Chapter 449 Im Here To Save You (1/2)

Rita and David stayed in the ward for quite long and did not leave the entire morning. They walked out of the hospital side by side when the sun had risen quite high over the horizon.

”I'm really worried about Emily. She looked a bit odd today. Don't you think?” Rita asked in a concerned voice and nudged David on the shoulder. ”You know what? I think we should take her away...”

To her, it hadn't been a good idea to leave Emily alone with Jack; he had a reputation for being cruel and inhuman.

David took her hand into his own and looked deep into her eyes. ”She's an adult now, Rita, and has her own thoughts and decisions to make. If we try to make one for her, we might end up doing more harm than good because we don't know what she needs the most,” he explained earnestly.

”So you want us to stand by and do nothing?” Rita asked with a slight frown of disagreement.

”Of course not. We can keep an eye on her and if we see that she's in trouble, we can take her away at once,” David answered.

”Okay. I guess that's the only way,” Rita compromised, but was still really worried about Emily.

Her anxious expressions caused David a great deal of heartache. So he deliberately changed the subject in an effort to shift her focus elsewhere, ”I'm your husband, alright? But when Jack beat me up, you didn't show any concern for me. Do you really treat me as your husband?”

After they had remarried, David had always yearned for her to call him husband, or darling, or honey, but she had refused to do that, which had disappointed him.

Rita landed a slight blow on his shoulder and replied teasingly, ”Really? What are you, a seven year old? And besides you always told me that you had a strong body and no one could hurt you. So why didn't you knock Jack out? You're a bit weaker than you agreed.”

”Weak? Are you serious? I almost wanted to kill that bastard! If we were in a one-to-one battle, I would have sent him straight to hell. But he had his men by his side and I was outnumbered. Shame on him!”

As they argued frivolously, something sad seemed to dawn on them and they fell silent.

After a long while, Rita finally let out a sigh and remarked, ”I never believed Jacob was dead until just now.”

In her mind, Jacob was such a strong and powerful man who always had every situation well under his control. Now someone had told them he was dead, and she found it hard to believe.