A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 192 I Feel Like Gretel

Jacob searched all over Dark Area, but found no trace of Emily. The only person he found there was Emily's mother Debby, who was locked up in a room.

Trembling with fear, Von, stood still facing Jacob, as he tried hard to push the words out of his mouth,"Mr. Jacob, if you could show me a photo of Ms. Emily, I..."

Before he could finish talking, Jacob threw his phone straight to Von's face, hitting him on the head, hard.

As the phone slowly slid down his face, Von quickly caught a glimpse at the screen and widened his eyes at the photo of Emily. "She...She was sold to a buyer at that auction, just earlier today," Von stuttered.

The moment the news hit Jacob's ears, he glared at Von with fire burning in his eyes, as if he were the Devil. Then he raised the corners of his mouth, forming a cold smile, and asked,"Well? How much did this buyer pay for her?"

Trembling with immense fear, Von cowered in terror. How he wished he could just vanish into thin air instead of facing the demon that stood in front of him. "Fift...Fifty million..." he stuttered.

'Thud!' Before he knew it, Jacob pinned him against the wall. And then Jacob bashed his head backward onto the wall demandingly until finally blood ran from the back of his head and soaked his clothes on the way down. When Von opened his eyes, he could hardly see anything as his face was covered in his own blood. For a moment, he truly believed that he was dead.

'Fifty million? Who dared to buy my girl with just fifty million?

I would like to see that man in person, ' thought Jacob.

At the St. Li Hospital in M Country.

When Emily opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a white painted room. The smell of disinfectant filled her nose as she breathed in.

Emily lay there for a while, before the memories of what happened yesterday flooded back into her mind. 'It must be the man who was wearing a silver mask that brought me here, ' she thought.

"You are awake." Suddenly, Emily's thoughts were interrupted by a man's deep voice. She turned to the voice and saw the face of a man she never expected to see standing there at the door—It was Victor!

'So the masked man was Victor! No wonder I thought he looked very familiar!' Emily cheered inwardly.

However, her excitement soon turned to embarrassment when she remembered how she was publicly humiliated yesterday. "Mr. Victor, thank you for saving me," she said.

"I had no intentions of saving you," Victor replied, with no emotion in his eyes, and then he continued,"I bought you at that auction."

'Is there any difference between "save" and "bought" in this instance? He did rescue me from that auction with his money, ' Emily thought, confused and puzzled.

Victor smiled at her and said,"I bought you. That means you are mine now. Do you understand?"

"Mr. Victor, I appreciate your kindness. And I will try to pay you back as soon as possible," replied Emily.

"Pay me back? I don't think you can afford to pay me back. And Jacob will have no chance to take you away from me if I don't allow it," he said.

"Mr. Victor, what are you talking about?" Emily asked, realizing that there was something wrong. When she looked into Victor's eyes, she suddenly felt as if the man was just a stranger to her.

Victor, however, seemed to be in a good mood. He raised his eyebrows and said,"I can do anything to you now. The only thing you need to do is obey my every wish."

After Victor snapped his fingers, several men in white coats walked into the room and crowded Emily's bed.

"Get started now,"

Victor ordered, and then walked out of the room. Emily tried to resist, but was soon pressed against the bed by the men, rendering her incapable of doing anything else, apart from watching them helplessly.

Wondering what Victor intended to do to her, Emily began to struggle strenuously. Victor's words haunted her thoughts but she couldn't understand the meaning behind them.

If she was several years younger, she would have been coaxed by such words and she may have even doubted whether Victor had feelings for her. However, as a mature lady, she didn't believe a single word that came out of Victor's mouth. Moreover, she didn't think that Victor fancied her.

In Victor's cold eyes, Emily could find no trace of affection or adoration. There were no emotions in those deep eyes, and even the tenderness in his tone sounded fake. Having spent a long time with Jacob, Emily had learned that, when a man really loved a lady, there would be fire-like desire in his eyes for her.

'Victor...' Emily suddenly came to the harsh realization that, even though she had admired Victor for years and even worked with him for a short while, she could never see through his mind.

Furthermore, she couldn't even imagine what Victor could possibly want from her.

"Miss, please cooperate with us, or else I may have to sedate you," a doctor said sternly.

After thorough consideration, Emily decided to obey the doctors, as the alternative seemed to be far worse.

Emily understood that it would be a waste of her time and energy to struggle, since she was outnumbered by the doctors and they had various ways to make her obey without her consent.

When she looked around the room, Emily learned that many of the doctors there were foreigners as they spoke to each other in a foreign language. 'Am I in M Country?' she wondered.

All of a sudden, she thought of her mother. 'Is she safe now? Did Jacob go to look for me in Dark Area? Does he know that I was taken away by Victor?' Emily was overwhelmed by the questions in her head.

It took a long time before the doctors finished running their tests on Emily. When Emily was about to have some rest, she saw a doctor walk towards Victor, who was standing at the doorway. It seemed to her like he was reporting something to Victor.

Emily cocked an ear hoping to listen in, but unfortunately she could hear nothing. The only words she caught were "healthy","excellent" and "perfect match". Failing to make out what any of it meant, Emily gave up dejectedly.

The last thing Emily saw before she closed her eyes was Victor's satisfied smile after he nodded approvingly to the doctor.

In the days that followed, Emily was kept locked up in that small room guarded by several men at all times, with no contact from the outside world. Since this place was heavily guarded, she could not run away even if she wanted to. The only consolation was that she had enough food here. And from time to time, Victor would send a girl to chat with her in case she felt bored and lonely.

A few days later, when Emily sensed that she weighed more than she did before, a crazy idea suddenly popped into her head.

'I feel like Gretel in Grimms' Fairy Tales. Does Victor plan to eat me after I become fat?

But, I haven't seen him since that day, as if he has completely forgotten about me.' Exclusive © material by Nô(/v)elDrama.Org.

Victor's odd behavior made Emily believe that he had a special purpose for her. But what was this special purpose? Emily scratched her head, failing to understand Victor's intentions.

One day, Emily finally found a chance to slip away from the room when the guards had turned their backs for just one moment.

Emily believed that her plan to run away from the hospital would end up fruitless. So she wandered around the hospital, hoping to find someone so that she could borrow a phone to make a call.

However, after a long while of wandering around, she was surprised to discover that there wasn't anyone else in the hospital.

When she passed by a room, however, a familiar voice came into her ear, making her stop at once and eavesdrop on the conversation inside the room.

She knew it was not appropriate to eavesdrop on people's private conversation, but she could not control her curiosity when she recognized Victor's voice.

For days, her confusion had been eating her up from the inside wondering why Victor had her locked up in a hospital, while she wasn't sick at all.

Emily's intuition was telling her that the reason behind Victor keeping her there in the hospital must have been inside that room.