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CHAPTER 20: FLOWER
I put the key in the lock. We enter. I looked everywhere, at the end headed to the kitchen, I prepared the food. Chicken and vegetables. While she was cutting the potatoes, Isaac appeared.“I need a photo of dad, I want to paint him before I see him in person, to give him the painting when I meet him”"I don't have a picture of you, Isaac" I pursed my lips. Why don't you ask him in person? You don't have to tell him why, then another day you give it to him, do you think?“No, I don't think so, but it's a good idea, now I'm going to ask you to take a picture of us all as a family” He resolved, turning to leave.Breathe deeply.When the food was ready, I called him for lunch. We ate in silence, he helped me wash the dishes. The doorbell rang, I asked him to open it. It was surely Aaron, he told me he was coming.Anyway, I followed Isaac, holding a drying plate."Mr. Al-Murabarak!" He shouted euphorically when he opened the door, finding Ismail.My heart stopped.“Mother! Can you believe
CHAPTER 21: SWEET AND SOUR
His hands continued to grab my face, subtle, soft, but I didn't allow him to stun me any more than he already did. I walked away, backed away with unshed tears in my eyes. He couldn't play good and bad at the same time, he had no right to handle me at will, sweeten me, and then knock me out with a bitter blow."What's your game, Ismail?" I spat hotly. You're clearly lying to me, I'm not stupid."Exactly, that's exactly what I like so much about you" he shortened the distance imposed by my trembling self. His imposingness vanished the rigidity with which I tried to face him. And because you are not stupid, then you will know that I am being sincere, that I love you with the same intensity as before, perhaps more than you could have imagined. I'm determined to get you back; do you understand me?My breath hitched; he was closer than my poor heart was beating in my chest. I tried to catch a breath, he stamped his lips on mine, a touch as clear as the blushes on my hot cheeks. When Isaac
CHAPTER 22: SURPRISED
"After the event, I'm so sorry" I started to cry.I saw his Adam's apple go up and down fiercely. I witnessed the glass of his eyes broken by the sword of my words. But he was not going to let her see the pieces of him, he became the oak.“No, if you didn't feel it when you rolled with him, much less now, Mariané” refuted bald ado by my deceit “Let one thing be clear to you, I'm not one of those who tend to take revenge, I don't like rancor, or retain hatred. But I will end our relationship and walk away, if he is the one you love, I will no longer be a hindrance between you” Aaron, listen...“No, listen to me, do you still love him?” I was quiet.“Sometimes silence is usually the most forceful response, I have no doubt about it anymore” He whispered and huffed.He got up, ready to go.I didn't stop feeling guilty. Despite everything, he was so understanding, as usual, he was not so inflexible and inexorable, and I who anticipated whipping.“Wait…”"No, Mariane”“Thanks, really, thank
CHAPTER 23: TANGIBLE HAPPINESS
As much as he only showed me his good side, even though he seemed sincere, the man who stole my sighs and made my world unhinged, I didn't want to trust his intentions that put Isaac's well-being first.That overnight he changed his mind was rare. I don't know if he was plotting something, if he was up to something or, in truth, he had thought about it and, later coming to the conclusion that attacking us was not the right thing to do, all that tedious paperwork would be greatly avoided by doing so.I couldn't help but look at him in profile, while he was still looking impressed at that huge painting on the wall. Suddenly he stopped, to appreciate it up close. I inhaled deeply, and stood up, standing next to him. He gave me a fleeting look; I suppressed a sigh."Do you remember the painting you were in from behind?" he questioned suddenly.How not to remember it; my cheeks were dyed crimson, my face burned. I smiled nervously, recalling that day in a heartbeat."Wh-what's up with that
CHAPTER 24: MARIANÉ
“Hello, Mariané, what are you telling me?”“Ismail is in my apartment, actually with Isaac on the balcony” He no longer has the intention of taking it from me, just being in his life, loving him “on the other side of the line a sharp scream deafened my eardrum, I think it all sounds too good to be true, don't you?”"Definitely yes" she stated, sounding perplexed. But it's good that he and my favorite nephew finally know each other. They deserve it despite the circumstances. How are you going to tell Aaron? Have you thought about…?I finished with him, or he finished me, in short, he found out everything in a surprising way; Aaron arrived at the precise moment that Ismail was with Isaac. He knows everything, even about my cheating, I feel terrible thinking about it. He didn't deserve it, I'm a terrible person, Kelly.“Of course not. You're certainly very much to blame for not being honest with him, but it doesn't make you a bad person. Hey, if he showed up at your door, I'm guessing he
CHAPTER 25: THE DISTORTED HISTORY
Tuesday hit my window with the feverish rays of the sun welcoming me, I moved on the bed, I was alone; there was no little boy waking me up, rushing every movement of my sleepy physiognomy, after remembering that last night he left with Ismail, I understood the silence that lay. I left the sheets, joining the cold floor, hurriedly went to the bathroom.I brushed my teeth, then took a shower. After putting on a pencil skirt, a white shirt with puffed sleeves, and heels, I decided to put on makeup. I tried to make it natural. The excesses of cosmetics did not suit me.On the way to work, I suddenly thought of what I had left behind: Marina, Brenda, even Rabab, what had happened to them? I wanted to see them, hug them, they, one more than another, had marked my childhood. The nostalgia became transitory when I turned on the radio and immersed myself in the announcer's voice.The day in Magnani was opaque, Beatriz even deigned to greet me, that she had no intention of apologizing again, s
CHAPTER 26: REALITY
…After several months that everything seemed to be calm, an evil typhoon arrived in the middle of summer, leaving destruction in its wake. Our story had appeared on the tabloids, on the internet, even on television; the distorted story, the one that sold the most morbidity. I broke down in tears as I studied the series of articles skinning the two of them.Especially the part in which a third party claimed that the fourteen-year-old girl had been raped by her uncle, an older man, then cited that once pregnant, he forced me to get rid of the baby.Curse!None of that was true, that they told such lies, it broke me in two.The next one was long; I didn't avoid reading it too.The well-known businessman Ismail Al-Murabarak is involved in a dangerous pedophilia scandal. According to New York magazine, he claims that he had a sordid affair with his then sixteen-year-old niece, when he was twenty-seven years old. At that time, nothing would be known, because the close circle was forced to
CHAPTER 27: THE PRICE OF LOVE
POV IsmailMy name was in the tabloids, consequently, my reputation was trampled by a huge distorted story, a fallacy that put me in a dangerous trial. But I would move heaven and earth to find a solution. On top of that, the name of my little flower had been revealed, which exposed her to that scathing world.I needed to protect her and our son from such a disaster."I want them to pay, they won't get away with it!" I slammed the magazine down onto my desk."It's not easy..." my lawyer said, stopping to look at the tablet on which he was reading another article about that farce.“Of course! I refuted angrily. They messed with not just one man, but Al-Murabarak, you have no idea what I'm capable of, Caden”“I know what you are capable of, Ismail, however what is happening will not be erased from anyone's mind from one minute to the next. It is news that is shocking, a scandal that is convenient for the media to trade, you know what I'm talking about”"It's a fucking slander" I slammed