Chapter 35

MAY

He walked me to the door and when I closed it after myself, I peeped using the keyhole to see what he would do. He waited for a moment, sighed, and left. Disappointed, I felt like going after him immediately. However, I didn’t do this. He should come after me instead, I thought. Having so many visitors in a day made me stressed so I decided to make up for it by getting some sleep. However, worry couldn’t let me sleep. I kept on thinking about him. He remained evergreen in my mind.

What if he couldn’t sleep tonight due to his nightmares? Shouldn’t I wait for him and cuddle him to sleep? What if he wanted to come but he was shy? I had to help him. After all, he would be the father of my child. I couldn’t allow him to die due to fatigue and insomnia.

Decision made, I stopped rolling back and forth on the bed. I stood up to find Nicholas. I figured he would be in his private library so I went there. He wasn’t there so I had to look around. I met a maid on my way. She seemed to be finishing her duties.

“Have you seen my husband?” I asked her calmly.

“He is at the bar, Miss,” She answered. She showed me the way to the bar and left afterwards. I went there excitedly only to find a half-naked lady on Nicholas’s lap. They were kissing affectionately.

My heart skipped a beat. Nicholas' eyes met mine and he stood up in shock. He pushed the lady away. I could see his chest heaving in anxiousness.

“Hey, I can explain…” Nicholas muttered. I turned my back towards him and went my way. Nicholas chased after me, begging me to stop. I didn’t answer him until we were in our room. I turned towards him with a scary gaze.

“Why do you want to explain?” I asked him with a calmness that conflicted the anger I was feeling.

“What do you mean?” He asked nervously.

“I am not offended by what you just did. I am not jealous either. In our contract, there was no clause that stated that we had to be loyal to one another,” I told him firmly. “Everything we agreed upon was around our baby. I don’t care who you fuck. There is one thing I care about and that is my unborn baby. As long as you prioritize that, you can be with as many whores as you wish.”

Nicholas took a deep breath.

“Right,” he muttered. “I totally forgot about that. It was a contract marriage anyway.”

“And I am glad about that!” I exclaimed. “Isn’t the lady a maid here? I saw her uniform. You are more despicable than I thought.”

“I’m sorry,” Nicholas tried.

“You have no reason to apologize to me because as I said earlier, I am neither jealous nor offended. I just think only a jerk would fuck the maids in his home. Mama would be disappointed to hear,” I told him.

“About that…” He tried to say again.

“I won’t tell Mama!” I interrupted. “Now get out. I need to get some rest. You should go back to your whore as well.”

I would hear nothing more about the issue. I got on the bed and covered myself with the sheets. After hearing Nicholas leave, I took away the sheets. I had lied to Nicholas and myself. Seeing him kiss that maid made me angered. I felt betrayed by him. It was now I realized that I had begun to develop some attachment for him. Either way, I was glad that things happened this way. Now I had found out for myself what sort of jerk Nicholas was.

As I tried to sleep, I thought about Nicholas and his nightmares.

“His whore can help him sleep. I will go to bed myself,” I muttered to myself. I closed my eyes to sleep. A dream would probably take me away soon.

**

I couldn’t sleep all night!

The time was five o’clock in the morning and I hadn’t slept a wink since last night. I had turned and rolled back and forth all night. Whenever I closed my eyes, I was reminded of how Nicholas kissed that lady. He didn’t come to the room to sleep so I concluded that he had slept with her. I was so enraged that her picture had become etched in my mind. Come to think of it, she didn’t look guilty when I caught them. She wasn’t shocked. It was a kind of nonchalant facial expression.

I couldn’t sleep a blink because of that witch. It was only proper that I find her and deal with her appropriately. But then, wouldn’t that be punishing the weak? Why wasn’t I planning to punish Nicholas instead? Who knows? Nicholas might have told her to sleep with him or get sacked.

That scumbag.

One thing was certain and it was that I had to find out who the maid was. Again, I tried to get some sleep. This time, it worked. Perhaps, it was because I had found a solution. I woke up three hours later. I freshened up like it was just another morning and stepped out majestically.

“Good morning, Miss May,” A maid came forward. I sat on a comfy chair and looked at her. She wasn’t the maid from yesterday.

“Where is Mama?” I asked her.

“She left this morning, Miss. She will be absent for two weeks according to what she told us,” The maid replied promptly. “She told me your early morning routine so I will tend to you for now.”

“Why would she leave without telling me?” I stood up angrily. “Isn’t she the butler? Who would take care of the mansion when she is gone?”

“You woke up late, Miss. She had to leave early in the morning without disturbing your sleep…” The maid replied.

“And I…” I heard a voice behind me. “I will be in charge of the mansion until she arrives.”

I turned back. It was the maid I caught yesterday.