A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 177 You Tick Me Off

"That is ridiculous," Tina sneered. Being a proud woman, she would never allow others to threaten her. "If you want to do that, I'll break his arm first," she said.

Jacob sneered back,"So you want to risk your brother's life for it? You can go ahead and do it. If you break his arm, I will break Mark Tao's leg. Oh, I guess it would be very interesting if the president of the Tao Consortium became a cripple, wouldn't it?"

"Shut up!" Compared with Jacob's calmness, Tina has obviously become a little anxious. She shouted,"This low lying scum can't be mentioned in the same breath as my brother! Even his life cannot hold a candle to one of my brother's hair!"

Jacob lost his patience and said,"I told you. 30 seconds, set them free."

Tina's face showed nothing but coldness. Standing still, she felt all the hatred overwhelming her.

'If I kill Emily's parents, it will hurt so much that Emily is gonna wish she was dead.' thinking about this, Tina felt extremely excited... But Jacob had her brother.

A voice inside her heart told her that she didn't need to worry about it, because her brother was powerful enough that he could definitely protect himself, and that all he wanted was to make her happy. She could just do anything to her satisfaction!

Tina became silent for a while. And during that long silence, gazing at the hesitant Tina, Mark felt pain in his chest.

"Well, it seems that you mean nothing to you sister," Jacob provoked Tina. Without any hesitation, he snatched a gun from his subordinate, pointed it toward Mark and slowly pulled the trigger.

"Stop!" Tina screamed. Her heart skipped a beat when Jacob did that. Lucky for her, Jacob stopped.

"What? You changed your mind?"

Tina's face was gloomy, and said slowly,"Let's set them free at the same time."

Some emotion faintly flashed in Mark's eyes. He murmured,"Tina..."

He had become disappointed when Tina hesitated, and as a result, he had made preparations in his head to escape by himself. Anyway, it was not going to be easy for Jacob to shoot him. But to his surprise, Tina finally chose to protect him, instead of choosing to avenge.

This was unexpected but it still made sense.

Jacob sneered,"Okay."

The two sides exchanged hostages and solved this crisis, without anyone being hurt or any bullet leaving the barrel of a gun.

Feeling relieved, Emily took Debby's arm, who was still shivering, and left with Jacob, with her father following them behind.

After they left, Tina stared at Mark, who was bathed in blood, and asked angrily,"Mark, look at you!"

She had thought that her brother could accomplish anything, and that he could solve anything that she could not solve and realize all of her wishes. But what happened today made her see the truth that, Mark was human. He could be injured, and he could also be defeated.

Mark staggered toward her and reached his hand, intending to touch Tina's pink cheeks, but when he saw that his hand was covered with blood and dirt, he pulled it back. With all his remaining strength, he said,"Tina, you saved me. I'm really happy."

"But I'm not happy at all! I didn't accomplish anything and finally still had to set them free!" Tina was so angry that she pushed Mark with great force and turned around, not willing to even cast a glance at him, and said,"I asked you to stop Jacob from getting here, but you not only failed, but also hurt yourself. You're so useless!"

"I guess so. Yes, I'm so useless." Being pushed with great force, Mark stepped back. Someone quickly steadied him, but he refused to be helped.

In truth, it wouldn't be easy for Jacob to hurt Mark that badly. But today Jacob succeeded. For one, he had more people with him than Mark did, and the other reason was because Mark allowed it.

Mark wanted to test Tina, so he deliberately let Jacob beat him up, in order to see whether there was a place for him in Tina's heart or not. Jacob used him to save Emily's parents, while Mark used Jacob to test Tina.

But Jacob hated it. He was too proud to allow anyone to use him as a pawn.

For Mark, he didn't have extra energy to care about how Jacob felt, because he had gotten what he wanted.

No one knew Tina better than he did. 'If she wanted something, she would try to get it at any cost. She never cared about family. She just gave all of her love to Jacob, and focused all of her hatred on Emily, ...so much that she eagerly looked forward to the moment when Emily will suffered from great pain. She probably believed that I could escape, but in that moment, she didn't want to risk my life on it.'

Thinking about this, Mark laughed, and because laughing shook his chest, he tasted his own blood.

This was a simple and boring test, but it meant a lot to him.

"You are laughing?!" When Tina Tao turned around, she saw Mark Tao's eyes filled with pleasure. This made her so angry that she punched his chest and shouted,"You tick me off! Laugh and die here!"

She stamped her foot and walked out, wearing her lambskin high-heeled shoes. But when she reached the door, she turned around and yelled at her gawking henchmen,"Are you all dead? What are you waiting for? Take him to the hospital right now!"

The henchmen quickly responded. Some of them took Mark's arms and some of them called the ambulance. Gazing at the arrogant girl, Mark smiled gently.

...

Emily's parents, who had just been rescued from a near death encounter, were still shaking with fear. They will carry this traumatizing experience to their last breath. Emily's father Andrew even began to blame Emily,"Do you know how your mom and I spent these past few days? If you came earlier, would we have suffered from all of this? !"

Taking her mother's arm, Emily bit her lips and said,"Dad, I didn't know that you..."

Andrew did not let her finish. "If that man didn't come to our home and told us that you were ill, do you think that we would even be here today? You are not filial at all." Andrew did suffer from lots of torment, the beating, the hunger, the emotional and mental distress. So he naturally poured all of his anger onto Emily, like what he had been doing in the past years.

Debby grabbed his arm,"Andrew, stop it."

"I'm her father, and she's my daughter. Now I can't blame her?" Andrew still wanted to complain, but Jacob stepped forward and cast a cold glance at him, which scared him and he quickly shut up. Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

"We should leave this place first," Emily said.

Jacob insisted that Emily should take the same car with him and asked her parents to take another. The latter dared not say a word. But after getting in the car, Emily complained mildly,"Jacob, could you please show some respect to my parents? They are my dad and mom anyway."

"So? You want to blame me?" Jacob raised his eyebrow and smiled coldly,"I don't blame you for what you did, and now you blame me."

"What did I do?" At first she didn't understand, but soon she did. Jacob just said coldly,"Play dumb, huh?" And then he turned around, looking away from her.

'Is he mad?'