"Am I not good enough?" Sean asked, as he tightened his arms around her. It was almost as if he was trying to fuse his body to her with his embrace, both mentally and physically. "You wanted me to help him recover his memory, and so I did. You said you would kill yourself if he had died, so I let him alive. What did I do wrong? Have you forgotten? He was the one who abandoned you first."
Beads of sweat began to appear on Emily's forehead as she became more entangled in the lissome limbs of this human boa constrictor. "No, it must have been you... Jacob would never abandon me and Beryl... I, I'm going to find him. Let me go!"
Her sudden outburst empowered her to begin struggling in his arms, and even Sean couldn't control her anymore.
"Let me go!" In a last-ditch effort, Emily pushed Sean away.
The next moment, she suddenly felt a stinging pain in her neck, followed by a cold sensation that had been fed into her veins. Within seconds, the cold liquid began to paralyze her nerves.
Emily almost dropped down to the floor at once.
However, Sean quickly held her into his arms as she was falling and a sad smile appeared in his face.
"Am I not good enough for you? Why do you still want him?"
Emily exerted her remaining strength to keep her eyes wide open. She opened her mouth to say something. "Because I, I... love..."
Before Emily could finish, Sean lowered his head and sealed her mouth with a kiss. He sucked her tongue, and swallowed all the words he didn't want to hear.
"It's okay. I will not hurt you.
I will tell you who you really are. You are not Emily. You never were and you never will be."
Puzzled, Emily tried to understand what he had meant by that. As her eyelids slowly gave up, a drop of tear escaped her eyes.
...
The Gu Consortium in Z country
The air in the conference room, where Jack was having a meeting with the executives of the company, was tense. Suddenly, someone kicked the door open, with a loud noise, from outside.
The noise caught everyone by surprise, but they were even more surprised to see who had kicked the door open. It was their former boss who was believed to be dead in an accident—Jacob.
Coldness filled his eyes as he stood there like a graven imagine, which already gave them an inexhaustible sense of being oppressed.
"Mr. Jacob!" One of them cried out.
"What, what's going on? How is Mr. Jacob... Is that a ghost?"
"What the hell are you talking about? He is alive. He is standing right before you. Can't you tell?"
"But so what? He is not our boss anymore, remember? Mr. Jack is our boss now."
Jack didn't hear what they were talking about as all his attention was on Jacob who was standing at the door. Jack's glare was lethal, as if it could tear Jacob's heart apart with a blinding teal light.
"I wasn't expecting this, Jacob. I've gave you a chance already, but you came to me on your own initiative. You'd better not blame me for not showing you mercy."
"As if I need your mercy. Ridiculous!" Jacob was amused by Jack's words as he couldn't take him seriously no matter how hard he tried. He sneered and chuckled. "Save the self-righteous chatter, my nephew! You'd better worry about how to save your ass now."
Jack stood there looking puzzled. As soon as Jacob finished talking, he turned sideways and fave way to the police officers that walked into the room one by one.
"Mr. Jack, you're under arrest under multiple allegations of illegal activity. We have a warrant for your arrest from the court. Please come with us to the police station."
Jack felt the panic begin like a cluster of spark plugs in his gut. He lashed out angrily, "Shouldn't you be arresting Jacob? This must be a mistake! What the hell are you talking about?"
The policemen handcuffed him and then explained to him, "Well, Mr. Jacob was found innocent with no previous criminal record. Our investigations have found you guilty on multiple charges."
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