SPOILED GIRL, VOLUME 2 - Season 11 Episode 56

Emily tickled her daughter. She knew exactly where Beryl was most sensitive and focused on those two ticklish spots.
“Don’t you like your mommy anymore?” Emily teased, smiling. Her fingers continued tickling her daughter until Beryl squirmed.

“Ah. Of course I like you, Mommy. Please, stop it.”

Beryl choked with laughter, giggling aloud in Emily’s arms. Her tears had been successfully banished from her eyes.

This was the first time Beryl had showed heartfelt happiness since Emily had separated from Jacob.

Bowen had no idea what was happening, but the tangibly emotional moment between his sister and his mommy made him join in the giggling without any reason.

Soon the three burst into laughter, almost rolling on the floor with mirth. Seated on the opposite sofa, Louis fondly gazed at them with tender feelings. His crystal blue irises echoed the relief in Hunk’s eyes when they exchanged a brief look.

‘This is genuine happiness and satisfaction. The kind obtained from the affection of family members. It’s perhaps the most valuable feeling that unites families as a whole. It couldn’t be better, even if life could be like this every single day, ‘ Louis thought with contentment.

Having been in a state of anxiety, both Beryl and Bowen had had very little sleep last night. Now, drowsiness set in, and they soon became sleepy as they felt more relaxed.

Bowen rubbed his eyes on Emily’s sleeves while Beryl stretched with a big yawn. Emily made a sign to Louis and, together, they gently put Bowen and Beryl onto the bed and softly walked out of the bedroom.

“Have the two fallen asleep?”

Hunk asked quietly as he took a cup of jujube tea and handed it to Emily.

“I suppose so, it may take a few more minutes before they drift off.”

Emily nodded and she picked up the cup. The next second, a chill ran along her fingertips and raced through her body. Her face became solemn and cold. Jujube tea?

‘By right, Hunk would never brew this kind of tea for me. Coffee is used more often than jujube. This is the first time that he has made me a cup of jujube tea.

Could it be that he has discovered something different?’

Emily thought, and she was overwhelmed with anxiety.

With a guilty conscience, Emily lowered her head and threw a sidelong glance at Hunk. She saw that he was smiling as he always did, and she felt a little relieved.

“We have run out of coffee. You stayed outside for a whole night, so it’s better to drink some jujube tea to dispel the cold from your body,”

Hunk persuaded, as he suddenly thought that she didn’t like jujube. The gracious and concerned smile warmed Emily’s heart.

“Well, that’s good,”

Emily replied. His caring and soft words loosened up her tension. Holding the teacup and sipping the warm tea, she felt a kind of soothing warmth creep into her spine and every part of her body.

‘It’s true that my family is always behind me, ‘ she said gratefully to herself.

“Yvonne, last night…”

Dead silence descended upon the room. Gripping the remote control, Louis broke the silence as he asked in a tentative manner after some hesitation. His face was stern, and his brows raised slightly.
He was concerned; Emily had disappeared for a whole night without any trace, even though the Ke Family had searched for her with every effort made to find her. This morning, her sudden reappearance had inevitably made Louis both curious and worried.

He was afraid that she might have been hurt.

‘How could a person disappear into thin air and then appear again without rhyme or reason? It is what gangs always do, isn’t it?’ Louis couldn’t hide his speculation and doubt.

“Well, we will talk later. Let Yvonne have some rest first,”

Hunk said softly as he shook his head negatively at Louis. He didn’t like Louis’s line of inquiry.

Anyhow, he couldn’t have his daughter placed in a dire situation. Although Louis and Emily were siblings, they shared no blood relation. It would be a heavy blow to Emily if she knew this, considering her fragility.

Hunk had known that something was wrong since Emily came back. It was obvious that she was being deceptive on purpose and had hidden where she had been, especially considering that she had changed her clothes. It was quite suspicious, yet he was not willing to push Emily now by making inquiries at this time.

He would not push her into making a disclosure of her whereabouts unless she felt comfortable enough to discuss it.

“Dad, I…”

Louis put his hand on his lips and made a slight cough. He knew Hunk’s worry, but he still wanted to get the details about Emily’s disappearance as he suspected some foul play.

He would risk his life to see justice done if someone really had harmed Yvonne.

“Well, my brother is just worried about me, Dad,” Emily interrupted as she saw their argument. Rubbing her sleeves together, she lowered her head and spoke haltingly, saying, “It is true that something happened to me last night.” “What?”

Louis rose to his feet, infuriated. His fists clenched tightly as a cold cruelty glittered in his deep blue eyes.

“Who did something to you? What did he do?

Something has happened!” Louis couldn’t hold his temper any longer and needed to express his rage by taking punitive measures.

“Calm down, don’t frighten Yvonne,” Hunk’s voice had also become icy, yet he was not as agitated as Louis was.

“Please, listen to me, Brother.”

Seeing the anger in both her brother and father’s eyes and their determination to fight for her at any cost, she was deeply touched. Suddenly, she decided to lay all the cards on the table.

“I came across Darren when I went outside to get some fresh air. He rendered me unconscious and took me to Bill’s bed.”

Louis frowned just as Emily’s voice faded. “Bill?

Why him?” he muttered feeling repulsed.

“Correct. It was Bill. Do you know him, Brother?”

Emily was confused. It seemed that her brother held some prior hatred for Bill.

“Nothing. He is the backstabber who did some harm to our company recently. I didn’t expect that he would have go so far,” Louis explained.

Many of the company’s orders and projects had been snatched away by someone else through illegal means.

Moreover, there had been a lot of quality issues cropping up, all of which had had some negative effect on the company’s reputation, even though they had all been well-addressed.

Louis’s investigation had revealed that Bill was the scheming mastermind behind everything.

He had thought that Bill was only playing dirty tricks on his company to gain his own business deals, but Louis had never expected that Bill would put his hands on Yvonne.

“Oh.

What happened later?”

Hunk asked closely, and a scorching enthusiasm filled his wizened eyes.

He was no fool. Emily wouldn’t have been allowed to return home safe and sound if she had been stained by Bill.

Without a second thought, Emily nodded and continued, “Jacob saved me.”

“Jacob!”

Both the men felt very awkward at the mention of this name.

How had Jacob been involved in Darren’s plotting, considering his heartless behavior towards Emily recently?

What was his real intention for saving Emily?

“Yes. Brother, forget about that. The evil plot had nothing to do with Jacob. I think he saved me out of sympathy!”

Emily said, almost choking on the irony of that statement. Her lips curled into a sad smile. Then, she raised her head and found Louis and Hunk looking at her inquiringly. Afraid that she might have exposed more than she should, she quickly averted her eyes and tried to hide her true feelings.