A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Chapter 165 Where Is the Baby’s Dad

In the Delivery Room.

"Who is the relative of this woman? Please come in to give her some support," said the doctor.

Emily let go of Jacob's hands and rushed forward to the doctor. "I'm her best friend. I'll go," said Emily.

"No," Jacob disagreed sullenly. However, Emily cared only about Rita at this moment, so despite his disapproval, she walked straight into the delivery room and shut the door.

Inside, Rita was lying on the bed and had already been woken up due to her labour pains. She had cold sweats all over, and her face had turned pale as a ghost.

"Rita…" said Emily, anxiously. Emily never had any experience with child birth, so she had no idea what to do. However, she calmed herself down and knelt down beside Rita's bed. Emily held Rita's hands tightly and encouraged her,"Come on. You can do it!"

Rita opened her eyes slowly, as she heard Emily's voice. "Emily. Ow!" she cried.

Rita cried so loud that it made Emily's heart tremble. However, in order not to make Rita feel frightened, Emily didn't show any signs of panic, instead she said,"Come on. Rita. You can do this!"

Rita bit her lips as hard as she could, as the pain was becoming overwhelmingly hard to endure. "Emily. Don't leave me alone here," Rita implored.

"It's all right, Rita. I'm here. Don't be afraid," assured Emily.

Another sharp pain swept through Rita's body. She howled again,"Ow!"

Rita's screaming reminded Emily of how Rose looked when she was lying on the bed just hours ago. They both suffered from great pain, except Rita was suffering from the pain of labour, while Rose, from

the pain of induced labour.

By now, Rita's lips were starting to bleed because of how hard she bit them. Emily was so frightened, that she rolled up her sleeve and put her arm in front of Rita's mouth. "Rita, bite me when you feel the pain. Don't bite yourself," she said.

Rita was barely conscious, so she opened her mouth and bit as hard as she could.

Immediately, Emily groaned, but she still held tight to Rita's hand with one hand and forced the other hand over Rita's mouth to keep Rita from screaming.

Jacob stayed outside with a look of sullen resentment. He knew nothing about what was happening inside the room. He could only hear Rita's cries repeatedly.

'Where is the father of the baby? He forgot his duties to this pregnant woman, and left her for me to drive her to the hospital. Now my girl has to accompany her during the labour! Is the father of this baby dead?' Jacob thought.

Jacob took out his phone from his pocket and called David, but failed to reach him. He called David several times, but David didn't answer his calls. Agitated, Jacob was so angry at David that he wanted to smash his own phone. In the end, all he could do was just sit outside, and wait patiently.

"Wahh…" Finally, the sound of a baby crying resonated from the delivery room.

Barely able to keep her senses, Rita was so tired that she couldn't even lift her finger. A few minutes after the baby was born, Rita fell into a partial comatose state. Emily watched with wonder as the doctor pull out Rita's baby. For some reason, she still couldn't shake the image of Rose's unborn infant from her mind. In just one day, Emily had witnessed both the end and the start of a new life.

The baby was soon wiped clean. Apart from the doctor and the nurses, Emily was the first one to see Rita's newborn baby.

"Rita. You are so brave! Look at your kid!" she said. Emily didn't expect to feel so touched at that moment, but she couldn't stop the tears from trickling down her face.

Emily's words had awakened Rita. Exhausted, Rita tried to open her heavy eye-lids and asked,"Is it a boy or a girl?"

"It's a boy. He's so cute!" Emily held Rita's baby to her face and said excitedly.

Rita took a glance at her baby and looked away with resentment. "He's so ugly!" Rita complained.

Emily didn't know what to say. 'No one should say something like that about their own child!' Emily thought.

The little baby boy suddenly cried out loud, as if he understood what his mother had said about him.

Rita, however, was worn out, and she fell back to sleep as soon as she turned her head to the other side. Although Rita gave birth to this baby by natural labour, it was still very hard for her. Having seen the amount of pain Rita was going through, Emily suggested that the doctor give Rita a cesarean surgery. However, Rita had ordered the doctor to not give her a cesarean surgery unless her life was at risk. Therefore, Emily could do nothing for her friend, besides staying there with her. Fortunately, the baby was born without any problems.

However, Emily did not have any experience with a baby. She did not know how to pacify the crying baby, Thanks to the nurse who guided her, Emily was somehow able to stop the baby from crying.

Later on, the nurses rolled Rita's bed out of the delivery room. When Emily came out with the baby in her ams, she called out,"Jacob!"

A weary-headed Jacob, turned his head and froze as soon as he saw Emily holding a baby in her arms. "This baby..." he said.

For a second, he had a ridiculous illusion in his mind that Emily was holding their kid.

"It's Rita's baby. Take a look," she said. Emily smiled from ear to ear. Her previous worries from Rose and Jack's incident had completely disappeared from her mind.

Jacob stood up and took a look at the baby in Emily arms, only to see a wrinkled baby. "It's so ugly," Jacob shunned.

Baffled, Emily didn't know what to say to that.

'Jacob just said the same thing as Rita. Were they a couple?' Emily mused.

"All new-born babies look like this," said Emily.

Jacob looked at the kid again carefully. He snorted and concluded,"Our baby must be good-looking."

Emily pursed her lips and changed the topic,"All right, where is the baby's dad? Did you call David?"

"Yes, but I couldn't reach him," answered Jacob.

Emily frowned immediately and said,"How can he be absent on such an important occasion."

"Perhaps he's dead," Jacob sneered.

Jacob was frustrated. Because of David, he had to take of Rita before, and now he had to drive her to the hospital on the day of his child's birth. Was he even fit to be called the baby's dad?

Emily said nothing more about David, instead she looked tenderly at the baby in her arms. "Rita gave birth to this child without any preparation. Go buy some cans of milk powder and diapers. I'll be here looking after the child," said Emily.

Jacob frowned and made a phone call,"I'll ask Sam to get it."

Emily didn't care who would go as long as she got the things she wanted.

Soon, Emily brought the baby into Rita's ward, placed him in the crib and rocked it lightly. The baby just fell asleep quietly.

"I'll go back home and fetch some food. You stay here and look after them. Alright?" Emily turned her head to Jacob and asked.

"No," Jacob scowled and refused.

"Why?" asked Emily.

"Emily, this baby is not mine. Why should I do the things David ought to do?" asked Jacob. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Moreover, ever since this baby was born, Emily had been glued to it every second. She had so much affection for the baby, that it was overflowing from her eyes.

'What's so good about this ugly kid? Is he better than me? She never looked at me like that!' Jacob thought.