Second Chances

Chapter 21

Everyone at the gym was on pins and needles for what could happen to Emma, but somehow, Emma dodged Ruby’s first attack swiftly.

“What just happened? My eyes can barely keep up.”

“What should we do? Ruby wants to kill her!”

“Somebody get Emma out of there! Stop them, or Emma’s gonna die!”

Ruby’s every move was clean and swift. Her punches and kicks went precisely where she wanted them to go. Another deadly punch was coming to Emma. However, when her fist was halfway to Emma’s face, Emma grabbed her wrist and twisted it.

Ruby yowled, then went for Emma like crazy, eyes reddened.

Emma was gonna go easy on Ruby at first. She didn’t want to cause panic on the campus, but she changed her mind when she found out that Ruby had actually tried to kill her. Moreover, Ruby didn’t tell anyone she was a champion boxer before the combat. If she were fighting. against a rookie, she could kill that person easily. This was attempted murder.

“I would respect you if you had played honestly and fairly, but your spitefulness grosses me out. Here’s a lesson to learn.” Emma crossed her fists, locked both sides of Ruby’s neck with them, and twisted it fiercely.

Ruby raised her leg and tried to kick Emma’s head, but Emma was faster. She kicked Ruby’s leg and punched her neck again and again.

Emma was not in a trance when Ruby was warming up just now. She was observing Ruby’s movements, trying to find her weak spot.

Ruby was hit in the vital. Her breathing was stagnant and stifled, and her eyes were blackened! She struggled, but Emma punched her again. and again with clean and destructive moves.

The students in the stands didn’t even see what had happened. They saw Ruby being beaten by Emma like a rag doll, and their eyes widened. “What is that? I’ve never seen anyone fight like that before.”

“A boomerang on Ruby.”

“Those are some neat moves. I kinda like Emma now.”

However, somebody recognized Emma’s moves and said in panic. “That’s Yaltanian military martial arts!”

“No way! How did Emma know that? I thought they only teach people in the military.”

Emma totally took down Ruby with just two killer moves. She didn’t show too much of her hand, but some folks were onto her. Emma kept her cool and didn’t keep attacking after she got Ruby under control.

Ruby lay on the ground in disbelief, wide-eyed, half-dead. “It’s…impossible.” She couldn’t believe she was taken down so quickly. She was not even sure what had just happened. ‘No peers can knock me down so quickly unless… No! Emma can’t be the mysterious legend in the martial arts field that my coach had mentioned,’ thought Ruby.

Ruby won the fight, and many people stood in the stands and cheered for her. After this fight, they became Emma’s fans.

“Awesome, Emma!”

“You’re my god!”

“Can I learn martial arts with you, Emmya?”

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Chapter 21

Emma looked at Ruby, who was lying on the ground, her voice as cold as ice. “Now, go to the cafeteria and apologize to me as we had agreed,” Emma said firmly. She didn’t want to show any mercy to a bully like Ruby. ‘If I hadn’t learned military martial arts, I would have been beaten half to death by her. It’s bad luck for her to pick on me,’ Emma thought. She also saw it as a way to rid other students of a bully.

Reluctant as Ruby might be, she had no choice but to do as Emma said. She stood at the cafeteria entrance in the full glare of the sun and people’s inquisitive gaze. Sweats brushed down her face, mixing with the blood at the corners of her lips. She was never so humiliated. She regretted it so much to have messed with Emma, but it was too late.

Ruby raised her hand and slapped herself in the face, saying, “I’m a mouthy b**h.” Then again. And again.

Some onlookers shook their heads. “She deserves this. She was a big bully, and now, it’s just karma.”

“Yeah. She obviously wanted to catch Emma off guard.”

Ruby was furious when she heard what they said, but Emma was staring at her by the side, so she couldn’t do anything. Seeing Emma, she couldn’t help but remember the horror she once felt when fighting with Emma at the gym.

Emma dared not to stop. She kept slapping herself and said, “I’m a mouthy b**h.”

After Liam got Emma’s message, he had been waiting for the surprise. After about half an hour, he got an email. It was a video. The video had been edited, and only the highlights were left. He could clearly see the girl’s spectacular moves. Even a person who knew nothing about martial arts would appreciate Emma’s fighting skills, not to mention Liam’s having been studying martial arts since childhood.

Emma knew about that, so she sent him this video to put on a talent show. The video ended at the most critical moment when Emma took down Ruby. Despite the video being edited, Liam could still tell Emma was a well-trained fighter, and she fought better in the video than she did at the hospital.

Liam’s eyes darkened, thinking, ‘Who is she? I could tell myself that she learned how to fight when she was out there before, but what I just saw clearly shows she has been trained for fighting.’

“Emma, you always surprise me, and I love it,” he murmured.

Emma completely sparked Liam. He called Levi. “I need to know everything about Emma.”

Levi was stunned. “Mr. Hall, you already do.” He thought inside, ‘I mean, she’s your wife, isn’t she?”

Liam said word by word, “I said everything.”

Levi knew Liam wanted him to look into Emma’s hidden information. “Got it, Mr. Hall. I’ll have some trustworthy men look into that on the

black market. It could take a while.”

Liam hung up, and someone knocked on the study door.

“Mr. Hall?”

Liam frowned. He was thinking about the woman he liked and clearly not happy about being interrupted so abruptly. He just said, “Come in,” sounding indifferent.

A maid pushed the door open and walked. She looked to be in her early twenties, with big eyes and a double ponytail. “The kitchen made bouillon. Have some, Mr. Hall,” she said.

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