“Sorry, I accidentally turned off my phone, what’s up?”
She hasn’t even sent out the message yet when the next phone call came in.
The ring tone scared her a little, she pressed the button and picked the call, “Hello?”
James worried voice was heard on the other side, “What’s wrong with you? I have tried to call you so many times but your phone was off? Did something happen?”
Jenny heard how worried she was, and in her heart she felt a bit comforted by it.
She has been unconscious all this time, even though Harold has been by her side taking care of her, but her relationship with him has been complicated all this time, she cannot allow them to be too close to each other.
In these times, she needs her friends the most.
She sighed and said, “Actually I didn’t want to tell you, but now I cannot keep it from you anymore. I was attacked.”
When James heard this sentence, he jumped from his chair, and was doubting his own ears, “What did you say?”
“The night before last, I went out to get something from the store, when I crossed paths with this drunk person, he saw that I was alone, and came towards me with a knife. He wanted to…” Jenny paused, she didn’t say the words, “But I was saved, and now I am in a hospital.”
When she thought of that night, how Harold rescued her, she felt thankful, but weird at the same time, she couldn’t explain that kind of feeling.
She was thankful for sure, but except for that, she also felt something special.
James jumped off his chair in the office he was at, “Are you alright?”
“Of course I am, it’s just a small flesh wound.”
James heard that she was trying to play it down and was endlessly worried about her. He was imagining how she was being threatened by a knife, how she must have felt in that moment, so helpless.
“Are you alone in the hospital?” James was on the other side of the globe, he wanted to get toher immediately, so anxious to get on a plane.
Jenny thought for a moment, “There are care nurses, and… and Harold.”
James heard Jenny say the name and paused, “Why is he there?”
Even thought Jenny and Harold were on the same continent, but he was sure that she didn’t call him to come over.
In the phone he heard Jenny sigh, “It was him who helped me.”
“…”
James felt a kind of burn in his heart, as if a piece of match has been laying under the sun, he was anxious, but couldn’t do anything about it.
For such a long time, whenever she needed him, he was not by her side, but Harold has always made it to be wit her. If he was only in America, he would never have let that kind of thing happen.
When he thought of that, he couldn’t sit still anymore, “Send me the address, I am gonna book a flight today.”
“You don’t need to, I’m okay!”
“It doesn’t matter, I need to see you before tomorrow!” James insisted, he could not allow another man to be with her, no matter what, he needed to get to Jenny.
Jenny couldn’t tell him to put this off, so she sent him a message with the address, “If you wanna come, you don’t need to hurry, the doctors said that they will keep me here for a few days.”
“Don’t you worry about that, just take good care of yourself, and keep away from Harold, he is too dangerous.”
“Hmmm…”
Actually this time it was Harold who saved her, and it was him who has been taking care of her, feeding her food, so careful as if he was feeding his baby, she has never seen him like that before.
There are not many people in this world who didn’t know Harold, but she might have been the only who has seen this side of him.
There were lights flashing in Jenny’s eyes, she didn’t know why she was like this, there was a voice in her heart trying to tell her something, but she couldn’t understand what it was.
She heard James on the other side of the line, “I wasn’t there for you, I’m so sorry.”
She didn’t know why he said that, Jenny smiled and said, “I am okay, it’s just a flesh wound.”
When she finished, she realized that smiling won’t help him, James couldn’t see it.
They hung up the phone and Jenny stared at her ward room, there was no one to talk with her, not even a book to entertain herself. She was so bored that she started to play with her phone.
…
A few minutes have passed and the scene in front of the Quarrington house has changed completely.
There were guards laying on the ground all over, all injured and hurt, some of them whimpering in pain, it looked like they have just been tortured. And there were still some standing in front, eyes full of hate, ready to continue.
Yasmine stood on the side, and watched how all of the 20 men she brought have been down, she couldn’t believe her own eyes.
In front of them were a troupe of six men dressed all in black, standing next to each other. Each one of them were trained to protect the Quarrington house.
When Yasmine came to their house before, she has seen some of them. She had not imagined that these men were good enough to bring down all of her people, how could this be?
Harold has sat himself on the couch sometime during the fight, he noticed that the situation was basically handled, gave a little smile and asked, “Still gonna come for your daughter?”
When she heard that sentence she knew that he did this on purpose.
He poked her where it hurt the most, but no matter how good this house was protected, she was gonna get her child back today.
She thought for a second, then took a step forward, she didn’t show her weakness, “I came here to take her back, even if I need to trade my life for it.”
“If you wanna see her, you only need to beg me, there is no need to make such a big deal.” Harold said in a tone as if he couldn’t care less.
Yasmine was so angry with the way he talked to her, “You want me to beg you? No way!”
“Why, do you feel that begging the president of Quarrington is under your level?” Harold stood up slowly, went to Yasmine and looked at her from above.
He didn’t have any interest in taking down this crazy woman.
When he was so close to her, Yasmine noticed that his face expression has not changed even a slight bit when he was saying those words. There were no emotions whatsoever.
This man was too scary, how could he be so cold.
Her poor daughter, how could she fall in love with this kind og a man, she didn’t know if she had good taste, or if she was really brave.
She opened her mouth, trying to stay calm, “You want me to beg you? First tell me if she is still alive?”
Even if she couldn’t take Torah back home today, she needed to at least see her, she has almost gone crazy because of this, she cannot take another day without seeing her child.
Harold looked at her, then said in a careless voice, “She’s dead.”
“What?!” Yasmine head those two words and was shocked, “What did you say?”
She couldn’t believe what she just heard, and asked him again.
“I said she is dead!”
Obviously, Harold was doing this on purpose, he was the president of a huge company, he didn’t have the time to look after Torah.
As long as Jenny was safe, as long as Torah couldn’t hurt her anymore, he didn’t have the intention of killing her yet.
But Yasmine didn’t know that, her head went blank, her blood pressure went up, her body started to tremble.