Episode 6

When the door opened and Nicolas caught sight of them coming through the window, he quickly ran over to where Gloria and her sister were. He had given his word to Gloria that he wouldn't do anything disastrous, but when it came to Nicolas, everything seemed to be unpredictable.

Blake took her bag and her coat and hung them on the coat rack, then they went to the dining table.

As soon as they arrived there, his gaze was already directed at Nicolas, who greeted Miss Megan with a forced smile.

"Good evening, Miss Megan," he said.

She gave him an unfriendly look and pretended to reciprocate.

"Oh, how cute... good evening... uh, Nicolas, right?"

"Yes," he replied.

"Your father talks a lot about you..."

Nicolas raised an inquisitive eyebrow in Blake's direction.

"Liar..."

Blake seemed to be walking on eggshells. She feared any kind of unpleasant reaction or words from Nicolas, who said nothing and simply gave him a look that said, "I'll talk to you later, kid."

Gloria served the dinner, which was delicious as always. And Megan seemed to be a chatterbox who couldn't stop talking about fashion trends, the fashion shows she had been to in Paris, and a bunch of nonsense that, to be honest, I didn't pay any attention to.

I was tired... and felt uncomfortable in that situation.

By some miracle, everything seemed fine until she, in the heat of the moment, thinking she had the right, decided to hug me in a rather peculiar way... right there at the table in front of my children.

After she finished her glass of wine, simply on an impulse that I didn't even expect, she lunged at me, still seated at the table.

Immediately, Nicolas couldn't contain himself, he stood up and got close to her, pulling her away from Blake.

With a full glass of water in his hands, he waited for the opportune moment when she turned towards him and threw the glass in her face, saying...

"Get your dirty hands off my dad, you fifth-rate tramp!"

Upon hearing those words, she let go of Blake. Gloria seemed shocked... Thinking that Blake would thank me for saving him from a possible case of indecent assault, he jumped out of his chair as if he were a ninja, grabbed me firmly by the arm, and literally dragged me to another room, distancing me from the others.

There, I signed my penance, but I did it gladly... The look on that tramp's face when she felt the water on her face and her disheveled hair would give me fits of laughter later in my room, where I planned not to leave anytime soon... Nicolas thought.

Holding onto my arm tightly, Blake dragged me into the living room and threw me on the couch.

"What the hell got into you, kid? Have you lost your mind?" he yelled fiercely.

"I could ask you the same, you pervert," Nicolas retorted.

Blake raised his hand as if to hit me... I stood up from the couch and stared into his eyes.

"Go ahead, Blake. Do what you do best... hit me... that's all that satisfies you, isn't it?"

"Get out of my life... you brat... before I regret it..."

"You regret it? Never..."

"Get out of here now... get out..." Blake yelled louder.

Nicolas turned to leave the room, and before running up the stairs, he approached him and said, looking into his eyes...

"You should be ashamed of bringing tramps into this house, Blake... My mother used to sit at that table with us every night for dinner... have you forgotten??"

Ouch, I felt the worst blow... Nicolas simply dismantled me. And the worst part was that deep down, he was right... Where did I think I could forget about Juliane? Where did I imagine that I could try to rebuild myself to fulfill my masculine needs by bringing a new woman into the house?

Nicolas left the room and went up the stairs to his room, where he slammed the door so forcefully and only then collapsed into tears when he threw himself onto his bed and took out a photo of his mother from under his pillow.

"Oh, Mom... why did you have to leave me? Why..."?

After crying for a few minutes, Nicolas fell asleep, holding the photo of his mother, at least to feel loved in some way...

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