When he saw the sarcastic smirk on the corner of her lips, Hunter’s anger subsided. He was back to his arrogant and domineering self as he looked at her from the bedside.
“Can I help you with something, Eldest Young Master Jackson?” Emily smiled lightly at him. “It’s really late, and you are in my room with the door closed. Aren’t you worried that Wendy would misunderstand the situation?”
“She’s very understanding.” Hunter grunted.
Emily’s hands gripped the bed sheet tightly, but her face did not betray her anxiety.
“It looks like you have a very understanding girlfriend. No wonder you don’t even care when your own woman shares a bed with another man.”
Hunter did not pay any attention to her. After he realized that she was alright, he walked away from the bed. However, he did not leave the room. Instead, he sat on the chair to look at her.
Emily did not understand what he wanted with her. Something big had happened, and yet he did not mention anything about it.
What was her relationship with him at that point?
Hunter wanted to smoke a cigarette, but he realized that he did not bring it with him when he reached into his pocket. His eyes finally fell back on Emily.
“Is there anything you want to say?” he asked.
Emily looked away as she asked, “Oh, does Eldest Young Master Jackson think I have something to say?” She smiled at him, but a very cold smirk. “Well then, why don’t you tell me what you would like to hear? Whatever it is, I will say it.”
“Are you trying to piss me off?” Hunter glared at her. He looked cold, and that was always the start of his fury.
However, Emily was not afraid of him that night. Perhaps she was, but another emotion overshadowed it. Therefore, she had ignored any fear she had felt for him.
“How would I dare? You are the divine and most noble Eldest Young Master Jackson. It would not do me any good to provoke your anger.”
“It’s good that you realize that.”
“I always knew.”
The man suddenly stood up and walked toward her.
When she felt the coldness around her, Emily turned her head to stare at him defensively. “What do you want?”
“Right now, you are still mine. What else could happen between a man and a woman in the middle of the night?” Since she dared to challenge him, she should not be afraid of his rage. Did she not pretend to be strong? He had not seen that side of hers yet. Since she wanted to be strong, he would let her go all the way with it!
As he stood next to the bed, he bent his tall figure to lean closer to her.
Emily quickly moved backward, but she could not escape his grip on her wrists. He pulled her back effortlessly.
“Hunter, this is the Gale family’s home!”
“So what?” Was she not his woman when they were at the Gale family’s place?
“If you want to make good with the Gale family and want to be together with Wendy, you shouldn’t do this! If I scream, everyone would hear me!”
She did not believe that he would act so recklessly. Oh, she could not have been more wrong about that!
Hunter was not only reckless, but he was also presumptuous!
His hand made a quick movement, and he managed to tear a large piece of Emily’s clothes!
“You!” Emily was shocked, and she frantically tried her best to push away from his chest.
“You’re crazy!”
“How am I crazy?” Hunter sneered—he was not crazy; it was the girl who did not understand the situation.
“Do you believe that if I f*cked you in front of the entire Gale family, Wendy would still want to be with me?”
“You…”
That bastard! He was beyond evil! Of course, she believed it! Why would she not?
Hunter was insane, and so was Wendy! An a*shole of a man and a psychopathic b*tch—they were a match made in heaven!
However, she was not in a position to fight. What would he not do to her? If she screamed for help, would he really do her in front of the entire Gale family?
As he pressed himself against her, Emily stopped with her struggles, and she closed her eyes. Tears trickled from the corners of her eyes. They dripped to the edge of his lips; it tasted salty and a little bitter.
Her tears gradually calmed Hunter’s rage. He looked at her with his head lowered.
The girl laid beneath him like a lifeless doll; she did not even move a muscle.
Hunter felt a little upset and irritated; her tears had extinguished the fire of lust stimulated by his rage. Why did she hate intimacy with him?
He got up from her, turned around and exited the room with a door slam.
He did not even linger a moment longer.
Emily opened her eyes and looked around the empty room. She could not decide if she felt relieved or disappointed. Why would she be disappointed, though?
He did not ask a word about her and Joseph. Did he not care? Had he given up on her already?
If he did not care, why did he look for her?
A little voice in her heart told her that he only wanted to use her to fulfill his lust. She was nothing but a pitiful tool, and therefore he did not care what happened to the instrument at all. He did not even care if his woman had been with another man. Emily sat up on the bed and hugged her knees; her heart was dead.
Back in the foyer, she had thrown a fit when she pretended to be close to Joseph. She had not even thought about Joseph that way, let alone get engaged to him. She only wanted to see Hunter’s reaction.
He did not care about her; none of it had mattered to him.
Their relationship had already become so lukewarm. Other than their agreement, they had nothing left.
…
Hunter’s cell phone rang as soon as he stepped into his room. He closed the door and answered the call.
“Eldest Young Master Jackson, Joe is staying in a hotel not far from here.” Liam’s deep voice echoed from the other end.
“How about the other stuff?” Hunter looked through the window into the night.
The night was dark; it was as if the sky and earth were covered in a layer of thick fog.
Liam lowered his voice and said, “I’ve switched them up. Joe didn’t know anything about it. He took it directly to a test.”
Hunter did not say anything, so Liam continued with his report. “Joseph might make a move, Eldest Young Master.”
“Even if he does, someone will surely stop him. We don’t need to worry about him.”
Liam was surprised. “What happened?” He was not at the Gale family, so he did not know what had gone down.
“The Gale family found out that Joseph and Emily were rolling in the bed together…”
“How’s that possible?” Liam would not believe that Emily would do something like that.
“Eldest Young Master, you have to trust Miss Emily, that is impossible! She must have been framed.”
Hunter kept quiet. There were cigarettes on the table, so he took a stick and lit it up.
Liam eventually calmed down, and he finally understood.
“Is that why you said somebody would tie up Joseph’s time?” Eldest Young Master Jackson’s mind had always moved faster than his, but Liam was still worried. “Then…the two of them…”
“They haven’t done anything yet.”
Liam sighed in relief and immediately said, “Then, maybe this issue might help us. Eldest Young Master Jackson, I think I know what to do next.”