Chapter 132: What Went Wrong?
Derek had received quite a few slaps over the years. Spoiled rich women tended to be very quick when it came to slapping people. And for people who never wanted to do anything themselves, they were often very enthusiastic when it came to being violent.
Needless to say, Derek had gotten quite good at dodging slaps and vases too. But with all the slaps that he had been dodging.
He had never once expected to have a slap coming his way, originating from one Emily Molson. She was the last person he had ever expected to slap him. But she had done it. No pausing, no hesitation. She had just raised her hand and struck. And as Derek lay in his bed on Saturday morning thinking over what had happened, he still could not come up with a plausible reason.
Why?
Why had she done it? What had come over her all of a sudden? Had something set her off? Or perhaps she’d had an episode, where she mistook him for someone else. Someone in need of a slap. Derek shook his head, no, that could not be it. He had just been talking.
Rambling after apologizing to her about what he had done. And it had seemed as though she were listening, really listening and actually considering forgiving him and coming back. But then out of nowhere, she had just changed. All of her softness, leaving her and just leaving behind this hard, difficult person who was glaring daggers at him, and then she had just slapped him out of nowhere.
What had he said or done that had earned him a slap like that out of the blue?
But try as he might, Derek could not find a single thing that could have set her off like that. He had not been rude. In fact, he had been there to apologize and he had apologized. He knew that she was not happy with him, but still... to slap him! What was it?
Was she angry that after the apology he had asked her to come back without even offering her any compensation? But that did not seem like the right answer. Emily was not one to be swayed by money, that much he knew. Many people had tried to offer her money in exchange for her to spy on him in the past.