A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 134 Priceless Pleasure

The woman smiled brightly, showing her lovely dimples. She said,"Hello! I'm Nora Mo. David and Rita are my friends."

The way Nora was speaking, she seemed too close with David. But he didn't avoid or stop her. It seemed that David was already used to it.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Emily Bai." She nodded as Emily introduced herself. Emily turned to Rita and noticed her facial expression was a little impatient. Hence, Emily immediately said,"Come in please."

As a woman, Emily's intuition told her that their relationship must have been a little difficult to analyze.

"Rita, let me help you." Nora said with enthusiasm as she went toward Rita. She reached out and extended her hands to show sincerity. But Rita just ignored Nora's hand.

"No thanks! But I think I don't need your help." Rita didn't even look at her, answering Nora in an unkind manner.

Nora was embarrassed at Rita's reaction. She didn't know how to respond. She pressed her lips and there was an upset and injustice expression flashed across her face. With a soft and lowly voice, she said "I just wanted to help you. I just...".

David who was watching them silently, suddenly spoke. "Rita, what kind of attitude is that?! You are being rude with Nora!".

"Well, you know the reason, right?". Rita sneered. Before today, no matter what she said or do to him, David wouldn't get annoyed. But this time, unexpectedly, when she was rude to Nora, he immediately came to her rescue.

"You..."

"Okay the auction was about to start. Let's come inside now." Without hesitation, Emily stopped them immediately. She instantly took Rita inside and whispered,"What's going on there?". Are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm fine."? With a grimly smile, Rita answered,"Don't worry. I know what I'm doing."

When David and Rita were still married, Nora was David's sister-in-law, wife of his second eldest brother. However, Nora managed to have a hold of David and was able to stay by his side. And to make things worse, Nora was the woman David cherished so much for so many years, but they didn't end up being together. It could lead to a conclusion that Nora was part of the reason of their divorce.

But now that Rita thought about it, she felt that she should be thankful to Nora. It was Nora who made her realized and brought her to reality that David didn't love her from the very beginning. It was good that Rita was able to leave him and free herself from a marriage that has no love at all.

Even though they were already divorced, Rita was intentionally trying to come between David and Nora. She simply wanted to pissed them off.

Seeing Rita sneered and walked away from him, David felt irritated. With such a rude attitude, was she trying to embarrass him in public? 'What the hell this woman wants?' he thought.

Noticing David's dim expression, Nora tenderly looked at him and said,"David, calm down. It's okay. Maybe Rita is not in a good mood today, and that's why she acted like that." Trying to comfort him, Nora tried to reached out to hold his hand.

But David retracted his hand immediately and avoided Nora's touch. He said,"Don't mind her."

Actually, David called his second eldest brother after Nora arrived. However, his brother didn't tend to bring Nora back but instead asked David to take care of her and look after her for a while.

David couldn't figure out what his brother's intention or if they were having a problem. All he could do now was to agree with what he asked. When Nora found out about David and Rita, she told David that Rita must have misunderstood them. So, she insisted into getting to know her and that they could clear those misunderstandings between them..

David would usually grant Nora's requests. As she plead him, David tried to get them a chance to know each other. But then, the outcome was different from what he hoped for. Their being together just created more 'misunderstandings' between them. Considering Rita's actions and attitude, David thought that she was the only one who didn't give them a chance to clear things up. Nora didn't do anything wrong.

David already knew that Rita didn't like Nora at all. Even before they were still married, they often quarreled about Nora.

David signed and said,"Nora, I think you'd better keep your distance from Rita from now on."

Nora looked at David like a naive and innocent girl. She answered with a tender expression,"David, are you afraid that I might give Rita a wrong impression? If that's the case, it's my fault. If I did something wrong, I would apologize and explain it to her. I'm sorry..."

"No, it's not your fault." It upseted David to see Nora's eyes filled with sadness. He said,"Forget it. Let's not talk about it. Let's just discuss it some other time."

Nora lowered her head and answered weakly,"Mmm." Unknown to David, her lips curled up and a sly smile was showed.

Meanwhile, after Emily took Rita to her sit, she was taken immediately by Jacob who had been waiting for her for a long time. So, Rita was left alone. After a while, David and Nora came and they both sat beside Rita.

The auction officially started after the opening remarks given by the host.

Jewelry was one of the woman's passion. It symbolized femininity and to some, it showed social status. All the jewelry for auction were one of the best. Besides, the jewelry at the auction were donated by LA Jewelry and the rest were donated by some of the guests. Almost every piece of the jewelry was in favor for the women that were present at the auction.

And one of the most generous bidders was Rita. She bid to almost every piece of jewelry at the auction. There were times that even before the host started the pricing bid, she already offered her price. And?Rita's offer was getting higher and higher than her previous bids. That instance, Rita stole the limelight.

"Are you out of your mind?!. You're going spend twenty million on a necklace that is just worth two million?!". David who was sitting beside Rita couldn't believe she would do such thing. Although he didn't care about money, it would be a total foolishness to spend it that way. And it seemed that she didn't mind if she would be labeled as an idiot. All text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.

Rita finally seemed to notice him. Giving him a scornful look, she said,"So what? I'm happy in what I'm doing. Money is nonsense but my pleasure is priceless.

Giving emphasis on her last words, Rita showed a bit of arrogance. David felt that she was like flirting with him the way Rita talked. Brushing away his thought, he knew it was just his illusion. She would not flirt with him now that they were divorced.

Nora turned her head and took a peek at Rita with obvious disdain in her eyes. "Rita," Nora called out her name,"Though the amount of the jewelries is nothing for David, he sure worked hard to earn that money you were using. Is it right to waste his money that way?"

"His money?" Rita said with contempt. "It is his family who worked for it but not him. How so sure you are it is him who worked for it? That was the funniest joke I ever heard, I guess this year."

Once again, Rita was able to embarrass David by her words. Did she mean that the only reason he was rich was because his family gave him the money? During his younger years, David never really intended to work. He would just enjoy his life and do nothing; but now, he began working for their branch company at Z country. Why did Rita always look down on him? Why did he look so small to her?

Nora was at loss for words all of a sudden after hearing what Rita said. After a while, she said,"Fine. But...But... As you said, it's his family's hard-earned money. How can you just waste it? That's ridiculous..."

"Ridiculous? Why it is ridiculous?" Raising her eyebrows, Rita said,"This is a charity auction, so all the money I spend is to help the charity which would also be a good way to remember and bless my unborn child. And, this baby is also a Xu."

Rita didn't even tell Nora that David had gave her all of his properties and put it under her name. If Nora would learn about this, for sure this bitch might pass out of anger and jealousy.

She felt satisfied! It was so pleasing to her that she was able to irritate and upset someone who she hated.

Nora didn't know how to answer or to refute what Rita has said. She looked at David, her eyes asking him for help.

David wasn't able to see Nora's look for he turned to Rita and saw her bright smile and her eyes that were full of happiness. It was the first time that he was able to see her smile like this. Pressing his lips, he gave up and signed. Finally he said,"As long as you are happy."

Nora bit her lip and remain silent while she watched Rita on how she spent the money like there was no tomorrow. David just kept on looking at Rita and said a few words from time to time.

"The quality of this bracelet seems not a good one, but it is chic and beautiful. It's good to take it as a collection..."

Rita ignored what he just said. She only cared about her feelings of enjoyment in spending the money that was given to her.