But in the end, it was too late.
As Darren yelled out, the man's dagger stabbed Clara directly in the arm.
"Ahh..."
The excruciating pain caused Clara's body to shiver, staggering, she fell to the ground.
At the same time, Darren had finally rushed to the man and swung his fist across without saying a word!
Russell was a soldier and was always very strict with his children and grandchildren, who had been taught essential martial arts and karate since they were young. The man was knocked to the ground with a punch.
"Clara!" Darren didn't even bother to look at the man on the ground. He just quickly rushed to Clara, who had fallen to the ground and picked her up.
Looking at her pale face and red silk shirt, Darren felt as if his heart had been hammered by something!
The next second, he looked around at the stunned crowd and shouted, "What are you doing standing there? Call an ambulance!"
Only then did everyone wake up as if from a dream, trembling while rushing to dial the ambulance number.
Darren held Clara tightly, who was uncomfortable with his sudden closeness and whispered, "Don't be so nervous. It's just a small wound on the arm. Let go of me. Everyone's watching."
But Darren, as if he couldn't hear her, just held his hand over her bleeding wound, shuddered, and shouted in anger, "Clara, you're an idiot! Do you have any idea how dangerous that situation was? Why did you come at me?"
Darren seemed to have forgotten that there were people from the company watching, that he had been loathing Clara the other day, and that Clara had betrayed him two years ago.
At the moment, all he could see was Clara's ghastly white face and the bright red blood.
And...
Clara's words, "Darren, look out!"
Clara looked at Darren in front of her, and for a moment, she was dazed.
At this moment, she suddenly felt that the Darren in front of her had changed back to the Darren she was once familiar with.
Not the Darren in the suit who was always sneering at her, but the Darren in the white shirt and jeans giggling at her on his bike in the schoolyard.
Darren didn't seem to notice the change in Clara's eyes and was still scolding her in annoyance, "Clara, you silly girl! What kind of gallantry are you trying to display?"
Clara froze, and then suddenly couldn't help but laugh.
The smile was a bitter one.
She remembered that Darren had loved to say that about her when they were studying together.
Whenever she stayed up late to work on her scholarship, she stood up for a female student in the same faculty who was not treated fairly, and she went on a long run for the sports day even though she had her period...
He would have hugged her angrily and said heartily, "Clara, do you remember you're a girl!"
At that moment, the ambulance sounded outside, and without saying a word, Darren picked Clara up directly across the room and walked out quickly with her in his arms, ignoring the gasps and shocked stares of the people around him.
In Darren's familiar embrace, Clara was lost in thought again.
For a moment, she felt as if she had been transported back to that summer three years ago, when, still on her period, she had participated in a long-distance race and fainted from the pain at the end. Darren had tumbled down from the stands, picked her up and rushed to the infirmary...
Clara was a little deterred from thinking more about it.
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