chapter 188
When they arrived in the dining room, Yolanda and Richard were already seated. Olivia gave Damon a look of courage before sitting down when Damon pulled out the chair for her. Richard was still sitting at the end of the table, his father’s rightful place, but with superhuman effort, he’d stopped making that remark, because all he wanted at that moment was for this charade to end quickly so he could leave. The room was so silent and Olivia was making every effort not to meet Richard’s gaze.
-I really don’t know how to express my joy, Olivia. Damon told me that it was you who asked him to come and ask my forgiveness and, above all, to make an effort for the family. I’m really very happy about that, my girl. you’re the rare pearl he’s been looking for ever since.
-Staying in conflict isn’t what’s good for a family, so making an effort is what I think is best for everyone.NôvelDrama.Org owns this text.
Richard took Yolanda’s hand and began to caress it as she smiled with a gleam of happiness shining in her eyes. Damon was all tense and Olivia had no idea what she could do to get him to relax a little. Time seemed to stand still and she felt it had frozen at the wrong moment.
-So Ricard, before you met my mother, what did you do?” Damon had asked.
Richard cleared his throat and looked at Yolanda, expecting her to dissuade her son from his question, but Yolanda seemed rather pleased as she could see Damon was interested in Ricard’s life and even wanted to know what his life had been like before.
-I think we have to be content with living in the present, Damon. What I was doing isn’t really that important.
-oh, but my love, don’t be shy, okay, go on, tell him what you were doing, and I think that’s how he’d like to get to know you better. I’d also like to know since you never had the chance to tell me about your past because you were so busy taking care of me.
Damon raised his eyes discreetly to the sky. His mother was so naive as not to understand that if this man had insisted on hiding this part of his life from her, it might have been because he wasn’t doing anything at all, or simply because he was involved in some shady business.
-Well, I was a businessman, but things went wrong. What I’d like to say is that on the day I refocused you, Yolanda, I’d just left Russia because a Russian mafia boss was after me after taking all my business. Given the fortune I had, he was desperate for me to join the mafia, but I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to get involved in shady business deals.
Olivia didn’t understand this story at all, which was why she’d looked at Damon, who also didn’t understand at all. So if what Richard was saying was true, that would mean that all this time, he’d been putting his mother in danger because the mafia was after him, and why would the mafia be after him if he hadn’t been looking? Unless he himself was the mafia, and if that was the case then that would mean they were all in danger without exception, because his mother had already told him about the family and its secrets.
-oh my love, you’re such a brave man and i’m so proud of you. any other person would have agreed to be part of the mafia yet you decided to give up everything you’d built. i’m here now and i’ll support you no matter what. what do you think of that Damon?
-Uh… well… I think you’re absolutely right Mom, I think you’re very brave Richard and yes, you’re now surrounded by people who can support you soon.
-Thank you, Damon, and I’m really pleased that our relationship is improving,” Richard replied, looking at her with strange eyes.
Olivia didn’t know where to put herself. She couldn’t understand what Richard had done to Yolanda to make her so blind and trust him so much.
-I’m really sorry but I’m going to have to leave you, I forgot my morning vitamins and given what I’ve already eaten, I’ll be able to take my vitamins like that and I’ll also need to rest. see you later.
-Oh, I’m so happy, you’re taking your vitamins and you need to rest too. am I going to be a grandmother? asked Yolanda enthusiastically.
She looked at Damon, who shook his head in the negative. Yolanda’s eyes were still fixed on her and more precisely on her belly, which worried her a little.
-Olivia isn’t pregnant, she just needs her vitamins for her health.
-I’d like to be a grandmother and I imagine it’s Richard’s dream to be a grandfather too, isn’t it, my love?
The latter winced to the point of burning his throat with his cup, from which smoke was still escaping, which drew a mocking laugh from Damon, but he quickly covered his mouth with his hand. His mother was so in love with him that she told herself that her presences and desires were the same for her lover, whereas he didn’t dream of becoming a grandfather. Olivia took advantage of this moment of distraction to go up to her room. Damon, too, needed an escape route.
-I’m so happy to have shared this moment with you and thank you too, Richard.
-But you go ahead, darling, and don’t be long, I want grandchildren.
Damon huffed and puffed as he left the living room. It was torture, and although he found his life with James and Tyler exasperating, he would have preferred to be with them a thousand times over than in his mother’s house, playing the perfect son-in-law to Richard.