A Call That Changed Her Entire Life novel Chapter 104

"I didn't…" Emily retorted, as her cheeks blushed red with embarrassment. After a while, she decided to tell Jacob what she was thinking.

Jacob narrowed his eyes, contemplatively. "I will look into the matter as soon as possible, and then I will let you know what I discover," he said.

How dare that person play such dirty tricks on his woman in his own place! No matter who that person was, Jacob would not let them escape.

"It's just a suspicion. I still have to find more evidence to avoid a misunderstanding," said Emily. Although Emily firmly suspected Zola, she still believed that she needed to find irrefutable evidence.

"Well, so..." Jacob raised his eyebrows and smiled cheekily. "So you took my underwear?" he teased her.

Was Jacob being serious? After all that, why did he insist on going back to this embarrassing topic?

Emily was both ashamed and annoyed. "I have told you before. It was just an accident," she replied.

However, since the underwear was kept with the aromatic clothes for a long time, it wouldn't surprise her if the smell had more or less caught on, but... Could they take the underwear to get it analyzed?

And...

"Jacob, do you think I may be wrong?" Emily frowned and thought carefully. "If the fragrance was indeed harmful, why did she put it on your clothes instead of mine? Was she not afraid of harming you?" she wondered.

Jacob looked perplexed. He asked," Well, how do you know that she does not want to hurt me?"

"Because… All the women in this house like you, and love you," replied Emily.

So if these women wanted to hurt someone, they would have targeted her first!

"How about you?" Jacob's voice was low and magnetic, like a gorgeous cello. "Do you like me and love me?" he asked, with a mischievous look in his eyes.

Jacob gently raised her small chin and made her face him. His eyes were like a deep whirlpool, sucking her entire soul and body towards him.

Emily's heartbeat quickened with nervousness in her chest. It was so fast she could even hear the clear rhythm of her heart. She nervously looked down and mumbled," I... I don't."

Her voice was almost inaudible, but Jacob managed to catch on to what she had said.

Jacob's eyes suddenly turned black as charcoal, as he pulled her face into a hot, passionate kiss. "You dishonest little girl," he whispered.

……

While Emily was on her maternal leave, the unattended business affairs of the LA Company were piling up. One day she felt like she had to do something, so she decided to go back to work.

After she got off work, she returned straight to the Tyrone Mansion. As soon as she entered the hall, she heard the maids arguing with each other.

"Did you know that Miss Emily was not pregnant? Why did she say that she was pregnant then?" asked one of the maids.

"You are so stupid. It's obviously because she wants to live in Mr. Jacob's house. Have you ever seen Mr. Jacob bring another woman into his home before? She was the first one, and it's most likely because she was pregnant," said the other maid.

"So, she faked her pregnancy to win Mr. Jacob's heart? What a schemer! Although, Mr. Jacob knows about it, he hasn't shown his anger to her. If I were him, I would have kicked her out of the house..."

"I won't throw her out, but I will certainly throw you all out." Suddenly, the entire place fell silent, as a cold voice cut through their jabbering and caught them by surprise.

Emily was also astonished. She turned around to find that the man who spoke out was Jacob.

The maids weren't expecting to get caught red handed by the neither Emily, nor Jacob. Their collective faces turned pale all of a sudden. "Sir, we apologize for our behavior..." they expressed their remorse.

Jacob's expression was like frozen wall. "The person you should apologize to is not me," he said to them, pointing at Emily.

Startled, the maids took some time before they found the courage to react. They apologized to Emily, saying," Miss Emily, we are sorry, we really didn't mean to..."

Emily was confused about how she felt about that, so she simply said," Well."

After all, she was affected by the harshness of their words.

Jacob's big hand suddenly covered her head. He ran his fingers down her hair, as if to comfort the injured little animal.

"I will give you a settlement salary, but I want you all out of here by the end of the day," Jacob asserted.

Their faces changed almost immediately. "Sir, sir, we know we are wrong. Please forgive us this time. We really need this job..." they implored.

Working for Jacob was a high paying job with additional welfare benefits. Moreover, they were well respected by others because they were attending the famous Jacob Gu. How could they give up that job so easily? The cost of losing such a job over a few gossips was too high!

Meanwhile, Zola was watching all this unfold from a safe distance, finally decided to come out. With a soft voice, she persuaded," Sir, they didn't mean anything by it. You shouldn't fire them all. Would you be kind enough to forgive them this time? I don't think Miss Emily would be happy if she was the reason behind them losing their job..."

Zola kicked the ball into Emily's court - the decision was hers to make. Zola blatantly resorted to emotional blackmail.

Emily understood what Zola was thinking. She figured it was only harmless gossiping, even though her feelings were hurt, she did not suffer any substantial harm. It would be unfair to fire them over that. "Do you think it's a little too much?" she asked Jacob.

"You don't need to question my decision," said Jacob to Emily, and then he turned to Zola, and said," You should mind your own business. I don't need you to teach me how to do things around here."

Emily nodded and backed down, but Zola's face went pale all a sudden.

Zola sensed that Jacob was warning her indirectly.

Ever since she was young, she had gotten used to enjoying special treatment in this house, because of her mother, and she had never heard such sharp words from Jacob before.

However, since this woman appeared, everything had changed!

Jacob left no room for negotiations as he dismissed those maids for their insolence, regardless, of how small the matter was!

Zola's hatred for Emily grew tenfolds.

Jacob walked away with Emily, ignoring the perplexed expression Zola was wearing on her face. "I cannot tolerate insolence and indecency in my house," he said to Emily.

Emily realized that if Zola's eyes could hurt people, she would have been dead by now. That woman's jealousy knew no bounds!

After Jacob and Emily left, those servants blamed Zola. "Zola, it's you who told us these things!" they said.

"Do you have evidence? I never told you to gossip. Now you want blame me for your own faults? You all are being too unreasonable!"

Zola snickered at them in an anger. Her gentleness had completely disappeared. Her behavior was so different that it seemed like she was a totally different woman.

Some of the maids were not satisfied with the result. They said," Such gossips are not only from us; you, Zola, are the one who started this. If you hadn't told us, how would we have known about those things! Now that we are fired, you need to compensate us for out losses!"

"Even if I had said it, so what? How can you people compare yourselves to me?" Zola sneered, she continued," My relationship with Mr. Jacob..."

"Just because your mother was Mr. Jacob's nanny, doesn't mean that you can consider yourself a part of this family!" One of the servants sneered. "It was quite evident that Mr. Jacob did not buy into your lies. What relationship are you talking about?"

"Shut up!" Zola cried out in anger. She couldn't tolerate it anymore. If she didn't worry about Jacob, she would have screamed at them and kicked them out. "Do you still want to get your final salary?

If you do, you all have to shut your damn mouth!" Zola asserted.