Chapter 13 Go Home Emily (2/2)

It was a dangerous move by Rose, but she never really did anything without calculating the odds. She was the first to present her defense. ”Honorable Judge, Emily and I, we are friends, and we have had some discussions about our designs in the past... but I never thought that things would turn out this way.”

Everyone could see disappointment in her eyes as she turned to Emily and looked at her. ”I've worked hard to come up with the design for this brooch. Its irregular shape was my very own idea, and the baby on the central disc represents new life, hope and a feeling of returning to nature...”

Emily bit her lip and finally threw a question at Rose, stressing each syllable, ”Rose, aren't you ashamed of yourself?”

Emily knew very well that Rose had numerous plans to belittle her. She even copied Emily's design and pretended as if she had done nothing wrong!

”Emily, what are you talking about?” a spark of guilty conscience flashed in Rose's eyes, but she continued, ”Come on. Everyone makes mistakes. I know that you did not do it on purpose. I am not blaming you...”

Emily trembled with rage when she heard Rose's words. What a shameless lady Rose was!

Everyone in the room shifted their piercing gazes at Emily. They sized her up as if she were a prisoner.

Emily kept a straight face and was about to protest Rose's false claims. At that time, a man's voice suddenly caught everyone's attention, they turned around to find out who was speaking.

”Ms. Rose is my friend. I believe that she is an upright lady. In fact, prior to the competition, I've had some discussions with her about the design of the brooch. I can guarantee that she is innocent! I hope that the judges here would be severe to penalize the plagiarist!”

The audience quickly found out who was speaking on behalf of Rose when they turned to the voice. It was Anderson, a renowned master of jewelry design; a man whose voice was influential in the jewelry circle.

Rose was fully prepared for this—Anderson was invited by Jack. With the master standing behind Rose, Emily looked rather suspicious as she did not have anyone to speak for her.

Within seconds Emily was under attack from all sides. Everybody looked at her with spite and disgust. A designer would never be forgiven for plagiarism in the jewelry design circle.

”How dare she! She copied the work of another designer!”

”Plagiarist! A thief! She should be ashamed to be here!”

”Go home Emily! Shame! You don't belong in this community!”

Emily did not say a word.

”Go home Emily! Shame! You don't belong here!” several people yelled. In fact, they were actually hired by Rose to mislead the others. She got the result she had wanted from them.

Jacob, who was sitting amongst the other distinguished guests, looked at what was happened before him with no expression in his face. However, his displeasure could be felt by anyone sitting beside him.

Sam, who stood beside Jacob, asked in a low voice, ”Mr. Jacob, should we help Ms. Emily?”

'Mr. Jacob seems to think highly of Ms. Emily. He won't be happy to see her being mistreated like that, ' Sam thought.

”Do you care that much about her?”, Jacob glanced at Sam with his dark eyes and asked.

”I work for you, Mr. Jacob. So I care about everyone that you care about, ” Sam answered, with beads of sweat pouring out of his forehead.

Jacob didn't respond to Sam's words. He drew back his eyes and then squinted again at Emily.

”Calm down. She won't give up the fight, just wait and see.”

Jacob believed in Emily. If she cannot even protect her own work, she might not be suited for this jewelry circle.

Sam nodded but knew that his boss had a plan.

Although Jacob had told Sam to calm down, Sam knew clearly that Jacob had asked Mr. Victor to look after Emily earlier. 'Mr. Jacob really cares about Ms. Emily. Why couldn't he just admit it?, ' Sam said to himself.

”Mr. Jacob...Mr. Jack is here too.”

”I know, ” Jacob answered indifferently. He did not have much interest in his nephew's presence there.