Old foxes

Nina, Paul and Tony were all the time beside David in the bedroom while he was sleeping, he had been medicated and was very sleepy. Nina could barely look them both in the eye. She was deliberately avoiding. He owed them nothing, not after everything he'd heard at the hotel.

The two also didn't try any kind of approach, but watched her as if she were something from another planet. Nina had to go out into the hallway to tell her friends that she wasn't going to board, and while Nina was talking on her cell phone, Paul and Tony followed her and monitored her with their eyes. So Nina put her phone in her purse and sat in an armchair in the empty hallway. That area would be as isolated as possible. Nobody could leak to the press about everything that was going on. Even that was the biggest concern of agents Paul and Tony. They threw all their suspicions at Nina. They thought she was going to take exclusive photos of that situation to sell to the press.

Sitting alone in that armchair outside David's bedroom, staring at nothing, Nina was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She was trying hard, suppressing her feelings, doing her best not to cry. The feelings were the most varied at that moment: fear, fear, shame and insecurity. A thousand thoughts invaded her mind: “Wasn't David normal when he was with her? Was that why he was behaving like that? Would he be different when he woke up? Would he side with her, or would he let his team accuse her and hang her, even though none of this was her fault? Would he be himself after the treatment? Would he also accuse her?”

She was getting confused. She even wondered if it had all been her fault, as he had said he was recovering in a clinic, that he was undergoing treatment. Nina had tears in her eyes, her friends were already on their way to Norway and she had been left alone in that situation in Italy.

It is as Heidegger, a great philosopher and thinker, taught us: “Every day, imperceptibly, we drift away from ourselves. We are slowly influenced by “things” that are not ours, “truths” that we are faced with that are not ours and that we allow ourselves to be guided by. When we notice we no longer recognize ourselves in the mirror! However, the secret is to seek each other on a daily basis, always looking for each other, fighting for our own truth. Not in a neurotic way, but in a movement of constructive self-knowledge.”

Nina was lost in her distressed thoughts, alone in that hallway, when suddenly Paul and Tony approached her, and sat around her, looking like bad wolves devouring lonely, helpless women. The two greeted her harshly, and began to say that they wanted to get straight to the point.

Nina widened her eyes and knew that nothing good would come of it. "And now? they're going to kick me out of the hospital while David sleeps and I don't have a hotel, I don't have another flight, I don't even have my stuff (since Nina had heard them both say on the way that they would change David from that unethical spa, where information and photos had been leaked to the press ). My God help me! Help me, Godinho, at this time. God help me!" It was the mantra Nina repeated in her mind trying to calm down. She'd been holding back for hours now, and she wasn't going to take one more insult, one more humiliation.

So Paul started saying:

“You must have heard everything we said at the hotel. I don't know who you are, how you approached David, or what you intend. But one thing I know, you're not going to destroy his career. We don't want you here with him. Not even he wants her here. He woke up and asked us to come and resolve this situation, as he doesn't know what to do with you. Is he confused, is he mentally ill, or do you think he would have been involved with a little woman like you if he were in his normal state of health? He's used to having thousands of high society women at his feet. Rich people like money. And he has a girlfriend, did you know? An actress of his level, very rich and very famous, they haven't taken over for work reasons. The two act together, they're just waiting for the dust to settle.

The truth was, David woke up sleepy, and silenced them both. He asked them to leave Nina alone, and in the midst of so many disagreements, he had to tell the agents how he found her. He told her about his shared Google account and all the access he had been getting, long before he found her. Even though the agents even heard Dave's version, they continued to claim that it was all set up. David kicked them out of the room, even threatening them if they did anything to her.

Tears streamed down Nina's face. She had always been so angry, but at that moment, she was such a coward! “She should have faced them”! But I didn't know how to act. He looked to one side, there were hospital security guards. He looked at each other, there were private security guards. He looked straight ahead, there were those two foxes dressed as agents in front of him. They were slaughtering her. Shedding her skin in cold blood with her hands, as the rabbit and wild animal dealers do to “luxury and glam” many of the class rich.

Nina didn't want to be too hasty. I was afraid of that industry. She knew that the one who had everything to lose here was her. Those two could just give the bouncers a simple order, and they'd get her out of there. They could claim or forge anything, since David was high, and the clinic's doctors didn't know the truth, the agents could have told them anything about David's condition. Even more so with the sea of turmoil in the news serving as proof.

Nina calmed down mentally as she thought, “I can't make a fuss. I can't even curse them back. It's all they want right now. They're going to break their faces! I don't believe David spoke to them. I don't believe a word comes out of these two worms' mouths.” “I have to act. Think, think, think... They can tell David what they want after they get rid of me, since he's bedridden and weak.” They might say that I just left, or that they found proof that I was the one who turned it over to the press.” … Then they interrupted Nina's thoughts:

“What we have to propose is this: We'll put you under our watch until we can get you on the next flight to Norway. While that will have to give us the phone, we don't trust people like you. We know very well what they are capable of. Poor people who want to rise at any cost in life on top of other people's careers. Those were years of hard work and hard work, my dear. Take it or leave it! If you let go, you'll be out on the street on your own, believe me! If you accept, we can make a deal, and we won't expose you so the whole world can see you for the villain and scammer you are! She will be haunted for the rest of her life if that happens. Think about your work. Let's get tough.

Nina couldn't stop crying. There were so many reasons! But the main thing was that he was holding back to the maximum level so as not to spit in their faces, everything he thought. I couldn't reply or else, it could have even worse consequences. Nina took the phone out of her bag and handed it over. They even asked to search it. She nodded her head saying yes. She stood up and opened her arms looking at them, David's private security guards watching everything from afar. They couldn't do anything there in that situation. David interned, his agents deciding everything at that moment. They were “show” business security guards, they were certainly used to seeing this kind of cheating. They knew what these people were capable of.

When Paul and Tony approached Nina to search her, the nurse and doctor who were in the room with David opened the door, and looking directly at Nina said,

"Mrs. Dahl?"

Nina, crying, lowered her arms and made a gesture confirming that it was her.

"Mr. David requires your presence." He woke up calling for the lady. Please accompany us, ma'am.

And the nurse led her into the room. She looked as if she had sensed that something was wrong out in the hallway. He saw Nina's startled face, her arms suspended in the air, just as they opened the bedroom door. Nina crying at having to go through such humiliation. The nurse tried to get her away from those two immediately. Paul and Tony also went to the entrance of the room, but the doctor and the nurse said that only Nina could enter for now. They explained that Mr David wanted to see her alone. And he gave instructions for the other two to wait where they were.

The doctor and nurse entered along with Nina. She was informed that he would not be able to experience stress for the next 24 hours. Nina nodded. The nurse looked her in the eye and said:

“We'll see to it that all the stress around him is removed.

Nina understood that she was referring to agents. Then the nurse let her into the bed to see him. When Nina walked into the room and saw him, everything inside her lit up. All that pain was suddenly gone, all doubt turned to certainty, and she only saw him in front of her. Nothing else existed. That same look was still there. That once tired smile from the medications. He presented her with a smile so wide that he could catch her even if she had gone to Norway.

“Hello, stranger!

Nina pursed her lips, sighed deeply so she wouldn't collapse right there. Everything happening at the same time. She knew it was strong, but she didn't know it was that much!

'Hello, Richard. Can I still call you Rich?

The two smiled. The same tune was still there. She began to breathe better, landing on herself after having gone through psychological torture a short while ago. She sat on the edge of the bed next to him and took his hand.

- Where were you? David asked.

"I went to sort things out."

"What things take so long?"

“Oh, Rich. - She said, barely able to smile. “I went to the bathroom, went looking for coffee, called Lyon and Kara. You fell asleep… By the way, I have to tell work that I haven't returned to Norway.

“Everything will work out, Nina. They're going to transfer me to a bigger room with a chaperone bed.

"They are, are they?"

Nina couldn't let on how frazzled her nerves were. I couldn't help but think about what was to come. All that was going through her head was that she was alone in this battle, against a team of people who might be capable of anything to get her out of his life. Even devising wild plans to frame her for something.

“David. Rich... You know that at some point I'll have to go back to Norway, right?

- That's good! I'm crazy to visit Norway.

- OK then. Let's not talk about it. First you have to be all right, and then we can run off to my house in Bergen.

“Yes. It's agreed. Scout word?

"Scout word."

Nina frowned and was kind of doubting him, she said jokingly, giving intonation their fantasies. But David was very serious.

"Now are you going to tell me what really happened or am I going to have to find out for myself?"

Nina even choked on the water she was drinking when she heard him.

- What are you talking about?

“Your face looks awful, Nina.

- Oh thanks.

- You know what I'm talking about. Stop bullshitting me! You were crying, crying a lot. Her face is all swollen from crying.

“David, you need to breathe, you need to relax, you need to disconnect. These are medical orders! And the nurse at the clinic, and my orders too.

'Only your orders I accept. Now spit it out!

“I was worried, that's all. I felt helpless, alone, you were drugged for hours, my friends left, I'm here without a hotel, without a plane, without even my clothes. Even my phone I lost! You know, right, how I get without my stuff.

They smiled remembering how she had to go to her hotel to get her bags a few days ago.

"Was it just that?"

- Clear. And what else could it have been?

"Did someone treat you badly while I slept?"

- Of course not. And you think if someone had treated me badly I wouldn't know how to defend myself, right? He smiled, satisfied with the answer.

“Okay, you've convinced me for now. Just because I know you're tough.

Nina was very happy that he woke up well. And he wasn't sure what would happen to her from now on, because she couldn't tell David everything that was happening. She was afraid of triggering something even worse in her emotional state if there was a fight between him and his team. Every second was terrifying…

— You don't leave me near me anymore. You're going to be my private nurse. I don't need another one.

- Oh no. I don't want to go back to work now, I'll take the opportunity to just lie down as an escort. Besides, I don't look sexy in a uniform.

He loved when she tried to be funny, was clumsy with jokes. He kept looking at her...

"Oh no... You're looking at me like that when you squint your eyes... I don't know why I went to say the words even and sexy in the same sentence... now you're getting ideas that I know...." And the two stayed in that atmosphere of comfort and lightness for a long time.

“I'm mentally debilitated, not physically, nurse…” David said, trying to persuade her to lie down with him.

'David, behave yourself, you have visitors outside. They can enter at any time. Suddenly the nurse comes in and tells them that her agents have come to say goodbye.

Paul and Tony enter the room not sure what to expect. They feared that Nina had told them everything, and that David was going to throw them out of there now. They greeted Nina, who was so nervous her voice was trembling. She even stuttered, got up from the edge of the bed, and looking at the floor, said trembling that she was going to the bathroom. David stopped her. Always watching the smallest details in Nina and around her. He was thorough.

“Nina. You don't have to go that far this time. Stay here. Use the bathroom in this room, please.

She lifted her head, looked at him, missed the startled expression in her own gaze, and went into the bathroom. She washed her face, tried to look better, but had to use a towel to stop her crying out loud. Then she put on makeup to try to hide the traces of her tears, and went back to her bedroom. The two evil agents had already withdrawn.

“I know you're hiding something from me. I won't get it out of you now, but you know I can do it, right?

She sat very close to him on the bed and nodded her head.

“I won't force you to say anything because I know you're taking care of me. But let's make a deal, Nina. We won't hide anything from each other, whatever or whatever. We will not lie to each other, never, ever. Until death do us part, amen. he joked.

And then Nina forgot about crying again with his jokes and ironies.

"Come on, don't fool me, swear it!"

And he joked, asking where is the needle to pierce your fingers and fulfill the pact. Nina made the sign of the cross and said that a pact with blood is a thing of the devil.

- I swear! But no blood pact, okay?

David was all smiles in that hospital bed, the two of them seemed closer than ever! There was a rapport between them that felt like they'd known each other for centuries. Nina's world was at peace and safe again, at least while David was at her side to protect her!