"Why do I have to be here? You said this guy spoke English. Can't you do this by yourself?" Emily questioned as they made their way to the small restaurant inside the hotel.

It was almost the end of their trip and she wanted to go souvenir shopping for Ethan and Claire, something she realized she should have done during the trip to the Great Wall.

"And where will you go? To the pool with the weird guy that kept trying to ask you out yesterday?" Blake replied harshly as they entered the lobby. The meeting with Jacob had been delayed a few days and now instead of spending the day sightseeing they were heading into another meeting at eight in the morning with a grumpy morning Emily in tow.

He held the door open to let her inside the restaurant, and as luck would have it the man he had just insulted was inside. Blake placed his hand on the small of Emily's back making it a point to guide her thru the aisle her new admirer was sitting at. He didn't give her a chance to stop and chat instead he applied a little bit of pleasure and kept guiding her inside, but not before he gave the other man a winning smirk.

"Remove your hand from my back."

Blake ignored the request, guiding her further back into the restaurant to where Mr Jacob was waiting. The older man's eyes light up when he took in the sight before him.

"Emily, darling how have you been? You've grown so much, just look at you." Mr Jacob exclaimed as he pulled Emily into a hug leaving Blake confused.

"Jacob, I'm great. Just graduated a few months back." Emily replied with a smile while  accepting the seat he had pulled out for her.

Blake felt a pang jealousy, she didn't smile like that when she was with him other than the time they went to the aquarium it was all business, even the trip to the Great Wall had been somewhat of a formal affair. And as much as he hated to admit  that he had grown fond of her after being stuck in the same room for the entire week waking up to her trying to strip him had become normal. He also had to admit that other than business related questions he still hadn't made much conversation with her either, something he was beginning to regret.

"Mr. Redwood, I am so glad you could meet me at such short notice. I drafted all the paperwork for you to review,and if you would sir, I would like for your former offer if it was still available." It seemed  Senior was  finally ready to sell his company.

"The offer will stand as long as Junior doesn't ruin it again." Blake answered as he skimmed thru the papers.

"What did he do this time?" Emily asked taking a sip from the coffee that was brought in right after them.
Blake looked at her, she was very comfortable with the Jacob family and he didn't not like it specially when it came to Junior.

"My son threw a temper tantrum and ruined our first meeting. Isn't that right Mr Redwood?" Jacob replied with a laugh and shake of his head. He knew his son would not be happy when he found out what he was about to do but there was nothing he could do. If they continued on their own the company would collapse and everyone including them would end up on the streets.

"Sounds like Edd, I can't believe I put up with him for so long." Emily answered, the last bit was so quiet Blake thought he misheard.

"It was only about a year sweetheart, and even I don't know how you managed to date him for that long."
Blake choked on his drink, Emily was his best friends assistant, therefore his employee and a girl he had know for only a month. Even if he was growing fond of her company she provided he realized that he really didn't know nothing about her.

"Blake, are you ok?" Her voice was filled with worry as she patted his back trying to calm him down.

"Yeah, sorry. I will take these and have Sam send you back the completed papers. Congratulations Mr Jacob you have a deal." Blake managed to get out as he gather the sheets into the folder.

Once the goodbye handshakes and hugs were out of the way he made his way back to the room Emily jogging to keep up with him. Confused by his hurry she figured that maybe they had a last minute appointment that needed to be kept and remained quiet the entire ride back up to the room.

"Why did you apply at my company Miss Jones?"

The question caught Emily off guard, she had barely managed to close the door and Blake was already questioning her.

"I heard that your company had great opportunities. That you treated your employees fairly, that's why nobody ever quit. Also my brother really admires you and since he can't work I thought I would do this for him.” Her answer was quiet and mostly true but she had only applied after Ethan and Claire convinced her that she would be a great fit. The fact that she had been jobless for several weeks also had a role in her application.

"It's not because you and Junior still have a relationship and you are trying to sabotage me? Because if you are tell me now and I will let you walk away free." The coldness in his voice made Emily shiver. She had never seen this side of him, cold calculating and almost heartless. She doubted anyone had ever seen him like this, from what she had seen even the investors were treated with warm smiles and sparkling chocolate eyes. Daliah was the supposed cold ruthless one in the office, and this new side of Blake was beyond intimidating.

She shoot her head, her arms going around herself as she tried to keep from crying. She knew dating  Edmund Jacob, was a bad idea but at the time she had wanted to rebel. To show everyone that she could so something on her own, and now she was going to lose what little friendship she had with Blake because of a mistake she made when she was younger.

Blake saw the girl shrink before him, her arms around herself and  her head bowing looking lost. He wanted the girl that cussed him out in three other languages the night before back and he knew his accusations were harsh but he didn't want to take any risk where his business was concerned. He worked too hard to have someone like Junior ruin it all. Junior might might be the person to send a mole but looking at Emily now he knew the sweet angry morning person before him would never be able to do such a thing. Leaving him with only one option.

"Emmy, sweetheart. I'm sorry. I don't like Junior and I've had people try to spy on me before. When I heard you dated that thing I lost all reason. I'm sorry. I'll sleep on the couch if you want." He apologized walking over to where Emily was standing. Unsure if what else to do he pulled her into a hug.

Emily stiffened at the contact, she wasn't a hugger but Blake was too big to push off.  His strong grip around her and his cologne were also soothing and she blushed when she realized she was burying her nose in his chest and inhaling rather loudly much like she had on the plane ride to China.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you guys had met. We just dated during my sophomore year in college. I went  thru what Claire called belated rebellion, my family had all these expectations and I met them all, but I never had any memorable high school or college moments. So when Ed asked me out I said yes. The more my family told me to leave him the more I refused, and it wasn't until Ethan got sick that we finally broke up. He's not so bad, but he is a spoiled brat at times." Emily mumbled into his chest.

Blake felt himself relax at her admission. It was a rebellious stage of her life, something she needed to get out of her system and now that that phase was over the real Emily was being judged for it. In reality he realized that he had done to her what the whole world had done to him after he acquired Redwood Inc and made assumptions based on vague facts.

"Hey how about you change, and as an apology for being such a jerk to you I take you to dinner."Blake suggested trying to cheer up the girl in his arms.

"Can we see the Forbidden City?"

"Whatever you want, just please don't cry. I don't know how to deal with crying women that's usually Kenny's job." He admitted with a smile as he watched Emily look up at him with a gleam in her eyes. She pulled away and a second later she was running around the room in search of her purse.

"Let's go you promised me a tour Mr Billionaire." She laughed  as she pulled  him out of the room not bothering to change into anything else.

Blake smiled at the nickname he had grown accustomed, as strange at it sounded coming from Emily he liked the sound of it. He laughed as she pulled him out of the room,  they had one day left to take in the sights.

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