Attracted By My Ex-wife novel Chapter 41

"Stop, Anne!" Ruth exclaimed.

Anne had heard Ruth's voice from behind again while she was walking towards the escalator. She stopped in front of it, with a frown upon her face.

Meanwhile, Emily saw Ruth turning back to search for them and with exasperation from not being able to vent our her pent up anger, she said, "Oh, wow. The woman even dares to come back, huh!"

Faintly, Anne turned sideways to face Emily and talked to her as if by whispering, "Don't be bothered, Emily."

After saying that, she walked forward again, ignoring Ruth who was behind her.

With the way that Anne had ignored Ruth, how could it not annoy her? Ruth sprinted to where Anne and Emily were, got ahold of Emily's hand, and slapped her.

"Are you seriously out of your mind?" Emily said, utterly stunned at the way Ruth just slapped her without a second thought.

Ruth had already taken action before Emily could even react.

The crisp sound of the slap was even louder than before. Obviously, she had hit her harder.

"That is enough!"

Anne quickly came to pull Emily away from Ruth just as she was about to slap her for the second time.

Emily, still absolutely flabbergasted, stood frozen and still had no idea how she was going to react to what just happened.

With all haste, Anne slapped Ruth in the face.

Cherry was just following them from behind and was shocked herself to see that Anne had slapped Ruth.

"Ah! ！ !" With a series of screams, having been beaten by Emily previously was the last thing Ruth could bare. Then she got beaten by Anne again, which was such a shame for her.

She got so angry that she started stomping her feet with her fists clenched and without even thinking twice, she tried to tackle Anne to the ground.

Still, she failed, since Anne was able to circumvent her sudden attempt to attack her. Nonetheless, considering how strong she got, Ruth was able to rush her way towards the escalator and got down there.

"Ah!"

Ruth, while screaming, had disappeared in front of them all.

Anne's heart skipped a beat and Emily had trouble catching her breath witnessing that. Everyone was dazed for a moment and had no idea what just happened because things seemed to have escalated so quickly. Cherry was the first one to take action. She dashed to the escalator and to her surprise, she saw that Ruth had rolled to the bottom of the escalator.

There was blood everywhere.

Cherry screamed in fear and everyone went to see for themselves what caused her to be terrified. Anne started hyperventilating. Emily's heart was pounding. She started grabbing onto Anne's clothes as if she was holding on for dear life.

"Ruth!!! Oh, my God! This is your fault, Anne! You pushed her down the escalator!" Cherry screamed to Anne's face.

She then went away from them and rushed down the escalator. Down there, Ruth was surrounded by a group of people already discussing what they thought might have happened but no one made an effort to call for an ambulance.

"It wasn't her fault! She didn't push Ruth!" Emily tried to defend Anne. Anne, not being able to speak, kept shaking her head while staring blankly at the floor. How could it have been her? She did not even touch Ruth.

Emily was still shaking and asked her, "Anne? Anne, what are we going to do?"

Emily had not a single idea what they would do. She did have a feeling they would get into a fight that day but she never would have predicted for things to go down gruesomely!

After a few moments, Anne stared at the horrifying pool of blood at the bottom of the escalator, and yelled at Emily, "Call for help now, Emily!!!"

Emily already knew what Anne meant by that and did as she ordered without hesitation. She immediately took her phone out of the pocket of her pants and dialed 120.

"Oh my, Ruth!'

Inside the hospital, a hurtle of footsteps could be heard approaching from afar, accompanied by a hoarse shout.

Anne sat and waited outside the operating room with her heart still racing and her hands and feet cold. She saw familiar faces from a distance. She tried to look closely, and when she was able to make out their faces, she realized that they were Ruth's parents. They went straight to the hospital as soon as they heard about their daughter.

Emily got more anxious and held onto Anne's clothes. She started crying and shaking uncontrollably.

She kept thinking about the possibility of Ruth dying and that made her even more terrified. Despite the fact that they did not have anything directly to do with Ruth's unfortunate accident, Emily still felt that they were, in a way, responsible for it.

Anne gently grabbed Emily's hands and tried to calm her down even if she was feeling very nervous herself and said in a low voice, "Everything will be fine, Emily. Don't be afraid. We will be okay and we will get through this."

Anne's hands were sweating like crazy making it obvious that she was just trying to be strong for them both so Emily tried to force a little nod in response.

"Wh-where did they bring Ruth? Where is my daughter?"

Linda, Ruth's mother, shouted upon bustling through the hospital doors. Her eyes were totally red and swollen from crying too much.

The man who accompanied her, which could very well be Ruth's father, seemed to have been trying to remain calm while he held her, but his face was heavy with sadness and confusion.

A few moments later, the man tried to calm her down and said, "Stop worrying too much. Our daughter just entered the operating room.

The doctors are doing everything they can. She will be fine."

Seeing that, Anne couldn't muster up the courage to even stand up and talk to them. However, how could Cherry not seize the opportunity?

She tried to force out a sniff and squeeze out a few tears before approaching Ruth's parents.

"Mrs. Sun, I'm sorry I failed to take good care of your daughter. I'm so, so sorry."

How could Anne be so calm in this situation?

Even she could not help but feel all sorts of terrified at the moment. She did not fake a cry but she was indeed scared.

Deep inside, though, she really hoped that Ruth would not make it, because in this way, Anne would never stand a chance to flop to the top.

"I never expected that Ruth would hate my cousin so much. The two of them had a dispute beside the escalator. Then when the argument got heated, Ruth tried to reach out to hit my cousin but my cousin ended up pushing her down by accident."

Cherry continued while bursting into tears.

Upon hearing that, Emily was on the verge of breaking down. What was Cherry talking about? Ruth rolled and fell down the escalator by herself. Why would Cherry ever say that it was Anne who pushed her?

At this critical moment, even if she was afraid, Emily couldn't help but stand up. She wanted to confront Cherry, but her body was pulled by Anne.

"Emily, leave her be," Anne said.

"But, Anne, she is literally framing you up right now!" Emily said, full of anger.

Anne had already been used to Cherry's plots, hadn't she? At this point, she was pretty sure Cherry was going to try to turn everything against her and put the blame on her.

"Are you saying that this woman pushed down our Ruth?"

After hearing Cherry out, Linda immediately set her gaze upon Anne, who was sitting next to her, and that made her enraged and anxious.

She was thinking that her daughter was in her deathbed fighting for her life while the alleged culprit was still sitting there even looking calm.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Sun. Anne didn't mean to do that. I apologize to you on behalf of her!"

Cherry shouted, grabbed Linda's hand and knelt down. The loud noise shocked Emily.

What was Cherry doing? She really was such a great pretender.

Unable to hold back her anger, Emily pulled away Anne's hand, ran to Linda and explained, "Mrs. Sun, it's not like that. Your daughter, Ruth rolled down by herself, instead of being pushed by Anne!"

Cherry knew that Emily would definitely come out to talk at that time. Without hesitation, she cried out again.

"Emily, I know you want to speak for Anne, but it has happened. Anne can't deny it! Mrs. Sun, I beg you to forgive Anne. She really didn't expect such a thing to happen!"

Emily answered her, "Cherry, how can you lie like that?" She was so distressed and confused. "I know you hate Anne, but can you really keep making stories up in serious situation like this, Cherry?"

She was so anxious. When she turned around, she saw Anne still sitting there as if nothing was happening.

Emily did not know what else there was to do. Seeing as Linda seemed to have believed in Cherry's testimony, she couldn't say another word anymore even though she wanted to kept explaining.