Chapter 579 A Hellish Nightmare (1/2)

Having been ill for several days, Emily felt drowsy and slept often. When she was awake she asked for Jacob's company as having him close soothed her greatly.

Jack's death had a vast impact on her. After all, she had heard the thudding sound of his impact with the earth, after he jumped off the building. The echoes of that trauma lingered in her consciousness. When she closed her eyes, she heard it most clearly. It was a terrible sound to hear the snapping of bones and the squishing of flesh as a human body met an immovable surface.

She was tortured by it day and night, and she would often wake up in a sweat as she relived the terrible moment time and again.

As always she was haunted by the same nightmare and would awake in a state of extreme tension almost every night. Even when she slept, her eyes were scrunched tightly shut, as if she were faced by something horrible.

Jacob, having taken to sleeping next to her, awoke first as she cried out in her dreams. He held her tightly in his arms, warming her icy body with his own heat. Gently he stroked her hair to comfort her.

It seemed as if he were comforting a baby in its uneasy sleep.

”No! Don't leave me!” she begged in her dreams, her face pale and vulnerable.

Jack's death had cast such a scar upon her soul that she was constantly fearing Jacob being in danger. She dreaded that one day he might suffer the same horrible death as Jack...

Unfortunately, Jacob misunderstood her desperate words spoken in sleep. He mistakenly believed that she pined for Jack, and didn't want him to die. He believed that she still was unwilling to leave him!

Enraged at the thought that she could still have feelings for the dead bastard, he wanted to shout, but could not do so while she lingered in sleep. All that was left to him was to curse Jack over and over in his heart, and wish that he could have cut his mutilated body into a million pieces!

Grabbing Jacob's hands, Emily refused to let go. She bit into her lips in unconscious agitation until a thin line of red blood had spread to color her mouth.

She resembled a vampire beauty and he was struck by her morbid aesthetic appeal.

Despite his anguish at, what he saw as, rejection, he lowered his head and kissed her lightly. He opened her lips slightly to prevent her h

felt like a hellish nightmare.