Chapter 601 - Safer

"Mom...I won't." She said with an exasperated tone. "I won't sacrifice my life. The least I would do is to pretend that I died but I will not sacrifice my life. I don't want to leave you yet. I don't want to leave Jacob." She said to make her mother convinced.

Madam Victoria sighed in relief. "God! You almost scared me to death."

J smiled faintly. She has never heard her mom talked this way before. She has always been soft and intimidating. She rarely sounds scared. "I'm sorry, mom."

"But...I wish there is something I could do to make the people around me safe." She voiced out what really bothers her.

"There is something you can do and that is to stay out in the open." This time, Madam Victoria's tone is firm. She is determined to convince her daughter to stay at home instead of going out.

J thinks about it for a moment. Maybe she could try that. Jacob assured her that the Parkers Mansion is located in one of the safest places in Lotus City anyway. But she still thinks that the Twelve Army away from Madam Kelly and Chairman John would be the safest.

"Okay. I'll file an indefinite leave and then ask Jacob if we could stay at the Twelve Army for the meantime since I don't have to go to the hospital. But, I still have to report to duty tomorrow because Dr. Aaron Choi will be enraged if I suddenly didn't show up and not give him enough time to find my replacement." J finally made a decision.

Madam Victoria felt like a huge rock was lifted from her heart.

"Good. That would be better. The Twelve Army headquarters will be the safest place for you that you won't have to be worried about inflicting harm to the Parker family."

Their conversation finally came to a conclusion. She was sure that Jacob will agree in staying at the Twelve Army headquarters. She doesn't have to go anywhere. Jacob could work in his office and she can still keep herself busy by helping in the headquarters clinic.

The clinic in the Twelve Army headquarters never runs out of patients that are mostly suffered from trauma. Usually, the patients there suffered injury from their training or their mission.

J has already taken a shower when Jacob returns. She is wearing one of the nightdresses that Madam Kelly bought for her. It was silk, nude color nightdress that reached just above her knees. She started to get used to it but only for Jacob. She would still prefer her pajama pants and shorts.

She is sitting on the bed with a book on her hand. Her lower part of the body is covered by the blanket.

She raised her head and meet Jacob's gaze. "Is everything, okay?" She asked although she knows that it is not.

"Yeah." He said then he laid beside her then he wrapped his arms over her stomach and rested his face under her chin. She raised her chin to give him more space and brushed his hair with her palm.

She knows that he is lying. Her current situation can never be okay.

"Hmm...why don't you take a quick shower so that you can take a rest?" She said worried that Jacob might fall asleep in his position.

"Yeah...I'll do that. Just a couple of minutes." He is tired, J could sense it through his voice.

"Okay."

After a couple of minutes.

"Jacob..." J called out his name in a hushed tone.

"Hmm..." He replied indicating that he didn't fell asleep.

"Tomorrow, I'll file an indefinite leave. Let's just stay inside the Twelve Army headquarters." She said when she confirmed that he is all ears on hers.

When he heard that, Jacob suddenly pulled himself away from her and looked at her eyes with a frown.

"It will help from keeping me safe if I stay out in the public and with that everyone will be safe as well. And I think that the Twelve Army headquarters is the safest place for me. What do you think?" She said imploring.

After a while, Jacob's face softens. "Okay. That's a good idea."

Jacob had always wanted to keep her at home because it will be safer. He had also thought of taking her to the Twelve Army headquarters. But he knew that his wife cannot just let go of her job.

He was delighted that the same idea comes out of her. Thou he knows that she probably thought of that because she is worried that her stubbornness will hurt the people around her.

But that doesn't mean that they will just stay there and do nothing. Of course, Jacob will still perish those that wanted his wife dead. He is determined to give his wife a peaceful and normal life.

He didn't tell that to J because he knew that she will get worried. Thou he knows that she will find it out sooner or later.