SPOILED GIRL, VOLUME 2 - Season 11 Episode 57

“Really?”

Louis said coldly. His eyes had sharpened like a wild animal.

Emily saw the cold astuteness in his eyes. Worrying that he might have gotten the wrong message, she quickly explained, “He saved me. Please, don’t go up against him.”

She lowered her head and kept her voice calm. But the sorrow in her eyes wasn’t concealable. She mentally smirked at the irony of the statement.

After being saved by him, she didn’t feel the life-affirming joy that survivors of disasters and great tragedies felt.

Instead, her grief came crashing over her like a tsunami, knocking her off her feet and leaving her desolate.

“I understand. I won’t do anything to harm him,”

Louis replied as he nodded and exchanged a knowing look with Hunk. In this case, the Ke Family were indebted to Jacob for saving Emily.

Even though Emily hadn’t told them about Jacob’s request for his favor to be returned, Hunk and Louis knew that Jacob was going to ask them for something in return.

The night grew late.

Jacob was standing inside the house. The moonlight only shone on the lower half of his body, which placed his facial expression in deep shadow and made it completely unreadable. Only the glowing embers of the cigarette blinked within that darkness.

“Mr. Jacob, Miss Emily is home.”

A man in black stood by the door. His body uncertainly leaned forward and he continued, “She is safe.”

“I got it. You may go.”

Jacob frowned with fatigue. His eyes were bloodshot. A sense of loneliness surrounded him, and as he exhaled a cloud of blue-grey smoke, it seemed as if his loneliness expanded further outwards.

“What else?”

Seeing the man still lingering with a hesitant expression, Jacob said, “Say it.”
“Yes, sir. When Miss Emily left, she used the ribbon of the dress to cover her neck and got into a taxi…”

The man in black kept looking at Jacob as he told him what had happened to Emily after she left. He was afraid that anything he said might stir Jacob’s anger.

In covering her neck at the cost of ripping the dress, Emily had been willing to risk embarrassing herself. It was clear that she had placed more value on covering up the hickeys than being modest. Emily clearly didn’t want to have anything to do with Jacob anymore. “I’ve got it. You may go now,”

Jacob replied and unexpectedly smiled. He seemed to be getting used to being rejected by her already.

He didn’t open his heart, or let anyone see his sadness.

Emily’s hatred towards him had been like this for quite some time now.

That skirt was not Michelle’s. He had bought it for Emily when they had just started to date. Jacob had wanted to see how Emily would look in a different style. For some reason he couldn’t remember, it had been in the bottom of the drawer.

That skirt was clean, and it was hers. “Yes, sir.”

The man turned to leave. However, Jacob stopped him. One important thing had popped into his mind. He called the man, walked a few steps forward and asked, “Have you discovered anything new about Michelle?”

It seemed that Darren had placed a mole near Jacob. Michelle was the only person who was close to him and hadn’t earned his trust. He had to watch her carefully.

“Miss Michelle has been staying at SL Jewelry. She hasn’t done anything unusual.”

Hearing Jacob asking about Michelle, the guard thought that Jacob might be worried about her. But when he saw the coldness in Jacob’s eyes, his body trembled and he lowered his head.

Jacob really didn’t care about Michelle. He just wanted to use every bit of her value.

“SL Jewelry…”

Jacob mumbled under his breath. He then pursed his lips. It seemed that he already knew every bit of Michelle’s mind.

She was nothing more than a poor woman who had now sunk into the pool of her imaginary love.

“I’ve got it. You can go now. Keep your eyes on her. Let me know if you find anything suspicious.”

“Yes, sir.”

The guard left and softly closed the door behind him.

The room was shrouded in darkness again, except for Jacob’s glowing cigarette. There was only Jacob’s brooding presence and a deafening silence in the darkened room.

Jacob stepped forward into the moonlight. He now wore a blue shirt.

It was the same shirt that Emily had worn this morning, and he could still smell the scent of her body on the fabric.

He let out a heavy sigh, stood in front of the window and looked out onto the street below.

He didn’t know how much longer he would have to live like this.

The love of his life had been here, but he had had to push her away again and again. His cruelty was her protection.

He snuffed his cigarette and threw it into the ashtray. Then, he took out his phone and dialed a number.

“How is the case going?”

“I have found a lot of information, but I still need a little more time to gather more substantial evidence.” The man on the other end of the line sounded professional and serious. There was a noise in the background while he was talking. It seemed that he was flipping the pages of a file.

“Okay. Add one more person to the list for me.”

Jacob tapped the windowsill with his fingertips, and his face contorted with a cruel smile of undisguised hatred. His eyes shone with pure determination. He would take Darren down! He continued, “Darren has gone too far now.”

If Darren had just challenged him business-wise, he would gladly have accepted his challenge. However, Darren had crossed the line when he put his hands on Emily.
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If Jacob hadn’t had an ominous presentiment and kept his eyes on the scene at the auction, Emily would have been violated and hurt.

“Darren?” the man replied on the phone. He seemed to be confused. “We are working on his business’s finance. Is there anything else you want me to look into?”

“No. You can keep working on that. I need you to check out a man named Bill for me. I will send his photo to you,” Jacob sneered. His voice had become cunning and lazy. “Find evidence of him working with Darren and map out all of his dirty dealings.”

He had to find their weaknesses in order to win this war and protect the people that he loved. Therefore, he had to remain in a passive position while he prepared for the final battle against these evil men.

“Will do.”

The man on the other side of the line nodded and asked, “Have they worked together previously?”

A lot of successful businessmen had people like Bill to do the dirty work for them. Darren didn’t want his men to do such work for him, in order to avoid it leading back to him. Bill was, therefore, one of the best “fixers” for him to use.

“They have,”

Jacob simply replied and continued, “Make a copy of all the videos that the surveillance cameras took in the ballroom last night. Then, delete them completely.”

He sneered on the inside again.

Bill and Darren had been working together for a while now. They had even started to turn their eyes on Emily as a prize. The good thing was that the cameras had recorded the whole crime and his heroic act.

After deleting all of the camera recordings, he was going to have the only copy as evidence in his possession. With that hardcore evidence, Darren wouldn’t be able to do any further harm.

Meanwhile, Michelle had no idea that Jacob had sent people to follow her. The only thing that concerned her was winning his heart. In her obsession with Jacob, she had lost most of her professional skills.

“Miss Michelle, did you finish the design? The customer is getting impatient.”

Joyce hurriedly knocked on Michelle’s door. With Michelle’s permission, she walked into the office, which had once been Emily’s. “Miss Michelle, this customer is very important to our company. We can’t let him down!”

Everyone had been working on this jewelry deal for a whole month. No one wanted to fail this customer at the almost crucial part of the deal.

“Which design are you talking about?” Confounding Joyce’s expectation, Michelle blinked her eyes and looked at her in total confusion. She asked, “For whom? Is it Jacob?”