All Chapters of My Dear Nightmare : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Daniela’s POVAlexander helped me into the car, sweetly, like the past thirty minutes never happened. "I'll be waiting," my aunt stood at the door smiling, referring to the dinner Alexander had promised her to cheer her up, and compensate for stealing her favourite person. His words not mine.“We’ll see you in the evening, Bertha.” Then he went around the car and sat in at my left side, leaving as much space as possible between us. Mike re-entered the car after putting my suitcase in the back and then began pulling out of our driveway. My heart picked up speed and I looked out of the open window. She was already waving. I wasn’t going to live with her again for as long as I didn’t find a way out. I waved back at her until she was out of sight, and Mike rolled up the window.I exhaled heavily and plastered my back against the seat. I didn’t even dare glance at Alexander, which was easy because he was acting like

Daniela’s POVThere was so much I didn’t understand when I was a child. I was the only child of my parents and I lived in a relatively big house in a nice neighbourhood. I never realised how privileged I was until my parents died and I moved in with my aunt. Her house was smaller, she couldn’t afford some things my parents used to provide for me. That realisation made me feel bad for wanting more from my dad when he had already provided so much for me.That could explain why I was willing to accept the barest form of affection anyone showed me. So, when Justin came back to me after a company party, smelling like another woman’s perfume, all he had to say was ‘I love you so much, Ela. You’re my number one’, I’d ignore it and kiss him, happy and grateful that he always chose me in the end.Another thing I realised, was that we didn’t have extra bedrooms at my parents’ house just for the fun of it. My parents had wanted more children, but my mother hadn’t been able to get pregnant after

Alexander’s POVI did not have a plan.And it was starting to show.I had idolised the idea of having that girl from the murderer’s house as mine to control, almost my whole life, so much so that I snatched the first opportunity to keep her in one place, where I could monitor her easily, without really thinking about the implications. And my brain had not been able to understand that she was now a woman, an adult who had a right to her actions. I may have tied her down with this marriage, preventing her from finding that fulfilling life she thought she could get with that good for nothing philanderer, but she could still hurt me.She did. And I deserved it.“And you’re confident she won’t screw you over instead in the long run?”Fuck.One knock. Nina’s signature.“Come in.”I couldn’t see her from my position at the desk, but I heard her enter

Daniela's POV“Good heavens! Mrs Jackson are you alright?”Nina’s voice all but startled me out of my sleep. If not for the fact that I was still very sleepy and groggy, I would’ve had a heart attack. For sure. I turned my body in the direction of the voice. “Mm?”“Oh thank goodness, Mrs Jackson,” I heard her breath out in relief. Why did she keep calling me Mrs Jackson? “What happened, Mrs Jackson. How did you get on the floor?”Oh. Right.My first night in the mansion obviously hadn’t been good. When we got back from the dinner, I was already prepared for the nightmares I was going to have that night. But that didn’t happen, because I couldn’t even manage to go to sleep. I had tossed and turned for hours in my new big bed for hours, before accepting that that was my fate for the night. So I took the comforter off the bed and placed it on the floor and decided t

Daniela’s POVI felt like a criminal throughout the ride. Gus wasn’t as talkative as Mike and he didn’t look approachable either. He hadn’t said a word to me apart from telling me he was taking me to Alexander’s office.He parked in the underground parking lot and guided me all the way up to Alexander’s, probably not wanting to make the same mistake as his colleague.Kathy, Alexander’s assistant, stood up to greet us with a smile when we got closer. I managed to return it all the while preparing myself for whatever I was going to face in the office.Gus knocked once and then pushed the door open after Alexander’s barely audible voice. He helped me inside and then shut the door, leaving me alone with an evidently pissed off Alexander.“Nina told me you woke up late because you were up all night reading the contact.” He leans back in his chair, assessing me from the end of the room,