Chapter 527 - The hardest battle

"What did he say?" J asked curiously. They were still holding each other standing but this time, they already managed to get in Jacob's room. They decided to stay at the mansion for the night.

"Nothing." As much as possible Jacob doesn't want to talk about it to her.

J frowned. "He wouldn't call you there for nothing."

Jacob sigh. Of course, she will not stop until he speaks so Jacob reiterated what Jack Ogden told them.

Disbelief was plastered on J's beautiful face. Jacob expected that because that was their reaction as well.

"Why would my grandfather do that?" she asked.

Jacob shrugged his shoulders. They wouldn't know what Alexander Do is thinking back then because he is already dead. Unless he told about it to Benjamin Parker. So Jacob just said what he thought. "Because they were friends?"

"What?! That's ridiculous! Complete nonsense!" J was astounded.

"I know." Jacob wrapped his arms around her and settled his face into the crook of J's neck. "Don't worry, we are already married. And he can't do anything about it."

J became silent.

"What else?" She asked later on. She knew that that's not all. She can feel it. She can sense it by the way that Jacob is holding her.

"That's all," Jacob said without moving. He didn't raise his head because he knows that his eyes will betray him. J would be able to read him and she will find out that he is hiding something.

But J is smart. She has been thinking of the possible outcome of their conversation with Jack Ogden. She has been anxious because she knows that Jack Ogden might force Jacob to leave her and of course Jacob would refuse.

She became silent again waiting for Jacob to say something but he didn't. So she voiced out her thoughts.

"He asked you to leave me in exchange for what?"

When he heard that, Jacob raised his head and he reached out to cup J's face with both his palms. "Honey, I would never do that." He said while staring into her eyes.

"So, he did tell you to leave me," J confirmed with a slightly raised brow.

Jacob sighed in exasperation. He brushed his hair with his fingers and sits at the edge of his bed. He looked defeated which J never saw before. He never showed this side of him to anyone except her. This is probably going to be the hardest battle he is going to face.

Jacob nodded his head in response.

J felt a knot formed in her throat. Although she has expected this, she still can't help but be emotional. She lifts up her face to look at the ceiling preventing her tears to fall. She closed her eyes and takes a deep breath to calm her emotions.

She swallowed the lump in her throat and asked. "And if you don't?"

Jacob didn't answer so J made an assumption.

The best way to force a person in doing what he doesn't want to do is by attacking its weakness. And Jacob's weakness is his family.

"If you don't leave me... he will hurt your family..." J mumbled.

Jacob felt like his heart is being torn into pieces at the thought of leaving her. He is determined not to leave her, but what if she sacrificed herself and leave him. That can't happen. He won't let it happen. Not in this lifetime or the next.

He stood up and place his hands on her shoulders. "Honey, I promise that I will never leave you. Nothing can make me leave you. You understand. So, please, promise me that you'll never sacrifice yourself and never leave me. Please." Jacob's eyes were pleading.

Jacob looks vulnerable and J knows that it is because of her. She felt guilty. Jacob knows her well. He knows that worst comes to worst, she might sacrifice herself to save him and his family.

But she doesn't want to leave him. A tear falls from her eyes followed by another. Before she knows it, she is already sobbing in Jacob's chest.

"I-I don't..." J said in between sobs. "I don't want to leave you. But..."

"Shh.." Jacob places a finger on her lips and shook his head. "You won't leave me and I won't leave you. Okay? We'll find a way. He gave me one month. So, we will resolve this together."