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“You are so eager to leave. It hurts my feelings.” Sheikh Solomon smiled.
“If I don’t, my sisters will kill me.” She said sisters sarcastically. Just like they did not see her as their sister, she did not see them as her sisters.
“This is your home too,” said Sheikh Solomon.
Olivia raised her eyebrows as she picked up her fork. She started eating her lunch. She had to admit, the food tasted really good.
“I never knew that my mother studied engineering,” Olivia said to the sheikh.
“Really?”
“She worked as a receptionist during the day and as a waitress at night. She worked two jobs just so that I could go to school. I wanted to work after high school. I wanted to share the burden but she would not let me,” said Olivia. She felt sad thinking about how hard her mother had worked.
“You both lived a hard life.” Sheikh Solomon sighed again.
“So how did you meet?”
“She was on a placement at my father’s company just a few miles outside Beirut,” he began to explain. “I had just started working there. My father had been grooming me to take over the company.” Olivia listened as she ate.
“The first time I saw Ely, she was wearing rain boots that were too big for her.” Sheikh Solomon started laughing. Olivia was shocked at hearing him refer to her mother as Ely. It seems he even had a pet name for her. “It had rained the night before. Therefore, the fields at the oil rig were muddy. Her boot got stuck in the mud.”
“Then what happened?” Olivia asked. She was intrigued.
“She almost fell over but I caught her and helped her out of the mud.” Sheikh Solomon took a sip of his tea. “She was always clumsy.” He smiled.
Olivia laughed a little.
“Unfortunately for me, I inherited that trait from her,” she said. The sheikh laughed. He spoke about her mother for a good twenty minutes. It was clear that he thought highly of her and never forgot about her. However, it still made no sense to Olivia how they had broken up. Why wasn’t he aware of her pregnancy?
“I have to be at the office soon,” the sheikh said to Olivia.
“You still haven’t told me how she left or why she left without telling you that she was pregnant. What had happened? If the two of you were as close as you say you were, then she should have told you,” Olivia replied.
“You will have to stay longer to find out.”
Olivia narrowed her gaze at him. “You cannot use that to make me stay,” she said to him. He smiled at her.
“It seems like this is the only thing I can do to spend some time with you. I have already missed out on twenty-three years,” he said. Olivia shrugged her shoulders.
“There is something else I wish to discuss with you before I head to work,” he added.
“What is it?” Olivia asked.
“Sheikh Boutros,” Sheikh Solomon said quietly.
Olivia started laughing.
“We do not need to discuss him. There will be no marriage.” She was not going to marry a man she barely knew. She thought it strange that he wanted to marry her.
“I went to see him this morning.”
“You told him that I will not marry him?”
“He wants to meet with you for lunch.”
Olivia looked at the sheikh with a blank expression. “Do I have to?” she asked.
“It may be better for you to refuse him yourself,” said Sheikh Solomon.
