In a daze, Emma opened her eyes when she heard the commotion. “What’s wrong? Stony? What are you saying?”
“No, Mom, just sleep,” Stony said softly.
Emma had seen the person standing at the door. She didn’t expect it to be Arabella. Covering her head, Emma sat up. She asked, “Why are you looking for me?”
“Are you sick?” The worry in Arabella’s eyes didn’t seem to be fake. “Have you taken the medicine?”
“Yes. I’ll be fine after resting for a while,” Emma said exhaustively.
The room was quiet. Arabella looked at Emma for a while and didn’t say anything. Emma probably guessed the reason she came here. Then she said to Stony, “Go and have breakfast with Wanda.”
Stony didn’t want to leave, but his mother’s gaze signaled him to leave, so he could only reluctantly leave.
After leaving, he went straight to Wanda’s room. “Wanda, can I borrow your phone? Is the number my mother dialed still recorded?”
“Yes, have a check. I don’t remember it.” Wanda took out her phone and gave it to him.
Stony found Collin’s phone number and called him at once. As soon as he got through, he shouted, “Mr. Collin, help!”
“I’m sorry. That day…” Arabella lowered her head. Speaking of that day, she was guilty and uneasy. “I’m so scared. I had nightmares in the past two nights. In those nightmares, those people held onto me. I’m sorry….”
“Do you hate me?” Arabella asked.
Emma shook her head weakly. She felt dizzy. She could only knit her eyebrows and returned, “No.”
“Who exactly are you?” Arabella asked again, “Why are you not afraid at all after killing people?”
Some thought flashed through Emma’s mind. It disappeared so soon that she couldn’t even get it.
Suffering a splitting headache, Emma looked at Arabella. Emma saw Arabella moved her lips, but she couldn’t hear Arabella’s voice clearly. “You know that Jaquan likes you, right? When he liked me back then, he behaved in the same way. He is a liar.”
“No.” Emma shook her head.
“What do you mean?” Arabella smiles bitterly, “Do you know how many stupid things he did when he loved me?”
“He does like you,” Emma said softly.
Arabella was shocked. After a while, she smiled, “Do you think I’m pitiful?”
“I envy you a lot,” Stoned, Emma closed her eyes and said.
“What are you talking about?” Arabella was astonished, “You envy me? What for?”
‘Jaquan likes you so much.’
Emma opened her mouth slightly and heard the siren whistling. She looked at Arabella blankly. Dropping her head, Arabella asked again, “Do you hate me?”
Emma stood up and fell heavily back onto the bed. “Stony,” she shouted powerlessly as she grabbed Arabella’s hand. “Hide him.”
Arabella was completely stunned. She even called the police to arrest Emma. But Emma wanted her to hide Stony.
Stony also heard the siren. He was running back when he saw a group of uniformed policemen rushing in and heading straight for their room.
“Mom…”
“Follow her. Go. Be good.” Emma’s face was pale. She was unable to wash up today, so she was in a sorry state. She hadn’t washed her face yet, and her hair was in a mess.
Before she left, she asked the police, “Can I get changed?”
The police didn’t want to agree, but Arabella said, “Let me help you.” She walked to the cabinet and found that it was empty. There were two suitcases lying on the ground.
“So you’ve prepared to escape.” Arabella whispered, “I thought you weren’t afraid of anything.”
Emma was indeed not afraid of anything, but she was too weak to explain. Leaning against the stool, she looked at the suitcases on the ground sickly. “Give me that azure blue cheongsam. Do you know how to comb hair in a bun?”
Arabella didn’t. She just helped Emma put on her cheongsam and washed her face with a towel. Then she saw Emma take off the cherry hairpin from her hair and hand it to Stony. “Keep it for me.”
Stony looked at her with tears all over his face and cried, “Mom…”
“Don’t cry. You are a man” Emma wiped away his tears. “Men can bleed, but they can’t cry.”
She picked up a hairpin on the table and wrapped it around her hair. She combed all the hair behind her head and fixed it with the hairpin. Afterwards, she put on a pair of high heels that she hadn’t worn for a long time before she followed the police.
The sun was warm today.
Emma walked under the sunshine and looked at the sky. She suddenly turned around and said to Arabella, “You just asked me who I was. Very soon, you will know it.”
Emma said softly, as if she was sighing. “I don’t hate you.”
Arabella found Emma was like a lady born with a silver spoon. Emma was aloof and cold, full of nobility.
Who exactly was she?
Arabella was lost in her thought. Why could Emma be so calm and indifferent when encountering such a thing?
Stony followed behind the police car and cried. Everyone in Tea Manor came out in fear to watch this scene. No wonder Emma brought her child over alone and said that her husband worked abroad. It was not true.
She killed someone!
Heavens! She was a murderer.
Wanda didn’t believe it and argued. “Impossible! Although Emma is cold, she is kind! Don’t talk nonsense! If it weren’t for her, that snake would have killed me!”
However, no one listened to her. Everyone was immersed in the shock that a murderer was hidden in the manor. They could not calm down for a long time.
“No wonder she stays at home every day. It turns out she a murderer!”
“Heavens! She looks like a normal woman. I didn’t expect that she would be a murderer. I even talked to her before. Heavens. Does she want to kill me?”
“Stop it. It’s scary! We have lived with the murderer for so long!”
“I’m going to have a nightmare. A murderer has been hidden in our manor. What bad luck!”
Wanda was so angry that she shed tears. “How can you be like this? Emma is a good person! His son is a good boy. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it….”
Arabella tried to pull Stony away, but Stony bit hard. “Go away! You are a bad woman! Go away, bad woman!”
“You…” Arabella pulled back her hand in pain and saw a bloody tooth mark on her hand.
After wiping away his tears, Stony suddenly pushed her away and ran out.
Arabella chased after him. With high heels, she couldn’t catch up. So, she got in the car and prepared to chase after him.
She was doing this for Emma’s good. Emma was guilty of manslaughter. It was a justifiable defense. Emma would be fine.
Arabella knew that Jaquan would never be with Emma then. Emma would not be able to marry into the Cox family if she was charged with murder.
“I don’t hate you.”
Emma’s voice rang in Arabella’s ear.
Arabella fastened her seat belt and tears unconsciously fell out of his eyes. How could Emma say such words in a lofty and indifferent tone?
Arabella thought of the scene that happened in Mount Phoenix. She was trapped in the middle of the waterfall and the tree trunk, while Emma walked towards her.
Arabella remembered that Emma saved her once again behind the side hall of the GY Temple.
The open space in Forest Park occurred to Arabella again. Emma had run far away. Seeing that Arabella was caught, Emma turned around without hesitation and said to her, “Don’t turn around. Keep running.”
Why did Emma sacrifice herself to save others?
So what did she get?
Arabella didn’t understand. In confusion, she hated Emma. However, her tears couldn’t help but fall on the steering wheel.. She finally bent on the steering wheel and cried, “I’m sorry.”
