Chapter 80
Nina left the hospital, from Naila’s place and returned home after a long day of being tormented by unnecessary emotions. She let herself fall freely onto the sofa, her eyes looking up at the ceiling, quietly thinking carefully, she wanted to make the right choice during this time.
Time seemed to stop, the entire world around her stood still in this moment. If only she could go back 5 years ago, she would be resilient and face what happened instead of running away like that.
The phone suddenly rang. Nina was woken up by it. It was now 9 pm, quite late.
Nina looked at the phone screen that lit up, displaying a familiar name, and she smiled slightly.
“Alina! I’m listening.” Nina was excited when her best friend called. It had been a long time since the two of them had had time to contact each other.
“Ohhh… you still recognize me.” Alina raised her voice angrily.
“Come on, what’s going on?”
Alina spoke even louder, as if she was losing some of her anger, “What else could it be? What’s the deal with you and Ethan getting married?”
Nina’s smile suddenly disappeared, she forgot to tell Alina about this, it happened almost a week ago.
“I’m sorry, Alina, recently a lot of things suddenly happened to me… I… didn’t have time to tell you…” Nina hesitated and didn’t say anything, she was truly a sinner.
“You let the whole
e outside
world know, I’m the only one who doesn’t know… no… now I know… am I the one who knows too?”
Through the phone signal, Nina could feel how angry Alina was, but the two had known each other for more than 5 years, Nina understood her personality very well, no matter how angry she was. Alina still cares about her very much.
Nina raised her voice to be coy and flattering, her words were like adding honey, “Alina, can you listen to me explain? I didn’t mean to hide it from you.”
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“So please explain, what is it all about?” Alina seemed to be interrogating a prisoner, insisting on hearing a clear answer.
“This is a very long story, I can’t say it through the speaker on the phone…” Nina faltered.
“Don’t try
to escape,
do
you know what the consequences will be?” Alina threatened.
“No… I swear I’m not avoiding you… but this…” Nina hesitated for a while and finally made a decision, “Are you free tomorrow? Please spend an afternoon with me, okay? I want to invite you to coffee.”
Alina’s voice immediately lowered, “Don’t you think one afternoon is not enough? Get ready early, tomorrow morning I will be at your house at 8 o’clock.”
“Your house.” Hearing this, Nina’s mind immediately jumped into gear, “No, that……. I… can get it tomorrow morning… but I will go there myself… you don’t need to come pick me up.” Nina immediately refused, how could she say that she was at the Wilson villa?
Alina immediately
noticed the strangeness in Nina’s words, how could she fool her, Alina growled, “Natalie!”
Every time this name comes out of Alina, Nina implicitly understands that she is really angry as if she is about to lose all patience with her.
“If you’re still like that, you won’t be able to see me from now on Alina is determined to make things right.
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“Okay… Okay, I said okay… Nina closed her eyes tightly, her hand clutching the fabric of her skirt, she was gathering all her courage to say the words she wanted to say.
“I’m at Ethan’s house.”
Just as Nina predicted, after hearing her say this, Alina’s first reaction was heart–stopping, “What?”
This information was like a bolt of lightning that flashed through ALina’s ears, surprising her to the point of being unable to handle it.
“I can’t believe it’s just been a while since we’ve seen each other and yet the two of you grown so quickly?”
have
Nina quickly explained, “It’s not what you think, that… that… let’s meet tomorrow, I’ll tell you everything…”
“Even so, I will come pick you up tomorrow, and I want to see even more how big the Wilson family villa is.” Alina raised her voice a bit sarcastically.
Nina had no choice but to stop her, maybe Alina would suddenly attack the villa without realizing it. Nina had to obediently obey, “Okay, then tomorrow at 8 a.m. I wait for you.”
She doesn’t know when she can fix this stubborn personality. She’s afraid that Alina’s impulsive personality will make Ethan
angry.
Thinking of this, Nina couldn’t help but inform Ethan. She immediately stood up, gingerly opened the door, and went out. His eyes kept looking towards his office door, it was still lit, “It’s so late, hasn’t he gone to bed yet?” Nina silently wondered. She took the lightest steps possible so as not to make any noise. From Nina’s room to Ethan’s office was a hallway, below was the living room, looking up you could see all the above activities, this hallway.
Suddenly the light below turned on, making Nina jump and squint because of the sudden light.
“Miss Nina Ricci, are you looking for something? May I help you?”
Kate was wearing baggy pajamas, her long curly hair was down, she was holding a glass of water in her hand, and her face was still sleepy, maybe she had woken up.
Sleepy eyes frowned and looked up at the second floor, staring at Nina.
Nina smiled, hiding the guilt in her heart, “Nothing, I… I…” Nina couldn’t find a suitable reason to answer the other person’s question, so she immediately deflected it., asked Kate back, “Oh… What are you doing? Do you have insomnia?” Nina walked down the stairs and walked closer to Kate.
Seeing the owner coming down, Kate bowed slightly to say hello, then smiled softly, “Yes, old age causes me to develop many diseases. This difficulty sleeping of mine is not new, have I disturbed your sleep?”
“Not at all, you misunderstood, it’s just that I’m having a bit of trouble sleeping today so I wanted to go out and get some fresh air.” Nina moved her eyes elsewhere, avoiding Kate’s eyes.
“Oh… then please wait for me.” Kate put her glass of water on the table and returned to the kitchen.
Nina waited for Kate’s back to disappear behind the door before relaxing. Unable to control herself, she looked up at Ethan’s office door, wondering what he was doing in there.
Not long after, only about 5 minutes, Kate returned with a cup of warm herbal tea in her hand, she brought it in front of
Nina.
“This is the tea that I drink every night. It will help your sleep significantly improve.”
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Nina recognized this type of tea, she had often seen Naila use it before, but that was 5 years ago, so at that time Naila also had insomnia. Suddenly, Nina felt that she was too indifferent, she didn’t care about Naila that much.
“Drink it while it’s still warm.” Kate saw Nina receive the cup of tea from her hand but sat thoughtfully for a while, so she immediately reminded her.
“Thank you.”
Looking at Kate’s gentle and gentle appearance, Nina suddenly felt that she was very similar to Naila. 5 years ago Kate also took care of and loved her like a mother, until now nothing has changed much.
“Then finish your drink and go to bed early. This old lady’s health can no longer resist the urge to sleep.” Kate stood up and bowed.
“Thank you good night.” Nina nodded slightly, and after Kate left, she quickly drank it all and then went upstairs.
Standing in front of the office door, Nina hesitated, not knowing whether to knock or not. The feeling of having to face Ethan right now was like pushing her out onto the battlefield. It would be difficult for her to control her emotions when standing before him.
She quietly turned around, in her heart she didn’t dare to knock on the door. Her steps unconsciously turned back towards her room, but before she could take a few steps, there was the sound of the door opening.
Nina was startled and turned her head, Ethan’s cold face was a bit surprised to see Nina in the hallway, not far from his door.
The two of them just stood there looking at each other like that, no one said a word, until the atmosphere became awkward. Nina felt like she was suffocating and couldn’t control herself anymore before speaking up, “It’s so late. Are you still not sleeping?” Nina was confused and scratched her head.
Ethan stood up straight, his hands in his pockets, his eyes looking seriously at Nina, “Aren’t you sleeping too?”
Nina suddenly felt guilty, she was speechless, Ethan’s question made her speechless. She couldn’t say that she was there because she was looking for him.
“I… I…” Nina thought of Kate, reluctantly using her insomnia as cannon fodder, “I have insomnia.”
“Oh…” Ethan trailed off.
“Oh…” Oh, what oh… Nina looked at Ethan with puzzled eyes, wondering what his expression meant, whether he believed or not what she said.
Ethan smiled slightly, then leisurely walked past Nina, treated her like air, and returned to his bedroom.
Although Nina was panicked when facing Ethan, after all, she had already met, she couldn’t let this opportunity slip away.
“Wait.”
Nina quickly spoke up to stop Ethan’s progress. Of course, her voice reached his ears and had an immediate effect. Ethan stopped but did not turn around, but tilted his head slightly as if waiting for her to say the next thing.
Nina took slow steps towards him, Ethan’s tall back blocking her view as if at the end of the road she was walking was his back.
Nina had more courage to move forward until her steps were only a few centimeters away from that back before Nina stopped.
She hesitated, hesitant to speak, her index finger gently raised, poking Ethan’s broad back.
