How To Get A Divorce From A Billionaire ?

Episode 39

_"Look Noursine, either you announce your being married by your self or I will do that on your behalf! You have 2 minutes." Eliyas threatened with a very serious look on his face the moment I walked inside our room a week after his own announcement.

It's not an exaggeration to say I was shocked, because yes he said these words to me just the way I'm saying them to you now!

With no introductions, no explanations, I simply and innocently walked inside our room after I paid Nana a visit only to find an extremely angry looking husband, standing with his arms crossed near the door, and his voice was terrifying when he said these words!

Being the negotiating person that I am, I logically asked him:

_" to who should I report my status as a married woman within 2 minutes? To the Jin (ghosts) in this room?"

_"to him" he coldly replied while handing me my phone.

I checked my phone to see what he was talking about, there was nothing in particular in it, so I looked at Eliyas extremely confused.. He coldly and finally enlightened my head with some clues:

_"check your calls list."

When I did that, I noticed I received a call about 20 minutes earlier, the name of the contact was
"Mr Derris"
Mr Derris Anouar is a coworker of mine who is the most considerate towards me, since I have no business diploma I always found difficulties in examining the accuracy of data and checking the calculations, after asking him for help for the umpteenth time he desperately suggested:

_" Miss Saadat, how about you and I work on reports together until you fully learn how to do them by your self?"

Being the person on the winning side,  of course I accepted his offer with my eyes beaming of happiness and gratitude, ever since that day we found that our collaboration was indeed very beneficial for both parties since I excel at languages and a rather fast reader while he is the calculations and trades professional.

If you're wondering about this Mr Driss personal info, well, he's a happy married man of 43 years old and a father of 3 children, as for the reason of his kindness towards me then I shall say that it is something that the cold citizens of D city can not understand: it is because he and I come from the same faraway state. To explain this kind of weird reasoned closeness then let's take the example of two people moving to a foreign land where when they speak the locals pinpoint their every mistake, comment on their accents and forget the content of their words, a land where locals assume these foreigners don't know a first thing just because they come from a different place, then these long lost suffering two individuals suddenly meet one another in such environment, of course their meeting will be so epic that even the emotioless would shed a tear of joy!
Of course i don't live in such a place but i'm still described simply as " the girl who comes from K state" instead of " the lady who works in the public affairs office" in Filladi company.  
The problem was not that Mr driss had called me obviously for the last report we were working on together and i missed his call, it instead was the fact that the call was actually picked up! 1minute and 46 seconds were registered as the duration of it while i wasn't even in the chamber!
_" you picked up on my phone?" I asked Eliyas with a very displeased tone.
_" i did, should i not answer on behalf of my wife?" He asked back while stepping the distance between us.
I gave him a cold gaze and replied:
_" i never answered on behalf of you, i respect your privacy"
_"my phone is right there Noursine, you're free to do whatever that you please with it i never said you can't, this Mr driss though, i checked your recent calls, the 20 last ones were only with him, i see you're both very keen on calling one another, who is he?"
_"he's my coworker, we often team up for the long reports, we only speak in the matters of work___"
I haven't even finished speaking when he interrupted me saying:
_" this Mr Driss seems very excited about his work that none of his words were actually work related, he called to invite you for a party Noursine, he even called you Nour."
I looked at Eliyas and realised that he was in a state of mind that even if i provided all proofs of my innocence i would still be guilty and considered caught red handed. So i just decided to comply to his nonsensical demand:
_"Fine, i'll call him now and say i'm a married woman."
That cold man, once i agreed he gave me his back and he went to the window to enjoy the scenery behind the glass!
I called Mr driss's contact while looking very displeased at the back of my husband, the call was soon picked up, and Mr Driss's voice came saying immediately:
_" Miss Saadat, is this really you this time round?"
_" yes mr Driss, did you need me for something?"
_"i called to invite you to my younger sister's wedding party, my wife insisted that you come since the wedding will be on the traditions of our region and you sure must have missed the weddings of hometown,Miss Saadat, the man who replied earlier said he's your family member, my wife was too excited hearing that, i guess she went a bit overboard with him since he cut the call after sounding very displeased."
I felt very uncomfortable right away as i asked:
_" may you tell me what is it that mrs Driss said to him?"
Mr driss laughed uncomfortably as well and finally replied:
_" well, the usual, she said she would like to take you as a bride into our family."
I felt shivers all over my body hearing that answer, because it was at that exact moment that i finally realised why Eliyas was acting cold and possessive all at sudden!
You see, this husband of mine is very lacking in the matter of social etiquettes and general humour, this suggestion of mrs Driss which was a mere joke that any average algerian woman says to a woman in a suitable age of marriage as a compliment Eliyas must have considered it as a serious marriage proposal and the invitation to the party as an invitation to a matchmaking event!
Without waiting any more moment i immediately said to mr Driss:
_" i'm married already mr Driss, the man who mrs Driss spoke with is my husband."
I saved details such as "my husband is the big boss of the company and he currently was very enraged" to save my poor coworker from experiencing a heart attack.
After few more words of apologies and excuses i finally hang up the call and i approached Eliyas guiltily, i circled his torso with my arms and as i pressed my cheek against his back i shamelessly said:
_"i have told him i'm married, you should be proud that your wife is still admired by the others, it means you chose a good woman!"
He untangled my arms from around him gently and then he turned to look at me with a serious face while saying:
_" Noursine, this isn't a matter to joke about, you should announce our marriage, it is desrepecting to both me and our marriage, i had always respected your wish of leading a free life therefore i didn't mention your name to the media, but accidents like the one that happened earlier make me question the correctness of this decision."
_"In the past when you needed to keep me hidden i never objected, and now you say i'm being disrespectful to you?" I said with a very serious face.
Because i hell remember very clearly who first suggested to keep our marriage a secret!
During our engagement period, which was very short in fact, the times in which i met Eliyas were very rare not to mention that he never called unless it was an emergency, like any other girl i dreamed of having a considerate and gentle fiance who would listen to my suggestions for the wedding party and our later life as a married couple, who would take time to accompany me to buy wedding rings or at least send me a gift in important occasions, what i got instead was a man who was too busy to do any of the above, even too busy to answer the calls i make after a thousand hours of thinking, hesitation and shyness.
Now that i recall that period i indeed find that our marriage was a work of fate, otherwise why would a dreamy girl such as my self accept to marry a cold neglecting person like Eliyas? Not even Nana's threats would have succeeded in convincing me if it wasn't the pure will of allah to unite me with this man.
Anyways, My 24/7 busy fiance suddenly decided to meet with me one day, he called.. And said that a driver will come pick me up from my work place, I was so naively excited at the time that i barely got any sleep that night, i tried all the dresses that i had to find a proper one, and i even practiced putting make-up since i had poor experience in the field, When the driver was taking me to the mysterious meeting place the next day my heart was pounding so fast i was afraid of dying either of excitement or nervousness before i even reach Eliyas!
The car finally came to a stop at some restaurant, a fancy one, A waitress soon led me towards a private section where only Eliyas was sitting inside working on his laptop.
As you know, i had always considered Eliyas as a distant cousin my whole life, so it was both weird and hard for me to start seeing him in another aspect, meaning as a husband, that man's job was to make this reality a bit easier for me to accept but what he did instead was quite the opposite.
When i walked in front of him wearing the best clothes that i had, looking the best that i could and feeling so nervous that my strong heartbeats almost made an audible sound he merely looked at me for 2 seconds before coldly ordering:
_" take a seat Noursine"
And he went back to working on his freaking laptop!
The table was already full of dishes when i sat on the chair, he didn't even give me a slight chance to misunderstand the full table as an act of kindness and intimacy, because he quickly explained while working:
_" i apologize to you, a sudden meeting was scheduled which i couldn't decline, i ordered different plates so you eat whatever pleases your taste."
I gave the whole situation a very unsatisfied and disappointed look before whispering:
_" i'm not hungry."
After he was finally done with his work he put his laptop aside and finally decided to look at me, without even waiting for any explanation i jumped to the main point and i said:
_" you sure asked to see me to discuss something, so let's not waste each other's time any longer, what is it?"
He seemed a bit taken aback with my words, still he soon got his composure back and said:
_" Noursine, it the matter of our marriage, i suggest that we keep it a secret for a period for your own safety and comfort."
At that moment i was so disappointed with everything that this matter was just another blow, i cursed my self for getting excited over such a cold emotionless person, i simply stood up and left the restaurant.
He didn't even try to follow me to ask how i felt  or anything, he didn't care about my attitude at all! later that day Nana called and made me agree to this suggestion because that old fashioned man sought her and didn't even attempt to speak with me as if i was not even involved in the whole matter!
You see how cold this person was? It is a miracle that i was too generous and gave him my heart! Still he has the audacity to call me disrespectful!
In the room he dared to untangle my arms so as i don't hug him anymore, so i dared as well to give him my back and ignore him right after i reminded him of the person who suggested such "disrespectful" act in the first place!
While standing behind Eliyas said:
_"In the past i couldn't protect you, that was the only way to do that, do you think i enjoyed it? I wanted to introduce you to the whole world as my wife, you have no idea how helpless it made me feel not to be able to confidently say you're my wife without thinking of the consequences of it."
While he spoke i just ignored him.. It the end he gave up and said:
_" Fine, you don't have to say you're married to me.. You just start wearing the wedding ring"
Hearing this i finally complied, i turned to look at him again with a cold face and i said:
_"Ok.. I'll do that."
At that moment, i forgot i was married to a sneaky businessman who takes an arm if you give a hand!