“Rafael,”
She cried holding on to him.
“It’s fine, it’s going to be just fine, don’t beat yourself over this, I promise I won’t let anyone come near you, they won’t dare.”
He assured, Nicole wasn’t sacred, they couldn’t physically harm her, she just didn’t want to be in the spotlight what more it was not even a positive exposure but a negative one, she picked up her phone and checked online, the articles were starting to pour in, Natalie did her dirty, she fed her to the lions, she couldn’t believe her sister could do such a thing to her, no, if anyone had told her this will happen at the beginning of the year, she would have fought with the person.
“Stop looking at those Nicole, don’t torture yourself, you already know it will be bad, don’t give her the power to get to you, they are already working on bringing down those articles and my side will counter her story, don’t worry, I am going to fix this, okay?”
“Yes,”
She replied, she had no other choice anyway, Rafael got a call and left home saying her would be back soon, she wished he didn’t because as soon as he left, she went back to checking those articles and not even one person was on her side, people were writing nasty things about her, people that didn’t really know her, there were photos from their wedding, the ones where she wasn’t smiling or was looking away, people are saying shit about her because of those, saying after stealing her sister’s man the least she could do was smile at her wedding, what hurt the most was Natalie didn’t tell anyone why she wasn’t at the wedding that day and why she had taken her place, she didn’t tell anyone and no one bothered to ask, they were all too busy seeing faults in her, feeling her anxiety rising, she turned off her phone and tried to do something else, but nothing was working, she wanted her husband back but he wasn’t coming back, she stayed in their room for almost four hours before he returned looking stressed, she could tell things weren’t looking good for him either, she had saw his stock price reducing and had thought it might be old new but with his expression she was sure it wasn’t old.
“Hey baby, sorry I left you alone by yourself, I had to address some things, I am done now and I won’t leave your side again,”
He said hugging her, she felt safe in his hands, he took her phone from her turned it off and they spent the rest of the days and the next three days together.
Everything got even worst as the days went by, every day there was a fucking new article about her, every day she had to live through people she didn’t know getting in her business, every fucking day, the days slowly grew into a week, and it was only aproaching a second week, it was beyond what she could grabs, but in all, she didn’t lose her cool, she just turned off her phone, turned off the world and retired to a world her husband created for her, her safe heaven was in her home, her husband tried as much as he could to make her forget everything that was going wrong in the outside world, every day he left home and she knew he didn’t just go to work, as usual, he had much more to do, he wasn’t telling her a thing but he did, each time she was left alone when she wasn’t on a call with Grace, she would be stuck checking out what’s going on, Rafael had lost so much because of her, she felt guilty for it but there was nothing she could do.
Nicole looked at the painting she had been trying to make right for days now, but it wasn’t working, nothing was working for her, she had no inspiration nor will to draw even though that was the only thing she could do right now, she looked up as her phone rang, she had a new phone that only her mom, Grace, and Rafael could reach her through, so she knew it would be either of the three of them, she picked when she saw that it was Grace, she has been calling every day to check up on her ever since the news went up and Nicole was thankful for her support.
“Nicole!”
“What is it?
Nicole asked in response to the urgency in Grace’s voice, it brought her on the edge even more than she already was.
“I think you need to listen to something, your sister is at it again, I know, I know we shouldn’t be talking about it but, she doing so much to ruin you, she is telling lies, I can tell they are lies because I have seen your works, I know how far you work hard to make your works authentic and what’s more, she told them the location of your gallery,”
Grace revealed, Nicole quickly picked up her laptop, turned it on, and searched Natalie’s name and of course, it was trending. She clicked on the video that looked recent, and what her sister was saying about her made her nauseous. How could her sister do this to her? The headline didn’t help either, it read, Natalie Evans controversial twin isn’t just a man thief but an art thief too.
“Nicole, your sister has gone too far, she gave your address away,”
She couldn’t even listen to Grace properly, her head was spinning, she had enough, the whole thing was too much for her to handle, Natalie had gone too far, she couldn’t take this anymore. She got up, told Grace she would talk to her later and thanked her for letting her know and hung up, she then asked her driver to take her to her parent’s house, she was going to end it today…