“She is not my wife anymore,”
He corrected.
“Not to me though, she is still your wife in my eyes and your heart, honestly dude, let’s make up with her, I am not saying get married again instantly, no, you can start from scratch, meet her, become her friend and start building that relationship again, you have all it takes,”
“Is that what you are doing with Armani? You are making her uncomfortable,”
Rafael said shifting the talk from him, he wasn’t going to get back with Nicole.
“Well, this wasn’t about me but yes, that’s what I am doing, she playing hard to get but I am not going to give up,”
“I just said you are making her uncomfortable,”
“Well that means it’s working, anyway, I am going to make her mine again, not that I kiss and tell though but we did share some hot moments a few days ago, you know,”
He said smiling brightly, Rafael rolled his eyes, if only he could say the same for him and Nicole.
“It will be nice if you take my advice and just you know do something instead of running away like a coward,”
“Wanna fight?”
He asked moving out of the kitchen back to the sitting room.
“Okay, let’s fight it out, Rafael Salvador, age Thirty-three, self-made billionaire and almost a trillionaire, wanna fight, Caleb, a no surname fellow with pennies in his account, that is an honor kind, sir,”
Caleb said dramatically, the dude was hopeless.
“Caleb really? You are penniless? The last I checked your family is loaded.
“Well, as it stands, I don’t have a family because my dad just disowned me, I can’t believe at thirty I am getting disowned,”
He said, he was making it seem funny but Rafael knew it was more than that.
“Are you joking?”
“Nope, I am not, my parents are really controlling and me trying to break free seems like a threat to them so, dad, mom, they thought it’s best that they don’t associate with me anymore, and took everything they gave me, I moved in with Armani,”
He revealed, okay that was bad.
“Why will you move in with her? That’s going to make her uncomfortable, you should have told me, you moron,”
“I was going to but then she told me to move in, well for a while but still she asked me to by herself, I didn’t even tell her what happened with my family, she found out somehow that I have been living with a mutual friend of ours and told me to move in,”
“And you didn’t think of coming to me? You went to another person’s house? I thought we were close,”
“Don’t be jealous man, I only stayed there for a day, then Mani told me to move in, well that was like a free pass and I couldn’t turn it down,”
“Still,”
“Don’t worry about us,”
“I am not worried, I know you guys will be fine,”
“Yes, we will, now let’s talk about you ditching your woman,”
Caleb said bringing the talk back to him.
“She is not my woman Caleb,”
“I don’t care, let me ask you something Rafael, and you have to answer truthfully,”
“What?”
“Who do you have a problem with? Is it your wife? Her sister or her whole family?”
Caleb asked, Rafael thought it would be easy to answer but he couldn’t find the words, Natalie? He blames her for the loss of their child but was she really to be blamed? The Evans, they weren’t even in the country when the whole shit happened aside from the fact that they weren’t able to talk to Natalie when she was going weird, he didn’t have a problem with them, Nicole? He couldn’t even think up anything against her other than the fact that she sided with her sister and refused to let him take her to court for the death of their child.
“Don’t you have an answer?”
Caleb asked cutting off his thoughts.
“I don’t know man,”
He said truthfully.
“What do you mean you don’t know? Is it Nicole, or Natalie, need I say I met the both of them and they are so alike, okay that aside, which one of the twins are you mad at or is it their parents, you keep talking about Natalie being the reason for everything that happened, but how would you feel if you had been in her shoes? For me, she is just as much a victim as your wife, your baby and you, y’all are just victims of ill circumstances.”
Caleb said.
“That’s not true, my innocent child is the real victim here, she didn’t get to live, she wasn’t even aware of what’s happening yet she had to pay for it,”
Rafael said bitterly.
“Are you sure that’s what it is? Or you are just using that as an excuse”
“Why will I do that?”
“That’s exactly how it seems to me, you are using that as an excuse, people miscarriage every time, it doesn’t have to end the marriage, this is why I still maintain that you made a mistake by asking for a divorce, you were hurt and rightfully so but divorce was a step too far and the both of you are suffering the consequences of your actions Rafael, I saw that woman today, I don’t know what you think but she is not over you, she is nowhere close, don’t you think her newfound love for public attention has something to do with everything? Think about it, she used to be this private person but now, she is doing everything contrary to who she was, I feel that’s her way of coping with everything,”
Caleb said, this was getting too deep and he didn’t want it.
“Can we not talk about this anymore Caleb? Please?”
“You always don’t want to talk about it,”
“Please,”
He said again and Caleb raised his hands up in surrender, they sat in silence drinking, Rafael dead every thought of it, he made the right decision by not going there today and he wasn’t going to regret it.