It took Nicole about an hour to get to the address she texted and now she sat listening to the woman talk and she regretted coming here, it was waste of time, she should have gone to see Aron instead, she had canceled on him for this.
“What?”
“You heard me right, Rafael and I are happy together, don’t come and ruin it you had your time and it has ended, move on already and stop holding on to the last, as you can see my baby already did,”
“Your baby?”
Nicole asked, she damn well knew Rafael was no baby.
“Yes, Rafael is mine now, or do you need proof? There are so many everywhere just like well or why else would I be at his place at nine pm?”
“You guys are dating?”
Nicole asked she knew her questions were dumb, knew she shouldn’t be asking since she already knows the truth but the lady was acting like a dummy so she was just playing along.
“Of course we are, and we might get married soon, Rafael has been hinting on it, I guess my baby wants us to be legal real quick, I don’t fancy marriage that much but if that’s what Rafael wants then I can’t turn him down,”
“You guys just met, how are you already talking about marriage?”
Nicole asked in shock, the first time she took the whole conversation seriously, it was one thing to be dating and another thing to be getting married wasn’t that too soon.
“It doesn’t matter, what matters is I love him and he loves me too,”
“What?
“Yes, he told me that last night, he told me he loves me and wants to be with me, so can you stop calling my man? I don’t like it,”
“Huh? The call was three days ago, anyway, is that all you have to say to me because as you can see, I am a very busy person and I can’t sit around doing nothing,”
Nicole said she didn’t want to sit here and listen to her talk.
“I have more to say,”
“Okay, I am listening,”
“The hotel, won’t it be nice if you gave it back? Seeing that you guys are no longer together, I just feel holding on to something he gave you while you guys were ok good terms when you are not together anymore seems kind of selfish,”
She said and Nicole couldn’t resist the urge to laugh, this lady, whoever she thinks she is had a lot of funny traits.
“You are kidding me, right? There is no way you mean what you just said because that will make you look stupid,”
“I mean everything I just said, it’s the right thing to do,”
“Right thing you say? You haven’t asked Rafael yet? You should have or if you guys are so close he should have been able to tell you,”
“Tell me what? What are you on about?”
“The hotel, and then there is the mansion we used to live in before and also the gallery,”
“He gave you the mansion too? Is that why he lives in a small house? Why did you make him do that?”
She questioned, Nicole has always thought all Italians were intelligent and smart people but this lady, she was proving that there might be clueless and dumb ones too, just like in every other country.
“Yes and those weren’t given to me while we were on good terms, okay except the gallery, the mansion, and the hotel became mine as soon as I signed the divorce papers, so there is nothing like I made him do shit, you should ask him,”
“Oh, like divorce settlement?”
“Whatever you think, I don’t know why I even agreed to come to meet you because clearly, this is a waste of time, I don’t have anything to do with Rafael anymore, you can have him, you don’t need to tell me, apart from when I helped him get home, I haven’t been in the same place as him,”
“Liar, I saw you guys together in New York,”
She accused.
“Oh, that? That doesn’t count and if you will care to know your man approached me, I was on my own, stop acting like some obsessed bitch, we are divorced not fighting,”
“What about at the house? You slept with him, he was drunk and you took advantage of that, you whore,”
“I didn’t take advantage of him, he was the one that started it, you should ask him,”
Nicole defended.
“He is disgusted by what happened and promised me he won’t do it again, you almost caused an issue with us,”
Nicole didn’t listen to every other thing she said, she stopped listening in disgust, that wasn’t a word she ever thought Rafael would use with her, and he remembered yet he didn’t bother to call her, wow, she should have known, all these while she thought he didn’t remember, she couldn’t let her seen her hurt, while her heart bled, she smiled at the woman who looked offended by her smile.
“I don’t want you near Rafael, stay away from what’s mine, I won’t ask nicely next time,”
She said getting up and picking up her handbag.
“Are you leaving already? I thought you had more to say?”
She asked in mockery.
“I have told you, no take that as a warning, I don’t want you near what’s mine, and Rafael is mine,”
“Alright, I will stay off what’s yours, but I can’t say the same for him,”
Nicole said picked up her bag and left her standing there, no one gets to leave first except her, when she got into her car, her defense broke and she sat there just staring, he found the night they shared disgusting and he was already planning to marry again.
“Rafael was already thinking of getting married,”
She said out loud, that part, it hurt like hell, it hasn’t even been up to four months since their divorce, not even three, if her calculations were accurate or if It was over three nonths, it would just be a little over and he was already planning on remarrying, it felt like a betrayal, she felt betrayed, she drove home in a sad mood and went straight up to her room, turned her phone off and spent the rest of the day locked up in her room…