Episode 29

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I noticed something strange while working in the office lately, for some unknown reason my coworkers started to behave differently with me, for example they would suggest to do the reports on my behalf, they greeted me more often and chatted for longer than usual.. As for the topics they spoke about, the topic of marriage was dominate. Like mentioning on the passing that having a powerful husband is a bless, or that it's a must for a family to have someone who is knowledgeable in the laws of countries.

That day, some female coworker even shamelessly offered while handing me the folder i should examine:

_"Noursine, if you need my help with anything then don't hesitate to ask me.. In the future if i wanted to have a visit to France you must not hesitate to have me stay at your house as well"

_"why would i have a house in France in the future?" I asked feeling uncomfortable and confused.

She looked at me as if i was acting silly to hide my mischief and she replied:

_"and where else would you live if not in France if you married a french lawyer! Or are you going to be one of those brides who are kept like concubines in the mainland?"

Hearing her reply, i Finally understood what everyone had in mind, they all thought lawyer Nadir Ghemmari was my fiancé.

It is inevitable to have such rumors circle in our society, since i appear to be more of the kind of girls who keep to them selves and have a tight circle of acquaintances, it was all natural that they would assume that a young eligible bachelor making the effort of coming to meet me personally at my work place was in fact spreading his wings to me and offering his affections.

Although there are in fact so many other links  he and i could presumably have like he's just my family member, or my consulting lawyer, or a long lost friend who came for a visit. But our society tend to always gather two young unmarried people of an opposite gender in the long road of marriage regardless of any fact.

So i corrected her in hopes that everyone in the office hears me as well:

_"i'm not going to marry any French man! Mr Nadir Ghemmari is only my cousin!"

"And because i'm already married" i wanted to add, but these words just stuck in my throat.

Sometimes i understand Eliyas's reasons for not announcing our marriage, at first i thought i was hidden because he had another woman in his head, and that he'll one day bring this another woman to the house and say:

_"oh Noursine! Come meet my beloved real wife.. I had kept you a secret from people so as the title of my wife goes only to her!"

But that never happened, in fact, when i had left him before i thought a divorce was a simple paper to acquire since our marriage had no emotions, that man behaved against my expectations though .. At the age of 27 i came to realise that it was better that we haven't acknowledged one another as a partner in public, because this way he carried his plans for his life without worries.. And i lived mine freely, it was indeed wise of him to chose not to let our worlds collide and set chaos in both of them.

I was going to head back to my work holding the folder when suddenly i heard someone calling my name repeatedly with a loud voice:

_"Noursine! Noursine!"

It was a female voice, and it seemed like it was coming from the far end of the corridor out of office where i was sitting, when the owner of this blissful loud throat came closer, I finally recognized to whom it belonged.. It was Selwa's, the receptionist.

I felt goosebumps hearing her call my name even before she reached our office, i bet she was the one who spread rumors about Nadir and I. Now that she was calling me fervently, I didn't even want to start thinking about the reason for that, nor what kind of fantasy talk she will spread later about me.

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