SPOILED GIRL - Season 9 Episode 76

“What? Are you kidding me?” Rita stood up abruptly and stared at Emily incredulously for a second before shaking her head disbelievingly.

David had forbidden Rita from leaving the house, but today she had managed to sneak past the bodyguards at home and meet Emily while David was out on work.

Although it had only been a few minutes since they met at the cafe, the shocking news Emily had given her was hard to take in all at once.

“Rita, please calm down. I know this must be hard for you. If it makes you feel any better, I couldn’t believe it when Jacob told me either.” Glancing apologetically at the people around them, Emily blushed and asked Rita to sit down.

Rita’s breathing quickened as she reached out for the glass of cold water on the table and drank it down in one big gulp. “Emily, Jacob wouldn’t lie to you.

Now that you’ve mentioned it, when I asked David about this yesterday, I noticed his hesitation to speak freely. That can only mean that what you’re saying is true.”

Having recalled David’s awkward behavior last night, Rita concluded that he must have been hiding something from her.

Perhaps David was afraid of how she would react if she were to find out the truth about what had happened.

“David hasn’t told you yet?” As soon as Emily heard the news, she had been dying to inform Rita. Therefore, she couldn’t understand why David would keep the truth from her.

If Jacob knew who was responsible for kidnapping Beryl and Dylan, then it would be safe to assume that David knew about it too. In fact, it would be strange if he didn’t know about it yet.

“Perhaps David is just waiting to be absolutely certain before jumping to conclusions, and that’s why he hasn’t told you yet? Rita, try to be patient. Let’s see what he says later.”

Emily was afraid that Rita would start a fight with David because of what she had said, so she insisted that Rita go back home and have a face-to-face conversation with David.

“Emily, do you think it’s possible that they could be wrong about Darren? Why would Darren kidnap Dylan?”

Rita’s eyebrows furrowed in deep crease, as she gingerly tapped the bridge of her nose. Rita knew Darren personally. And she knew what kind of a person he was. None of it seemed to add up in her mind.

‘What could drive a man to kidnap his own nephew? Why would he want to use Dylan to force a divorce out of us? But what does he or the Xu family get out of splitting up our marriage…’ Rita couldn’t understand Darren’s motives behind the crime he was being accused of.

“Perhaps it would be better to ask Darren that question in person.” Emily was just as puzzled as Rita was, if not more. Anyone who’d heard that David’s older brother was the man responsible for the kidnapping of his son was shocked.

“Do you think that Nora has something to do with this?”

Emily was not familiar with Darren and the only thing she knew about him was that his wife was Nora. After all, Emily wouldn’t put it past Nora to use Darren’s love and sympathy to achieve her goal of dismantling David and Rita’s marriage.

Rita would have landed on the same conclusion as Emily had she not known Darren personally. “Darren isn’t a gullible person who could easily be manipulated. I am almost certain that there’s more to this than meets the eye.”

‘This seems to go deeper than I first anticipated!’ The problem at hand seemed too complicated, so Emily shook her head, dismissing all thoughts on the matter. “Forget it. Don’t think about it for a while. David will eventually give you a reasonable explanation.”

Nonetheless, David’s older brother would have to give an explanation for kidnapping his own nephew.

Rita nodded her head and drifted off to her thoughts, biting on the straw as she drank.

“Let’s drop the subject for now. What about you? What exactly do you and David want to do now? Beryl told me that Dylan wanted to run away from home. How are you guys doing?”

Emily asked to meet with Rita because she couldn’t wait to tell her that David’s older brother was the man who kidnapped the children. On the other hand, Emily just wanted to know how her best-friend was holding up after her family had been through such a difficult time.

Ever since David was discharged from hospital, Emily had seldom seen Rita. As a matter of fact, Emily didn’t even know that David had forbidden Rita to leave the house.

“Us? I guess we’re just as we were. Dylan must have overheard us arguing and thought that we were getting a divorce…” Rita’s voice choked up a bit.

“It’s all my fault. If I hadn’t quarreled with David, then Dylan would not have misunderstood what we said.

Looking back on that day, I realize that I had been so irrational that I didn’t even realize that Dylan was still at home.”

“If that’s the case, then you should be more attentive in the future. By the way, Beryl also mentioned something about Dylan thinking that he isn’t David’s son. What’s that about? Perhaps you should do a DNA test and then throw the test report at David’s face?”

Rita could never even conceive such a thought in her mind, let alone speak it out loud. The only person Dylan could have heard that from was David.

Emily shook her head in disappointment. David’s repeated skepticism about Dylan’s true identity was starting to get tiresome.

As a matter of fact, even Rita had thought about it before, but since she was certain that Dylan was David’s son, she didn’t see the need to get a paternal test. Now, after taking Emily’s words into consideration, Rita felt like it was necessary to get it over with, once and for all.

“Let me think about it.”

“Think about what? The sooner, the better. All you have to do is get strands of their hair and I’ll accompany you to the hospital.” Without hesitating, Emily pulled Rita up and walked out of the cafe. Before long, David and Dylan’s DNA test result came out.

“The probability of paternity rate is as high as 99% which concludes that the alleged father cannot be excluded as the biological father of the child. Rita, look at this! David is wrong. Dylan is without a doubt his own son! Is there something wrong with David?” Emily waved the report angrily at Rita’s face.

There was nothing like an irrefutable piece of evidence to eliminate all doubt.
“Rita, if David questions the identity of Dylan again, just throw this report at his face and tell him to open his eyes.” Emily handed the report back to Rita.

If Jacob were to doubt the identities of Beryl and Bowen, Emily wouldn’t hesitate to get a paternity test and throw the results at Jacob’s face and make him apologize for even coming up with such thoughts.

“You’re right. I will do that.” Rita was deeply relieved.

This wasn’t the first time David had questioned who Dylan’s father was. And every time he brought it up, it would only make Rita doubt herself. It was time for her to put an end to this chapter.

When Rita went back home, she found that David had returned from his second older brother’s house.

David’s glower became a frown, and he folded his arms, leaning back against the couch. “Where were you? Didn’t I tell you not to leave the house for at least a few more days?”

Taking into consideration their recent arguments over getting a divorce, David was afraid that Rita would leave him and never come back. Suffice it to say, David was surprised and worried to see that Rita wasn’t home when he came back from work.

“Don’t worry. I just went out for some tea with Emily. What’s the matter? I won’t run away. I’ve told you that.” Rita rolled her eyes at him and walked up the stairs.

David heaved a sigh of relief and went after her. “You’re right. Dylan is still here and I know you wouldn’t leave him.”

Rita had grown tired of David’s incessant pestering. She turned around, pulled out the paternal test report from her bag and slammed it against his chest.

“Open your eyes and read this!”

“What is this?”

David looked at the paper with a confused expression before he carefully read the whole thing and realized that it was a paternity test report.

“Dylan is my son ?” David’s face displayed mixed feelings of surprise and delight the moment he read the report. There had been no reason for him to doubt his son’s identity all along.