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.
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