Never Late, Never Away Chapter 2821
The two had known each other for a while now, and his heart had once harbored love as well as hate for Joan at different times in his life. Yet ultimately, his heart only ever yearned for her.
“You’re right, but I would never resort to harming others as you’re doing now. I would take down Larry by dealing a proper blow to his career instead of taking cheap shots and hiring people to get rid of him.” Jake’s words were resolute.
Della believed him.
After all, men and women were inherently different in this aspect; men openly fought for what their hearts desired, whilst women used nasty tricks like framing and slandering others to get what they wanted.
“I’ll pretend none of this happened. The huge sum you paid that man? Let it be a lesson to you. But remember, Della, this can never happen again. I’ll spare you for now because you helped me back then. However, if you pull another stunt like this, don’t blame me for taking extreme measures against you.” Jake’s features hardened into a serious, threatening stare as he uttered those words.
Della looked outside the window, unwilling to meet his gaze. Anger and dissatisfaction fumed inside her chest. She couldn’t help but gnaw on her fingernails as she questioned inwardly, Why does everyone rush to that b*tch’s rescue?
Ring! Ring!
Jake immediately answered his phone.
“Mr. Wilson, we’ve rescued Ms. Watts.”
At that, Jake dropped everything he was doing with Della and drove away. It wasn’t long before he rapidly arrived at his destination and was approaching a frazzled-looking Joan. The doctor stated that while she hadn’t suffered from any injuries, her emotions appeared to be slightly unstable.
“Joan? It’s me, Jake.” His gentle tone contrasted with his tight grip on her shoulders. It revealed how anguishedly he wanted for her to be okay.
In response, Joan flung his hand off of her shoulders. Panic flitted across her eyes as she pointed at Jake and screamed hysterically, “You’re a bad person! You’re all bad people!”
Pain and fear had consumed the woman’s mind, rendering her a little insane.
A bitter ache spread across Jake’s chest as he watched the woman he loved tremble so miserably. He then snapped coldly, “Doctor. What exactly is wrong with her?”
The doctor yelped in fear of Jake’s threatening aura and quickly lowered his head, avoiding eye contact whilst explaining, “Her emotions aren’t stable because she’s experienced a psychological shock. It seems to me that this isn’t her first time in such shock. If my guess is correct, I suggest you take good care of her until she recovers.”
The doctor then began packing away his medical equipment to depart Jake’s villa.
Jake fell into a sudden daze. He never expected that Joan would go insane as a result of the kidnapping. The woman now crouched on the bed as her arms circled her knees, pulling her head into a fetal position. Her shoulders trembled ever-so-sightly, revealing how terrified and insecure she felt about her situation.
Seeing this, Jake punched his cheek. It’s all my fault. I brought this misery upon Joan. I failed to protect her…
“Don’t startle her any further. There’s still a possibility that she can recover to the way she was before,” the doctor offered his final advice before exiting.
Meanwhile, Joan was rocking herself manically. “B-bad…. bad guys…”
“Joan… I’m not the bad guy here. I’m Jake, remember me?”
Jake wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a tight embrace for fear that she had really forgotten who he was.
Joan reacted unwillingly to this. She thrashed and kicked in his arms as if she was trying to escape from him, the bad guy.
Seeing how much she resisted, the man eventually loosened his arms. Forget it. I’ll take things slow and reintroduce myself gradually. Perhaps this is for the best; at least now she’s not constantly thinking about that scumbag, Larry. Jake recomposed himself before heading off to make a call.
Within minutes, the villa was flooded with housemaids.
Standing before this crowd, Jake put on a solemn expression as he gave out instructions the housemaids were all expected to follow. “You are responsible for looking after the lady of this house as well as tending to the general needs of this villa.”
There was no doubt about it; this was the villa that Jake originally intended to gift Joan. Now, it was finally being used for that exact purpose, albeit slightly different from the plan he envisioned since Joan was currently in shock.
Regardless, the two of them began living together in that very villa.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
Larry kept his head buried in Norton Corporation’s work all this while. However, Joan’s delicate face would pop up in his mind from time to time. His right eyelid had been twitching for quite some days. It affected him so much that he hadn’t been getting proper sleep. For some unknown reason, he kept feeling a sense of dread in his chest. Yet, nothing bad had happened around him so far.