Rita angrily stared at David who had broken into her home! She screamed, "David, what the hell are
you doing? You can't just break into my home like this. Are you crazy? Don't you remember your
promise from before? Get the hell out of here!"
David already promised her before that he wouldn't break into her home again but this was an
emergency. He pleaded, "Can we talk about this later? I'm already here anyway. Listen to me. I'm here
to..."
Before he finished his sentence, he noticed Emily was right there standing next to Rita. "Emily? What
are you doing here?" David cried out.
Rita showed her obvious distaste for his question, "Well, Who else do you expect to see?"
"Listen, I can explain. I mean..." David begged. David found himself misunderstanding Rita, so he
eagerly explained, "You know, I just care about you so much. That's why I make such a mistake,
otherwise I would not..."
"Out! Go out and go back where you came from," Rita screamed.
"Listen to me, honey!" David implored, his eyes glinting. He somehow looked pathetic but he just
continued, "Please! This is the third floor! imagine if I fell to my death?"
Rita sneered at him, and said, "How so? Well, personally, that would be so much better for me then you
can get out of my way and I can finally replace you!"
It hurt David to hear Rita saying all of these things but he kept his emotions to himself. He tried hard to
hold back all his frustration and disappointment. "Rita, are you really not aware? I mean..." he asked,
flustered.
Emily felt guilty as she watched the fight break out. "I'm sorry, this is my fault. I shouldn't have come
here. I'm sorry for bothering you..." she muttered apologetically.
"What are you saying sorry for? You're my friend. You're welcome here any time," Rita assured her.
Rita didn't look at David but she squeezed Emily's hand to comfort her.
David stared at Rita, biting his lower lip. Then he turned to Emily and said, "Emily, what are you doing
here? Didn't you know that Jacob's looking everywhere for you?"
Emily paled at this. "You... you know?" she stuttered.
Since David knew Jacob was looking for her then soon enough Jacob would find out that Emily was at
Rita's. All of her efforts to protect her baby would be for nothing.
"Let me take you back. Jacob's a complete mess," David said. All his anger had subsided when he
found out that Emily was just the person Rita was hiding all along.
What he couldn't understand was why Rita had to hide her in the first place.
"Can you please not tell him that I'm here?" Emily pleaded. Emily looked anxious and she was almost
begging David, "I, I can't let him find me..."
"Why? Did you and Jacob have a fight?" David asked. David couldn't understand why Emily was
asking him to do this.
Rita didn't understand either. Emily was pregnant. Even if she did fight with Jacob, it didn't make sense
that she was running away. What if something happened to her?
Rita had a different conjecture. "Is Jacob cheating on you? Does he have another woman?" she
pressed.
Before Emily could even answer, David piped in. "That's impossible. Jacob would never cheat," he
asserted.
David knew how much Jacob loved Emily. He would never believe it if anyone said Jacob had cheated
on Emily.
Rita refuted him as usual, "Why would it be impossible? You men only think with your dicks instead of
your brains! Besides, Jacob and Emily aren't even good for one another."
"No, he didn't. He didn't do anything wrong," Emily explained because she didn't want anyone to
misunderstand Jacob. She gathered all her courage to speak, "It's... it's my fault actually. I'm the one
who should be sorry. It's just my fault, okay? I just can't... I can't be with him anymore..."
Rita and David stiffened at this. Did they have it wrong all this time? Because they knew how
uncharacteristic it was of Emily to act like this.
In fact, to David, he would find it more believable if Jacob cheated on Emily than the other way around.
Maybe it was because Emily acted so innocent and angelic all the time. How could she do that?
"What the hell is going on here? Emily, you know you can tell me anything. I will help you no matter
what happens," Rita promised, concern filling her eyes.
Rita's words warmed Emily in heart. After Emily took a deep breath, she finally said, "This child is... is
not Jacob's..."
And they finally understood.
Rita and David were taken aback - they couldn't believe this.
Emily was the perfect little angel to them. She was so well-behaved and sensible. She was so
innocent! How could she do this!
Rita gathered herself and asked hesitantly, "Emily, did you really, I mean, cheat on Jacob?"
Emily wore a crooked smile on her face and she didn't want to talk about this anymore so she just
answered simply, "It's a long story but this child isn't his. I didn't mean for it to happen but I mean... it
was... it was an accident."
Rita's mind was racing but she didn't press further so she just asked, "What are you going to do now?"
"I want to keep the baby but Jacob doesn't," Emily answered flatly.
David was feeling a wave of emotions. 'And why would Jacob agree to that? There wasn't a man in the
world who would agree to that!' David thought to himself. He asked angrily, "Do you know Jacob's still
out there looking for you? He just called me last night asking me to help look for you. He wanted me to
tell him immediately if I find out anything."
"David, don't! Please don't tell him," Emily begged. Emily was already panicking, "I just want to keep
my baby. This baby is the only family I have now. Both my parents have died, remember? I have no
family now... but this baby...
I have nothing else. This baby is all I have. I can't lose this baby..." Emily said weakly.
David just looked blankly at Emily, "Don't think of it that way. I know it may be difficult to move on from
losing your parents but you still have Jacob. You're not alone. You should know that he loves you so
much. He's the one who loves you the most, okay? Maybe even better than your so-called parents.
You're not alone, okay?" he comforted her.
"I don't deserve him anymore. I don't know how to be with him anymore and there's no way I'm ever
going back to him," Emily answered.
"But you still love him, don't you? Because he does. He loves you so much. I don't know what's going
on, but Jacob's going crazy right now looking for you. And I couldn't even image what would happen to
him if he doesn't ever find you. Just come back to him, Emily. If you gave up this child and went back to
him, I bet he would forgive you," David said.
Every word he said was like a stone dropping on Emily's heart. She suddenly couldn't breathe. "You
don't understand..." she managed to choke out.
No one in this world understood her. No one knew what she was feeling in her heart and how much she
hated herself for it. It had cost her everything to even decide to leave him.
"Emily, you're just making this hard for both of you," David said. He didn't know what Emily was thinking
but he continued, "If you really love him, you wouldn't let him suffer like this."
This made Emily's heart ache.
Suffer? 'What Jacob was suffering from was because of me? Me?' Emily thought.
"But you still love him, don't you? Because he does. He loves you so much. | don't know what's going
on, but Jacob's going crazy right now looking for you. And | couldn't even image what would happen to
him if he doesn't ever find you. Just come back to him, Emily. If you gave up this child and went back to
him, | bet he would forgive you," David said.
Every word he said was like a stone dropping on Emily's heart. She suddenly couldn't breathe. "You
don't understand..." she managed to choke out.
No one in this world understood her. No one knew what she was feeling in her heart and how much she
hated herself for it. It had cost her everything to even decide to leave him.
"Emily, you're just making this hard for both of you," David said. He didn't know what Emily was thinking
but he continued, "If you really love him, you wouldn't let him suffer like this."
This made Emily's heart ache.
Suffer? 'What Jacob was suffering from was because of me? Me?' Emily thought.
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