After Azziz was dragged out of the room, Eliyas and I were left inside along with the guards and.. with the silence.
The air became so heavy and tight around Eliyas and I that the guards who stood like statues all around the place did not dare utter a word, in fact, we were long pass the duration we were allowed to stay inside that room, but like i said, no one dared to say a thing.
As for me, I was just calmly sitting on my chair and thinking about this one thing:
"Now, how should i react to what I've just heard? "
You see, not only I found out I was actually fooled again by Lydia who seems pretty much in love with making fun of me whenever she gets the chance to do that, I discovered as well that my current husband is probably the reason behind my separation from my previous boyfriend, which would make me double fooled in some sense.
Being the person that I am, meaning someone who is not the definition of being emotional, calmly turned to look at Eliyas who was still standing behind me and I just sighed when noticing he was already looking at me with a pale face, my decision was made instantly: I will not overreact, the man is already on the verge of forgetting how to breathe.
I've already mentioned before how this man, the devilish Eliyas Filladi, is very much into his wife, namely me, and how I've always been his weakness point. I don't know how much he loves me, but it's very deep, so deep that the idea of me getting mad at him because of what I've just heard must have been very tormenting to him and making his face turn even paler with every passing moment.
Since I didn't want my husband to have a stress induced heart attack in front of my eyes, I decided to be merciful with him and finally asked:
_"are the words I've just heard correct? Meaning that you toyed Azziz when he was with me?"
He nodded.
I sighed again, then calmly added:
_"were you in anyway the reason behind our separation?"
He took a deep breath, then he inspected our surrounding and said:
_" this isn't the right place to discuss this matter."
I nodded slowly, stood up from my chair, then said to him:
_" let's get out of here then."
I immediately started walking out of the room the moment I said these words, there was no particular reason why I was walking rather fast out of that place, my feet just took the lead and they idly decided to be energetic and walk fast, but my husband was clearly in a very emotional state and he interpreted my feet's sudden enthusiasm as me walking away from him and leaving him behind. While I was peacefully walking he called my name in a rather dramatic way:
_"Noursine!"
When I turned to look at him again, he was far worse on the scale of being pale, I was actually starting to feel worried about him, but before I even asked him if he was doing ok he quickly walked the small distance that separated us and while doing that he coldly ordered me:
_" stay by my side, don't walk alone."
Then without giving me any time, he immediately held my hand with his the moment he stood beside me, entwined his fingers in mine and started walking out with me.
Well practically, from the point of view of the guards standing there, Eliyas Filladi was just dragging a very confused and very blushed wife behind him.
You see, the reason why I was in such shy and surprised state is because the times in which Eliyas and I held hands are very rare, actually, the times he held my hand in public were almost all very unexpected and embarrassing!
I remember the first time we ever held hands as a couple in public was around the forth month after our marriage, which is quite a long period if you ask my opinion.
This happened in the garden of their villa, although I don't think the garden of our villa should be called a public place, what I mean by public is that there were other people watching us holding hands, namely Eliyas's whole family, the servants and my forever love rival, Lydia khoudjali.
It was like this, I remember working on an article for very long hours that day, I was a very dedicated journalist at the time, after watching the computer screen for such a long time I felt that my eyes were extremely tired and dry, so I decided it was time for me to change the view a bit. I intended to leave my room and go have some fresh air and enjoy the view at the garden, it so happened that when I went down the stairs on my way to the garden, while walking across the big entrance hall, I noticed that the whole filladi family was sitting in the guests room, the large door was wide open so I could see what was happening inside, the servants were moving around like bees bringing sweets and wrapped boxes inside the room, even Eliyas was there, sitting on a sofa chair and crossing his hands on his chest looking very impatient and annoyed.
This sight seems so ordinary so far, except for one additional bothering detail that was added to it: Lydia khoudjali was there as well.
She was sitting right on the armrest of the sofa chair of Eliyas. And yes, of all the seats in that large hall.. She chose to sit on the tight and uncomfortable armrest of my husband's chair.
So you can imagine the sight my eyes fell on: my husband's shoulder almost stuck in another woman's thigh.
Just to put you in the picture, there was a lot of empty sofas .. A lot! And even if the richest family in the country suddenly couldn't afford to put sofas in their villa there were chairs in the house as well, and rags, and the freaking floor!! Lydia can just sit on the freaking floor away from my husband! But no, she chose to squeeze her self on a Sofa's armrest and just stick there like a gum.
At the time she went to a trip abroad, apparently she came to visit the filladi family as soon as she came back from her trip, many wrapped gifts that she brought were resting on the table in front of the sofa, my mother in-law probably received jewelry as a gift, since she was holding some necklace between her hands and looking at the shiny thing like if she've never seen a necklace before in her life, she was endlessly praising Lydia's taste in jewelry when I was walking pass the guests hall, she was so exaggerating that the one might actually believe Lydia was the person who invented jewelries in the first place.
While I was quietly making my way not wanting to be caught by them, Lydia was the first person to notice my sneaky action, like an eagle, she excitedly yelled my name and asked me to walk inside, once I halfhearted did that, she greeted me while still sitting in her original spot:
_" Noursine! i'm so glad to see you again, I missed you so much! How are you doing?"
_"good." I replied with much less enthusiasm, I stared at Eliyas who finally noticed me and I had no plans of asking her how she was doing as well, she was clearly doing so good.
_"Earlier i asked to meet you with the whole family, Eliyas said you were sleeping and that we should not bother you."
I was wide awake for long hours and Eliyas knew that, So basically he lied, anyways I chose not to be petty about such small details and I confirmed his lie saying:
_"yes, I had a headache."
_"I brought a gift for you! Here it is .. Take it!" She excitedly continued while taking a wrapped box from above the table and handing it to me, of course she did not move from her very uncomfortable seating position, she was stuck there, so my highness had to walk towards her to receive the gift.
When I unwrapped it, I found a makeup pallet inside.
It was quite disrespectful to give me this gift actually, at the time I hardly applied any makeup on my face, still I thanked her, and asked one of the servants to take the pallet to my room, I had the intention of throwing it away later.
Since i'm not a very courteous person nor I had any plans of starting to act fake like Lydia, I swiftly dismissed my self and conveniently walked towards the villa garden through the door at that guests hall like I initially wanted to.
The guests hall at the filladi villa is designed in a way that the forth wall, namely the one having a view at the garden, is entirely made of one large window beside the other, like the kinds that are both windows and glass doors, and they all open to the garden.
Once I was inside the garden, I headed straight to my favorite spot there, where Narcissus flowers were planted, and I kept standing there admiring my favorite flowers.
Narcissus always reminded me of my hometown, while looking at them I completely forgot the people who were still sitting inside, I was having peaceful moments on my own, that is until my left hand was suddenly wrapped inside someone's warm palm, someone decided to hold my hand out of the blue !
when I turned to see who this person was I found Eliyas, he somehow came to stand right beside me without me noticing, then he held my hand with a smiling face.
I reflexively turned to check his family as well, they were still sitting indoor and observing us through the open large windows, they all were precisely looking our way, I felt shy so I whispered to him:
_"what are you doing?"
It seemed like he enjoyed seeing my flushed face, He softly cupped my hand between both his palms, lifted it to his lips then kissed the back of my hand as if it was the most precious item he ever held.
I felt goosebumps all over me, we were in hot summer, and i still shivered because of his action.
While kissing my hand, his eyes kept looking at me with warmth in them, mindless of everyone else, he treated me as if I was the only person in his surrounding.
After he parted his lips, he calmly asked:
_"is your head better now?"
_" my head was not hurting me, it was just a lie, like yours." I coldly commented.
At the time, I had not a single thread of love nor affection towards Eliyas, so except for shivering I felt nothing else.
_" i didn't want unimportant people to bother you." he explained.
I pulled my hand away from his, then I reminded him of what I saw with a very displeased tone:
_" it seemed like you were very comfortable around these inimportant people, you were even generous and shared a tight chair with them."
_"Are you jealous Noursine?" He weirdly asked with joy flying out of his eyes.
I felt so angry with his question, there I was expressing my displeasure with his behavior as his wife and all he childishly thought about was me being jealous!
I was not jealous..i was disrespected!
I was so angry that I decided to just ignore him, so I gave him my back and stared at some tree in the garden, I guess his misinterpreted my silence or something, because all at sudden, Eliyas Filladi decided he no longer wanted to have any face left in front of his family, he suddenly held both my shoulders and made me turn to look at him again, the moment our eyes met, he cupped my neck with his palms, moved closer.. and kissed my forehead, after he did this.. He held my hand again and he dragged me to the storage room in the garden, needless to explain the reason why he did this .. He kissed me passionately the moment he closed the door!
And I mean it, he literally sucked my soul out of my body!
I was extremely surprised, very embarrassed as well, because at the time we were still not very familiar with one another, plus his family must have red his thoughts as well, all in all I felt very embarrassed!
I naturally resisted him, I tried to free my self.. But my small resistance only ignited his desire even more, he hugged me tight to his solid body and treated my lips and tongue in a way that kept me wondering whether I will be able to eat food properly in the future after this kiss.
When he finally was satisfied, i was long pass the point of having strength to stand on my own feet, while i weakly leaned on him he supported my small body, and he waited for me until i finally stopped gasping for ear and my breaths settled.
_" are you crazy!" I shouted the moment my head became clearer, then i immediately ran out of the storage room to the villa again with a flushed face, on my way to the stairs i casted the family one last look.. i noticed that my love rival, was no longer there.
Apparently Lydia left the house at some point when Eliyas and i were kissing, as for the rest of the family, they didn't even look me in the face.
At the time i attributed Eliyas's unrestrained behavior as a newly wedded man's strong desire, i didn't give it any deeper thinking.
But Lydia who knew him better than i did then, she must have realised it , that this man was very much in love with his wife, and he wanted her to know this.
When Eliyas held my hand in Jail I thought about this idea as well, that this man is very much in love with me, so much that his hand was shaking when it held mine.