Chapter 3
The chaos from the night before had died down, it is a brand new day. The sun's rays shone through the curtains in the room. The heat danced across Camden's cheek making her feel warmth. The ray caressed the skin that had been delicately crafted to shine, with skin so soft, with each touch, you thought it would break apart. Camden opened her eyes and saw the eyes she missed so much. The smile that been haunting her dreams for two years. She smiled,
"Nikolai."
The silence broke with a giggle coming from a two year old smiling at how silly his mother was being.
"No mommy, it me Mickey."
Camden opened her eyes again to see in fact that it had been her son and not her ex husband. She sighed and looked at the boy who had started jumping on the bed. She smirked and grabbed her boy while he was in mid air. His giggles filled the air when she started tickling his sides.
"Mommy stop that tickles!"
She laughed with her son and kept tickling him. A knock on the door stopped the mother and son, she gave permission for the person to enter.
"Hello Miss Beverly, there is a Mr. Gabrielli here too see you."
She had been afraid for this moment, she just didn't think that it would be so soon.
"I don't want to see him. Please tell him I do not want to see him."
The maid sighed.
"Mr. Gabrielli did tell me that you would say that, that to tell you that it is not Mr. Nikolai Gabrielli but it is indeed his father Mr. Gregori Gabrielli."
Camden, still a little hesitant to see her ex father-in-law. She sighed and nodded her head.
"Let him in."
Michelangelo looked towards his mother.
"Mommy, who coming?" She looked down at her little boy and smiled.
"Someone you should met a long time ago."
Gregori entered the room and saw his daughter-in-law sitting on the bed with a little boy who had looked exactly how his son looked at that age.
"Wow, he makes me feel old."
Michelangelo saw the man enter and he hid his face in his mother's chest. He had grown shy all of a sudden making Camden smile.
"Hello Gregori, it has been too long."
She had gotten off the bed with her son in her arms, she made her way over to the man and hugged him. Michelangelo clung to his mother, he had never seen this man but he knew he wouldn't hurt him.
"It has been too long my dear. I see that the rumor is not in fact a rumor. Hello piccolo, come stai?( little one, how are you?)"
Michelangelo looked at the man and waved.
"Ciao, sto bene... Chi sei?( hi, I'm good... who are you?)"
Gregori laughed.
"So you taught him his father's tongue."
Camden nodded.
"He is fluent in three languages, English, Italian, and Spanish. But he prefers speaking Italian and English more."
Gregori had been amazed, he and his ex-wife Natalia could not have their children learn more than one other language. Nikolai is the only one that knows five total languages, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian, and German. He is working on his sixth which is French.
"How old is he?"
Camden looked down at her son.
"Tell him how old you are sweetheart."
He took out his index finger, middle finger and thumb out.
"Sono due anni. (I am two years old) Mamma, lui non mi ha detto chi é. (Mommy, he didn't tell me who he is.)"
Camden smiled, Gregori chuckled. He took his hand out so Michelangelo could shake it.
"Figlio, io sono Gregori Gabrielli, tuo nonno. Come ti chiami? (Son, I am Gregori Gabrielli, I am your grandfather. What is your name?)"
Michelangelo shyly spoke up.
"Michelangelo Gabrielli."
He hid his face in the crook of his mother's neck making the adults chuckle.
"It is very nice to meet you Michelangelo."
Gregori dropped his hand after he saw that the boy did not want to have any contact with him. Camden put the boy down and he ran to his chest of toys by the closet. Gregori watched the boy while he pulled out his toys. Camden looked at her father-in-law, she saw the love in his eyes, she also saw pain, pain for what she did not know, she saw the regret in his eyes. Gregori turned to his daughter-in-law and placed a hand on her arm.
"I am sorry for whatever my son had caused you, the suffering you had gone through, I see now that you did not do anything he had accused you of."
Wait accused her of?
"What is this that he had accused me of doing?"
Gregori looked deep into her eyes and saw true confusement.
" He never told you?"
She shook her head. He could not believe it, his son never told her what had been the cause of this? He had blindly ended things just because his mother had said without even investigating. He could not believe it. That woman is the devil.
"I am sorry he did not tell you, I am not the one that should tell you. Nikolai is the one that should tell you. The reason I came all the way here, was to warn you. Now that Nikolai has found out about Michelangelo, he will want to see him. His mother had ingrained his head that he has to take him away from you. I am here to tell you that I will help you so that will not happen. You see when I found out my wife had something to do with you and Niko separating from each other, I investigated further and found out somethings. We will discuss them further but today I just wanted to inform you. Michelangelo will have to be watched, I had found out that Natalia had contracted someone to kidnap him."
Camden figured Natalia Gabrielli would do something like this. The woman never really liked her in the first place. She just didn't know that she had anything to do with her separation with her husband.
