It's Too Late To Love Me Back

Chapter 4

I refused to go to the hospital, my ankle was perfectly fine, I directly went back to my grandfather's villa.

Though Samira tried to know what happened, there wasn't much to tell her, was there?

I simply said after I calmed down:

_" Since you and I have been working hard together I think you ought to know this much about me at least, although I'm sure you must already know without hearing it from me, I've been actively trying to be with mr Merabat for a long time but now I'm over that thought, today we met again and matters escalated a bit, I guess we will have a slightly harder time in the coming days dealing with the consequences of what happened today, but we're good.. Have faith in me."

But more importantly, once arriving to the villa I had to urgently find the villa's butler to inform him that Younes might be coming to see grandfather later today.

after that, I barely had enough time to remove my already terribly messed up makeup, change my clothes and have a bath when I heard a knocking on my room's closed door while I was drying my hair with a towel.

When I opened the room's door, I was surprised to see my eldest uncle, namely Riad's father, standing right in front of me with a troubled expression.

He quickly says:

_" Rima, can you come to eddar for a bit, your uncles and I want to talk to you regarding your encounter with Younes today."

_" Yes, sure, You can go first.. I'll be right there."

I quickly dressed up properly, then immediately headed to "eddar".

"eddar", meaning "home", is what we call the hall where all the members of my family usually meet.

Unlike the lavish and periodically renewed furniture in the rest of the halls and rooms in the large villa, "eddar" hall have kept its simplicity for decades, sofas personally selected by my late grandmother are still there and we still sit on them while we comfortably and joyfully spend quality time gathered together. The walls are full of pictures of the whole family through the years, "eddar" hall pretty much have been witness to all the ups and downs of us, and today my uncles are also gathered there waiting for me to come.

When I walk inside, I notice that my 4 uncles were all there, except my father of course.. my father is always absent, two of my cousins were there too, so I start to curiously wonder: how did all these people come back home from the company building so fast?

It's literally been less than an hour since I informed the villa butler Younes is probably coming here!

Once they notice me standing at the door, they stop talking about whatever that they were talking about, and my second uncle hurriedly asks me:

_" Are you sure Rima? Did Younes clearly say he's coming here today to meet father?"

_" She's not a child for the love of god, of course she's sure!" my forth uncle interrupts him impatiently.

I take a deep breath and answer:

_" Uncle, when I coincidentally met Younes in the party I've been at today he suggested driving me home because he was planning to visit, while I rejected his offer l'm sure he's still planning to come."

_" The nerve of that son of a b****! Doesn't he know grandfather is on his death bed because of the w**** of their house? and now he's coming here to finish the job and send the old man to the grave!" my cousin shouted startling me.

_"Marwan.. Mind your language." my second uncle threatened.

_" Am I wrong?! That mother @$**& will meet grandfather over my dead body!" the former continued.