Sweet Divorce

Chapter 71 The Indelible Mark

To Rita’s surprise, Nora came back from abroad.

However, soon she calmed down from astonishment.

She drew back her wandering thoughts, nodded politely to them, and continued to walk into the living room.

Seeing Rita leaving, Nora came to an idea.

She sneered, looked up at the man beside her and asked, "Liam, why didn't you pick me up at the airport?"

"You must be too busy to see my message." Nora gently smiled, being considerate.

Liam took his eyes back from Rita and looked at Nora with no expression on his face. He indifferently replied, "I saw your message."

Nora’s smile became awkward.

Looking at his remote expression, she forced a smile and said, "It must be that you were too busy to pick me up."

"I'm off today."

Liam directly denied all her conjecture, which discomfited Nora completely.

Formerly, Liam treated her very well because of her sister.

Afterwards, just before Joey, her sister, died, she told him to take good care of Nora and the Nash family, so that he treated her better than before.

He not only took good care of her, but also sent her to study in medical university abroad.

However, when now she was back, she obviously felt that he became estranged in his tone and his eyes.

Maybe it was because...

Nora thought of something and her face turned blue gradually.

Just as she was distracted, Liam had already passed her by and walked into the living room.

In the living room.

Rita looked at the blue sky outside, bowed her head and patted her aching leg. She frowned, thinking about the weather was about to change.

She slightly signed and kept patting her leg harder and harder.

Liam came in from the outside and saw her patting. He was stunned, then picked up a magazine and read it at will.

Every time Rita patted her leg, Liam turned one page.

He sat on the sofa and seemed to look at the magazine in his hand, while his attention was focused on her aching leg.

He refocused his eyes on the magazine, took a bottle out of his pocket and threw it straight at Rita.

"What is this?" Rita watched the small white bottle and looked up at Liam in doubt.

"Medicine to relieve the pain of your leg." Liam turned a page of magazine again, indifferently replied.

Rita was shocked. She stared at the bottle with her eyes full of complex emotions.

He gave her pain, then gave her cure.

What did he want exactly?

She squeezed the bottle tightly and said, "Thank you. I can't accept your medicine." Since he hurt her so deeply, there was no need to accept his irony kindness.

Every time her leg was sore, she would remember how cruel he had been to her.

She pushed the medicine back without looking at Liam who was on the sofa, turned around and walked upstairs.

Hearing this, Liam clenched his hands which were holding the magazine while he had no expression on his face.

"If you don't need it, you can give it back to grandfather by yourself."

Rita stopped, “Grandfather?”

"We just went to my grandfather's today." Liam explained simply and kept turning the magazine.

What an inexplicable explanation. Rita turned around and asked him confusedly, "And? What's that got to do with this medicine?"

"We went to my grandfather's. It was a matter of course that this medicine was given by my grandfather." Liam turned another page of magazine and said with frigidity.

He now couldn't admit that he especially bought the medicine for her from abroad.

"Grandfather gave it to you?" Rita looked at the white medicine bottle in consternation.

Liam raised his eyebrows, darted a glance at her and said, "You can't think that I bought this for you, can you?"

"I don't think so. I just wonder why grandfather didn't give it to me directly at that time." She said. Seeing her face full of doubts, Liam lowered his head and looked down on the magazine. He said indifferently, "I don't know. Go ask my grandfather."

Rita had no doubt about his words.

Since it was for good intentions from Grandpa Jim, she needed to accept it.

She limped back and bent over to get the medicine.

At this time, someone got the medicine bottle with a slim little hand before Rita.

Rita was surprised. She looked up and saw Nora.

"Nerve painkillers? Miss Brown, what's the matter with you? Why you need to take this kind of medicine? " Nora stepped forward with a smile and looked at her suspiciously.

Norasmiled politely, but Rita didn’t feel her kindness.

She explained calmly, "It's just a temporary indisposition."

"Rita, I major in medicine. If there is any discomfort, you can tell me if you believe me. If I can't cure it, I will find an expert to help you." This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

"Thank you. If I feel uncomfortable, I'll come to you." Rita politely said, and reached out a hand to take that medicine from her hand.

However, she took the bottle with strength, but she didn't take it back successfully.

Rita stopped and looked up at Nora.

They looked at each other. In this life, Rita still caught the hatred to her in Nora’s eyes.

Rita asked without turning an eyelash, "What are you doing, Miss Nash?"

"Rita, I saw the video about Charlotte." Nora said, biting her lips, with her eyes full of guilt, "I'm sorry about all the things you’ve been through for these years."

"My parents lost a daughter so that they were agitated. I am deeply sorry for what they do to you."

Nora bowed to Rita to express her apology, “I hope you can forgive my parents and the Noah family."

Hearing her apology, Rita didn't feel moved at all.

Her apology looked so sincerely which made Rita become narrow-minded if she didn't forgive her, but Rita couldn’t forgive them so easily since they had framed her up so cruelly.

What’s more, Nora apologized actually out of insincerity.

Rita sneered and stepped on Nora's feet fiercely.

Nora shouted with her eyes full of tears, "Ah!! It hurts! Rita, what are you doing?"

"Miss Nash, does it hurt?" Rita raised her foot and stepped again.

Nora's instep went bruised. She was sweaty with pain. And there was an imperceptible hatred flickered across her eyes.

Soon that hatred in her eyes disappeared completely. She looked up only with the tears and said, "Rita, I know our family hurt you so much, if you are angry, please vent your anger on me, I will never fight back."

What a considerate girl!

Nora now was so kind and gentle which was totally different from the girl that Rita had known in the previously life.

In the previous life, Nora deliberately did not apply anesthetic to her on the operating table. Rita still remembered when Nora used a scalpel to gouge out her leg, how cruel she looked.

"Miss Nash, don't get me wrong. I'm not taking it out on you. I want to tell you a truth through practice."

Nora was surprised and asked, “What truth?”

"Look at your feet that I stepped on. Are they bruised now?" Rita lowers her head and pointed to Nora's feet.

Nora was confused, “What do you mean?”

"When you hurt someone, although the pain is easy to disappear, but it will leave an indelible mark just like I stepped on your feet and left it bruised. So, Miss Nash please understand that I can't not be so generous to forgive the Nash family for what they have done to me! "

Rita grabbed the medicine from Nora's hand. She walked upstairs with an indifferent face and said, "Miss Nash, don't force others to do what they don't want."

Then, Rita loudly slapped the door of the room in the second floor.

Nora stared at the closing door in great astonishment.

She couldn’t believe that the old stupid Rita had changed like this.

How come that she became so formidable within a year?

Now being ignored, Nora felt so uncomfortable and her eyes which were staring at the door went more and more gloomy.

"What are you doing here?"

Noradidn’t come back from her wandering mind until a low voice came behind her.

She drew back her gloomy face and turned to look at the man with crossed legs on the sofa and said, "Liam, my parents want to ask you to have dinner together. Let us have a good chat and solve some misunderstandings."

“Misunderstanding?”

The man gave a sneer in a low voice. Suddenly the atmosphere turned cold in the room.

Looking at his grave staring, an instantly rising dread stole into Nora with her spine couldn’t help but tighten up.

She knew that he was mad at the things happened in that year.

She got up the courage to step forward and explained, "Liam, what happened in that year really should blame on the Nash family. It was because our parents didn't have confidence in your feelings with my sister so that they came up with such a solution. We didn't expect that..."

“You didn’t expect that you would cause her death, right?”

When it came to Joey, Liam narrowed his eyes coldly, with full of anger.

Being staring like this, Nora suddenly tensed. And her palms were sweaty. She said, "Liam, it was an accident. We all didn't expect that."

“You all? So, at that time, you knew it, too. Right?” Liam looked at her and asked suddenly.

Nora was shocked and shook her head immediately.

"I didn't know. I didn't know until I returned home. And that's why my parents asked me to come back." Nora quickly brushed herself off the things, stabilized her mood and continued, "Liam, my parents know that they are wrong and want to apologize to you face to face."

Liam narrowed his eyes and didn’t reply.

Seeing this, Nora thought that Liam still cared about the Nash family because of Joey.

She stretched out her hand and pulled his sleeve, and said, "Liam, for my sister's sake, please go to see my parents. Let us explain the misunderstanding clearly and you give my parents a chance to apologize and correct their mistakes."

“You indeed should apologize.” Liam was thinking that they surely should give a sincere apology not to him but to Rita.

Nora thought that she finally convinced Liam, and quickly replied, "Yes! My parents will reflect on themselves well and apologize."

Liam glanced up at somewhere on the second floor, and looked at Nora, "At eight o'clock tonight, S. Restaurant, let's have a meet."

Tonight, Liam would let them gave a sincere apology to Rita.