Chapter 144: Leaving

Rita’s POV:

When I saw Scarlett rush to the bathroom, covering her mouth with her hand, I immediately figured out
that she was having morning sickness. But I couldn’t help feeling a little resentful.

While I was still in a daze, Richard walked to me with a cup of coffee.

“What’s the matter with you?” he asked with concern.

“Scarlett’s belly is getting bigger and bigger,” I muttered, looking in the direction of the restroom.

“We have known that she is pregnant, didn’t we?”

“She just returned. How could she be pregnant?” I asked, looking at Richard discontentedly.

“It’s normal for a married woman to get pregnant,” he said calmly.

I didn’t want to talk to him anymore. I couldn’t help but make blind and disorderly conjectures.

“Did Charles end up compromising with her because she’s pregnant?” I asked in surprise.

The more I thought about it, the more it made me feel like I was finally catching onto the truth.

Richard looked at me indifferently and frowned. It seemed like he wanted to say something, but he
stopped on second thought.

I cast a cold glance at him before I continued, “Yes, Scarlett must have forced Charles using her
pregnancy. If that was not the case, then Charles won’t treat me so coldly all of a sudden or yell at me.
When did Scarlett get pregnant, though?”

“It’s none of your business,” Richard interrupted.



“You know nothing! And I can’t let Scarlett give birth to the baby. She was lucky that I was not able to
push her down the stairs with me last time,” I said through gritted teeth, looking at him.

“Stop acting so recklessly,” Richard said with a frown.

“Scarlett is not qualified to give birth to Charles’ child! She doesn’t deserve to be with him.” Saying that
with a sarcastic smile, I looked at him with emotional eyes.

“Scarlett is Charles’ wife. Who are you?” Richard reminded me, casting a firm glance at me.

“Charles hired a bodyguard for me. So I am obviously special to him.” I gave him a cold glare.

“Charles has long known that we had sex, and he fired me right after he found out about it.” Richard
gave me a meaningful look and sighed.

“That’s impossible! I am sure that Charles must still be paying you. He cares about me, and that’s why
he’s still hiring you.” I looked at Richard in disbelief.

Taking a deep breath, Richard said, “You’d better not hurt Scarlett. I’m leaving.”

“You are just a coward. Go quickly, and don’t get in my way.” I looked at him coldly, unwilling to
continue the conversation with him.

Richard frowned at me for a moment before he sighed, turned around, and left.

I was so busy thinking of my next move that I completely ignored him.I spent the rest of the day
wondering how I was going to make Scarlett show her true colors and make Charles come back to me.

After coming up with several plans, I decided to make Richard cooperate with me. However, he was
gone, and I couldn’t get through to him at all, which left me feeling irritable.

Suddenly, I heard Nate’s voice. “Did you go to see Scarlett today?”



“What? Are you worried that I might hurt her?” I asked him in a sarcastic tone.

“You have misunderstood me. There is nothing going on between us. You’d better not provoke her, or
Charles won’t let it slide so easily,” he explained with a frown.

“You are really incompetent, and I am sure that was the reason your business was screwed up by
Charles.” I looked at him with a sneer.

“You…” Nate was too furious to even say anything.

“I don’t understand why I believed that Scarlett was the one who seduced you at that time. She’s right.
She is not the type to fall in love with someone like you unless she’s blind. How can you be so
shameless? You’re so old now. How can you still want to have a mistress? Perhaps, your love for her is
one-sided.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Nate’s face flushed and he slapped me across my face.

“I’m your father! How can you talk to me like that?” he roared coldly.

“You did those shameful things first. Why do you care so much about respect now?” I said sarcastically
while looking into his eyes as I covered my swollen cheek with my palm.

“You would rather believe in rumors than me, is that it?” Nate was clearly disappointed.

“Yes, I am so ashamed to have you as a father,” I said coldly, glaring at him.

“Do you really think that you are better than me?” There was an undisguised disgust in his eyes.

“No matter how bad a person I am, I’m still much better than you,” I retorted. My heart was filled with
hatred for him. “Rita, you are truly disappointing.” Nate was indeed very disappointed.



“Yes, I’m not as good as Scarlett. She is so attractive. Otherwise, how could she have been able to win
you over?” I roared at him.

“Shut up!” Nate hissed. He then raised his hand to hit me, but I stopped him and sneered.

“One should own up to what they did. That’s something that you taught me when I was a child!

Nate’s face was livid with rage, and the entire room was cold as ice. I met his gaze, but I didn’t want to
be outdone.

While we were in the stalemate, Susan shouted, “Enough! Nate, just tell her the truth.”

“What truth? The truth that he hooked up with Scarlett?” I turned to Susan with a sarcastic smile.

“Tell her what? I don’t have anything to say to her.” Nate shook off my hand, unwilling to say more.

“Tell her that you loved Scarlett’s mother back then, and the only reason you married me was because
you could not marry her,” Susan said with self-mockery.

“Is she telling the truth?” I asked, staring at him.

After a moment’s silence, he said coldly, “The most important thing right now is to appease Charles. I
don’t care about anything else.”

Without answering my question, Nate acquiesced in it, instead. I felt as though a sharp blade was
piercing through my chest.

“Do you want me to help you? Give me fifty percent of the company’s shares, and I’ll help you get on
Charles’ good side.”

“What did you just say?” Nate frowned.



“I’m your daughter, your only child. Anyway, you will have to give the company to me sooner or later. I
want fifty percent of the shares now. Is that too much to ask? Are you perhaps planning on giving your
shares to Scarlett in the future?” I asked coldly.

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

“When the Lively Group was at its best, it happened because of my relationship with Charles. It was all
because of me.”

Nate thought for a moment and said lightly, “I can only give you twenty percent.”

“Surely, Scarlett has really bewitched you. That bitch has stolen my man and my father from me.” I
looked at Nate with mockery and resentment.

He slapped me hard across my face again.

And I looked at him in surprise. He had never hit me ever since I was a child. But now, he had already
hit me twice.

Susan pushed him away angrily, and complained tearfully, “Did you fall in love with your own bastard
child?”

Nate was stunned, and his face turned colder than it was before. “What nonsense are you. talking
about? I already told you! Scarlett’s mother and I have nothing to do with each other. Nothing
happened between us!”

With that, he turned around and left.I looked at his back coldly as I listened to Susan sobbing
uncontrollably.


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