"It's just been two days. It's better if she could open up first." Aaric breathed heavily when he answered Elijah.
Elijah could understand what Aaric was trying to say. After waking up suddenly one day with no memories of your past is too of a shock for a person. People break down completely when they could not come up with any possible way to regain their memories.
Though the person who loses their memories suffers but his or her loved ones are also there suffering, just like Aaric. Before this he already lost her once, and now again for the second time. Even Elijah himself could not understand why faith and luck don't help them to succeed in their love. Whenever things were smooth for both of them, there were always a few problems coming up in their way.
"She will get better."
"Yeah I just pray that there should be no next time. Both the times when she lost her memory it was too hard to pull her from that dark phase. I don't want to see her in such a pitiful state."
"Don't worry, everything is going to last good for both of you. By the way, how other things are going on?" Elijah knew if he would probe about Sasha, Aaric would feel more pain. The more hurt his friend would be, Elijah would be blaming himself.
"All good. Well I think Williamson's are up to something. Any news you have?"
"No but I will find out soon. Today… I got a call from London."
"Was it from your old man?"
"Yeah… He wants me to return and handle the company. I don't understand when people just eliminate you from their life first, then why do they come back asking for your help." Elijah found everything so ironic and a topic to joke about. Earlier that person kicked his own flesh and blood out of his house, and now when he is in a problem he wants him (Elijah) back.
"Do you want me to force them into the corner?"
"...I don't know. You know I never wanted this company. I just want a bit of exposure so that I can do a start up of my own." Elijah sighed softly. He felt mixed emotions when the issue with his family was brought up. He was not sure whether he actually wanted to be a part of them or not. In that whole family, only his grandfather considered him as his kin, else nobody used to even take a glance at him. Everybody treated him like a garbage that was thrown into a corner.
"I got it. Do tell me what you plan. And maybe by next week there might be another shocking news coming up!"
"Haha… go ahead! That mumma's boy needs a good lesson." Elijah's eyes turned cold at the very thought of that shameless mother-son duo.
"Hmm. You take rest. We will talk later."
"Alright, good night!"
Aaric hung up the call and was just about to enter back to the room, his phone rang.
He saw the caller ID before knitting his eyebrows. In a cold voice he answered the call.
"Why do you have to call me at a time when I am in a good mood? Hearing your voice makes my mood take a whole 360° turn."
There was silence for a few seconds, before a mischievous voice came from the other side of the call, totally teasing him.
"Ohh.. Hearing my voice makes your mood ugly... I see... Don't worry buddy just go to sister-in-law and be lovey dovey with her, it will surely uplift your mood. What do you think of my suggestion?"
Hearing about Sasha, his mood became pleasant, he let out a small laugh before asking him.
"Anyways, what made you think about me? I heard you are becoming quite a play boy these days."
"Come on buddy, Let me enjoy my youth. Don't act like my grandfather." His friend replied to him with an unpleasant tone.
"Surely, you can enjoy it but don't forget you have to come back home too. Last Sunday, I received a call from your grandfather. He is worried about you all the time. Why do you make him worry so much? Huh? That too at such an old age."
"Who asked him to worry about me? I am a grown man. Let me enjoy two three years more, before I spend the rest of my life in the business world like you. Let's leave these things aside. How is sister-in-law by the way?" George asked Aaric in a gentle voice when he talked about Sasha. For both George and Elijah, she was more than a sister.
"She is fine. Alleyn will be starting with her treatment from next week. Do come and visit her when you have time or else I'll have to tell her about your youth days you are enjoying right now. She doesn't remember you and after knowing about your habits, she might not like you..." Aaric teased him in a threatening tone.
"Hey you.. You won't dare to do that. How can you blackmail me in such a way?" George asked him back furiously.
"Come on quickly. Get a nice woman by your side and settle down. Then nobody will be nagging you on these matters."
"How can you force me like that? Are you even my real friend? Why are you forcing me to a dead end?"
"George, your life would change when you will have a loving woman by your side. No matter who turns against you even if the whole world is against you, still she will still choose to stand by your side. Best example for you is my relationship with Sasha. Don't you think so? Do you think that a person like me could understand what love is, until she came into my life. " Aaric tried to persuade George patiently.
"You were lucky, that's why you have a woman like sister-in-law by your side. No woman can match her. She is the only one." George stubbornly replied to him, but in a soft voice.
"Indeed. She is the only one. No one can compare to her. And that's why an amazing woman deserves a good man by her side. So indeed we are a good match." Aaric took the chance to nag him more.
'This.. Can't he stop boasting about himself..'
"Okay fine I am hanging up now. And maybe at the end of this month then I'll surely visit my lovely sister-in-law." Before waiting for Aaric's reply, George quickly hung up the call.
On the other side Aaric's face turned black as a burned black pot. 'This... How dare he call my wifey lovely? Only I can call her.' Afterwards, he smiled looking at his phone wallpaper. It was Sasha's picture while sleeping, which he had just taken when she was in his arms in the study room.