Chapter 158 - Afraid

"And the Lee's were trying to acquire those shares. The Lee's and Miss J have been fighting over that shares for almost eight months before Miss J was able to buy it at a higher price than Lee's offer six months ago. And that pissed Lee's off. They have been wanting to meet Miss J recently. I believe that they wanted to buy back those shares."

"Mm... sounds convincing," James said nodding his head. "Any more questions?" Lance turned to look at Arthur's Teams. They were in a serious mode. Daniel and Arthur seemed to be in deep thought. One is a detail-oriented while the other one is logical. Who could have known what's running in their thoughts as of the moment?

Lance turned to look at Jacob who never said a word since he became mad at what J said earlier. His looks never changed. He looks like he is about to eat someone alive. He is glaring at the center of the coffee table but Lance wasn't sure if he was listening to what he has been saying earlier.

Throughout Jacob was only listening but his thoughts were somewhere. He can't get rid of the image of him casting J's ashes in the sea in front of Lodgepole Estate. Just now he just realized how afraid he is of losing his wife. Jacob turned his head to look at J who is now looking at him with anticipation. His brows furrowed, he looked around and noticed that everyone looks at him with the same expression.

Ah... right. Lance is asking him a question. But right now, all he wanted to do is get this meeting over so that they could go home and imprisoned J in his embrace. He will never let her go. He will never let her die. The thought of her death felt like a thousand needles pricking his heart.

In medical schools, they were thought on how to deal with death. And in the 10 years of practice, he had already experienced a total of 3 deaths from his patients and he was able to cope well with these deaths. But he has never thought that just a thought of a loved one's death would be hard to deal with, how much more if it has come to actuality.

Jacob sigh then looked at Daniel. "You investigate the source of the threats. Let Felix handle the Food Corp. International and Crocus Offshore Oil Rig." his voice was deep and cold.

After a couple of minutes of discussion, the meeting was over. Jacob stood in front of the window looking outside with both his hands in his pockets. His office has a great view of the Naupaka Mountain. His back facing everyone who is one by one getting out of his office. J was the last one. She was hesitating.

She noticed that since she made that joke the air around Jacob became colder. He didn't speak any more until the last part of the meeting. There were deep creases on his forehead and his brows were snapped together. He is angry and she knew she was the reason. She felt somewhat guilty and hesitated to leave him in that condition. "I'm going home." J struggled to say those words.

Jacob didn't reply until a couple of seconds past. "Okay." was his short reply.

J walked towards the door slowly. She reached for the doorknob but before she opens the door, she takes a look back at Jacob who is still looking outside the window. She sighed then open the door and leave.