Wife of fortune

Chapter 21

KATE

It's our fourth day in New York and I'm already missing travelling. Maybe because here in this big penthouse I'm almost always alone, I'm still getting my way around it, I rarely see Grayson, he's always working and I know it's for the better good but I do miss when we were travelling and we had to spend time together.

I'm happy that Malika is here she makes it a lot better, but her Cole have been getting closer so sometimes she's gone off somewhere with him.

And then there's Jena. I try to avoid her, I stay in the bedroom as much as possible or I just leave the house and go out. I can't stand to be around her for longer than 10 minutes. I can see that Grayson is also getting tired but from what I've heard Jenas family is close friends with Graysons family and it would send a bad message to kick her out.

For me, I do feel better, however the food poisoning has left some physiological damage on me. After two days there are still some foods I can't look at because I will feel physically nauseous. The fever has gone down but my body feels drained, I feel tired an hour after waking up.  As we will pick up travelling soon again I try to get as much rest as I can. My body needs it.

But also these days have got me thinking about me and Grayson. Everything seems okay, but now that we're here and practically in our normal lives, I don't see him often and it gets me thinking if this is what our future would look like if we weren't forced to go to events and balls. He's very busy, and also I miss Italy. I miss my family, my siblings, God it's been so long since I've seen them. I miss real pasta, and some good wine, I miss the morning sun and the chirping of the birds, I miss the beach, and the people even if they get on my nerves sometimes. I miss hearing Italian around me. And when we were in Hawaii or Greece I didn't feel it so much but New York makes me home sick. I've never felt so empty as I do right now. Like a piece of me is missing.

"Kate?" The doors creak open and Malika peaks her head in. She walks inside and closes the doors behind her. "Are you gonna get out of bed?"

She's sitting down at the end of the bed and I turn to my nightstand to take my phone it's almost 2pm and I'm still in my pyjamas. I slide out of the bed and walk inside the closet.

"I was thinking we could go to that little cafe we used to love" Malika says "or I'll die in this house"

"Me too" I say as I step out of my pyjamas and put on some underwear. I pull a dress over my head and collect my hair in a claw clip. I take some shoes and put them on and then walk into the bathroom to brush my teeth and apply some mascara.

"Are you okay?" Malika asks as she's leaning on the bathroom door.

"Yes, I'm just tired" I say and let out a breath as screw closed my mascara tube.

"You just woke up" Malika laughs.

"I know, I just feel drained, I think it's just my body getting over the food poisoning" I say and look at myself in the mirror.

"Talking about that, the restaurant got closed down temporarily" she says and I look at her. "My theory is that a certain someone might've had something to do with it"

"You think? Maybe someone else also got sick and complained" I take my phone and put my things in a purse.

"Could be" she says "ready?"

I nod and we leave the room. We both walk down the stairs and the house is fairly empty not counting the many guards stationed around.

"Where's your best friend?" I ask teasing Malika about Jena as she's been hating on her constantly.

"Actually, I haven't heard from her today" she says as we step into an elevator and ride down to the garage.

"Interesting, she usually lets everyone know she's home" I say and after a while the elevator doors open up to a large garage.