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Chapter 4

"She'll be staying here as long as she's in Istanbul, with me." Serkan said casually, as if it was obvious.

Eda's lips parted in shock at those words. Her heart sinking with dread.

"She's had me over hers for so long, I can't let her sleep at the hotel." Serkan said precising, seeing their reactions. And then proceeded to take Carla towards his house in the extension of the farm. "Gel."

Eda watched them disapear in shock and gulped. He shied away from her, but had no problem sharing a place with another woman ?

She almost regretted his former robotic self. The Serkan she knew one year ago before she entered his life hated to share his personal space, he didn't ever live with Selin nor could have any woman over.

And this one ? He just casually invited... someone he knew for what, 2 months ? To live with him.

Eda blinked in pained anger as she watched them out in the distance, talking and smiling, laughing and sharing moments she had once shared with him as Serkan showed her his place.

"Bu kadin...she'll stay with him ?" Aydan asked, still very in shock and confused.

Eda rose from the couch. "Evet Aydan Hanim, he has someone else in his life. And I have been going crazy after him, meanwhile he just..." Eda threw her hands in the air in distress.

"Hayir, you know he loves you, and he isn't like this. If he was with her why wouldn't he tell us or lie ? Serkan has never done anything he didn't want, he wouldn't hide a relationship. I don't think they're involved." Aydan stared at them in the distance with suspicious eyes.

"Ben gidiyorum, I am not wanted here." Eda grabbed her purse, feeling humiliated like she hadn't in a long while.

And as she reflected on the sentiment. A thought crossed her mind. Great Eda Yıldız, another man dumping you for another Carla. As if Cenk hadn't been enough. Fate seemed to play a sick ironic joke with her. At least, she didn't feel one bit of pain breaking up with Cenk, but letting Serkan go ? Her heart hurt.

"Sacmalama Eda, stay. You have every right to be here. Kizim, you will need patience, lütfen, don't give up on him. You know you're in his heart right ?" Aydan said softly holding her wrist and preventing her from leaving.

Eda's eyes teared up and she sighed, breathing in and sat back down. She removed her coat. "I'll help Seyfi in the kitchen." She decided, needing a confident and desperately a distraction.

.....

"I stopped at 16." Carla said, talking about horse riding as Serkan showed her around the stables.

"Why ?" Serkan asked.

"School." She shrugged.

She turned to him, looking at him straight in the eyes.

"So, how'd you find her ?" Carla asked straight forwardly.

Serkan blinked. "Eda ?" He asked.

"Tabiki Eda." Carla pressed, raising her eyebrows.

"I don't know. She's intense. We kept fighting all day..." Serkan sighed.

"Intense in a good or bad way ?" Carla asked curiously and Serkan stared at her, handcuffed me intense, his mind wanted to reply.

"In all ways ? She's obviously in love with me, and I feel bad she's been so sad." Serkan reflected, recalling the pale grey shade her chocolate eyes took as they shined with pain.

"And you, how do you feel about her ?" Carla asked.

"It's not even been one day since I met her. She's beautiful and attractive but..." He was cut as Carla squealed.