A Call That Changed Her Entire Life novel Chapter 49

"How can you be so stubborn? Emily really cares about you. She's just too proud; or else she would not have asked me to call you inside. She's afraid that you'll get sick in the rain..."

Said Debby, when suddenly Jack sneezed loudly, "Ahchoo!"

Debby sympathized, as if she were speaking to her own son, "See? You've already caught a cold. Go and take a hot bath, and I'll boil some ginger soup for you to dispel the cold."

Jack nodded politely and said, "Thank you, Mrs. Bai. But I would like to see Emily first..."

"You kids! I can feel that you really love Emily..."

Emily happened to see this when she walked out of her room.

Jack stood inside her house, pale-faced. He was soaking wet; his wet hair stuck to his head in an unkept manner and the water dripped from his clothes to the floor. Jack looked like he had just been fished out of the water.

While Emily's father and mother stood side by side and welcomed him in warmly.

"Mom, why did you bring him in?"

Debby winked at her and said, "Emily, it was you who asked me to bring Jacky in, right?

Emily sneered, "Ha, you're already calling him 'Jacky' now?"

Emily never thought that her own mother could be so double-faced. Out of sympathy, she asked her mother to bring Jack an umbrella, but to her surprise, she went so far as to bring him in.

"Emily......" Jack looked at Emily with his deep, charcoal black eyes. His eyes were shining.

For some reason, he reminded Emily of the abandoned dogs she used to see near the dustbin when she was a child. Jack looked at her with the same puppy dog eyes, as if begging her to hold and caress him.

'Stop!'

Emily hurriedly interrupted her thoughts and returned to her room. "Bam", she shut the door behind her.

Jack's eyes were filled with disappointment, to which Debby hurriedly said, "This child is still at odds with you. Anyway, don't just stand there. You are wet all over. Go and get a hot bath."

Indeed, It was uncomfortable to have wet clothes on. Hearing this, Jack dragged his soaking body to the bathroom.

Besides, since he was already in Emily's home, he set aside his worries and decided to take it easy.

While Jack was taking a bath, and Emily's parents were busy elsewhere, Emily slipped out of the house with an umbrella and her suitcase.

After a nice hot bath, Jack came out in Emily's father's new clothes. He started to feel warmer after a nice cup of hot ginger soup.

Soon after, he quickly went and knocked on Emily's bedroom door. He knocked for a long time, but there was no response. He grew suspicious, so he turned the doorknob, and found it unlocked.

Jack opened the door and went in carefully. His smile froze when he found out that there was no one in the room. "Where is Emily?"

"Emily!"

Jack looked everywhere in her room. The noise he made soon drew Emily's parents in.

"This, this... Where is Emily?" Emily's father furrowed his eye-brows and shrugged, "How should I know where Emily is?" Jack glanced at Emily's father coldly. The politeness and courtesy he had exhibited when entering their house had suddenly disappeared. With raging fire in his eyes, Jack said, "Weren't you outside Emily's room? How could you not see her get out of her room?"

The storm outside raged on relentlessly... Did she hate being in the same house with him?