Chapter 129 Why Do You Lock Me Here

Anxious, Jacob frowned and furrowed his eyebrows tightly. "Is there another way we can use?" he
asked.

Jacob couldn't tolerate to see Emily in pain. All he wanted was for her to be happy and safe.

"There is," Chester suggested. Chester pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on his ridge. With a
serious expression on his face, he said,"But this time, you can't be soft-hearted any more. Otherwise,
everything will fall short of success due to lacking of a final effort."

As always, Jacob's eyes were deep as he looked back at Chester and assured,"I understand."

...

When Emily woke up, she found herself lying on the sofa, with no memory whatsoever of what had
happened. Emily faintly remembered feeling uncomfortable when she was talking to Chester. She had
a vague memory of throwing up on Jacob and then passing out consequently...

Appalled by her actions, she forced herself to get up and come back to her senses.

"You are awake!" said Jacob, as he was buckling his cufflinks while walking towards her. He
continued,"How are you feeling? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

Emily nodded and then shook her head, looking at the tall and handsome man in front of her. "What
happened to me?" she asked.

"You threw up on me."

"Ah, I'm so sorry..." Having heard that, Emily soon realized that she wasn't dreaming. With an
expression of a child who had done something wrong, she looked away from Jacob's eyes and
apologized,"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... do that."



Much to Emily's surprise, Jacob didn't seem like he was mad at her at all. In a gentle and calm voice,
Jacob said,"Don't worry about that. If you're still feeling bad, you should get some rest. I have arranged
for someone else to finish your work today."

Jacob was aware that Emily had no memory of what had happened.

"Okay...thanks," Emily answered and nodded primly. She couldn't exactly tell why, but she sensed
something strange about Jacob's demeanor today.

Jacob told Emily to rest in the office. Then he pretended to work in his desk, while in fact, he was
waiting for the night to come.

According to Chester, this time he was going to try something straightforward to combat poison with
poison. It would seek to make Emily re-experience the dreadful moment from her past, so she could
overcome the mental block eventually.

The process was similar to ripping off Emily's scab.

Her scars seemed to have healed on the outside, but on the inside it was rotten and decaying. At any
point in her life, her dormant pain could re-emerge.

The only way to stop that from happening would be to pick her scab and clear out the purulent blood
and rotten flesh inside.

Soon, the sun set and welcomed the night. The company employees were asked to go home early.
Only Emily was left in the office, as Jacob had asked her to accompany him to work overtime.

"Wait for me here. I need to go out for a minute," said Jacob. Jacob did not explain everything to Emily
and left the office by himself.



Emily sat there in the big and quiet room all by herself, waiting for Jacob, who was already gone for a
long time. For some inexplicable reason, she was feeling anxious, but the light above her head gave
her a sense of security.

Nevertheless, sooner of later, her fear always overcame her sense of security.

All of a sudden, Emily heard a strange noise and then the light above her went off. There was only
darkness all around her.

Overwhelmed, the darkness gripped her heart and injected her with fear. She felt like she was being
swallowed whole by the darkness, like a snake devouring its prey.

"Ah!" Emily screamed.

As soon as Jacob shut down the powers, he immediately heard Emily screaming in terror. He rushed
back to his office without further hesitation. In the darkness, he vaguely saw Emily rush towards the
door, in an attempt to get out of the closed office.

Jacob stretched out his long arm and pulled her back. Then he shut the door and locked it.

"Let me go! Let me go now! I want to get out of here! I don't want to stay here!" Emily screamed and
bellowed in agony. Emily struggled in his arms with all her strength, as if there was a dreadful monster
behind her.

Jacob did nothing about it. He bit his lower lip and held her tightly in his arms without saying a word.

Soon Emily grew tired of struggling. She sat with her back against the wall and buried her face between
her legs. Streaks of tears streamed down her face, as she said,"Why have you locked me in here..."

Had it been before, she wouldn't have been so afraid just as long as someone was there to accompany
her in the darkness. However, after being forced to revisit the old memories from her traumatic past by



Tina, she struggled to tackle the weight of her fears.

It turned out that last time in the elevator with Jacob she had only lost her manners, but this time she
was having a mental breakdown.

Locked up in a room in the darkness was the last push she needed to completely lose her sanity.

Emily's surrounding was so quiet that she almost forgot there was another man by her side. She was
locked inside her own nightmare, haunted by the ghosts of her past.

She found herself in the body of her younger self, who was as fragile as a flower. However, because of
an evil man, her innocence withered quickly. The youthful face of that girl was soon filled with despair
and helplessness.

In the dim light, she saw the wicked face of a man smiling vexatiously. The man approached her and
grabbed her with his arms.

"Ah! Get away from me! Don't you dare touch me! Don't touch me!" In her trance, Emily shrilled and
kicked everywhere with her legs. In reality, she was kicking at Jacob who was hugging her.

"It's me! Everything is going to be okay now!" Jacob did not let her go, as he wrapped his loving arms
around her and whispered into her ear,"Don't let these memories torture you again!"

"Get away from me! Go away!" In a frenzy, Emily could not hear him trying to comfort her. She
struggled relentlessly and even bit Jacob several times.

In the darkness, Jacob could not see Emily's face, but he could still feel her pain.

Her bite on his shoulder caused him to bleed profusely. Soon Emily's mouth was filled with the smell
and taste of blood.



Jacob hummed quietly causing Emily to freeze, as though she was finally sober. But soon she
struggled again, like she was trapped in a nightmare that she could never get rid of.

In addition to the darkness, her fear of the hidden maliciousness in the hearts of people flooded her
thoughts like a raging sea.

She could hear all the voices in her head again; the voices of the neighboring bystanders, and the
sound of them gossiping with malicious intentions.

"Almost all the girls were hurt, except for her. Do you think it is true? Perhaps her parents are too
ashamed to speak the truth."

"A fly does not bite a seamless egg. If she had stayed at home obediently, she wouldn't have been
kidnapped by that psychopath?"

"I'm sure these girls aren't as innocent as they look. They must have done something to deserve this!"

Before long, the hateful voice of the victims' parents followed, like a whirlwind spinning around in her
head.

"Why did that demon hurt my lovely daughter, but he spared you! What did my daughter do to deserve
such a fate? You should have died with them!"

At the very last was the voice of Emily's own father.

"If I had known about it earlier, I would have strangled her with my own hands! After all this, how can
we continue to live in the city? How can we live with such a disgrace? Even if she wasn't harmed, how
pure and innocent could she be after she had stayed with the psychopath for several days! Evil girl!"

Even as a victim, Emily had to suffer everyone's mockery and hatred. Her very existence in the world
had become a mistake!



Was it the right time to put an end to this painful memory?


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