The plane ride back to Sydney was long and filled with silence. Nathan tried to talk to Gianni but she refused to speak to him so he gave up and decided to give her the space that she needed. She went to the bedroom on the plane while he remained seated. He had to speak to some of the directors who called him to let him know that they were aware of what had happened because it was all over the news which further proved there was someone within the mansion carrying the family news outside. Nathan made a mental note to fish them out when he finally settled down enough. “Gia? We are landing,” He said, tapping her gently, she opened her eyes and glared at him, removing his hand from her body. He nodded wordlessly and walked back to take his seat. She came out a few minutes later and took the seat further away from him. Even though it had only been a couple of hours since she stopped talking to him, it felt like forever and he missed her. He didn’t have time to dwell on that as the plane
“You both made your choice. Yes, I get, I am second choice,”“How is dad,” Nora asked.“Okay, not your second choice after all,”He let out. “Sorry, but how is dad,”Nathan let out a sigh and beckoned his sisters to come over. He hugged them both close. “He is going to be okay, right?”It was Nelly who spoke. “Yes, Dad is a fighter and this isn’t his first rodeo, I am sure he will wake up soon,”Nathan assured them even though he wasn’t feeling all that certain. He just hoped a miracle would happen soon. “Nora? Where is his phone?”He asked. “I kept it well so that no one will touch it like you instructed.”She answered and walked ahead of him into the house. the rest of them followed behind her. “You can use any room upstairs,”Nathan told Gianni when they entered the mansion. She didn’t respond and Nora came back with the phone. Nathan took it from her and checked the last person that called him before the heart attack happened and sure enough it was Pedro. “That son of a bi
The next morning, Nathan was woken by the ringing of his phone, he quickly reached for it and answered the call without checking the caller. “Nathan, sir,”It was his lawyer, Nathan sat up on the bed and turned to see Gianni still sleeping peacefully, beside him, he dropped a kiss on her hair before getting out of bed, he went to the balcony in his room and sat down. “Hi, what’s up?”He asked with a yawn.“You were still in bed? you are all over the news,”His lawyer disclosed. He wasn’t surprised, after what happened, it was bound to happen and he was slowly getting used to the media being a part of his life now. “That’s not news to me,”“Do you even know why you are on the news?”“Do I need to know? my dad is in a coma and I am really going to be busy, the last thing I care about right now is what the news is talking about me.”Nathan told him. he removed the phone from his ear to check the time, it was barely six am. “Your first cousin once removed did an interview last night a
“I don’t think he thought any of what he said through, before saying them. I don’t know what he is playing out but I just know it won’t end well with him. If this is his way of trying to get the public on his side then he doesn’t even know what he wants. We are private. The only people we answer to are our consumers and they are loyal to us, it won’t affect the company in any way but I am not sure Pedro’s business will survive this because I am not going to let him get away,”Nathan vowed. He really didn’t want to result in playing Pedro’s game but the fucker just didn’t know when to shut up and walk away. He ruined things for himself and Nathan wasn’t even sure he knew it. if he had behaved himself, he was sure Sebastian would have given him something but he was greedy and stupid. Well, if he wanted to be thrown to the wolves then Nathan was ready to do it for him. By the time he finishes with him. he will be the one to go to the slums that he wishes Nathan would return to. “You loo
“I don’t know what you three think you would achieve coming with me,”Nathan said to the noisy trio in the car with him. They have been talking nonstop since they went downstairs to eat breakfast and he felt left out. Three pairs of eyes turned to him.“We told you before, we are going to keep Dad company while you go to work,”Nora said slowly to make sure he understood, not like they hadn’t told him before.“You guys are going to get him out of the coma by making noise?”He asked.“That’s the goal,”Nelly answered and the trio laughed. He liked having them all together with him so he just let them have it. If only Sebastian wasn’t in a coma right now, everything would have been perfect. They were all going to the hospital to see Sebastian and Nathan planned on going from there to the office, the press conference was scheduled for two pm so he still had a lot of time. He was finally able to finish the whole interview that Pedro did because his media team had advised that he watch eve
“Dad, I am so glad that you are awake, please don’t scare me like that again,”Nathan told Sebastian when he finally got the chance to speak with him. his sisters hadn’t let him say anything for the past thirty minutes since they arrived in Sebastian’s ward. They finally gave way for him and Gianni to say Hi to Sebastian and said they were going to get something to snack on. The old man looked like he aged twenty years since the last time Nathan saw him. It made him so mad and made him want to destroy Pedro and everything that mattered to him. “I am sorry, you had to cut your trip short because of me,”Seb said. “We were already going to leave anyway, we would have been on our way by the end of tomorrow,”Gianni said and Sebastian turned to her.“Gianni. You came,”He said. his lighting up. Gianni walked close to his bed and took his hand in hers. “Of course, I came.”She said, “I thought Pedro managed to talk you into leaving my son, Pedro is crazy, don’t listen to anything he sa
“Why should it bother me? Not that it is any of your business but my woman and I have no plans of hiding our relationship. Both of our parents are aware and they are in support of our relationship. Former marital status or age isn’t a problem for us. I love and she loves me. That’s all that really matters,”Nathan answered. There was silence in the room after his answer. He didn’t mind the silence. He gave them time to take in what he had just said because he meant every word and he didn’t need to explain the kind of marriage that his father had with Gianni. “The chairman, what is his stand with everything that has been going on? And we heard he is currently in a coma again. Does that mean his health is still not stable?”A reporter asked after a long moment of silence.“The chairman is not in a coma. He was resting yesterday and I went to see him this morning. He sends his greetings and soon I am sure he would have something to say to everyone,”Nathan answered. They seemed to be sa
Gianni couldn’t stop smiling as she watched Nathan speak on TV in his father’s hospital room with his sister seated near her and her smile grew even more when he was asked about their relationship and he answered. Not just his answer but the way his eyes filled with love for her when he spoke. It warmed her heart so much and at the same time, she felt stupid for even believing for a moment that Nathan didn’t love her. She was glad she decided to come with him, glad she didn’t stay back in Venice, it would have been a bad idea. Pedro had tried to come between them and she almost let him but then, she had a rethink. Pedro has never liked her or wanted her to be happy so listening to him would only mean she wants to be unhappy that’s why she chose not to let his words ruin what she had with Nathan and she had been right. “I am glad I gave him the push that he needed,”Sebastian said and Gianni turned to him. the sly old man. “I told you not to tell him how I felt about him,”She said