Eliana looked around the room and sat down on the bed. Her hands rested on the mattress. "Are you sure that your father is not good? He adores you so much," Eliana stated. Augustus put the blazer on the chaise lounge and came to sit beside her."I never had a conversation with him this calmly," Augustus stated. "This is the first time that I saw him this way." He was astonished to see his father's behavior in the living hall. "You must have gotten angry at him, everytime he tried to have a conversation with you," Eliana remarked. "Eliana, he betrayed my mother." He sounded serious and his voice seemed full of pain. She didn't know that her words would hurt him. "What if the truth is something else?" Eliana asked. "You were a kid and you might've had some misunderstandings towards your father," she opined. Augustus turned quiet. He didn't say anything and asked her to freshen up first. He went to the cupboard and checked that it was full of clothes. He took out a casual pair of clo

Augustus didn't feel it right to hide the fact anymore from her that he liked her. He nodded his head. "I do. I have liked you since the first day we met. Since I had this pressure of marriage with Gia, I decided to marry you," Augustus told her the truth. While telling the truth, he also admitted that he liked Eliana, which he was unable to do for a long time. "You could have asked me to date you," Eliana stated."You would not have given me the chance. Also, I had no time to date you. Marriage was the only option," Augustus affirmed. "Forgive me for forcing you into this marriage. I had no other way to convince you," Augustus apologized at the same time. "Why do you like me?" Eliana asked another question from him. "I already mentioned it before. I never saw a woman like you in my life," Augustus answered. "That night you not only saved me, but also won my heart," he added. "I will do my best to become a perfect husband," he assured her. Eliana finally met his gaze and told him

Eliana found Augustus in the balcony of their bedroom. She stepped into the balcony and quietly stood by his side. "Are you good?" Eliana asked him. "No. I want to leave right now with you," Augustus asserted. His hands tightly pressed against the aluminium handrail of the balcony. "A place where my wife's respect cannot be done, I can't stay there. What do you say? Should we leave?" Augustus asked her opinion. Eliana shook her head. "Your father and brother will feel bad. I understood why you hate your step-mother. She's a toxic person. If I would be at your place, then I would have taught her a lesson," Eliana stated. "A lesson? How?" Augustus questioned her with an amusing expression. "Umm," Eliana turned and rested her elbows on the handrail, "I would have put something in her face pack so that she would get these big pimples on her entire face," she gave him the idea.Augustus started to laugh. "Won't that be too much? For a person, the face is everything," he affirmed. "No.

Augustus and Eliana left for the office the next day with Rafaello. Eliana asked Augustus about her father upon reaching the office. "I will talk with my friend. Do you want to go and see him?" Augustus asked her. "Yes. I usually used to go daily to see my father," she informed him. Augustus hummed and scrolled his contact list. He found Romeo's number and dialed his number. After a few rings, Romeo answered his call. "Romeo, I want to ask about Eliana's father's state ," Augustus didn't do the formalities of greeting him as they were good friends. "As I told you before, the patient's condition isn't good. I would like you to tell Eliana and Arnaldo to be ready for the worst. The patient's organs aren't well and I ran the tests in which I found out that he got diabetes too. Because his immune system has weakened, so there are chances of spread of other diseases too," Romeo explained everything to Augustus. "If you want to come to the hospital, then you should," he suggested to him.

Rafaello closed the deal somehow and asked Luca not to let anyone know that Augustus left before the deal. Luca nodded his head and thanked Rafaello for handling the deal with Ryan Petrakis. He left Rafaello's cabinet as he had to check some paperworks. Rafaello leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes. At that moment, his phone rang and he answered it."Yes, Dad!" Rafaello said. "I have sent you the restaurant where you need to go on a date with Miss Dawson. Also, you need to pick her up from the hospital. I have sent you the address of the hospital too," Frederico said from the other side. "Sure, Dad. I'll check," Rafaello said."You need to leave now because as I said she doesn't like to wait," Frederico stated. Rafaello hummed and assured his father that he would leave right away to meet Miss Dawson. He hung up the call and picked the blazer from the hanger. He called his secretary inside and informed her that he would be leaving the office. Picking the car keys, and his ph