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Nina saw everyone going towards the hall to meet Noelle’s parents. She also followed them with her slow trembling steps. Nina could clearly feel her heart pounding inside her chest with her every step which was proceeding towards the hall. Everyone reached the hall but Nina hid herself behind a wall, feeling too afraid to meet them as she didn’t even know what to say to them or how they were going to react after seeing her, so she decided to watch them from a distance.“You don’t need to hide yourself,” Nina heard Rican telling her. She looked towards him and found him standing beside her. His eyes were already on her and he was not looking nervous or hesitant to introduce her to them.“Let’s go and meet them,” Rican held Nina’s hand and tried to haul her with him but she stopped him by clutching back his arm.“Please….I don’t think so I should meet them right now,” Nina pleaded with him through her eyes.“They have come here after seven years, so I don’t think that I should invade yo
“I love you, mi reina,” Nina heard him whispering those words against her lips which froze her heart for an entire moment. Did she hear him right or her heart was hallucinating? Was she dreaming? Rican slightly pulled back to look at her and he found that utterly shocked reaction on her face. Her eyes were wide open. Her mouth was hung. She was looking at him like she was witnessing something surreal and unimaginable. Like she had never even dared to expect this from him.Rican cupped her face in between his palms and again cooed those words to her.“I love you, Nina,” he confessed, peering into her cerulean eyes. He knew he had startled falling for her from the second he got engulfed with her presence because her presence was filled with innocence, love, warmth, happiness and full of life. It was filled with all those things which he had lost in those seven years but was dying to have them back but at the same time, he was terrified to feel all those feelings again as those seven year
“Wow, you are looking so pretty, momma,” Flora uttered, seeing her mother in that beautiful red dress. Aniya smiled at her daughter.“Flora is absolutely right. You are looking gorgeous, Ani,” Niova agreed who had also worn a same colour dress. The girls had decided to follow a theme which was red for girls and black for the boys and everyone was getting ready as per it. The wedding anniversary celebration was going to take place in N.R.Alfanso where only their family members were going to be its part and no outsider as they had reserved the celebration just for the family members.“You too are looking pretty pretty, aunty Niva,” Flora said to her aunty Niova, making her chuckle.“Thank you so much, my sweetie. Now you and Nina get ready too. We need to leave in an hour,” Niova said, making Flora nod at her.“But where is Nina?” Aniya asked as Nina was not present in that room where all the girls were getting ready. “You won’t believe where she is,” Flora stated, chuckling, which con
“Granny, papa is coming today….”Twelve years old Nina was jiggling and dancing in happiness and excitement. Her father was coming to meet her today. After 12 years of waiting, she was finally going to see her papa. Little Nina’s happiness knew no boundaries. Her mother died while giving birth to her, so Nina never got to feel the love and warmth of her mother’s embrace while as for her father, she didn’t know why her father never came to see or meet her in all these years but her granny had told her that she had a father and that was why little Nina had always prayed to meet her papa. That child wanted to get loved and embraced by her papa and that day had finally come today. Her papa was coming to meet her.Nina was so happy to see her father that she could not recognise that worry and gloominess in her grandmother’s eyes who didn’t want her to meet her father because she knew what kind of person her son and Nina’s father was but she could not dare to keep a child away from her fathe
“You know it from the very beginning that I am her,” Nina’s eyes shedded a drop of tear as she uttered those words to him who had now turned into a complete statue before her. His mouth had gotten sealed while his body had frozen like a lifeless body as he was watching his soul getting apart from him with every passing second and once again.“You knew everything but you still chose to hide it from me?” More tears gathered into her eyes. Nina’s heart could not take that pain anymore that even after putting so much trust in him, he still hid something so relevant and something so deep from him. He had practically hidden a part of her life from her which he knew she deserved to know but he still kept her in that facade of lies.“You knew that it was a part of my life and I had every right to know about it but you still kept your mouth shut. Why, Rican? Why did you do it?” Nina questioned him but not a single word came out of his mouth and that was where Nina’s heart crushed into countless
Completely losing her rationality to think about right and wrong, Nina grabbed that knife with her shivering hands and attempted to pierce it inside her stomach but before the tip of that knife could even graze her skin, someone gripped the edge of that knife with his bare palm which resulted in that knife to get stained with that person's blood. “What are you doing, Nina?” That voice made Nina take her glossy eyes upward and it got filled with more tears when she saw who that person was. Who was that person who even took that right from her of taking her own life. Her gaze blurred with more tears, seeing those dusky brown eyes peering at her with extreme amounts of worry and gloominess.Riccardo snatched that knife from Nina’s hold which made everyone breathe out in relief, especially Rican who for a brief second felt like he was on the edge of dying the moment he saw her grabbing that knife.“You are not a coward to do this to yourself, my child,” Riccardo's words ached her heart m
“Your father, Logan Halzen was that person who killed Noelle in that accident, seven years ago,” Nina was completely frozen till her core when she heard those words coming out of Riccardo’s mouth. She could not believe this. It felt like she heard something wrong. Her father had killed Noelle? No, this can’t be possible. Her father could not do this. He might not be a good person but this inhumanity? Her father could never turn this brutal. Her heart refused to believe it until she saw those tears glistening up in Riccardo’s eyes. The tears of pain which could never be seen in the eyes of a lair or deceiver.“And no one knows about this except for me, Rican, Easton, Dario and Ameline that Noelle’s accident was never fated. It was planned to hurt and harm Rican and the attacker knew that Rican’s strength and his biggest weakness was Noelle,” Riccardo uttered. Nina turned her head and found shock engulfing both Flora and Aniya’s eyes. They both were looking entirely perplexed, except fo
“That day when I found out that you are Logan’s daughter, I told Rican about this and it enraged him a lot,” Riccardo uttered, staring at Nina.“He got so angry that he even wanted to hurt because Rican could not endure the fact that his past has again come in front of him after seven years. Your presence was making him recall about his past more terribly and when he returned home, you had already escaped from there,” Nina clearly remembered that day when she escaped from his home after the argument they had with each other.“And I myself don't know why but he started looking for you like a maniac and when he finally found you…he could not make himself hurt you because…” Riccardo paused.“He could not make himself hurt you, Nina. He couldn't hurt you because…you can call it guilt, remorse or care for you but what he started feeling for your presence, it overpower his hatred for your father and his past,” Nina's heart clenched more vigorously, hearing Riccardo's words. She recalled th