“Don’t we have to divorce?” Serena let out a sigh, she had finally spoken the words she had always repressed in her heart, “Let’s go to the city hall to complete the divorce paperwork.”
After speaking Serena did not care about the expression on Cristian’s face, she only thought that after uttering them, a weight had been lifted from her heart.
Perhaps, in her heart, she too wished for a divorce.
After all, two people who do not trust and suspect each other could never be happy together.
Splitting up had been the best decision for the two of them.
Thinking about this, Serena raised her head again and bit her lower lip, “Let’s go to the town hall, Cristian Ferrari, after we finish the paperwork, I won’t bother you anymore.”
As soon as she raised her head, she discovered stunned that Cristian, she did not know when, had arrived in front of her and suddenly reached out his hand to grab her chin.
“Completing the divorce paperwork?” Cristian squinted his eyes dangerously to stare at her closely, and when his fingers pinched her chin, he could indistinctly feel a layer of cosmetic powder.
The touch sensation in touching the powder made Cristian frown in disappointment; once when he touched her face, he could feel her tender white cheeks, but now–it was all cosmetic powder.
This situation made him very sad, was she so beautiful because she had gotten like this?
“Yes.” The warmth from that touch of his fingers left Serena displaced for a moment, however, she promptly had a reaction, she reached out her hand to pull on the cuff of Cristian’s shirt sleeve, then used the force to slowly pull his hand away and in a quiet voice said, “I’m afraid to disappoint you, but I don’t think you can hold today’s meeting, let’s go and do the divorce paperwork now.”
“Are you looking forward to getting rid of me? So you can take being with your lover all the time?”
Cristian tightened his lips sarcastically and his expression was extremely icy.
Serena did not respond, and he continued to stare at her.
After a moment, the sound of someone knocking on the door echoed, it was Luca warning : “Mr. Ferrari, the meeting is about to start.”
Cristian came back to himself and in a cold voice said, “We can take care of the paperwork, but I don’t have time right now, go out and wait for me outside.”
Finished speaking, the man moved his wheelchair and went outside.
Serena thought nothing of it and immediately turned to follow him and say, “When I have to wait more or less, there will be a limit, won’t there?”
“It’s only been a few days since you’ve come to work and already you’ve forgotten how long the Ferrari Family Group meetings last? Or do you want to come in to relive this experience and remember?”
After hearing these words, Serena froze and stood still in the same place.
Once this meeting started, she would have to wait at least two hours, thought about it for a while, and then said, “Once the meeting is over, shall we go to the town hall?”
He did not answer and his body headed out.
“All right, then I’ll wait for you two hours in the staff room.”
She then headed directly to the staff room, not caring whether Cristian answered or not. Seeing that her steps were so fast and her slender figure had disappeared from his sight in an instant, the man wrinkled his eyebrows slightly.
This woman… He had not seen her for only a few days and it seemed to him that she had become a different person.
“Mr. Ferrari, the meeting is about to start,” Luca came forward to warn him.
“I know.” Cristian replied impatiently, quickly looking at him with an icy stare.
*
In the staff room
Serena was waiting alone.
Since Cristian did not have a secretary, Luca had to follow him into the meeting room, and Serena was left alone for a long time with no one to attend to her. Fortunately, that place was very familiar to her, and since the meeting would last more than two hours, she might as well get up, go to the pantry and make herself a cup of coffee, and afterwards resume flipping through the magazines.
If one has to wait, an hour would be enough to make a person impatient, let alone two hours.
Time passed slowly, Serena thought she had already wasted enough time, but as soon as she looked at the time on her cell phone she discovered that only half an hour had passed.
There was still an hour and a half to go….
The woman crinkled her eyes, looking at the sofa in front of her, why not take a nap here?
After all, she had woken up very early today and was now a little sleepy.
After making up her mind, Serena sat down on the sofa, clutching her purse in her hands, leaned against it and closed her eyes.
She very soon fell into the arms of Morpheus and obviously the time when one is resting is well spent.
When she opened her eyes, she found that two hours had already passed.
Serena got up with happiness, she never thought that two hours had just passed and now she went to find Cristian.
As soon as she left the staff room, she ran into Luca who was on his way and went to meet him.
“Luca, where is Cristian? Has he finished the meeting?”
The man had come looking for her, but now seeing her, he felt a little embarrassed, scratching his head a little, he nodded, “The meeting is over, but….”
“Then I’ll go find him.”
“Mrs. Ferrari, wait.”
Luca pulled her by grabbing her by the corner of her coat and with a tug pulled her back.
Serena turned her head and looked at him with an interdicted expression.
“What’s going on?”
“Mr. Ferrari finished the meeting, but he just went out again.”
“He went out? Out, what do you mean?”
Luca was hesitant for a moment then answered, “When he was in the meeting, Mr. Ferrari got a phone call, now he has some matters he needs to resolve quickly, so….”
“So he abandoned me here?”
Serena thought it was ridiculous, coming to this point, he, as before, did not consider her important and did not respect her one bit.
“Mrs. Ferrari… Mr. Ferrari didn’t leave you here on purpose, it’s just that suddenly a situation occurred that even he didn’t foresee.”
“What situation is so important?” asked Serena aloud.
Her gaze stopped and became a little shifty : This…”
“So important as to give up such a good chance to get rid of me?” Serena laughed at herself and then said, “Give me the address, I’ll go look for it myself, I really want to see when he comes with me to City Hall for the divorce papers.”
After hearing her say these words, the expression on Luke’s face changed and to stop her, he said, “Mrs. Ferrari, why don’t you wait a little longer here or I’ll take you home today and you wait a few days….”
“No. You also heard that he and I are going to divorce soon, I won’t be Mrs. Ferrari anymore, and you don’t have to call me that anymore. If other people hear this appellation, they might laugh at me.”
“Mrs. Ferrari, you and Mr. Ferrari have not yet divorced, moreover it is not certain whether or not you can do so….”
“You don’t have to keep justifying him, even if he didn’t want to divorce, I would still divorce him. Actually Luca, from now on call me by my name, my name is Serena Gallo. If you don’t want to call me by my name, call me by a gesture, that’s okay too… To make a long story short, I forbid you to call me Mrs. Ferrari.”
Luca: “Mrs. Ferrari….”
“Do you still call me that?”
“All right… I won’t call you that anymore.”
“Give me the address, I’ll go find it.”
“Mr. Ferrari really has things to take care of that he had to go out, so why don’t you go home?”