My Darling, My Dearest

Chapter 152

Rachel stopped Eric and told the bodyguard. "Don't worry. We're not leaving. But there are so many passers-by. Since we're in the way, maybe we should go to a quieter place."

The bodyguard shifted his sight away from her eyes and looked around them. They were indeed standing at the elevator and there were so many people around.

People had been staring at them curiously for the past few minutes.

After thinking for a while, the bodyguard thought what Rachel said made sense.

He pursed his lips and reluctantly told Rachel, "Move to the side."

Eric was pissed off by his attitude.

"Do whatever the hell you want. I'm not moving an inch. I'm going to stay down here."

He had always been impatient. It was true that he bumped into the woman, but he already apologized. He couldn't understand why he was still being treated like a criminal.

Upon hearing that,

the bodyguard had a sullen look on his face.

"You hurt her, and yet you are being so arrogant, huh?"

Eric retorted, "I've already apologized again and

again. You're the one who's been acting so arrogant all this time. I don't understand what you want from me! Are you asking for compensation? Do you want us to call the police? What's with that poker face of yours, huh?"

"Eric!" Rachel tried to stop him. Unfortunately, he wasn't ready to listen to her. "Rachel, I know it was my fault that I hit her, but I didn't mean to do it! I've already apologized to her. If she got hurt, I could take her to the hospital and take the responsibility for the medical expenses. But look at them! They've been so arrogant."

Then a familiar, unfriendly female voice coming from behind them. "You're the one who was at fault here. Why are you being so arrogant? I'll send you to prison! See if you can still act so arrogant, Eric."

The woman's words caught a lot of people's attention.

Eric frowned upon realizing who it was. What bad luck!

It was Nancy. He had met her twice in the mall already.

'Seriously? Is the shopping mall really this mall?' Eric cursed inwardly.

'God! Why is my luck so terrible today? What I do to deserve this?'

Rachel also recognized Nancy. She had met her twice, and she remembered that this woman was the one who Eric disliked.

What a small world they lived in. Who would've thought that Nancy knew the woman that Eric had bumped into?

With her haughty waist, Nancy looked at Eric from head to toe and sneered, "You made my cousin sprain her ankle?"

The woman who was accidently bumped by Eric didn't say a word. She stood beside Nancy with her arms crossed, glaring at him.

Her posture and facial expression were still askance. Eric felt so annoyed by her.

'No wonder she's Nancy's cousin,' he thought.

Because of Nancy, Eric began to dislike her cousin as well.

Nancy's expression darkened. "You're the most ill-mannered man I've ever met! How dare you stand there so arrogantly, knowing that you've done something wrong!"

Eric snickered at both of them. "To hell with both of you! Who are you calling arrogant and ill- mannered? This is slander for God's sake!" Nancy got up to his face and pointed her finger at him.

"Slander, you say? Was I lying when I said you hurt someone?" Nancy was starting to sound a little catty. Her hands moved around while she was talking. It was her way of emphasizing what she was saying and how she felt.

Seeing that the argument was going nowhere and a crowd was gathering around them, Rachel had to stop them. Nancy and Eric were inconsolable, so she decided to appeal to the woman in the black dress. "Excuse me. I think it would be better for all of us to talk somewhere more private."

She didn't answer right away so Nancy

answered on her behalf, "No, it wouldn't."

Rachel had tried her best to sound polite. She even wore a smile, and it still didn't work. She had been refused several times, and frankly, her patience was running out.

It was not really that big of a deal, but these two somehow managed to make it seem more than it was.

The crowd continued to get bigger, and Rachel was starting to feel humiliated in public. "Then how do you want to solve this? We have things to do. If you don't want to solve this right now, I'll leave you my phone number and you can give me a call when you feel like you can talk."

Rachel tried her best to sound civilized and professional. When the two women heard what Rachel had told them, their expressions turned from bad to worse.

Suddenly, Nancy's cousin rushed to a man behind Rachel, and bumped into Rachel's shoulder.

Rachel was unbalanced and was about to fall.

Luckily, someone reached out to hold her.

"Rachel, watch out!" said Eric.

Thankfully, that someone made it on time. He was able to catch Rachel and support her up. "You alright, Rachel?"

Rachel and Eric immediately recognized that voice. When they saw him, the atmosphere felt a little strange.

Eric shifted his gaze from Nancy's cousin to the man. When he saw it was Jack, he ran towards

them and snatched his hands away from Rachel's shoulder.

"Get your hands off her!" said Eric.

Jack was too focused on Rachel to notice the murderous intent in Eric's eyes.

"What are you doing here, Rachel?" he asked.

Rachel was about to answer when she saw that the woman in black was frowning. She held onto Jack's arm and gave her a disapproving look.

She was surprised to see Jack here of all places. She had not seen him for days, and here he was, but there was something amiss with how that woman acted around Jack.

Rachel was left speechless, and Eric kept glaring at Jack and the woman latched onto him like a koala.

Eric was disgusted by Jack. "Why? Are we not allowed to be here? Does your family run this shopping mall as well?" Jack was still wearing a blank expression and pretended like Eric didn't exist.

"You should mind your manners, Eric! He didn't do anything to offend you," Nancy interjected behind them.

She was a little nervous when she said those words.

She sounded like she was cursing Eric, but in reality, she was trying to prevent him from irritating Jack.

She had no idea that Jack was Rachel's husband. She did hate Eric, but she never wanted

him to get hurt.

Nancy was a complex character, but she wasn't exactly a bad person.

Rachel knew as much, and she realized that Nancy was trying to save Eric. She pulled on his collar and told him to stop yelling. "Eric, look around you," she whispered. Eric let his eyes wander and noticed the crowd that had gathered.

People were gathering around them like moths to a flame, and Jack didn't like it.

The woman holding onto Jack's arm didn't know his relationship with Rachel. She held his arm closer and spoke in a sweet and sultry voice. "Jack, they're the ones who sprained my ankle."

Rachel stared at them with contempt.

"What's the matter?" asked Jack.

Rachel felt angrier when she heard him ask a question, as if the answer wasn't obvious.

Jack didn't mean to question Rachel, but he just wanted to figure out what had happened.

However, his intervention looked different to everyone else. They all thought that he was standing up for the woman in black.

Nancy glanced at Eric and saw that he was still angry as a bull. He looked like he was about to charge at Jack.

She knew Jack wasn't someone that Eric could afford to offend.

Just when she was about to say something to drive the idiot away, Eric couldn't hold his anger NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

back and ran his mouth.

"Figure it out yourself!" he told Jack. Eric turned his attention to the woman in black. "And you! I'm the only one who accidentally bumped into you. Don't drag Rachel into this!"

Jack frowned and was about to say something, but the woman next to him spoke before he could. "I really can't communicate with people like you. I think you should just be sent to the police station!"

Rachel saw how pissed off Eric was and shook her head at him. "Take it easy. Let me handle this," she whispered.

Eric clammed up but he continued to glare at Jack. Nancy dragged him away from Jack, and fortunately he didn't put up a fight.

'What the hell is wrong with him?' she thought to herself.

'On the other hand, that woman barely spoke. She's weak in character.'

Nancy didn't show it, but she looked down on Rachel from the bottom of her heart.

"It's too noisy here. Let's go somewhere we can all settle this in private," Rachel said to Jack.

"Okay."

The woman next to Jack did not look pleased. She was about to say something, but Jack removed her hand from his arm.

The woman was taken aback, but found that Jack would not even cast her a glance. His attention was now solely focused on Rachel. "Let's get out of here. Where do you want to go?"

Nancy was especially surprised. She wondered if she was really looking at the rumored coldhearted and callous CEO of MK Group. How could he be so gentle to Rachel?

The woman tried to put her arm around Jack again, but he avoided her. She was even more maddeningly disappointed by what she saw next.

Jack walked beside Rachel and put his arm on her shoulder. "Miss Yu, this is my wife. I don't know what happened between you, but if it's any consolation, I apologize for the inconvenience that they caused you," he said to the woman in black.

The expression on their faces changed. The askance and arrogance they all held changed into embarrassment, and it was clearly painted on their faces.

Nancy was devastated when she heard what Jack said. No wonder Eric dared to challenge Jack in such a brave manner.

She saw the annoyed look on Eric's face, while Rachel remained expressionless.

She couldn't tell whether Rachel was happy to see Jack or angry.