A Call That Changed Her Entire Life novel Chapter 136

Nora smiled complacently, while Rita still looked at her impassively before she said," But it is a pity that you are not bold enough to play this game. If I were you, I would have pushed a lot harder. At the very least, hard enough to cause an miscarriage. How petty you are to try and prove that David cares about you by hurting yourself. I could never stoop down to your level."

All of a sudden, Nora's expression became stiff. Soon, she feigned her painful expression again.

When David stood beside the two of them, he squatted down and hugged Nora. Having seen the blood on Nora's forehead, he frowned and then immediately took out his handkerchief to press it on the wound. "What the hell is going on?" David yelled.

Seeing the two women squabbling and even starting to fight put David on edge. However, in truth, David was more concerned about Rita's well-being. Therefore, when he saw Nora was the one on the ground and not Rita, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

David was so glad to find that Rita was safe. He was certain that Rita and the baby would not be able to survive such an accident.

Teary-eyed, Nora looked miserable. "I found Rita standing here, and when I asked her why she had left, she got mad at me out of the blue... David, it's fine. Rita didn't mean it... I don't blame her," said Nora, as she feigned her innocence.

Nora was confident that her acting prowess would succeed in gaining the trust and sympathy of others. However, Nora derived more satisfaction from the fact that Rita could do nothing to dispute what she was saying.

David glared at Rita, grim-faced. He was waiting on Rita's explanation.

Rita nodded indifferently and answered casually," Yes, Nora is not lying."

Baffled, Nora didn't know how to react as she found Rita's audacity unfathomable. Why would Rita accept her fault without any excuses? Did she willingly send the helve after the hatchet? Did she not care about what David would think?

Meanwhile, David maintained his cool like frost covering his face. He would have appreciated a proper explanation rather than such a perfunctory answer. Rita's casual answer made him feel like he was just an insignificant person to her, a person she didn't even care to talk.

"Apologize!" he yelled at Rita.

The present scenario was so familiar to Rita that it reminded her of the old days when Nora would play the same trick to frame her. Unfortunately, back then she was so young and naive that she fell for those tricks every time. The harder she tried to defend herself, the more hatred she received from the Xu Family, especially David.

Rita was fed up with it all. Every time Nora played this trick, David would always take Nora's side. Whereas, he'd look at Rita with the same kind of resentment he was showing her now. "Apologize! Now!' David yelled again.

'Even the same words, ' Rita thought.

No matter how hard she tried to explain herself, nobody would believe her. No wonder she didn't care to explain herself this time. What would be the point?

"No," refused Rita. Indifference and indignation were the only expressions available on Rita's eyes.

"I said, apologize," David asserted.

"No." Rita looked at him with nonchalance, as if he was just an insignificant stranger to her. There was nothing nor anybody could make her compromise her dignity. "What? You want to slap me again?"

The memory of David slapping her for Nora was still fresh on her mind. After all, it wasn't only her face that was hurting from that incident, it was also her dignity.

Hearing this, David's pupils constricted and his heart felt like someone had stabbed it with a thousand needles. Naturally, Rita would never forget the past, and neither would David.

"Anything else? No? Then I guess I can take off." Rita thought she had finally won this time. It was true that people could gain invincibility when they stopped caring about others. But why wasn't she as happy as she would have imagined?

David stood there dumbfounded as he helplessly watched Rita leave. Just as he was about to go after Rita, Nora grasped his arm and held him back.

"David..." Nora whispered.

Suddenly, David remembered that Nora was hurt. After hesitating for a while, David gently brushed her hand off and said," The driver is right outside. You can ask him to take you to the hospital. Better go check yourself soon."

Soon, David got up and left her there to go after Rita.

David's horror of losing Rita came back to his mind. After all, she was the mother of his child. Naturally, David thought it was normal to worry about her. How could he just let her run off on her own? Rita's well-being was David's main priority.

Dissatisfied, Nora sat there sullenly with a long face.

David was a different man now. He would have never left her alone like that. She was the love of his life. Who the hell was Rita? Perhaps it was because of that baby. Just as long as the baby was out of the equation...

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Meanwhile, the charity jewelry auction was still going on.

Jacob brought Emily to the auction and sat her right next to him, which proved everyone's speculations. Emily was aware of the crazy rumours about her relationship with Jack and Jacob flying around. However, the truth was that Jack was the one who had betrayed her trust.

Emily did not let the rumours affect her because she knew deep in her heart that she did nothing wrong. She was brave in choosing to believe that there was true love for her.

She was certain that no other man could love her more than Jacob did.

Just the thought of it made Emily's eyes sparkle with joy. She quietly stole a glance at Jacob's handsome face right next to her and melted into his attractive eyes, deep as the sea. When Jacob looked back at her, Emily's cheeks blushed red.

With his thin, well-defined lips, he gave her a captivating smile. When he came to hold her hand, he felt a satisfying sensation all over his body. He still couldn't believe that this girl belonged to him and only him.

"You can bid on anything you like. Everything here is affordable for your man," he said.

"I haven't seen anything I like yet," she replied.

Emily was very picky with her choices, mainly because as a jewelry designer, her taste in jewelry was higher than most people. It would take more than just gems to attract her attention. Moreover, the auction was sponsored by LA, therefore, she had already seen most of the jewelry there.

Although some of the unique jewelries won Emily's favor, Tina bid high prices on all of them. It was obvious that Tina was doing that on purpose to deprive Emily of what she liked.

Emily didn't care much about it. She was just happy to know that the money everyone spent on bidding for the jewelry at the auction was going to charity, thus Emily had no reason to stop others from bidding at high prices. Emily, however, would not deliberately bid on something to raise the price, as it would be unethical.

Tina on the other hand, did not think along the same lines.

Tina kept a watchful eye on Emily, as if she was obsessed with her. Just as long as Emily was interested in a jewelry, Tina would immediately make a high priced bid to acquire the item.

Somehow Tina derived her pleasure from this. She wanted to take away anything Emily liked, because in Tina's opinion, Emily didn't deserve to own any of it. Tina took pettiness to a whole new level.

Secretly watching Emily and Jacob being intimate, drove her so mad that she accidentally broke the finger nail she had just gotten polished today.

The slight crack on her broken nail drew Mark's attention. Mark asked," Tina, are you all right?"

"Oh, yeah. I'm fine," Tina answered slowly. For a moment the jealousy and hatred that had disappeared from her eyes, became visible again.

Finally, the auctioneers revealed the last jewelry at the end of the auction.

"The last one on auction is a gem brooch, donated by Mr. Jacob of the Gu Consortium..." The introduction the host gave immediately drew the attention of all the people there. "This gem brooch is designed by Miss Emily. She was awarded the winner of the 'International Jewelry Design' for designing this very brooch. Although it was slightly damaged due to unknown reasons, it has been restored to its original condition after careful repair..."

The gem brooch attracted everyone's attention. Most of them there attended the auction just to see Jacob. They assumed that the winner of the gem brooch Jacob had donated, would have a higher chance of winning his favor.

As soon as the introduction was over, everyone was ready to bid for the gem brooch and impress Jacob.