Eva's Sins.

LXXVIII

„I wish I turn the old times back and live them as I wish"

  „Eva!" shouted Brian, breaking into his office. He stopped instead, right next to the door, for the one who was in front of the window, staring at the outside world, was Sophie and not Eva.

  This made the poor man's heart stop, understanding that all his hopes shattered like a castle made from playing cards, for he ran, all the way home from the stables after one of the servants told him that he has a visitor. And, at his question: „who?" the woman about 30, who was actually new in that house, simply told him: „an extremely elegant woman. And... she told me that she's your wife."

  That's why he entered the house in a hurry, to later break into the office, breathless, even if his first intention has been to enter his room and change his clothes, for he was completely sweated after the mad run he had on the horse's back, crossing the fields of the Image. And that run had a special meaning: it was a desperate attempt to forget, feel better, release the chest from that inside volcano that melt him slowly, even if it was a big arson inside him. But he forgot about everything when he lost the battle with his feelings, strong emotions that came over him like an avalanche of stones fallen off a mountain slop, thinking that it was Eva who came, that she forgave him and that if she was back they'd be alright from that moment. But... it has been just an illusion.

  „How's life, Brian?" Sophie asked him in a half a voice. Yet, she looked at him with love, even if she had never thought that she was capable to feel it for the man who has been her husband for 7 long years. And she also watched him with longing, for in those few months while Brian lived with Eva in Image, Sophie has been alone most of the time, for Marianne had her own problems and seemed not to have time for her friend anymore. That's why, seeing him again, Sophie revived all the past emotions and, for an instant only, she wanted to turn the time back, living their first night again, that night after their marriage when she closed the door in Brian's nose, and fell prey to his volcanic love, instead of allowing him to look for happiness into someone else's arms. And... only now did Sophie understand that a man like Brian won't ever be satisfied only with waiting and that he was more than capable to find another one to offer him happiness as it happened with Eva, a child only, who pushed Sophie Anderson Bell off her throne.

  But... this didn't surprise Brian, who finally came back to his senses after deeply breathing in and out several times, seeing his ex-wife again. And he couldn't deny the fact that he felt disappointment for seeing her and not Eva. But... it was time to act. That's why Brian finally left the door and approached his desk, looking elsewhere and not at Sophie, who didn't lose sight of him.

  „I'm fine. Thank you for asking," the man drily answered, staring like a dumb at the document left open on the desk. And he preferred not to look into Sophie's eyes not because he felt sorrow for abandoning her for another one or because he felt shy, but because he tried to hide from her the disappointment of realizing that she was who came and not Eva. And... he wanted to hide this because he knew that Sophie was hurt and, if she had found out that he ran there to see the other one, she could have hurt Eva again.

  „I'm glad that... you're fine," Sophie managed to mutter eventually, and her drawl amazed Brian, who finally looked at her and, instead of her fix, glacial glance, he saw a sad Sophie, somehow absent, while playing with her glove in her hands.

  Yet, the man decided that if she came to see him after their divorce, even if they had both bad memories about the other, they should at least keep up appearances and respect their former pact - to say at least „hi" to each other, no matter the problems between them. That's why he asked her eventually: „why are you here, Sophie? Something happens?"