"Yaacob tasked me to protect you before he left for the island. I didn't expect Tina and the others would make their move in a church. You must be frightened," said Randall, avoiding her question as to why Yaacob did not come to save her.Nancy knew he was hiding something from her, so she continued asking, "You know the kidnapper’s name, so who are they exactly?""You don't need to be concerned with that since no one from that organization will ever bother you anymore.""Who are you then? And who is Yaacob? Why did the kidnappers say that Yaacob betrayed them? What has he done in the United States? I'm his wife, who was kidnapped because of him. I have the right to know!" Nancy refused to be ignorant.Randall simply stayed silent as he continued driving with a stern face.Randall was not the kind of man who knew how to sweet-talk a woman. 'If Yaacob were here, he would have easily talked his way out of this,' he thought.Randall was either too honest or too proud to sweet-talk N
When Nancy saw Yaacob walking over, dressed in camouflage uniform, her first thought was, 'I must be seeing things because of the heat.' She lowered her head and rubbed her eyes. All the girls around her shrieked crazily, way louder than when they screamed for Spencer this morning. Nancy looked up again and confirmed that the man standing in front of her was indeed Yaacob. It had been more than one month since she last saw him. However, the first thing she did was retreat to the back of the group. Lola turned around and called out to her, "Nancy, where are you going?" She was puzzled. One moment, Nancy was standing next to her, and the next, she was moving herself to the second to last row. Yaacob swept his eyes across the group, and the frenzied girls became silent at once. His eyes were filled with icy coldness, which was usually hidden so deeply that others would wrongfully assume he was of no threat to them. However, should he release just a tiny bit of his true color,
Nancy could not help but feel hurt by what he said."Why do I have to pick you up at the airport just because you asked me to? It's not like you're going to die if I don't. You're a grown man for christ sake!"Her eyes turned red even before Yaacob said anything.Yaacob reached out his hand to stroke her cheeks gently, but Nancy turned away before he could touch them."What's the matter? Did I say something wrong? Tell me, what have I done to make you angry," he asked."I don't know! You should know!""How would I know if you yourself don't even know?"A woman would never tell a man why they were angry. They never want to explain why they were angry. Instead, they want men to just admit their own mistakes and apologize.However, Yaacob was unwilling to do that. This made Nancy angrier, so she tried to break free from him even more.Seeing this, Yaacob held her even tighter. He then leaned down and kissed her hard on the lips."Mpmh!"Nancy was not in the mood to be intimate
"Because something really urgent came up on the island. After making sure you were alright, I took the last flight back. I know it was wrong for me to do that. I should've comforted you then. So I don't blame you for being angry at me," said Yaacob.Yaacob was really cunning. First, he made Nancy believe he did not care about her at all before letting her know he actually did come back that day.That way, Nancy would not blame him for not comforting her because it was more important for her to know that he had come back to rescue her.In fact, not only did Nancy not blame him, but she was actually touched by his gesture. She pressed the boarding pass to her chest as though it was the most precious thing in the world to her.Seeing that she had finally stopped crying, Yaacob moved on to the next step of his plan."Now do you want to see the gifts I bought for you?" he asked.Nancy's eyes immediately lit up when she saw the luggage full of branded handbags. The ten handbags cost mi
Nancy followed Yaacob to the infirmary. Once there, she stood at the doorway while he relayed Lola's condition to the doctor.Yaacob's expression was so glum and, to be honest, a little worried.'And I thought he's here to spend more time with me. Looks like he cares more about the other students than me,' thought Nancy with a sarcastic smirk.She decided to ask the doctor for more information."Did the girl who was brought in just now really passed out from a heat stroke?""Yes, that's right. But her condition isn't serious. In fact, she has already woken up and she'll be as good as new after getting some rest," replied the doctor with a nod.However, the doctor's answer failed to convince Nancy that Lola was not putting up an act.'It can't be a coincidence that she passed out from a heat stroke right in front of Yaacob,' she thought.Yaacob was talking to Lola, who was lying on the infirmary bed when Nancy went in.Nancy guessed that he was probably telling Lola to rest wel
Spencer looked at Nancy for a while, as if mentally preparing himself, before finally saying, "Teresa and I lost the baby.""Was it because of that night...""No! It has nothing to do with you. Teresa had an abortion because she said she didn't want the baby anymore," interrupted Spencer.Nancy secretly sighed with relief. It was a good thing she was off the hook for this matter.However, she thought it was mean of her to celebrate when she saw how down Spencer looked, so she pretended to comfort him, "You and Teresa are still young, so I'm sure she'll get pregnant again when she's ready."Spencer just shook his head. "Do you know what her reason for not wanting the baby is? It's not because she thinks she's too young or because she feels we aren't ready to raise a kid of our own yet. It is because she thinks having a baby will affect her acting career, and that's why she murdered our baby without even discussing it with me first!"This was especially hard on Spencer because he w
Nancy drank one glass of whisky after another on Yaacob's behalf, and this earned her the respect of the other guests."This girl sure can hold her alcohol!" said one of them.The door opened again after Yaacob and Nancy took their seats.When Nancy first came in, she immediately noticed there was one more empty seat on the table. Meaning to say the big shot Yaacob wanted her to meet had not arrived yet.After the door opened, two bodyguards dressed in black suits came in, scanned the room, and stepped back out again.Only then did the big shot come in.He was a man who looked to be around his early fifties years old, but he was not balding or fat like the other middle-aged men in the room. Even though his hair was turning white in some places, it only served to make him accentuate his majestic and distinguished aura; if his chiseled and lined face could tell stories, it would have told of all the bold and daring feats he had pulled off in his youth.'I'll be happy if Yaacob cou
Yaacob had already changed into a clean set of clothes by the time he came out of the hospital. The black shirt and dark plaid trousers made him look taller than usual.Gone was the gentle and humble expression he reserved for the injured construction workers. He had returned to his confident and domineering self.Nancy was super impressed by how he could mold his personality to fit the situation at hand, not to mention the little speech he gave to the injured construction workers and their families.She saw with her own eyes how he managed to win over their respect. The one-arm man even helped wipe the minestrone soup from Yaacob's leather shoes in the end.After they got into his car, he asked, "So I'll drop you off at the campus first?""Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks," said Nancy absent-mindedly. She was still thinking back to how Yaacob handled the one-arm man moments before. "Mr. Getson, those… those workers… How did they die?" she finally stammered out.Yaacob glanced sidew