Chapter 6

“Bite you? I wouldn’t put my mouth anywhere near something as dirty as you.” Jay raised his eyebrows coolly.

He rose from the black leather swivel chair and approached Rose step by step. He peered down arrogantly at Rose from his towering 185cm height.

"So, Rose. How should you pay me back for what you did five years ago?" Jay asked sinisterly.

Rose's memory of that night was crystal clear. Five years ago, with a little extra courage from alcohol, she had...

She drugged that man, and then…

“I-I’ve already compensated you!” Rose frantically tried to reason with the tycoon.

A flicker of annoyance appeared on Jay’s darkening face.

"How about I pay you back tenfold and have you sleep with a man, hm?" Jay reached out and grasped her tiny chin. His anger was like a drowsy lion, ready to pounce at any moment.

Rose saw the flash of scarlet in his eyes. He looked like a predator and she was immobilized by fear.

"What do you want?"

Jay's hand slipped down to her neckline and he tugged forcefully on her linen-cotton blend dress. The tearing of fabric was heard.

"Rose, remember how you humiliated me last time? Well, today I’m going to double what you did to me.” His evil voice whispered in her ear, "Tell me, what’s your type of man? I’ll make sure to satisfy you. If one isn’t enough, I can get two.”

Rose felt every fiber of her body being frozen solid by Jay’s cold fury, every word he said was accentuated by the glee of revenge and felt like slashes of a knife on her skin.

"I want you to taste what it’s like to have sex with someone you hate! Rose, how dare you make a fool out of me! I’ll show you what the consequences are for toying me!”

Rose was hurled onto the sofa, and then Jay’s big and tall body pressed against her. He grabbed her by the chin and forced her to look at him.

He picked up a fruit knife next to him and held it menacingly close to her face.

"I never want to see your face ever again. Because it makes me sick. I’m going to destroy your face, dump you into a brothel and you will never see the light of day again.”

A wicked leer spread across his face. "I want you to taste the despair I felt."

The blade penetrated her skin little by little and Rose felt a sharp pain on her face.

She stared at Jay with a forlorn look but then she smiled sadly. "You hate me this much?" she whispered.

Jay’s look of disgust was more than sufficient to answer the question.

Rose closed her eyes in surrender.

Whatever! If this was to be her destiny, then so be it.

As Rose awaited her inevitable demise, a phone suddenly rang.

The ringtone was the song Red Spider Lily, sung by Angeline Severe. Her voice was ethereal and beautiful.

Both Rose and Jay subconsciously pulled out their phones at the same time. Jay shot her a derisive look. "It’s my phone. Why are you looking for yours?”

Rose was stunned. ‘Why did Jay set Angeline's Red Spider Lily as his ringtone?’

In her previous life, the only time she sang Red Spider Lily was at her university’s graduation party and it was only recorded on the university’s platform. Did he download the song from there?

Jay whipped out his phone but the screen display was not turned on.

Jay gaped at Rose with incredulity.

"What, did you steal my cell phone ringtone as well?" Jay hissed, his handsome face radiating fury.

Rose was momentarily speechless

This song was, after all, clearly hers. If anyone stole the song, it was Jay.

The phone rang insistently and Jay snapped impatiently, "Answer the phone!"

Rose pulled out her phone with trembling hands and saw that “Little Lover” was trying to reach her. At that moment, Rose was so nervous that the phone slipped from her hands onto the ground.

She panicked and bent over to pick up the phone but Jay grabbed it with one long arm before she could.

"Little Lover?"

When Jay read the caller ID, Jay smiled mockingly.

Rose was so anxious that her entire body was as stiff as a taut bowstring.

She feared that Jay would answer the phone and discover the existence of his other son, Robbie.

As expected, Jay answered the call without hesitation.

Rose acted quickly. She shot up like a cannon and crashed into Jay. She snatched the phone and hurriedly yelled at Robbie on the other side of the line, “Help me!" Then, she hung up the phone as fast as she could.

Jay pushed her away, patted down his wrinkled clothes, and plopped himself down onto the sofa in a condescending manner.

"Begging for help?" His tone was light but heavy with sarcasm. "I’m looking forward to seeing this little lover of yours. Maybe he’ll rescue you from me with his three heads and six arms!”

Rose batted her long eyelashes sorrowfully. She wondered if her baby Robbie would be breaking down right now after hearing her cry for help.

Would he choose to call the police?

If he knew his mommy was in danger, would he be able to look after Zetty?

After all, that was the consensus between the two of them!

"Rose, I’ll give you a day for your lover to rescue you,” Jay said suddenly. “If you guys can escape five of my biggest men, I’ll let the matter slide. Otherwise..." Jay's eyes were lit with flames of purgatory.

Rose shuddered and her voice trembled from fear. "Otherwise, what?"

"Both of you can go to hell together," Jay growled savagely.

Jay picked up the fruit knife on the floor, and its reflective surface threw a ray of cold light on Rose's face. There was already a red line of clotted blood on her face. Jay stepped purposefully toward her, knife in hand.

Rose covered her face and cried out desperately.

"Jay, if you kill me, our son will hate you forever!"

The fruit knife that Jay was wielding fell to the ground with a heavy clatter. Suddenly, Jenson's voice was echoing repeatedly in his head: "I want mommy! I want mommy!"

Jenson had never been a talkative kid in his early years, but three out of five times he opened his mouth, it was to say those very words. He even cried out those words in his sleep sometimes.

When the memories flooded Jay’s head, he irritably tossed the knife aside but the anger welling up within him had not subsided.

"How are you qualified to be his mother?” he hissed. “What have you done for him in the past five years?"

Rose started tearing up, Jay's dire accusation tore her heart. "No mother in this world would ever abandon her child,” she sobbed. “If there wasn’t a compelling reason, I would’ve come back to see him ages ago!"

That did not improve his temper. “You’re just a greedy and cowardly wimp,” he snarled.

Rose could have argued the point. She had made the woeful decision to abandon her first child to give the other two babies a shot at a bright future. Furthermore, she knew that her first baby would also be brought up well if he was taken in by the Ares Family.

However, those were grievances that she could never tell anyone.

"Yes, I am a wimp," Rose howled, shelving her pride and enduring humiliation for the sake of survival.