A week later.

At Ray's mansion.

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Nora's condition had become much better after she spent almost the whole week with her. It wasn't too much improvement but at least she eats the meals with her family at the dining table.

Damien also made sure to be present most of the time besides his sister, knowing how much Nora loved her brother.

She hadn't spoken to anyone about what happened and she decided that she won't speak to anyone about it, it was her mistake and she should be the one to take the responsibility for it.

Nora regretted thinking that someone like her can fall in love and have a happy ending, she should know better than to fall for a person who refused to meet her family, now she understands why he refused to meet her family and insisted on meeting each other in secret, everything is more obvious for her now after the harsh lesson that life had taught her.

A single tear slide down from her eyes but she quickly wiped it not wanting anyone to see her, she knew that it's going to be hard to forget all the happiness that she felt when she was with him, he made her feel like she was the most special person in the world to him, lifted her up in the sky only to let her full painfully on the ground.

"I thought that you would be here." She heard Damien's voice and she turned around to look at him.

He came to sit down beside her as he pulled into his arms.

"Still not going to tell me what is going on with you?" Damien asked as he looked down at his little sister.

Nora smiled as she looked up at him.

"I'm fine, Damien, you don't have to worry about me." She said as she patted his hand gently assuring him that she was fine.

Damien nodded his head and kissed the top of her head, he knew that his sister was keeping something from him, something happened with that changed her, he noticed how she keeps trying to appear that she was the same as before but he couldn't feel and see that the spark that was in her eyes had disappeared as if someone had taken it from her and replaced it with deep sadness.

...

At Ina parents house.

Eleanor run her hands through her daughter blonde soft hair as she stared at her while she was sleeping on her lap, she noticed that something is different with her, she was less active and very cautious about her movements and how long she stays at their house, she always finds an excuse to leave every time she asks to stay with them.

Eleanor started to feel that her daughter was heading something from her, was she perhaps pregnant and she was hiding it from her because she was afraid of telling her.

It would be wrong to have a child right while she is still studying, but she was sure that that boyfriend of hers will be a good father, thinking about this she remembered that the two families haven't met yet and that is something that she needs to discuss with when she wakes up.

...

Two hours later, after dinner.

Damien came to pick up after dinner so they could go back to their apartment.

"Why don't you and Dami stay for the weekend?" William asked his daughter who picked up her coat and wore it.

Ina was about to buttons her coat when she heard her father, she turned to look at Damien who looked with a look saying that you are free to do whatever you like, sometimes she hates it when he does that.

"Maybe the next weekend, me and Damien already have made plans." Ina said as she kissed her father's cheek.

"It's okay, make sure to enjoy your time." Her father said as he hugged her.

Eleanor looked at her daughter and her boyfriend before she spoke.

"Ina, are you hiding something from us? Because I'm not going to let you leave until I know what it is." Her mother asked.

Ina was shocked by her mother's sudden question.

"Ma'am, I think you misunderstand us, Ina is not hiding anything, she just wants to stay with me." Damien replied on Ina behalf.

"And she does, all the time, but that is not what I'm asking about, I'm asking what she is hiding? Maybe she is pregnant and hiding the news from us." Her mother said as she looked at Ina.

Ina who was trying to hold herself back from not laughing in her mother's face turned to look at Damien who was massaging his forehead.

"No, Mom I'm not pregnant, Damien is very careful about that matter, he wants to finish college first and don't worry there is nothing that I'm hiding." Ina replied, assuring her mother.

Her mother stared at her not convinced with what her daughter said, she moved closer to her daughter and cupped her face making her look at her.

"Then what is going on? I'm your mother, I can feel that something changed in you, are you sick? Is something troubling you? Is he bullying you?" Her mother asked too many questions and noticed how Ina avoided looking into her eyes.

Ina started to feel dizzy suddenly and her body started to hurt.

What bad timing.

But she tried to not make her parents notice.

"Mom, I'm fine, you are just overreacting." Ina replied as she pulled away from her mother.

Damien moved closer to Ina warping his arms around her.

The pain started to become stronger and more intense and Ina didn't know if she could still pretend to be okay, she clutched into her coat trying to endure it.

"Ina, honey, are you alright?" Her father asked when he noticed how his daughter's face became red suddenly.

"It hurts." Ina legs gave out but Damie held her into his arms.

"Oh, my god, Ina." Her mother screamed as moved closer to her daughter who was in Damien's arms.

The maids came out of the kitchen when they heard the noise outside to say that the little miss of the house seemed to be unconscious.

"Bring me a cup of water, quickly." Damien ordered the maids as he picked Ina bag to take out her medicine.

"What are you doing? We need to take you to the house." Her mother shouted at Damien crying when she noticed that he didn't do anything.

"No, no hospitals." Ina breathed in pain as she held Damien's hand tightly.

Her mother stared at her daughter shocked.

"Ina, honey, you are in pain, let us take to the hospital and I promise to not let you stay there." Her father who was scared that something might happen to his daughter tried to coax her but she nodded her head no.

"I'm sorry for keeping this from you, please forgive me." Ina spoke in a weak voice as she stared at her parents.

William frowned and looked at his wife confused as fear filled their hearts.

"Let me take care of her and I will explain everything." Damien said as he stared at Ina who was in pain, he could have taken her to the hospital if he knew that they could do something to help her but there wasn't.

Damien took the cup of water from the maid and helped Ina to take her medicine and drink the water.

"Take me to my room." Ina whispered to Damien who immediately picked her up passing her parents and went upstairs, leaving her parents speech

In her room, Ina asked Damien to go downstairs and tell her parents everything because she won't be able to do that, Damien had wanted her parents to know about Ina disease in a much calmer situation but not everything goes as we want to.

Damien sighed as he walked into the leaving nothing as her parents were looking at him wanting to know what was going on.

He took a seat across from them and took a deep breath before he started to speak, he told them everything about Ina being sick and that it's incredible and explained everything in detail.

Her mother broke down in tears crying after what she had heard, while her father fell silent watching his wife as she cried in his arms.

It took her mother a long time to calm down and digest the shocking news about her daughter's condition.

"Did you stay with her all the time?" William finally spoke asking Damien.

"All the time, I never left her alone even when she asked me too." Damien replied.

William nodded his head, he was relieved to know that his daughter wasn't alone when she had gone through all of this, he couldn't imagine how it must have been hard for Ina to keep this from them, he felt sorry for his daughter.

"Give her time and she will tell you everything and why she kept the truth from you both." Damien said as he stood up and walked upstairs to check on Ina.