Elleonora's PoV:

"I really thought it was French" Austin defend himself making me laugh

"Well it was indeed a baguette"

"This is embarrassing" he said shaking his head while we walked outside the building

"Oh chill out... it could be worse" I teased

"Yeah yeah " I smiled at his worry, Austin had planned to take me to a beautiful rooftop, when we got up there, there was a nice round table and in front of it a gigantic projecting movie playing, we while watching the big movie on the stone wall of the building. It was quite romantic I can't deny... his movie choice was Ratatouille and while a chef served us, it was supposed to be a French food night combined with the movie.

But... then Austin realized the chef was Italian and not French so he didn't know how to make Ratatouille so instead we had pizzas, which were amazing by the way.

I guess Austin just wanted this night to go as amazing as it could and as perfect as it could make it. However, this little simple detail honestly didn't cause me any trouble because I enjoyed the food. It was really affecting him, he thought this was a horrific mistake and this could ruin the night however I just thought how cute he could be over a small little mistake.

"I liked the pizza though" I said while we walked through the busy New York City streets

"Watching Ratattouile and eating pizza it's like a stab to my heart" He mentioned placing a hand over his chest

"Don't be that dramatic. I liked it, it was a nice date..."

"No... it was. I just like to do things as I first planned them to" I shook my head at his perfectionism

"So you're the kind of person that doesn't like wandering around?"

"I always like to now my destination. I like to have things pre-planned"

"What if things don't go according to the plan?"

"I'll freak out and then I will use my backup plan"

"You have a backup plan?" Iasked laughing, while looking at his smile

"Of course... doesn't everyone"

"No" I laughed "Ok imagine that you go on a trip, you're out for a few days... do you plan your trip? the places to go and things to see or you simply just walk around and find things in the way?"

"Couldn't possibly do that... do people do that?" He questioned me and all I could think about was Paris

"Yeah... some of them do" I simply said as we walked into the final street of our night together

"This is it, right?" He questioned looking inside the store

"Hm... yeah. My mom wanted this for a long time" I said mentioning the bakery in front of us, we finally managed to buy her a nice store for her bakery and now it was still coming together. We were painting walls, constructing furniture, building the kitchen, it was all very new.

"It's pretty incredible seeing your mother chasing her dreams" He said while we looked inside through the window store, the light was on and we could see Nana and my Mom walking around and talking.

"I think so too. And as a bonus she is super happy" I mentioned

"Well I am super happy too" He mentioned taking a step back and taking all of his attention to me

"Even after the pizzas?" I teased him

"Yeah... even after the pizzas"

"Why are you so happy then?"

"I just like being with you I guess"

"Oh there it comes the flirting" I joked

"It's not flirting it's true " tilted my head at his words " Maybe it's a little bit of flirting"

He stepped closer analyzing my face and I just my body repulsing against it and fighting to get away from there, he was cute and hot, a total flirt and a nice man but I still didn't feel that way for him. I didn't feel any way at all.

"You are an amazing, pretty, intelligent, sexy, and funny woman " he said as he placed a string of my hair behind my ear. "How could I not be happy? From the moment I saw you Elleonora-"

My name...he said my name, why am I sad that the way my name his spoken out of his mouth doesn't affect me at all? He even said it in a nice, low and seductive way yet I can't seem to feel anything for it, not a beat of my heart, not one butterfly in my belly, not a single shiver.

"I think I fell for you, it's impossible not to really" he said as he got even closer, I accompanied his moves while taking a step back to hit the window behind, I had no escape, should I escape?

"I don't really know what you want but I would give you everything, a crown, a palace, a country,  my heart? " He asked as his thumb brushed against my upper lip, he got closer, really close and saw him close his eyes as if he was about to kiss-

"There you are!" My grandma shouted opening the door quite abruptly and interrupting whatever that was going on. I can't believe how I stood there frozen.

"Nana!" I exclaimed, thanking her mentally

"What are you two doing out here this late at night and alone?"

"I was just dropping her of Mrs. Vargas don't worry. Now that she is safe and sound I will leave" Austin said with a smug attitude

"Very well...you can go now boy"  she said shooing him off

He got closer leaving a kiss on my cheek and walking away with a huge smile, surely he looked pride but I didn't know why.

"Elena!" My grandma caught my attention

"Nana" I throw a fake smile

"Get in" She pointed inside the bakery and I went inside while greeting my mom but she looked weird, something was going on... well I knew that already since my mother made sure to text me the whole night during the whole date for me to appear by the bakery. I wonder what is going on.

"Sit down, miss" My mom order, I sat down while gulping in my own salive, this felt like a interrogatory

" What's happening?" I questioned watching my mom and Nana sitting down in front of me , I raised an eyebrow getting suspicious of their behaviour

"This is what's happening!" My mom exclaimed as she handed me a few papers onto my hand

I looked over at the papers and my face dropped dead as I realized my mom and my Nana discovered my dad's secret, this was just printed documents of bank extractions

"You knew and you didn't do anything?" My mom asked mad at me

"I found it around my birthday plus dad isn't doing it anymore" I defended myself and also my dad

"I knew something was wrong with your husband the moment you married him" Nana said proudly

"Your dad had a gambling problem and you didn't tell me?" My mom questioned

"To be fair I only found out when I went through the casino's financial background, and it's been a year Mom..."

"You covered up for him, Eleonora!"

"Well technically I didn't Mom because when I found out he didn't gamble anymore" I defended

"You are just like your father..." she breathed tiredly "I can't believe you lied"

"I didn't lie... I omitted the truth" I said with a pout

"Was this the reason the company went to bankruptcy?" I closed my eyes not really wanting to answer. Yes, it's true, my father had a gambling problem that took the Hart casinos to bankruptcy, I only found out when I took over the business. After seeing all of the financial records I noticed that something happened when Harts company was affiliated with Maxwell Corporation, I guess my dad stopped gambling when Blaze took over the company.

"I knew it! That man! I swear! That's why he was always busy with work, he was betting on dead ends and losing money, that's why we were almost poor and that's why- oh god that's why Blaze appeared because your father WAS FULL OF DEBTS!" she screamed making me flinch

"Look at the bright side now he isn't... and he is rich again and not gambling" I said trying to ease down the problem but it seems that it didn't work.

She took a deep breath and got walking from side to side, I looked at Nana and her unpleased face.

"I am sorry" I mouthed at my grandmother, but she simply crossed her legs and lit up a cigarette making me widen my eyes.

"Your father has been trying to take care of everything alone... why didn't he told me anything? I could've helped, I could've done something, he so stubborn —" my momsarted to murmur to herself, I ignored her babbling and looked over at my Nana who had a suspicious face on

"What?" I asked her

"What's up with you and the spa boy?" she questioned me while tossing the ashes of the cigar into a paint cap for walls.

"I can't believe he didn't told me he was freaking gambling all night... here I was thinking he was cheating me-" my mom continued

"Nothing"

"It didn't looked like nothing"

"I am a free woman I can do whatever I want"

"Do you like him?"

"Why?"

"I swear I will kill that man once I get home. He is so childish, such a little prick -" my mom kept rambling one

"Do you? Hm — scratch what I said I know you don't " I rolled my eyes at her speech trying to ignore her

"The question is why are you having q date with him"

"Because I am single?!" I stated in a rather obvious tone

"Don't fool your grandmother I am old enough to read the situation. You're trying to distract yourself and not thinking about your ex-husband isn't that right?" she questioned making me take a breath in tiredness

"Nana can we please not" I said while resting my head on the table

"But I must... this has been running through my head since you divorced. Doesn't something seems off to you?" she questioned me making me raise me head while my eyebrows were frowned. What the hell is she talking about.

"I JUST WANT TO KILL HIM ARGHH!" My mom shouted

"Teofilia! Sit down" Nana ordered my mom, she finished her speech and quickly sat down as my Nana instructed "we need to talk about this, the three of us"

"About what?" my mom questioned curiously

"Please don't" I poured while kicking my feet

"Blaze" Nana spoke "Don't you think he left quite suddenly?"

"Well, it was unexpected yes" my mom taught "But Ma you know they were in a contract marriage maybe he was sick of faking it"

"Fake or not, I am never wrong. I knew that boy the moment I saw him, he had a pure heart-" My grandmother said making me laugh, they stood quiet watching me having a blast at her choice of words

"Pure of heart? Your senses are failing gramma" I spoke resting my back onto the chair

"So ehat? He simply stopped not loving you and went away? I don't buy it" Nana spoke making me roll my eyes

"What if... I mean imagine this" I said sarcastically " what if he never lived me, or liked me for that matter"

"I know what I saw"

"And I know what I heard gramma!" I said clenching my fist into the table "He is not pure of heart, I doubt that he even has one! "

"Then why was he so committed on this family?" she asked crossing her arms

"It's called acting, he is pretty good at it. He had to act his whole life to be with that psycho family"

"And by what she told me they are really crazy" my mom explained

"Why didn't he told you about your father gambling?"

"What you mean Nana?"

"I mean he knew... why didn't he told you if you are so irrevelant to him? "

"I don't know. It's bussiness" I said shrugging my shoulders

"No... it's family. He helped your father through the gambling problem, when he watched this financial data he knew right away what he was dealing with but he didn't say a word to you... why?"

"I don't know!" I exclaimed loudly "please stop talking about him"

"Why did he wanted to meet us? Why did he organized the egg hunting? Why did treat us like family? "

"I DON'T KNOW!" I shouted at my grandma

"THEN FIND OUT!" she shouted back

"I don't want to be near him again ever again!"

"Why? Do you love him?" she questioned I looked at her with teary eyes and the ache on my heart grew wider "If you do, you should find out why he left you!"

"I already did, Nana! He is done of acting, he is done of being with our family of being with me!"

"The man who gave a lesson speech to your parents about love, the same one who told me love wasn't about age, the man that knows you better that I and your mother do, doesn't want to be with you? I highly doubt it Elena!" Nana talked, she got up finally finishing the cigar and looked at me in her perfect straight posture

Her words made my face wet from the tears that I have been holding for some time, they simply couldn't held back any longer and I had to cry. My mom pulled her chair near me and scrubbed my back gently.

I lifted my head looking at grandmother through my teary vision and I told her the truth "It was a lie, Nana." I cried out

"Oh mi amor" she chuckled "everybody saw the way he looked at you" my Nana said while holding a soft smile "even your mother did" I looked at my mom and she lowered her head, my mom was always talking bad about him wanting me to get away from him... what does Nana mean with that?

"That's why she was constantly warning you to not be with him, wasn't it Teofila?" My grandmother questioned my mom, I frowned my eyebrows while receiving this brand new information

"I... yes." my mom spoke "I could see it. I know what love is, Elleonora and I saw it... in his eyes, the way he looked at you from the very first day he went to our house"

My ached at every word these two women kept saying, I was trying so hard to forget him, I was finally living my life GOD, I even closed this chapter and now it's like it's never been closed at all. I need to end this craziness, this is not healthy, for me and for them, he was a lie, we were a lie, I can't change my mind now and keep living with a broken heart for the rest of my life.

"You need to find out what was the real reason Elena!" My Nana said but honestly I just heard the echo of her voice far away

"How!"

"She can go to his house and find something, a memory, a picture an object, anything that refers to her. Anything that proves that he loved her" Nana said as the memories of a broken almost relationship passed through my mind.

"No..." I said getting and cleaning up the tears "no... it can't be! No... it isn't! I heard it a couple of times, it was a lie, he is sick of it, he had what he wanted and we broke up. I saw him on my birthday, he wants to be as far away from me as possible, so stop. STOP putting these things on my mind! HE doesn't want to see me EVER AGAIN and that's how it's going to be because I don't want to see him either! I AM DONE WITH HIM! I am done of pitying myself over someone that didn't even value me enough to had me at my worst, and even less at my best! This is the last time that name is spoken in front of me!" I demanded as the tears rushed down my face and I left that place