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“Rican is not going to come,” Nina gave a perplexed look to Easton after listening to him.“Why?” Nina asked, feeling utterly confused. Why would he not attend his own parents’ wedding anniversary celebrations? Nina had completely forgotten about what Cain had told her about his uncle and his family relations with them but Easton reminded it to her. “He has stopped attending family functions and gatherings after….” Easton paused but Nina understood everything. She looked at Riccardo and her heart clenched, seeing that helplessness emerging in that father’s eyes who could do nothing to make his son happy again. What could be more painful for parents than seeing their child in pain?“So, I will come to pick y….”“I will come there with him,” Nina halted Easton and then trailed her gaze at Riccardo.“I promise you that. We will get there together,” Nina promised Riccardo to make sure that his son was going to be part of his and his wife’s happiness this time.“And where are we going to
“Are you ready to hurt those who have given you this life?” Nina asked him, staring at his back. He didn’t turn around to face her but she noticed his body tensing up. Her question made him ball his fists. Exhaling softly, Nina placed her palm over his clenched fist and it automatically made him loosen up. Her soft and warm touch held the power of calming down even the deadliest havoc inside him. Holding his hand with her both palms, Nina walked forward and stood in front of him. Her heart ached, seeing that blankness in his gaze which could be unreadable for any pair of eyes but not hers because she had seen him in his most vulnerable state last night and she knew how broken, afraid and hurt he was. She was familiar with that manicing pain of his which he had been masking beneath that numbness of his from everyone but that facade broke just in front of her. Stepping closer to him, Nina cupped his hand more tightly. “I know it is hurting you. It’s angering you and I might not have t
Rican turned startled by witnessing that view in front of his eyes. She was applying some kind of paste on her face which was dripping all over her hands and was even staining the furniture along with her clothes. Her eyes were completely focused on the mirror in front of her. She was looking so engrossed that it felt like she was doing the most important work of her life but his gaze enlarged more when he saw her licking her finger. Did she just eat that paste? What the fuck?He walked towards her and stood behind her. Rican looked at her reflection in the mirror like she had come from another planet.“Oh…you here?” she passed him a smile and then turned to face him. He wanted to laugh at her state because she was exactly looking out of this world. “What are you doing?” he asked her, giving weird glances at that yellow colour mask which was dripping from her face. “Oh…this?” she grabbed that glass bowl in which she had prepared that homemade mask on her own.“It’s NSHMFM,” she told
“Dimitri?” Nina couldn’t believe her eyes that whom they were seeing in front of her after so many years. Her schoolmate and her childhood friend, Dimitri Erold. She blinked in order to make sure she was not dreaming but when she saw him coming towards her with a smile on his face, it confirmed for her that she was not dreaming. He was really in front of her. “Hey! After a very long while, Halzen,” he uttered while opening his arms for her. Smiling, she hugged him tenderly and he returned her gesture. “So how are you?” he asked her, beaming. Pulling back, Nina smiled at him more widely. “I am absolutely fine. How about you and your family?” she asked him back. “We all are good. How is your grandma?” his question dimmed her smile and it faded the happiness from his grey eyes. “She is no more,” she told him in her gloomy voice which made him sigh. He hugged her again. “I am so sorry,” he uttered, softly caressing her back. Nina pulled back her head and forced a smile at him. When s
“I was not aware that my people believe in eating the food before serving it to our guests,” he uttered, staring at that cerulean-eyed employee of his who was now frowning at him and it turned him amused. He was missing her, so he decided to come here to get a glimpse of his favourite employee but he had not expected to witness such an adorable and amusing sight here.“We apologise for it, Mr Alfanso. It was just….” the head manager tried to explain, thinking their boss was finding this unprofessional, just like the other employees who were present there but only if they knew what their youngest staff member meant to their boss. Sending him a tiny glare who was now smirking at her reaction, Nina tried to gulp down that cupcake in her mouth hurriedly but without trying to chew it first and it resulted in her choking badly. His smirk faded and his eyes widened in concern, seeing her coughing. Rican stormed towards her and started caressing her back, in order to help her in calming down
Rican was waiting for Nina in his master bedroom when he called her and got to know that she was still working and would call him in a while. After receiving her answer, he got out of his room to get some other work done in that place. He was striding towards somewhere when his gaze fell on Nina’s reflection which was reflecting on a glass door. She was standing on one of the balconies of the place which confused him. What was she doing there all alone? Bewildered, he walked in her direction and that was where he found out that she was not alone there. A man was present there with her. First, he thought that man was one of the visitors and she was just doing her work by guiding and helping him but when he watched them smiling and talking with each other so much, his understanding started slipping away. Who the fuck was he?Now Rican’s eyes started noticing the little less difference between their bodies which messed up with his head. He had never allowed anyone to enter into his empl
“Who the fuck was he?”Nina’s heartbeat dropped, witnessing the way he was glowering at her. If eyes could kill, then she would have been dead by his malicious gaze a long while ago. He was looking really very mad and angry and it was scaring the living life out of her.“I saidWhoTheFuckWas He?” he stressed out on each and every word of his which terrified her more. The malice in his eyes deepened while his demeanour continued to turn more and more dark. It told her that he was running out of his patience and before he would burst out at her, Nina swallowed and finally decided to open her mouth.“He is Dimitri. He used to be my schoolmate and we became friends when I was in 5th grade,” she told him while looking down at the floor and he waited for her to complete her story.“We used to be each other’s dance partner in every school function and he also used to help me in my studies as he used to be my senior,”Rican frowned. Fucking dance partner and on the top of it, they used to
“I hate you, Rican,” Nina breathed out, tearing up more under him while he just peered down at her. They both knew she was lying because she loved him more than her own self and she was saying this just because he had scattered her emotions terribly. He had messed up her feelings which made him feel guilty. Leaving her pinned wrists, he tried to wipe those tears in her eyes but Nina pushed his hand away and looked away from him. She closed her eyes and silently shedded her tears which made him sigh heavily. “I am sorry, Nina,” he whispered in her ear, bringing more tears in her eyes. “I am extremely sorry for hurting you, mi reina,” he uttered but she shook her head and looked at him through glossy eyes. “You do this every time. First hurt me and then say sorry,” she said to him. “It’s like my emotions and feelings never matter to you and that’s why it is so easy for you to hurt them over and over again,” she didn’t stop herself from accusing him of hurting her feelings because th