Chapter 41 It&##x27;s Up To You

Emily took more cream from the cake, and smeared it on Jacob's chiselled face without reservation.
With his eyebrows covered in cream, Jacob looked like Santa Claus.

Jacob could not see his face, but he could tell from Emily's reaction that he looked very funny. He
twitched the corners of his mouth and wiped the cream off his face,"You should try it too."

Before Emily could catch his meaning, Jacob smeared Emily's face with all the cream on his hand, and
then drew a white moustache on her face.

Emily unwittingly licked the cream off. It was so sweet that she squinted her eyes. The next second,
she attacked Jacob again with some more cream.

A grown man and woman playing with cake as if they were children fighting in snow. it was a strange
scene indeed. Exhausted, by the time they stopped, they already had cream all over their bodies.

While Jacob went to the bathroom to clean himself, Emily walked gently towards the door, quietly
looked through the peephole, and saw Jack still sitting outside, holding a cake with a pathetic look on
his face.

It was nearly nine o'clock. Why was he still there? Did he plan on staying there for the rest of the night?
Emily was glad that she and Jacob didn't make too much noise a while ago...

But if Jack intended to stay outside the whole night, Jacob would not be able to leave Emily's
apartment.

Emily lowered her head and paced back and forth, lost in thoughts. When she turned around again,
she bumped into Jacob's firm chest.

Jacob took advantage of the opportunity to hold Emily in his arms but made sure to let go off her
quickly in case she was upset about such intimacy. He then asked gently,"What's wrong?"



"Jack is still out there..." Emily whispered.

"He might stay there for the rest of the night, waiting for you to show your sympathy and to open the
door for him."

"No way!" Emily said firmly,"I will not open the door for him."

Moreover, Jacob was at her apartment; if she'd have opened the door, it would like setting off two
bombs at the same time. She could not let that happen!

"So do you want me to leave, or stay for the night?" Jacob raised his eyebrow slightly and threw the
question at Emily.

Emily was caught in a dilemma. She struggled with her thoughts for a while and then said,"You can
stay here tonight, as long as you don't take advantage of me."

"You have said that before," the light in Jacob's eyes suddenly dimmed, but the next minute he
recovered himself and retorted,"If I want to take advantage of you, would you be able to stand here
unscathed?"

No one could stop Jacob from doing anything he wanted to do. If he stopped, the only reasons would
be: He had no real intentions of doing it in the first place, or he controlled himself from doing it.

' Somehow Jacob's words make sense, ' Emily thought, speechlessly. Either way, there was no other
choice but to let Jacob stay.

While Emily was still lost in thoughts, Jacob suddenly took out something and handed it over to Emily.

It was a delicate and beautiful brocade box. "What is it?" asked Emily.

"Open it."



When Emily opened the box, the gleaming light reflecting off the item inside the box almost blinded her
—It was a gemstone brooch.

This brooch was composed of a ruby in the shape of a birthmark, with a beautiful daisy in the central
disc, and a baby vividly lying on the stamen as if it was in its mother's womb, just about to open its
eyes.

"This brooch..."

The brooch was made from her design in the jewelry design competition, with which she won the first
prize at the competition. It was her dream made real!

Emily was in high spirits, because the brooch looked more stunning and breathtaking in real life than it
did on the paper. "But I sold the copyright of my design a few days ago because I needed the money...

Wait...You are the buyer of my design?" Emily quickly got the right answer.

Jacob said noncommittally,"A birthday gift for you."

"It's too much. I can't accept it," Emily was familiar with jewelry, so she knew how expensive the brooch
must be.

Jacob had a discontented look on his face. He glanced at Emily and asked,"Am I your boss or not?"

"Of course you are," Emily replied quickly. 'He is right. Victor mentioned before that Jacob is the real
controller of LA Jewelry Company, basically meaning, Jacob is my boss.'

"If you contradict me, I will hold back your salary."

Emily pursed her lips and asked,"What if I lose it?"



"It belongs to you now. So it's up to you what you should do with it," Jacob said. But judging from his
look, what he actually wanted to say was "You'd better not lose the gift I gave you."

Emily finally took the box,"I will keep it safe with me."

"That's better," satisfied, Jacob stretched out his hand and brushed her hair softly.

In truth, Emily liked the brooch very much because it was made from her efforts and it had special
meaning to her.

Emily glanced at it every now and then, but she would hardly ever touch it, as it was very precious to
her. Soon, she started to look for a safe place to keep it.

When Emily finally placed the brooch in a safe spot, she realized that Jacob was missing. A while later,
when she heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom, she guessed that Jacob was just there
taking a shower.

'He has actually made himself at home.'

Emily said to herself, as she started to clean up the mess in the living room. When she was almost
done, Jacob had finished taking a shower. The sound of falling water had suddenly stopped.

Out of the bathroom, came a topless man, with water dripping from his short black hair. Emily looked at
his chiseled abs, firm chest and a lean waist—with a pink Hello Kitty towel wrapped around it. What a
sharp contrast to his manliness!

"That's my favourite towel..." Emily was astonished,"What about your clothes?"

Jacob raised his handsome eyebrows slightly and replied,"Dirty."

"Wait a minute."



Emily did not allow for the awkward scene to stretch on any longer. She emptied everything from her
wardrobe and found a pair of pyjamas that she had bought for her father, but had no chance to take it
home yet,"Put them on."

Jacob disapprovingly looked at the old-fashioned pyjamas, and finally put them on to stop Emily's
nagging. Surprisingly, he didn't look bad, even though it was not his size.

Emily looked at Jacob while he was wearing pyjamas, and said to herself, 'He looks fascinating even in
old people's pyjamas. With his perfectly toned figure, I dare say the pyjamas didn't seem old-fashioned
at all. I'll even buy it if you tell me that's couture of some famous designer.'

Emily sighed and felt a little envious, 'He really is a blessed man with a perfect figure and strikingly
good-looks.'

Since Jacob hadn't been misbehaving, Emily felt it safe to go and take a shower after stressing the
agreement she had made with Jacob, countless times.

Meanwhile, Jack, who was still outside, did not know what was happening inside. He got tired of
waiting for a long time and had come up with an evil plan.

Jack knew that Emily was afraid of the dark, especially in closed spaces. He decided to turn off the
device supplying electricity to Emily's room, so that Emily would get frightened and come running to
him for help.

Jack was satisfied with his clever plan. He turned off the device outside Emily's apartment, and heard a
scream come from the inside within seconds.

"Ah!"



Emily was still in the bathroom taking a shower; her body covered with foam, when suddenly darkness
had surrounded her, causing her to scream in fear.

However, before she could even think of what to do next, someone had suddenly pushed the bathroom
door open, causing a loud sound.


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