A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Rita ate like a bird and vomited again and again. Emily watched the whole thing and patted her on her back sympathetically. "Do
pregnant women always vomit? Why don't I feel like vomiting?" asked Emily.
Rita grabbed the tissue Emily handed to her and apologized,"So sorry for giving you so much trouble."
"Don't be silly," Emily said, as she looked worriedly at Rita's pale complexion.
Sitting opposite to them, Jacob, listened to the whole conversation and couldn't bear to listen anymore. "Emily, be sure to take
good care of yourself before you take care of others," he said.
Emily ignored his words and glared at him angrily.
Jacob felt disappointed. This sassy girl reached out for a yard after taking an inch, and now she was blatantly disobeying him!
When Rita went back to her room, Jacob dragged his sassy girl to another room, nonchalantly.
Emily sensed something was wrong. But just as she tried to run away, she was pulled close to his embrace. She struggled to
free herself, but her waist was wrapped tightly by his strong arms.
"Want to run? Huh?" asked Jacob. She could smell the danger from his tone.
"No," she answered in a dry tone and looked at the man in front of her as if she had no idea what he was talking about. Emily felt
that Jacob was like a demon with spread-open wings, who would eat her up if he were angered.
"It seems like you are not taking me seriously at all, right?" he asked.
"No."
"Aren't you? Lately you've been giving all of your attention to that woman," he complained.
Emily coughed to hide her nervous feelings and said,"She is my best friend and she is pregnant."
Jacob nipped her cheeks and said discontentedly,"Does it mean you can ignore me then?"
Just as Emily wanted to say something, she felt a slap on her bum. She froze and then said angrily,"You can't... you can't just hit
me whenever you want!"
"I want you to learn a lesson."

"If you dare do that again, I'll, I'll..."
Jacob looked down to her face and said coldly,"What will you do?"
"I'll..." Emily was flustered. She was so angry that she could not think of anything after a while. Then she finally came up with
something,"I'll cry."
"Are you trying to scare me? Huh?" He snorted and didn't take her words seriously. However, he didn't expect that Emily would
start crying as soon as he had finished his words. The tears trickled down her face quicker than he could have predicted.
He stretched out his hands to wipe her tears, but the tears that dropped into his hands were so hot that it almost burned his skin.
"Why are you crying?" Panic-stricken, Jacob asked as he wiped her tears hastily.
Emily kept sobbing and complaining,"You always hit me. You treat me bad."
Jacob never knew that a woman could shed so much tears. It was just like water running endlessly out of a faucet. Except this
time, those tears ran straight into his heart, almost drowning it in sorrow.
He felt uncomfortable and distressed.
"I won't hit you anymore. I won't treat you bad again. Please stop crying," Jacob softened his tone and coaxed his babe as
tenderly as possible.
However, his girl wasn't going to take it, as she cried even more bitterly,"You're so ruthless, so heartless, so brutal."
Jacob was upset to see her crying, so he lifted her face and gave her a deep and tender kiss to stop her from weeping.
After she stopped crying, Jacob pulled back to look at her face and then kissed her eyes. He froze for a second when he heard a
giggle.
Emily wasn't meaning to laugh, but she felt tickled when he kissed her eyes. Thus as she burst out laughing, the snot and mucus
dripped from her nose.
Jacob's facial expression changed abruptly. He wiped her face with a grim expression and said,"Do you enjoy doing this to me?"
Emily was so frightened that she wanted to sob again. The tears were almost ready to start burst out of her eyes.

Jacob softened his expression instantly and smiled at her gently,"No. I'm just kidding. Don't cry again."
As he was saying, he cuddled her and patted her on her back, as if he were coaxing an infant. In truth, Jacob was already worn
out.
Jacob didn't know how to express his feelings. He always thought that he cared for nothing in this world, but this addleheaded
loon had proven him wrong.
When he saw her crying, he felt like someone was ripping his heart out from his chest. He always thought that Emily would be
very happy with him. Just as she felt when she had won the championship of the jewelry design competition.
Jacob spent a long time trying to pacify her. He hugged her tightly, as if nothing could take her away from him.
Emily, on the other hand, stayed still, her head buried in his chest. She never expected that Jacob would lower himself just to
make her happy.
It felt like a father coaxing his baby daughter. Emily noticed that Jacob often treated her as a kid.
The thought in her head led her to feeling ashamed at herself. She cried not because he hit her, but because she could not hold
back her tears after she said that she would cry.
Emily didn't mean to cry, she just could not control it.
Emily felt light-hearted after crying, as if she had shed all the misery from deep within her heart.
"Jacob," murmured Emily, with her eyes lowered,"I want some water."
"You should be thirsty after crying so much," Jacob said. He laid his girl on the sofa and asked her not to move, and then he went
to get some warm water for her.
Emily felt even more guilty as she drank the water. Jacob had treated her so nicely, but she was so unreasonable.
Jacob watched her attentively as she drank the water. He was afraid of the thought that she'd be crying a lot more from now on,
since pregnant women have severe mood swings, and he had witnessed it with his own eyes not long ago.
After she put the glass down, she noticed that Jacob was staring at her, so she stared back at him as well, but they didn't say
anything to each other for some time.

"Jacob," Emily was the first to break the silence. She asked,"Don't you think it's strange that why I've never once vomited ever
since I got pregnant? And I haven't shown any symptoms of pregnancy yet?"
Seeing her come back to normal, Jacob relieved his aching heart, but he pretended to be aloof and replied,"Isn't that a good
thing? Doesn't that mean that you won't have to suffer then?"
Jacob was skeptical as to whether Emily could handle the strain of vomiting after every meal, just as Rita did.
Emily felt encouraged by his words, but she continued,"This makes it all the more strange. Do you think that our kid will be born
different from other babies?"
The thought of it horrified her. Lately, she had been paying a lot of attention to Rita. Thus, she felt confused when she noticed
that they were going through different stages in their pregnancy.
The report clearly showed that she was pregnant, and yet she wasn't showing any symptoms of pregnancy.