Chapter 35 - Let Us Have A Drink

"Miss Nina, how can you leave like that? Let us have a drink with us. You are our guest after all."Helen Porter said with a smirk.

"Th....thank you. But I don't drink. Please excuse me."She replied and wanted to leave.

"Are you afraid of me? Should not you take this chance to prove yourself better than me?"Nina Anderson stopped to hear her.

"What do you mean?"She asked Helen Porter.

"Let us have a drink. I know that my fiance is using you to piss me off. That's why he is with you today. But I don't like to share my things with any person like you. I want to know about you properly. Let me see how much tolerance you have to alcohol. I know that a person's true self comes out when he or she drinks. I want to know why what you have done to be with him. I want to know why he has selected you for this task."Helen Porter said with a smirk. The people present around her laughed to hear her.

Nina Anderson looked at the woman in front of her annoyingly. She did not want to create a scene here. She did not want to deal with that arrogant woman,but she wanted to make Helen Porter realize that she is not that worthless. Now she just can not leave like a loser.

"I am sorry. But I am not interested. I don't drink with a person with whom I have nothing to do. I am here today for Mr. Thomson, not to compete with some worthless people."Nina Anderson replied and turned to leave.

"Who do you call worthless? Am I worthless? How dare you? What do you think of yourself? Have you a death wish?"Helen Porter said and slapped her face hard. Nina Anderson was not ready for this sudden attack. She never thought that someone can slap her like this. As she was not ready for this, she could not control her balance and fell down on the ground with a thud.

Everyone present there shocked to hear the sound of the slap. They looked at the source of the sound and shocked to see her lying on the ground. Nina Anderson was now feeling too much humiliated. She tried to get up, but her feet stuck in her dress and the lower side of the dress is ripped off. She lowered her eyes shyly and tried to cover her bare legs with her hands. She tried to get up again, but she could not move as her right ankle was sprained. She groaned in pain.

Suddenly a pair of hands held her. He wrapped his arms around her waist and lift her up carefully to his arms and covered her bare legs with his coat. She looked at the person. It was James Thomson. She lowered her eyes with guilt. She did not want to be in a tight spot with the real fiancee of James Thomson. She tried to free herself from him, but he was holding her tightly.

"Are you fine?"James Thomson asked in a deep worried voice.

"I .... I am fine. Please get me down."She said in a low voice and looked into his eyes. She startled to see his angry eyes. Those eyes can kill anyone only by their looks. Everyone present there stunned to see the scene in front of them. Helen Porter and her mother were very angry right now.

"Mr. Thomson,......."Mrs. Porter said and reached near them, but he did not give her a single glance.

"Mr. Thomson, she called me....."Helen Porter tried to speak something, but he did not stop to hear her. He left the with long strides with Nina Anderson.

"What is this? Is he really taking care of that girl!"A friend of Helen Porter said in a low voice.

"I am stunned. Just look at him. How can he look at another woman's eyes so lovingly, when his fiancee is present here? He..... He even lifted her to his arm!"Another friend replied.

"Was not he looked angry? Should not he take his fiancee's side? Why did he even have not a glace at her?"Mrs. Oliver mumbled.

"I think what I heard is right. The Porter family is lying to us. He has called off the marriage with Helen Porter."Mrs . Gilbert said.

"Mrs. Porter, will you tell us what is happening here?"A woman asked Mrs. Porter.

Helen Porter and her mother could not speak a word. They were too much humiliated and left the hall angrily.

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