How To Get A Divorce From A Billionaire ?

Episode 31

_"Long time no see Noursine.. How have you been?" Azziz greeted me with a smile.
He extended his hand to shake mine, so i immediately reminded him:
_"i don't shake hands with strange man"
_"oh really?" He chuckled smugly.
That brat!
I only held his hand twice in a 3 years long relationship!
The first time was when that stingy man decided to buy me a bracelet as a present for my birthday, i gave him my hand to let him puts it for me.. What was the most romantic moment of our relationship, was remembered was a smugly chuckle by that brat.
As for the second time we held hands, it was when we went hiking on a mountain in a college trip, when we were ascending the mountain i was few steps behind all the group, so i tried to speed up a bit, that is when my foot slipped and i fell from a small cliff.. Although i landed safely i still found it hard to stand on my painful twisted ankle, not to mention that i started freakng out from the pain i felt, Azziz helped supporting me when i walked back to the camp .. And accompanied me as well to the hospital to have my ankle checked, He kept holding my hand all the while because i was crying and felt terrified with the pain.
I hated the look on his face when he implied that he had already touched my hand before, although we both were in a long relationship and he knew the exact circumstances in which that happened.
You see, i come from a very conservative upbringing, when i first came to D city and saw how people behaved more openly i found it hard to keep the values i believed in at first, especially around Azziz who looked very open with the feminine gender and had no problem interacting with them, it wasn't until once we were having a club activity and i witnessed some girl "accidently" bumping into him, seeing how quickly he flinched and how he cruelly started ignoring that girl ever since that i said to my self: "oh.. There's another 'touchphobic' just like myself.. I'm not the only one who still remembers we're living in a muslim country".
Having this mindset we both led a very "pure" relationship, that lovely image i long had of him..and the careless yet guardedly careful man in my memory.. were somehow being distorted.
_"i'm fine, How are you doing Azziz?" I asked back with a fake smile.
_"i'm good"
He looked at me intensely, his eyes were braver and much more unrestrained from the last time that we have met.. He daringly scanned me up and down, making me feel as if i was his prey, and like i was standing bare without my clothes in front of him.. I seriously was getting more surprised and disappointed in him with every passing moment, he finally landed his eyes on the wedding ring on my finger.
_" Mr Eliyas is coming late from work today?" He asked while turning his head to look at Ines again.. then he started to walk to her side.
she answered:
_"brother is on a business trip, you will meet him once he comes back."
We all headed to the guests hall next, While everyone occupied different chairs and sofas, Nana decided to sit right by my side and immediately started gossiping:
_"why did he come alone? Where's his family? This is a total disrespect to our traditions, the groom must come meet the bride's family with his as well!" .. "How did he dare hug her in front of her father? i did poorly while bringing up my son.. Otherwise how can he allow such shameless acts to happen in front of his eyes!" .. "Didn't Azziz love you dearly before? you even planned to get married soon you graduate, how did you separate? I never asked because i didn't like him at the time and i was glad your eyes were finally opened to reality.. But i'm curious now"
At this point when i heard her last question, i looked at Azziz who was engaged in a chat with my father-in-law and i sincerely anserwed her:
_"i don't know Nana, we were young at the time and things became impossible between us after many fights, maybe if we were more mature we wouldn't have acted the way we did then"
_" isn't it possible that he's holding a grudge against you?"
_"i don't know"
Nana and I were both treated like thin air for a long time until my mother-in-law started feeling bored and she decided to start bullying me, she smiled like a fox and said:
_" tell Noursine .. How was Zizou back in college?"
Although i truly had no heart to answer her question, I still casted Azziz a reminiscential look and said:
_"Azziz was.. different"
They all laughed their hearts out hearing my reply as if i was throwing a joke, only Azziz and I stared one at the other knowingly with cold expressions.
Ines interrupted our stares saying amid her laughter:
_"of course he was different from Now! Even you look different from before.. This is life and people's looks change! Mama meant to ask how was he as a person? Was he as smart and funny as he is now? As kind as he is now ?"
She reached her hand and held his .. Nana scornfully whispered:
_"Shameless! Astaghfirou allah( may god forgive me)"
I glared at my poor Nana pleading her to just ignore what was happening, then i eyed the couple indifferently while answering Ines's question:
_"he was a good man, although he aspired to get the whole world he still knew his limits and respected them, like i said.. he's different.. Clearly different so much"
_"Noursine!" My mother-in-law called my name in displeasure.
Not wanting to be a part of that fake show anymore i stood up, i made Nana stand up with me as well and as i was pushing her to go with me i finally said to that family:
_" Nana and I should preferably let you all talk privately, we'll join you again in dinner .."
Not waiting for them to say anything back, i had already pushed Nana half the way through the big room when Azziz suddenly commented:
_" Noursine is no different from the past though, she's still exactly the same"
The smile that he had on his face when he said these words explained it all, that youthful sparkle in his eyes when he looked at me .. And my fleeting heartbeats when seeing all that, i knew at that second that Azziz Chouli was planning to bring a long nightmare to both my life and his.
When i went back to my room i finally had time to investigate Azziz properly.
I went to Ines's insta and as i predicted there were a lot of pictures of them both together on her account, in restaurants.. Touristic sites, even in foreign countries. While scrolling down them i was more and more being convinced that Ines was genuinely into him.. You can say it's a girl's instinct, as for Azziz.. I just know him.. Ines is not the girl he wanted, although i never truly was a fan of my sister-in-law who never hesitated in joining her mother's drama against me, still i wouldn't wish for her heart to be broken, i had no idea what game Azziz was playing and for what purpose, i just wished he wouldn't go so extreme as to hurt an irrelevant person in the process.
the first picture they had together was shared about 4 months earlier in Ines's account, as for their relationship i had no idea if it started then.
I went to Azziz's account next which i naturally found from the tags, he had a big number of followers and mainly promoted for his Magazine, while scanning his account i wondered why i haven't heard about the success he made before, a part of me was proud of him because he realised his dream of owning his own magazine which seemed something rather impossible to achieve in the time when we were together.
Back then when he used to speak about his future dream magazine and started telling me what content he'll speak about and what design he would follow i cheered for him and even suggested ideas to help him, but deep down in my heart i still believed it was an impossible dream to accomplish, it was exactly like when your small child tells you he'll live in the space when he grows up .. You just cheer for his impossible dream and even help realising some of his fantasies like building a paper rocket and hanging plastic stars on the ceiling of his room, But deep down you'll just pray for your child to have a decent job which fills his mouth with food in the future.
I was truly proud that Azziz could accomplish the impossible, but that was it .. I wished he'll just walk out of my life again.
I spent a long time scrolling up and down in Azziz's account not noticing the passing of time until i accidently checked the time and i found that it was already 8:13.
The dinner starts at exactly 8pm.
So i just closed shut my laptop and went down to the dining room to join the family wondering why no servant notified me about being late.
But the moment i walked down there i found that the dining table was surprisingly empty of people, i asked one of the servants where everyone went, her answer was to my confusion:
_" they are watching tv in the guests room"
I forgot that the villa had a tv in the guests room since the poor big screen was just another useless piece of furniture, plus with the improvements of the modern technology, the tv only got thinner and larger in size to the point where the big screen became indistinct from the wall.
In my time living in the villa i never saw any member of that family using tv, my sister-in-law naturally only browsed the internet, my other in-laws hardly stayed in the house all together between there multiple social events and important gatherings, as for the time they spend inside the house, my mother-in-law preferred to spend it in nitpicking my actions and words, since there was so much that displeased her about me .. She hardly saved anytime to invest in other activities.
Anyways i went to the guests room to see what was so exciting about the tv that made them abondon their sacred ritual of eating dinner at 8.
I walked inside the room .. Nana was the first person i encountered, she was sitting on a chair close to the door, i scanned the room next and realised that Azziz was missing, as for the rest of the family they were all watching the news channel which obviously was the weirdest activity that family ever did together in my judgment, I stepped carefully closer to Nana not wanting to make a perturbing noise, i asked her:
_"Nana, why aren't you all on the dining table yet? Where did Azziz go to?"
She looked at me with her eyes full of terror and asked:
_"Noursine.. Be honest with me, what did you exactly say to your husband?"
_"what do you mean?"
_" you slut!" Ines suddenly yelled from the other end of the room.
I raised my eyes to see who was she addressing with this disrespectful word, to my surprise and shock she was speaking to me !
She suddenly dashed towards me with a terrifying look on her face only to be blocked by the servants before she reached me.
_"let me go! I want to kill her!"
I looked at her having absolutely no idea why was she acting crazy all at sudden.
_"what have you said to Eliyas?" My father-in-law asked calmly while he and his wife turned to look at me coldly.
I logically asked:
_"what's happening?"
The moment i finished asking this, Ines got even more crazy and tried her might to jolt her way towards me between the servants who were blocking her, she yelled:
_"wallah( i swear to god) i'll kill you if anything happens with Azziz! Wallah i'll kill you if he leaves me because of you!"
Nana soon stood up and wrapped her arms around me in a protective way, she led me out of there..
On our way up the stairs she finally answered me:
_"Azziz went back to his magazine building urgently"
_"what does that have to do with me at all? I'm really scared Ines will come to my room and kill me at any moment"
Nana looked at my confused face and sighed, she finally explained:
_"it is Eliyas who is deliberately causing trouble for Azziz's magazine, there were many detain orders issued for editors in the magazine for fraud complaints all at sudden and Azziz went back to his magazine's building urgently to take care of that"
_"doesn't such things usually take time? It's definitely not Eliyas's doing" i shared my logical opinion.
She looked at me as if i was the silliest person on the plannet and she said:
_"your husband is much more powerful than you think he is, he must have moved many hands and heads, this is why i always told you not to divorce him you brainless girl! Do you think you could have lived decently with him controlling all the country! Even his own parents are terrified of him!"
We walked inside my room.. So i locked the door while she went to sit on my sofa.
Being the righteous person that i am, i explained to her:
_" just because my husband is powerful you can't baselessly accuse him of every misfortune that happens in the country, maybe the editors in Azziz's magazine are so corrupt that many people complained against them and the forces coincidentally decided to move now to arrest them. "
Nana just shook her head looking at me, and to my surprise she said:
_"Eliyas called personally to threaten Azziz!"
_"how!!?"
_"yes, he called.. The survant put him on a loud speaker.. And he threatened Azziz in front of us all saying that he played with the wrong person, he said that Azziz should watch the tv more often.. When we turned on the tv the news of the corruptions and arrests in Azziz's magazine were everywhere!"
What!