CHAPTER 16CASSANDRAI toss and turn in bed, wrapping my hands round my stomach, not knowing for how long I can take this. My stomach rumble loudly again, increasing the agony I’m in right now. I’m so hungry I feel I’m going to die. It’s ten p.m. and I still haven’t had my breakfast, talk less of lunch and dinner. Nick had brought me some pancakes in the morning but I had refused to come out and he had taken it back to the kitchen. Why didn’t he just leave it at the doorstep? What a jerk!He also brought me lunch, which he had ordered and I also refused that, just because I didn’t want to see his face. Now, here I am, hungry and tired with no way to survive this torture. After about thirty minutes, I decide to sneak out, since, after all, he’s going to work tomorrow, and he’ll probably be asleep now.I creep out of bed, tiptoeing to the door. I open it slightly and slowly so it won’t make much noise. Luckily for me, it isn’t like those doors at my house that are always creaking whene
CHAPTER 17NICHOLASNicholas walks into his company with a depressed look on his face, as he thinks about all what had happened the day before. He still can’t accept the fact that Cassy doesn’t love him but then he knows he has no choice but to accept it since there is nothing he can do about it. He didn’t even see her this morning before he left for work. She hadn’t come down, and he didn’t go to check on her because he knows she is avoiding him.“Sir, are you okay?” One of his staffs says with concern, as the other staffs also wonder what is wrong with him. He is always jovial and vibrant whenever he comes in for work so they can’t help but wonder why he is down, and looking depressed all of a sudden.“I’m fine, I just had a rough day yesterday and I couldn’t get enough sleep.” He says, and walks into his office. He buries his head in his palm, wondering why Cassy doesn’t love him. He has been trying to do everything in his power to make her happy, so why did she not love him? He is
CHAPTER 18CASSANDRAI sit by the window side in my bedroom, and see Nicholas’s car drive into the compound. I stare down at him from the window as he parks and then gets down from the car. He doesn’t have his tie on and his clothes look rumpled, and I start to wonder if he got into a fight. I watch him as he drags his brief case out of the car and then staggers before jamming the car door shut, and begins walking slowly, with his head down. I wonder what is wrong with him and why he is being this way, and that’s when the realization hits me. What do you mean ‘what’s wrong with him?’, you are. You put him in this position Cassy. You shadily entered into his perfect beautiful life and then brought your shameful useless life into his, and now look at him. You made him this way so don't you try to act innocent now.I sigh and leave the window to the bed when my phone rings. I move quickly to the bed side table and then pick up my phone, checking the caller ID to see it is Victoria, as e
CHAPTER 19CASSANDRAOh my God, he is burning up with a fever. I wonder how long he has been like this, and if he is this way because of me. “Nick." I call out his name softly as I drop the pocket knife on the bed absentmindedly, with my hand still touching his forehead that is so hot. Why didn’t he say anything about it? He should have gotten home early and he shouldn't have over worked himself either.“Nick.” I call out again since he still hasn’t replied me. I touch his forehead again before feeling his chest, and shaking him lightly, but he still doesn't wake up. I run out of his room, with the kitchen knife I was going to murder him with, to the kitchen to grab a bowl of water, and a napkin. I drop the knife with the other knives in the kitchen before walking back as quick as I can to his room with the bowl of water and the napkin in my hands, while trying my best to not spill water as I walk up the stairs.I sit by his bed again to see he’s still not awake. I drop the bowl of wa
CHAPTER 20CASSANDRA“CASSANDRA! Where have you been? I’ve been so worried about you. You just disappeared without telling us anything.” She yells in concern. “Do you know how worried I’ve been? I’ve been searching everywhere for you but to no avail, Frank also helped me in looking for you, but it just seemed as if you had ceased to exist-”“-I called your line severally but it never went through and I swear I thought you were dead, and now, you just call me in the middle of the night with a new number acting like you didn’t just make us think you were dead. I cried because I couldn’t find you, you know? I even went to your workplace and they said you hadn’t been coming to work. How could you make us worry like that Cassy?”“I’m sorry. I just had to leave town to clear my head and look for more opportunities.” I say weakly.“Sorry? You had to leave town to clear your head? Does that seem like an excuse for making us worry unnecessarily? You could have informed us so we’d be aware of y
CHAPTER 21NICHOLASHe feels very bad for talking to Cassandra in the way he had spoken to her earlier this morning and the way her eyes glittered with unshed tears made him want to punch the wall till his fists break. He hates the way she makes him fell and he also hates himself for making her feel that way, he really didn't mean any of the things he said to her but he wasn't so sure about her. If she meant everything she said to him or not. She was right about what she had said to him though, he had been a real jerk, and although he loves her so much, if she doesn’t love him back, he shouldn’t get mad at her or try to force her into loving him.He gets down the stairs with his brief case and then as he gets to the first floor, he walks to her door to check how she is faring, and because he wants to check if she’s mad at him for the way he acted last night. He stops in front of her door, taking deep breaths because he is unsure of how she is going to react to seeing him. He chickens
CHAPTER 22CASSANDRA"I made dinner." I say but Nick just stares at me, as if debating on whether to reply me or not."That’s... that's okay I guess, but you don't have to do this anymore Cassandra, you don't have to work for me anymore. " He says and I feel a pang in my chest. Is he going to send me out of his house? Is he really over me that quickly?“Wait! Does this mean you’re sending me packing?” I ask hurriedly, fear gripping me at the thought of not being able to see him again, not to mention leaving his house means I’m leaving this world as well, since Victoria will most definitely kill me.“No.” He says plainly and I have a sigh of relief."Please, just let me do this for you… it’s the least I can do… it doesn't mean I am working for you, I just wanted to cook for you.” I say, with a tinge of sadness in my tone."I am not hungry. You can eat without me." He says and then walks past me, leaving me at the front of the door. I shut the door close and turn to his, following him a
CHAPTER 23CASSANDRAI have been walking aimlessly around the house with no chores to do and no food to cook since Nick asked me to stop doing all these things yesterday. Although I think I deserve every single Ill treatment I get from him since I’ve been confusing both of us about what I really feel about him, I still feel very bad about it. I already made up my mind today that if I try the last time and he doesn't listen or try to amend things with me then he has moved on and I will leave his house tonight and leave his life forever, and also leave this country so Victoria never finds me… hopefully.I walk into his room again after I am done packing my bag just in case he lashes out at me again so I can just leave quietly without any problems. I walk around the room while looking at the pictures on the shelf. I see a picture of a pretty woman which I quickly recognize as Nick's mum because of the features, he really looks like his mother a lot and when he said his mum was really be