The Pampering CEO: Don't Mess With My Secretly-Married Sweet Wife
Chapter 489 I Love You

After a long while, Jacob Shelby loosened his hold on Anna Wright and looked at her with a smile in his eyes. "How was it? Is my technique alright?"

"It's not bad," answered Anna subconsciously before she reacted to the situation. She could not help staring at Jacob in a furious yet shy manner. "It was a forced kiss."

"It was a seducing kiss at most. You were rather cooperative too." Jacob objected.

"You, you, you, you..." Anna looked at Jacob incredulously. That b*stard was behaving indecently now?

Where was his default ice-cold temperament? He had to stop messing with his temperament setting!

It felt as if Jacob was determined to destroy his temperament setting completely today. The smile that had not been on his face for a few days was constantly on his face now, as though it was free. Even his ice-cold gaze had been replaced by a gentle glint in the meantime.

Anna felt especially terrified as she looked at him.

She took a few steps back silently and looked at Jacob with an alarmed expression. "Don't look at me with that gaze. I'm begging you, go back to your normal self. I can't stand this!" The corners of Jacob's lips twitched once instantly.

He was planning to confront his deepest feelings, which was a rare occasion. Was there a need for Anna to be so alarmed?

Jacob took a deep breath and then said in a soft voice, "Anna, is it okay if I look at you with this gaze from now on?"

Anna was stunned for a long while before she stepped forward and stretched out her hand to feel Jacob's forehead silently. "Uh... You're not having a fever, right?"

Jacob grabbed her hand and looked at her." Anna, I like you. No, I love you."

The confession came so unexpectedly that Anna was dumbstruck with bewilderment.

After a long while, she managed to stutter," Jacob, stop joking around!"

Had this man not rejected her earlier?

Besides, he had done nothing when Blanchett had wrapped her arms around him!

As soon as she recalled the earlier scene, Anna felt wronged.

"I'm not joking." Jacob held on to Anna's hand and refused to let go. "I fell in love with you a long, long time ago. I just didn't have the courage to confront my innermost feelings all this time. As for Blanchett, I only wanted to use her so I could make you angry and drive you away."

"Why... Why did you have to do that? You're sick!" said Anna furiously.

It was fine if Jacob did not like her.

However, if Jacob liked her, why had he hidden from her constantly for the past four years? What was the point of her chasing after him painstakingly for four years?

Anna had called him sick out of rage, yet Jacob could not help chuckling bitterly. " Yes, I'm sick. Anna, you know that I have a latent heart disease. This disease is extremely rare, but the probability of it being hereditary is very high."

"Of course, I'm aware of that." Anna felt even more baffled. She was well aware of this issue, so why had Jacob suddenly brought this up?

"I don't want my children to suffer from the threat of this disease. That is why I most likely won't have any children of my own in this lifetime." Jacob looked at Anna anxiously. "I know that you like children very much. If you couldn't have a child of your own, it would be truly cruel." Anna blinked innocently, as she was beginning to understand now.

Jacob had rejected her because of this?

Jacob took a deep breath. "I thought that rejecting you would be good for you, yet when I thought the person covered in white fabric was you today, I really felt as if the sky was about to collapse on me. Anna, I don't want us to have any regrets in our lives. I don't want to lie to myself anymore either. I love you. I'll be damned for falling in love with you."

It was rare for a cold person like Jacob to be filled with so much emotion.

Anna's gaze softened ever so slightly.

"Anna." Jacob's entire body was tense. "I want to leave the choice up to you this time. I hope you can consider this seriously. If you want to be with me, we won't have a child of our own in the future. If you don't want to be with me, it's possible that you may meet an even better person, get married, and have children. You will live a happy married life, just like most people out there. I..." "Idiot." Anna interrupted Jacob at once. "If you had never said this, I would have never known how foolish you are. Do you think that you've got your priorities sorted out? A child is born because of love, yet love doesn't exist just because there is a child. It's true that I like children, and I've known all along that we couldn't have a child of our own. That is okay, though. I can go to an orphanage or a kindergarten. I can still play with young children over there. I like children and I love you, and these two matters don't contradict each other at all, alright?"

"You... You've thought about this way before now?" Jacob was a little dumbstruck.

Anna could not help rolling her eyes. "Why wouldn't I? I want to be with you for the rest of my life, so 1 naturally had to think this through beforehand. However, I really didn't expect that you'd reject me for four years just because of this ridiculous reason!"

"I... I..." Jacob stuttered and then looked at Anna anxiously. "So... do you still want to be with me?"

Anna took a sideways glance at Jacob and then said, "I can clearly remember the way someone described this situation before. He said he would only like me if red water rained from the sky. Well, the sky is not raining red water yet, so I won't accept your love confession."

As Anna was speaking calmly, a feeling of delight surged in her chest.

What did 'what goes around comes around' mean? This was what 'what goes around comes around' meant!

Jacob had tormented her for four years, so he had to earn some of her interest this way.

"How can the sky possibly rain red water?" said Jacob in despair.

"That is something you should have worried about then. Mr. Shelby, I still have some matters to attend to, so I shall get a move on." As Anna was speaking, she limped her way to the side of the door. "Your leg..." Jacob was slightly nervous.

"Ah, it's fine. I was involved in a mild car accident earlier, wasn't I? There was nothing serious about the car accident, but I accidentally sprained my leg when I got out of the car. I should be fine in just a few days." Anna took a glance at Jacob. "You're impossible, really. I just sprained my leg. Do you wish for my death so badly?" Jacob was quiet for a while before he said weakly, "Sprained ankle... But Seth said that you were admitted to the hospital. I thought that your condition was rather serious..."

Anna rolled her eyes. "Don't I need a medical check-up for my sprained ankle? Can't I rest for a while in the ward during the check-up?"

"Sure..." Jacob had the urge to cry.

He had really embarrassed himself enough today to last him a lifetime.

"Alright, alright. Leave then. Don't disturb m y rest." Anna opened the door and shoved Jacob outside strenuously.

Jacob did not have the courage to struggle ferociously either. He was thus shoved out of the room soon.

Bang! Anna closed the door.

As soon as Jacob was kicked out of the room, Anna could not maintain the furious expression she had been forcing for such a long time. She covered her mouth and giggled to herself. 'Oh oh oh oh...' She shrieked in her heart. She cheered, jumped on the bed, and began rolling about non-stop.