more often. Plus, how can I ignore an invitation from one of my best friends!"

Touched by these words, Emily smiled at her friend and was about to take Rita to her seat so as to chat and recover the last few days gossip with her. But when she glanced at David, she noticed the presence of a fourth person. It was a beautiful girl, standing just next to him, and those two looked like more than just friends.

"David, why don't you introduce your friend to me?" Emily said.