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Ina stood up and offered her hand to her mother.

"Come with me, we need to talk." Ina said as she offered her hand to her mother.

Eleanor stood up and took her daughter's hand and the both of them walked towards the room that her parents are staying in.

Damien smiled seeing how Ina was working hard to not lose her mother.

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Inside the room.

"Let's have a chat with you and me, just like the old days." Ina said as she took off her shoes and climbed the bed and patted the empty space for her mother to take.

Eleanor smiled and climbed the bed next to her daughter.

"Hmm, that's batter." Ina said as she snuggled closer to her mother placing her head on her chest.

"Now, tell me, why do you hate Damien so much when you don't know him well?" Ina asked her mother.

"I don't hate him, I just don't like him." She replied.

"And how is that different? You don't like him, I get it but give him a chance to prove himself to you, can you do that for me." Ina said as she looked up at her mother.

Eleanor smiled seeing the look in her daughter's eyes, she is in love with him.

She closed her eyes and sighed.

"Alright, I will give him a chance just for you." Eleanor said as she ran her fingers through her daughter's hair.

"Thank you." Ina hugged her mother.

It felt good and peaceful to be in her mother's arms, she wished that she could tell her about her sickness. She wants her mother to be with her and take care of her when she can't take care of herself, but she was afraid that the news would be too much for her to take.

Ina is very tired of fecking her smile and making Damien think that she was fine, she closed her eyes and before she knew it she fell asleep in her mother's arms.

"I love you, Mom." Ina mumbled in her sleep and her mother smiled.

Eleanor bent down and kissed her daughter's forehead.

"I love you too My baby girl." Her mother whispered back as she watched her daughter's peaceful sleeping face.

Eleanor wanted to tell the truth about the man who kidnapped her years ago but she didn't know how to tell, and the fact that the man is Damien's uncle was making her worry that he might be using her daughter.

Eleanor gently removed her hand and got to the bed and covered her daughter with the blanket.

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Living room.

Eleanor came out of the room and saw her husband and Damien talking, she walked towards them.

"Where is Ina?" William asked.

"She fell asleep." She replied looking at Damien.

Damien knew what his future mother in law was thinking, it was time for the real talk.

"Let's go to the study room." Damien said as he stood up and the three of them walked towards the study room.

Damien walked towards the desk and took out a file and handed it to Ina's mother.

"I know everything, I also know why I'm worried about me being Ina boyfriend, but I'm assuring you that I'm not like my uncle." Damien spoke defending himself.

He knew that his uncle had done many bad things and when he found out that the man who kidnapped Ina was him, he became worried that this would affect their relationship, but he is not like his uncle and he will never be.

"I'm sorry, but I can't believe that you met my daughter in a coincidence, your uncle caused my daughter a trauma that she needed a long time to get over, I can't let this happen again even if I was forced to break her hurt and take her away from you." Eleanor said.

"I understand that, but I think you made a big mistake when you lied to her, you should have told her who is that man is, Ina told that she doesn't remember anything about that day, So Mamm you were lying when you said that Ina suffered from the trauma, but I understand that you did this because you love her." Damien said as he looked at the elder woman.

"We did that because we were afraid that she might suffer, when she woke up that day in the hospital and the police asked her if she remembers that man's face or anything, she said that she doesn't remember anything except for his voice." This time it was William Ina's father who spoke.

Damien felt angry at his uncle for doing this to Ina, he wanted to find him and kill him with his own hands and let him experience the fear that he made her feel.

"You can't blame us, son, for being scared and wanting to protect our only daughter." William added.

"I know." Damien said.

The three of them chatted for a while, Damien tried to make Ina mother trust him, but he realized that this would take time.

Lunchtime came and Damien went to wake up Ina to eat.

"You're awake." Damien said when he entered the room and found Ina awake laying on the bed.

"I couldn't move, my body is very stiff." Ina said as watched him walk towards her.

"Help me to stand up." Ina said.

Damien bent down, putting his hand under her back and lifted her upper body, he helped her to stand up but she couldn't stay standing up on her own.

"I feel dizzy." Ina said as she felt her body weak and couldn't stay standing on her own without Damien's help.

"Take your time, don't get stressed." Damien said as he helped her to reach for the near chair.

"I'm scared that they might find out, I'm still not ready." Ina said as she looked at Damien, anxious that her parents would notice something.

"Don't worry, they won't, now let's do the exercises that physiotherapists show us." Damien said as he helped her to sit up straight.

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Fifteen minutes later, at the dining table.

"What took you so long?" Her mother asked.

"She was still sleeping when I entered the room." Damien replied when he noticed that Ina was nervous when her mother asked her.

"She always sleeps during lunchtime even when she is young." Her father said and earned a glare from Ina.

Damien smiled as he looked at her, speaking about the young Ina, her father gave him a photo album of Ina when she was young, but he decided to wait and watched it with Ina.

"I give Damien your childhood photos album." Her father said and Ina widened her as she looked at Damien.

"Don't worry, I still haven't seen it." Damien said as he laughed at her reaction.

After lunch, William took his wife and went for a walk leaving the young couple to have some privacy together.

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"Don't laugh." Ina said as she sat beside him on the couch as she held the photo album in her hands.

"I won't, I will make sure to show you mine next time." Damien said as he took the album from her and opened it.

The first picture in the album was of infant Ina staring at the camera with her big green eyes as her mother held her, he flipped the pages one after another smiling every time he flipped the pages and looked at the pictures.

He stopped at one of the photos, it was Ina birthday, the dress in pictures was the same dress in the police report pictures.

He flipped the page not wanting Ina to notice.

"You look so cute here." Damien said as he looked at the picture of Ina wearing her high school uniform.

"My mother didn't like the uniform back then, she went to the school and asked them to change the uniform and ended up fighting with the principal of the school, it wasn't that revealing though." Ina said as she looked at Damien to see the displeased look on his face.

"Come on, I was only sixteen that time." Ina said as she laughed.

"But you were very hot for a teenager, I bit you at the centre of attention at that time." Damien said and watched as she blushed.

"No, I actually, wasn't, it's not like you are thinking." Ina said as she tried to not get turned on by his overly handsome face.

"I envy your parents and friends that they had the chance to see the young you, I wish that you met you before." Damien said as he caressed her face with the back of his hand.

"I think that if you met me before you won't have thought of taking us seriously, I'm wrong?" Ina said as she kissed his lips and pulled away.