SPOILED GIRL, VOLUME 2 - Season 10 Episode 9

David was lying on his stomach next to Rita on the bed when he was suddenly awoken by her screaming. Raising his head, he looked at her and saw that her forehead was soaked with sweat and that her eyebrows were furrowed, as if in intense pain. Rita’s face was pale and drawn. Instantly concerned, David sat up and leaned over her, trying to judge whether she was awake or not.

“Rita, wake up. What’s wrong?” As David shook her lightly, he spoke to her in a gentle voice. It was as if he was trying to wake a small child from a nightmare, as he treated her like a precious treasure.

“Michelle, where are you? Where on earth are you…”

Rita was trapped in the same terrible dream as before. Her slender hands were wavering anxiously and she yelled again with desperation, “Michelle, I’m coming to save you. Don’t be afraid…

Don’t be afraid. I’m coming to save you!”
In her dream, Rita saw Michelle’s face masked with blood. Her younger sister was crying desperately. Rita wanted to embrace her but Michelle’s face suddenly became cold and gloomy, making her feel strangely rejected.

“It is you who lost me! It is you who failed to protect me!” Michelle’s voice sounded in her ears, as if coming from a great distance. Her accusations were like a knife plunging into Rita’s heart.

In the dream, little Michelle was holding a knife in her hand and her body was covered in scars, frightening everyone who looked at her.

Rita reached out her hand again trying to catch Michelle, but she failed and could only watch her fall down a bottomless chasm. In her dream, Rita watched her sister disappear from sight into the black abyss. Losing Michelle hurt just like it had on the day when she had been abducted.

“No! Ah!”

Rita groaned again and finally woke up. The first thing she saw was David’s worried eyes, and then his nervous expression. He was half-bent over her, holding her shoulders with his powerful hands as he tried to stop her from trembling. Rita took a deep breath as great big tears quietly rolled down her cheeks, glittering in the half-light of pre-dawn.

‘It is all my fault! If I had not failed to protect Michelle, she would never have become a merciless secret agent…’ Rita felt intense regret as she considered what she had learned from Nora.

I”It is okay. It is okay. I’m here with you. I’m here with you, darling.” David drew Rita into his arms, not caring that she was totally soaked with sweat. He leaned his chin against her head as he comforted her gently. Wrapping his arms around her tightly, he gently rocked her and soothingly stroked her back.

“It is my fault… It is all my fault…” Rita murmured hoarsely.

Her constant crying had rung out clearly in the tranquil night. Rita held onto David tightly as if he was the only one she could rely on in the whole world. He was her rock, her holdfast, and without him, she was lost.

David also held Rita tightly, though he said nothing more.

He knew that Rita had always felt remorse for what had happened to Michelle. However, Rita never considered that she had also only been a child at the time, and could have done nothing to save her sister.

What was more, David had always wondered why those people had only taken the younger Michelle, and not Rita as well.

‘So, maybe they were not just child traffickers but had a more sinister purpose than that in mind?’

Thinking of this, David could not help knitting his eyebrows and blaming himself for being so stupid as to miss the obvious clue. Child traffickers would always welcome the chance to take more kids, but they had only taken Michelle away, so they must have had some other purpose! Maybe that was why Michelle had chosen to become a secret agent now. It could also explain why they had failed to find her despite years of searching.

“Rita, maybe there is something more that we do not know yet. Let’s take it step by step. At least now, we know that Michelle is alive. That is more important than anything else, right?”

David comforted Rita gently, so he did not notice that Nora was hiding just behind the door, watching them.

‘If not for Rita, David would have been holding me in his arms now! Rita, you are such a bitch! You robbed me of everything! That happiness should have belonged to me!’ Nora raged in her mind, though she dared not utter a word of complaint out loud.

“Right…” Rita nodded her head, though her voice was low and still filled with the sorrow that the dream had brought her. After years of pain and loss, it was not easy to move forward.

“What are you doing here?” Dylan asked in a cold voice from behind Nora. He was watching her closely with his brows furrowed in concern. He had been on his way to see his mother, but had instead seen Rita crouched at the door.

Dylan felt that Nora’s eyes were full of anger and hatred as she turned to look at him in surprise, though he didn’t know the reason for it. ‘What does she want? Why did she come here? Is she going to hurt my mommy?’ Dylan could not help thinking about all this as he still felt responsible for allowing Nora into their home.

“I… I just wanted to see if your mother had woken up or not. I was worried that my words might have upset your mother. But I didn’t dare to go in, so I had to watch from here, from behind the door.”

She quickly found a plausible excuse for her suspicious behavior.

Nora turned around and quickly hid her jealousy and hatred for Rita. She pretended to be very gentle and worried instead, for Dylan’s benefit. She smiled softly and spread her hands innocently.

Hearing the sound of voices by the door, David helped Rita sit upright on the bed. He kissed her forehead and then left the room, closing the door softly.

“What’s wrong?” David glanced at Nora, who was already clean and neatly dressed up. A feeling of disgust rose up from his stomach as he questioned her coldly, and the gentleness with which he had just spoken to Rita disappeared completely as he looked at Nora.

“Daddy, she was eavesdropping on you and Mommy,”

Dylan immediately reported Nora to David. Nora’s face turned pale and tears quickly poured from her eyes as she gritted her teeth in offense at being ratted out by a child.

“No, Brother David, I was just worried about Rita,” she explained to David, sniffling and choking back tears.

David rubbed at his temple and stared at Nora with a straight face as his eyes became gloomy. “Call me David next time. And I do not want to hear Rita’s name from your mouth again. If you still want to stay in this house, you had better stay away from all the areas above the second floor. You had better stay quiet in the room that Stuart arranged for you. In fact, it is better if you do not walk around at all,” he warned with a glacial voice.

“Bro… David, I’m really worried about her. I’m afraid that my words earlier upset her…”

Nora’s face went deathly pale when she heard David’s ultimatum, though her fists clenched tightly under her long sleeves. She did not even feel the pain as she dug her nails into her palms in frustration.

“No need for that.” David could not help feeling annoyed as he raised his voice and scolded, “You should not be anywhere near Rita at all, understand?”

Rita was pregnant and she was already upset by the revelations concerning Michelle. If Nora did something to hurt Rita while she was in their house, David would feel intense regret for allowing Nora to stay here. Therefore, he decided not to let them meet each other again. The risks were just too high.

Nora’s face looked like she had just taken a shower, as tears continued running down her cheeks. She looked greatly aggrieved, just like before, when she had felt wronged by David’s lack of trust in her.

“You have already told me everything. Now, I will order my people to take you to a safe place where you can give birth to your baby.”

David made up his mind, and his eyebrows almost joined, as if he had just thought of something.

‘As long as Rita does not see Nora, she will not become upset. And then everything would be much easier, ‘ he decided.

“No! Brother David, please! Do not chase me out! If I leave this house, I will have only one choice, and that is death…”

Nora swiftly knelt down before David and grasped his clothes with her hands. Pulling at his clothes, she wept heartrendingly as she tried to change his mind.
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Dylan’s eyes turned cold as he immediately went to Nora and firmly disentangled her hands one by one from David’s clothes. “Do not touch my daddy!” Dylan’s young voice was full of disgust.

Despite his youth, he pushed Nora’s hands away. Dylan had not meant to push her hard, as he had just wanted to keep her away from his father. However, Nora staggered and fainted, instantly falling to the floor.

David was startled for one second, but then immediately called Stuart to help. Then, he looked fiercely at Dylan and warned in a low voice, “Wait for me in the study!”

In David’s mind, Dylan should not have pushed Nora because she was pregnant. It did not matter whether Nora was good or bad; the baby was still innocent. If Nora lost the baby, David would feel very guilty indeed.
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