Chapter 5 Chapitre 5

Nabilla stays a few more minutes in her father's office with her mother and then she goes to her grandmother's house, to spend some time with her, at least with her, she doesn't get bored, she leaves the building and Noah her driver is just parked in front waiting for her.

Nabilla has a pale face, she really wonders what she did to deserve this kind of distance from Gian, she starts to think so much, first he goes on a trip, makes more than three weeks without calling or texting her or her father and then he has just canceled their lunch since forever, not to mention the fact that he left her to dine alone the night before.

Noah drives slowly because of the traffic jams on the road, it's amazing to have traffic jams at this time of the day.

Nabilla looks through the window of the car and observes the pedestrians on the sidewalk, hurrying each one to go to their occupations, on the other side of the street a little boy has knocked over a garbage can with a bike because he was driving at an excessive speed, Nabila looks at all these scenes and smiles, On the other hand, a street trader offers small toys for children to the passerby, what this street can be crowded at this hour, says Nabila, a few minutes after the truck that was parked and created traffic jams was repaired and the traffic could continue normally.

Lucie Kate is sitting under a long chair in the library, reading a book with reading glasses on her eyes, being in the library is one of her most pleasant moments, she ordered her employees not to disturb her when she goes there, and she tells her granddaughter how dear this library is to her, It is there that she spent some of her most beautiful moments with her husband, moreover it is in this library that she felt for the first time the pain of a contraction when she was pregnant with bill, it is with him that she knew the joy of being there first time mom.

When her daughter Eva Kate was born, she was always there and her husband came to pick her up to take her to the maternity ward. She misses those moments very much today, she also misses her husband very much, he was the only man she had known in her life and she did not hesitate for a moment to give real advice to her daughter Eva and her granddaughter about love.

Eva is not married, her mom thinks that she is very bossy for a woman, that she should put her head down and stop thinking that she is superior to her boyfriends, this is one of the reasons why she is still single.

Noah parks the car in the kate parking lot and Nabilla gets out excited to see her grandmother, she enters and meets her aunt Eva sitting on a couch, the couch where she used to sit to either work on her computer or to watch all the employees out of the house.

Eva is holding a book in her hands when she sees her niece come in, she closes the book and puts it down, her niece comes in and gives her a kiss and a hug before heading to the library where she has been told her grandmother is.

Eva calls out to her.

<< Come here, I would like to talk to you.>> Says Eva

<< I'm listening?

<< How is your husband?

<< He's fine, Auntie, thanks for worrying about him.

<< Really? I thought I heard that he has been away for weeks already and hasn't given any sign of life.>>

<< Well, that's true, but he's back already.

<< I see that, and what pretext does he give again this time to justify all this time spent without sign of life?

This is when Nabilla remembers that Gian has not told her anything concrete about his disappearance.

<<"Well, uh...>>

<< of course he didn't tell you anything, he has no explanation to give you, I asked you from the start if you were sure of your choice but you reassured me that Gian was the one you always dreamed of marrying and that he also loved you madly.>>

<< but of course he is the one I love and I know he loves me too, stop seeing evil everywhere, he surely had problems there that's why he didn't show up, Gian loves me very much just like I love him, stop trying to turn us against each other.>>

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Nabilla is at the end of her nerves ,she picks up her purse and walks furiously towards the library and Eva just sits there mumbling.

<< always running after men who don't like them at all, first the mother, the father and now the daughter ,you stupid people.>>

The door of the library opens with a bang, Lucie who was concentrated startles and raises the eyes, nobody enters this library in this way there, who it can be. She looks and sees Nabilla entered all nervous.

<< Nabilla how many times have I told you not to make noise when you come into this library?

<< I know, grandma, I'm so sorry," says Nabilla, lowering her eyes.

<< From the look on your face, I can tell that you have seen your aunt outside.

<< Yes, Grandma, I think she should go to the wedding, she already looks like an old and bitter woman.

<< I don't know if you're going to tell me what to do, but I'll tell you what to do, and I'll tell you what to do.

<< But she will have to meddle with her own problems, for example find a husband.

<< She's only looking out for your best interests.

<< Well, let her be happy first before she looks for my happiness >>

Lucie gets down from the chair and approaches her daughter who is still pissed off ,and doesn't stop chattering,she puts the book down and heads for the exit.

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The two women leave the library, Eva is still sitting on her seat in the living room, when she sees Nabila arrived with her mother she starts to laugh.

Lucie takes her little girl to the garden behind the house and stays there to take a breath of fresh air.

An employee brings them two cups of tea, the calm of this place is very relaxing, Nabilla has just forgotten all this incident she had with her aunt a few minutes ago, she does not understand how an aunt can only open her mouth to say hurtful words, she has never been so nice to her, since her childhood she has always been so hard on her, she wonders if she would ever be angry with her, and even if she was, what did she do?

It's one o'clock and forty five minutes, Andrea and Roxane are both sitting at the edge of this pool, they have decided to go and relax a little, they have worked a lot lately and now they want to relax, life is not only work, there is also family, friends and more, relaxation.

Relaxation allows us to forget everything and to breathe a little, forget everything that stresses us and oppresses us.

Andrea is at the top of her game, she is having the time of her life, with Roxane she is trying to make swimming races.

The waiter of the hotel brings back her telephone which does not stop ringing since minutes already.

When she sees the name on the screen she doesn't want to answer at all, she can't talk to him in front of Roxane, but seeing how insistent the call is, she picks up, the other voice at the end of the wire asks her where she is, so as not to lengthen the discussion she just answers that she is with her friend at the pool and hangs up the phone.

<< but why do you hang up on him in this way Andréa, my presence should not prevent you from talking with your darling.>> Roxane tells him

<< no Roxane it has nothing to do with you just that I'm a little mad at him that's all>>.

<< I can't get involved in this because you're already hiding it from us.

<< It's not that I'm hiding it from you, it's just that he's been on the move a lot lately and he arrived this morning and is leaving again tomorrow, and since I know we don't have enough time to have a party and the introductions tonight, I think we'll do it the next time he's here.>> Said Andrea

<< Okay in the meantime, tell me about him, what is he like? What does he do for a living? >>

Andrea starts to smile just imagining her prince as she likes to call him so well, he drives her crazy, even if she shares him with another woman, it's her that he loves her she doesn't doubt for a single moment his feelings for him and hopes that sooner or later he will leave his wife for her, it's his deepest wish.

<< well okay ,he is young ,pretty cute guy ,he works in a bank and he is thirty years old.(Forced to lie about his age).>>

<< that's a pretty simple description ,well I think I'll wait until I meet him and I'll know everything I want to know.>>

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The two girls continued to have fun like this until the end of the afternoon. Nabilla spent her day with her grandmother, her aunt had to go to work for an emergency and she was finally able to breathe and chat with her grandmother. She wonders how her aunt can be so bitter.

Lucie, Nabilla's grandmother doesn't feel enough joy or emotion in her little girl, it's obvious that she is very sad, she tried to pull glasses from her nose but she couldn't tell her what was bothering her.

In the big villa of Kate, the two young women finished to discuss, Nabilla prepares to leave, her grandmother offers her a young plant, she remembers her little girl when she was younger, she loved to garden, nothing to do with what she becomes now, She is getting paler and paler, it seems that she has lost her joie de vivre, she has become like this a few years after her marriage with Gian, when she was happy at the beginning of her marriage, her grandmother was sure that her little princess had found this man who would make her proud, She is ready to bet that nothing goes wrong in the life of her little princess, this little princess that she has adopted since the age of eight and that she knows like the back of her hand, she has raised her with all the love in the world and all her attention, To the point where Eva felt neglected, hence this behavior she has always had towards Nabilla, this little quarrel between the two young women began a few years ago, about twenty years when Nabilla was eight years old and her aunt eighteen years.

After giving birth to Bill at the age of twenty-five, Lucie had several reproductive problems so it was twelve years later that she was able to give birth to her daughter Eva, she was the apple of her eye, she gave in to the least of her whims, Eva had everything she wanted and was often content to bully her classmates, she was beautiful and intelligent but too demanding for her parents, she always wanted to have everything and did not respect anyone until Bill came that famous day and announced that he was preparing the arrival of his child with Léandra.

Eva became jealous once, she said to herself that with the arrival of a new child they will have more eyes for her and she was right, eight months after Bill had announced the news Léandra gave birth to Nabilla, she hated it from the first months she saw it, she knew that she risked to take his place with his mother, and it is what happened.