Nora, Conflicts of the Heart

By Sarah M Radz

Nora Thaleia has always known one thing, money can't buy you happiness. Family is everything to her, but when shes suddenly left all alone in the World with more money than she knows what to do with, Nora takes a chance and jumps on the next flight to Cyprus. Thinking she's left her old life behind, she quickly discovers that running away isn't that easy. She's Pregnant.

Stephan loved Nora from the moment he met her. He shouldn't have let her go. So when she suddenly blows back into his life, he won't let her slip away again so easily.... until he finds out the one thing that could change everything.

Can Nora and Stephan forgive each other for their past and re-create a better future together? Or will it all blow up in smoke in their faces?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sarah M Radz
• Release date: Feb 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370290253

Sarah M Radz

Sarah Radz (Radziwilowicz) lives in London, England with her husband. She is normally seen with her head in a book or watching a film. She loves Disney and romance but enjoys a good horror too. Sarah spends most of her time reading, writing, watching films/series and spending time with family. She is English born and bread. She married Englishman Michael Radziwilowicz In July 2016. Michael is half Welsh and half Polish but was born and bread in England.

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NORA;

Conflicts of the heart

Copyright 2016 Sarah M. Radz

Published by Sarah M. Radz at Smashwords

Dedication

For my Dad. You always taught me to live each day as it comes. Thank you for making me a dedicated, hard worker. I have dreamt of being an author for a while now, and finally my dream is coming true. Dad, you loved people reading books to you. I wish you was here to hear mine. You'll always live on through Me, Katie & Joseph. Forever in our hearts. I love you Dad.

Thank you to Anisha Khan, who spent her free time editing this novel for me, without you it would have been a terrible mess.

Thank you to my wonderful Husband, for believing in me and for listening to me. For making me describe scenes more in-depth. For being there for me. I could never do any of this without you.

To my sister, who as I recall, told me I would never make it, well Katie………In your face.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter One

Eleanora was six when her parents died. They had left her with her Grandma while they went to a conference up in London. Little had she known this would be the last time she’d ever see them. They were traveling up the M23 when a Lorry's tyre blew and caused it to swerve right across the motorway in front of their car. Eleanora would never forget the police turning up at her Grandma’s door and waiting in the separate room while she listened to them telling her Grandma that her parents had died on impact and there was nothing they could do. Eleanora had no family now except her Grandma Annemarie & Grandpa Clifford. She moved into her Grandma’s five-bedroom house near Brighton’s sea front. Her Grandma used to be an architect in her younger days. She had built and designed this house after her first big job and had lived there ever since. Her Grandpa was a local fish man who her Grandma had fallen madly in love with and had her Mother a short while after they were married. Even though her Grandma had a huge house, she never had time for more kids as she became well known and had many projects under her wing. She would make the money and her Grandpa would look after Eleanora’s Mother and cook every night with the catch he’d got that day. Her Mother grew up and went to university to become a publicist, where she met Eleanora’s Father. They had fallen madly in love and as soon as they graduated he proposed to her mother. A short while after they brought a small two-bedroom cottage not far from Brighton’s sea front. Eleanora’s Father was Cypriot so when they got married, they travelled to Cyprus to have a small ceremony with his parents and her Mother’s parents. They had their honeymoon there in Paphos. When they returned, they had found out that her Mother was pregnant. Luckily Eleanora’s school was close by, so the only thing that had to change was her house. She would never forget the day she moved in with her Grandma. She had sent Eleanora to play around her best friend’s, Talia's house, and had moved everything out of Eleanora’s old house and into her loft and set up Eleanora’s new room. When her Grandma came to collect Eleanora, she strapped her in to her cream Rolls Royce and drove to what would be her new home. Eleanora had been to her Grandma’s millions of times before, but this time was different. As they entered the large stone gates, Eleanora looked around. The grounds were green and full of trees and fresh wild flowers. The house had a little stone drive and an underground garage. A winding staircase that had ivy growing up it, leads to the front door. Once inside the grand house, her Grandma, Annemarie, showed her to her new room. Annemarie had painted the walls a pale pink. Her bed was beside the bay window which had a sea view in the distance. Her large white wardrobe was in the corner and her ceiling light had sparkly butterflies hanging from it. Everything is here from your old room, and this weekend we’ll go buy whatever else you want. said Annemarie. Eleanora just nodded. She sat on the bed and cuddled her teddy bear she had had since she was born. Her Grandma came and sat next to her. I know this is difficult, but time will heal the pain you're feeling. Your parents will never be forgotten. They’ll always be with you. Watching over you. Annemarie said softly while she cuddled her Granddaughter. After dinner that evening Eleanora had bathed and got into her new bed. She lay looking at the stars and listening to the sea in the distance. She cried herself to sleep, rocking herself to and fro. The pain in her chest was so great she was sure something wasn’t right with her heart. She cuddled her teddy tightly and wished her parents would come back to her. She would wake up tomorrow and this would all just be one terrible dream. She soon fell into an exhausted sleep.

Chapter Two

17 Years Later

Eleanora stared out the window in misery. Why did it have to lash down with rain just as her shift for work was nearing? She jumped off her king size bed and walked towards her wardrobe. Eleanora yanked on her size 10 skinny jeans and pulled a fluffy jumper over her head, pulled on her waterproof jacket over the top, as she walked over to her dressing table and looked in her mirror. She pulled her curly honey blonde hair into a pony tail and did her jacket up, dabbed some waterproof mascara on to her long thick lashes and stared at her reflection. She had inherited her Father’s olive skin and her Mother’s freckly face, green eyes and honey blonde hair. She was slim but toned and had incredible cheek bones and beautifully bowed lips. She had a tattoo of her Mother's and Father’s names on each of her wrists. That’ll have to do she said to her reflection. She pulled on her hunter wellington boots and went downstairs. Her Grandma Annemarie was in the kitchen where she had whipped up a batch of cookies. Eleanora walked into the large American style kitchen and took a warm cookie off the tray. She bit into it and melted chocolate oozed into her mouth. Her grandma laughed at the expression on her face. You’re going to be late if you don’t get a move on she said between giggles. I know, I’m leaving now. I’m going to ride the bike to the chippy. I’m going to get wet in this weather, but at least I’ll get there quicker. Eleanora replied. Okay Nora love, just be careful. replied Annemarie, smiling.

I will responded Eleanora as she took another cookie and grabbed her bag. She walked through the enormous living room and out into the hallway before looking at her parents’ photograph hanging above the fire place. It was taken just after their honeymoon when they had found out they were expecting Nora. She blew a kiss to them and glanced at her Grandpa's picture which was in a frame on the mantle. He had been gone for five years now, and it was still difficult not to expect him to come walking through the front doors, smelling of fish with his catch of the day. When Eleanora had moved in with her grandparents, they had started to call her Nora. Nora’s Father had nicknamed her his Nora bear, which wasn’t too far off from Nora. She walked across hallway and down the spiral staircase to the garage. Out in the rain, she rode along the sea front to her part time job in the local fish and chip shop on. It wasn’t much, she didn’t need much, but liked to have her own money to pay for the things she wanted to do. Her grandparents had brought her an old-fashioned Nissan Figaro, which was light pink with a white soft top roof. They had bought her it when she passed her driving test. She didn’t see the need to drive it to work as she only lived five minutes from the sea front, and there was never anywhere to park. Also, tickets for parking were too expensive for the whole evening. Nora pulled up to the chip shop and pushed her bike through to the back of the staff room while saying hello to her colleagues. She pulled off her jacket and hanged it up swapping it for the fish and chip shop logoed t-shirt and fleece. She pulled her hair into a hair net and walked into the front of the shop to start her shift. Half way through her shift nearing nine thirty in the evening, her best friend, Talia bounded through the doors. Talia was tall, thin and muscular as she goes to the gym regularly and worked as a life guard. She had coffee colored skin, and thick brown hair with natural caramel highlights from being on the beach in the summer. It was cut into a bouncy bob which made her hair look even thicker. She had huge brown eyes speckled with green, her lips were full and she had the cutest buttoned nose. Talia waved to Nora and Nora waved back. After the customers, had left Nora and Talia got together to have a chat. You have to come out tonight. There’s a new guy working at the beach and his name is Jermaine and he is so cute! We’re all going out tonight to The Hunt Night club. Please, please say you’ll come! Talia begged her.

I’ll see what time I get off but it should be ok replied Nora. Talia squealed with delight and said she’d meet her back here for closing.

At 10:30pm, while they were locking up, the wind from the sea is in full force even though it has stopped raining. Talia was waiting for her when Nora left the shop with her bike. They both walked back to her grandma’s house. Nora tells her Grandma that her and Talia are hitting the town and will be getting ready in her room when they arrive at the house. When they entered Nora’s bedroom, Talia flung herself onto Nora’s double cream bed by her bay windows, and said I’ll wait out her while you shower then we can get ready together. And started flicking through a magazine. Nora smiled at her best friend, grabbed a towel and headed to the bathroom. I’ll only be a few minutes she replies as she heads out the room. Talia loved Nora’s bedroom. It was the perfect girl’s room. It was cream with cream plush carpets and white rugs, her bed stood next to the huge bay windows which had a distance sea view and a cute little window sill in which Nora set Vanilla Yankee Candles on, along with photos of her family including a picture of her and Talia when they were little. Her bed was king size with white fluffy pillows and a flower duvet. Her wardrobes were white with a matching dresser and an oval mirror above it. There was a table on her bedside table which set the room in a lovely glow in the evenings. Nora had a small TV on her wall, in which she and Talia spent many nights scoffing food in bed and watching movies. Talia often envied Nora’s large bedroom. Being a child from a family of six meant sharing a small four-bedroom house. She shared a room with her siblings and her house was always manic. Nora’s house was quiet and peaceful and large. Nora was like family to her anyway, so it was nice to escape to her house when things get too much at home. Nora walked into the bedroom with a towel around her body and a towel around her head with a few stray honey curls poking out. I’ve already showered and got my clothes with me, so if you start getting ready, I’ll style my hair and put my face on Talia said, jumping up and wondered over to her bag. Nora sat down at her dresser and pulled her ringlet hair out of her towel. It flowed quite freely down her back. She pulled on a white cotton dressing gown and put her damp towels in the laundry basket. She sat and studied her face. She never had a bad complexion. She brushed on some foundation and highlighted her eyes with Smokey eye shadow and with some winged eyeliner on top. She layered on mascara onto her thick lashes and outlined her bowed lips and covered them in a burgundy lipstick. Nora let her hair dry naturally so all that had to be done, was to mousse and scrunch. Talia had straightened her bob and moisturized her limbs, so she smelt like mango. She had pulled on a silver sequined halter neck top which showed off her beautifully flawless back and pulled on a pair of dark tight jeans. She was wearing black platform heels and looked stunning. Talia, you look amazing!!! gasped Nora in awe. Talia blushed and said her thanks.

Nora let her friend sit at her dressing table to do her makeup while she decided what to wear. Talia kept her make up simple: foundation and powder with a little bronzer. She coated her long eyelashes in mascara and had a thin winged eyeliner on her top eyelids. She just kept her lips simple with some lip gloss. Nora was sitting on the floor, crossed legged, trying to decide what to wear. It was either her halter neck burgundy dress which was backless and was as long as her mid-thigh or her favorite little black dress. She decided to go for the burgundy dress and her black platforms. She walked over to the full length oval mirror she had at the other side of her room and admired her reflection, she thought she looked good. You look absolutely stunning babe Talia admired.

As they trotted downstairs to call a cab, Annemarie called them into the living room to see what they looked like. She gasped in awed as the girls twirled around. Now make sure you wear coats and don’t forget your key. Annemarie said as Talia called for a cab. We will Grandma. replied Nora.

The cab arrived, jumped in quickly as it was freezing outside. After a short journey the cab pulled up outside the club,