At the same time, Henry was turning to Angel and said in a tender voice: "Now, my little girl, I have to leave."
She quickly grabbed his arm and said, please: "Stay with me for a while."
He looked at his watch and said with a faint smile: "I wish I could, but there is only an hour and forty minutes left for the plane, which is barely enough for me to reach the airport and finish the procedures."
Tears welled in her eyes, so her father descended to her level and said while stroking her hair: "How many times have I told you? I don't want to see your tears. I don't want to worry about you before I leave."
She said as she tightened her hold on his arm: "Don't forget to call me when you arrive, Call me every day, Please."
"I will, don't worry. Take good care of yourself. You will be in safe hands."
He added, speaking to himself: "that's what I hope, at least."
Angel nodded silently, feeling that if she spoke, her tears would flow without permission. Her father said, caressing her cheek: "I'll leave now, my little one, see you later."
He quietly pulled his hand from her hand and stood up to say to Mrs. Charlotte: "Take good care of her."
Mrs. Charlotte said calmly: "Don't worry about her, Mr. Henry, Angel is like a daughter to me."
Henry leaned over Angel to kiss her forehead tenderly and then said: "Goodbye, my little angel."
He said it and walked away from her to the door of the house, his heart clenching with pain as he saw himself forced to leave Angel in his brother's house, who he previously refused her entry no matter what happened
but she was the one who begged him to go there and he hopes now that he had not made a mistake when he fulfilled her wish.
No one felt for Angel, who hung her head in pain and sadness as she heard the sound of the door closing behind her father. All her fascination with the house evaporated. And her desire to stay at her uncle's house evaporated since she saw her father leave. She wanted to follow him. Go with him. She doesn't want to Stay here. Let him take her with him. And she suddenly shouted with sadness: "Dad, please Don't go and leave me. Please."
Charlotte said trying to calm Angel down: "Miss, there is no need for all this sadness. He'll call you as he promised."
Angel bit her lips sadly and said: "He left and I won't be able to see him for a week, a whole week, I want to go with him. let him take me with him. I don't want to stay here anymore."
Angel didn't care that everyone was watching her. James, who felt that he was looking at a child who was attached to her father to the point of madness. And Olivia and Mark, who felt the strength of the relationship between Angel and her father .
Charlotte turned to James at that moment and said: "Mr. James, Could you please guide me to miss Angel's room? she needs rest now."
Olivia felt pity and compassion for Angel. seeing this girl of her age who was destined to remain trapped in this chair forever and she answered instead of her father: "I'll guide you to her."
She said that and went behind Angel's seat to push the seat, but Angel said with objection as she quickly wiped away her tears: "Don't push it, I can move him myself."
Olivia confusedly said: "But I'll help you."
Angel said in pain: "I don't need anyone's help. All my life I've been acting alone and no one would think to help me. No one except my father, who just left ."
Olivia said with a smile: "But he will come back anyway. Now come with me and I'll guide you to your room." She said this as she walked next to Angel's seat.
Olivia finally opened the door to the room after they reached it and said, asking: "What do you think of the room?"
Although the room was twice as large as Angel's room in her house, and although it was attached to a small sitting room and a private bathroom, Angel missed her room, which she had never left for a day.
She did not know how she would sleep outside her house and how she would spend these days with her cousins, whom she doesn't know well.
Angel finally said quietly: "Beautiful."
Maha smiled and said cheerfully as she entered the room trying to cheer Angel up: "really, which one, The room or me?"
Before she could answer, Mark's voice came to them, saying sarcastically: "The room for sure."
Olivia put her hand on her waist and said angrily: "What brings you here? this is my cousin's room."
He said with feigned astonishment: "Really? I didn't know. for a second I thought it was my room."
He added, as he placed Angel's bag that he was carrying next to the closet: "I came to deliver this bag to our cousin."
Olivia asked confused : "Where is that woman in charge of Angel who was carrying this bag then?"
Mark said with a smile as he turned to where Angel was sitting silently: "I asked the maid to take her to her room."
Olivia said as she headed towards him: "If dad saw you here, mark, he'll be angry about you entering our cousin's room."
Mark said with a smile as he leaned against the room door: "Is this my punishment for delivering the bag to the room?
Olivia said lightly: "What a kind and caring guy you are. You have exhausted yourself so much. You could have given the bag to one of the maids and she would have brought it here."
Mark said, crossing his arms in front of his chest: "I don't trust the maids."
"Since when?"
"Since today, if you want."
Olivia turned to Angel, who hung her head in sadness and was lost in her thoughts. as if she was not there. Olivia approached Mark and said please: "Get out now, Leave her alone to rests. I don't want us to add to her worries with these quarrels of ours"
Mark looked at Angel and smiled, saying: "You are right."
Then he added, shouting : "Angel."
Angel raised her head to Mark, who called for her. She looked at him silently. He said with a smile: "It was nice to meet you, cousin."
He said that and turned away from them to leave the room. Meanwhile, Angel felt strange when he was talking to her, as she was not used to having cousins yet. Even the word " cousin" felt strange to her ears, but she didn't care much about that. She looked at her necklace and caressed it. With her fingertips.
As for Olivia, she sighed with relief and said: "Finally, he is gone."
Suddenly I heard Mark's voice as he returned to the place, saying: "Don't be happy so quickly. here I am back."
"what do you want now?"
He said with a smile: "Dad says lunch will be in two hours. so I hope no one will be left behind."
Olivia said sarcastically: "No one will miss lunch except you."
He winked at her and said, "I don't think that will happen this time."
He said it and walked away. Olivia turned to Angel and said as she walked to where the latter was: "Sorry if we disturbed you, but this is Mark's nature. He always likes to provoke me and I in turn quarrel with him."
Angel shook her head and said, "Don't worry about it."