CHAPTER 8CASSANDRAI don't know what is more funny, the fact that I'm supposed to be disguised as a broke homeless pig or the fact that I am actually broke, since the money Victoria sent to me isn’t mine until I finish the job, although I’ve spent a couple millions out of it to pay the Mortgage officers. How hard is it to kill a person, it can't be that hard, right? Killing Nicholas should be easy, right; since I don't know him and I just have to stab him or shoot him? Oh God! why do I have a bad feeling about this?Okay Cassy, you can do this; you have to do this because there is no backing out of this now. You collected the money and you’ve already spent out of the money to pay the mortgage officers which is the best thing that had happened to you in years, you already sent money to your brother too, and if you quit, you’ll have to return the money, and you know you can’t get that amount of money even if you work non-stop for the next five years. Anyways, you’re rich now, so you sh
CHAPTER 9NICHOLAS“Cassandra, but you can call me Cassy.” Cassy smiles at Nick, her smile drawing him in further."I don’t think I need to introduce myself, you already know me, but I’m Nicholas, and you can call me Nick. Now that we know each other, can we go to your new home?" He says, and she laughs, as he leads her to where his car is parked. He opens the front-seat for her, and when she enters, rushes to the driver’s seat, and starts to drive towards his mansion.He glances at her for a brief moment, and returns his gaze to the road ahead. He has no idea what it is but something about her makes him want to help her. She was homeless and poor and yet she refused his offer, and held onto her pride and dignity, and that makes him want to help her more. "Tell me about yourself Cassandra." He says as he drives on, his eyes not leaving the road.She is quiet for a while, as if not wanting to talk, “Well I am an only child. My mother died when I was young, and my dad died when I was f
CHAPTER 10CASSANDRA"I'm in! Cassandra, you are in." I chant as soon as Nicholas leaves for work due to whatever emergency he has. I don't get why Victoria wants to kill a nice man like Nicholas. He’s so nice, gentle, thoughtful, and definitely interested in me. I caught every single moment of him staring at me with a distant look, and that one time when he looked at my lips, and looked away quickly. He’s definitely falling for me, and hard.I don’t know; is it because he’s too rich or just stupid, because I would never let a stranger that I met on the road live with me, and even pay her money. I guess he’s just too quick to trust people, but either ways, it’s a very stupid thing to do; picking up someone from and dumping them in your house without knowing them, and the fact that he just believed everything I said to him is even more baffling.I could have been lying, and he wouldn’t have known, and yet he just believed everything. I wonder where he was raise, because he definitely r
CHAPTER 11CASSANDRAA week living inside Nicholas's house has been like heaven on earth. Although I have to clean the entirety of his mansion and prepare food every time, but I eat what I feel like eating, drink what I want to and did I mention how sweet he is? He also talks to me about his day at work and other things, but one thing I’ve noticed is that he doesn't talk much about his family and when he does, he only talks about his mum and how he is also an only child, and then changes the topic almost immediately. We’re now close but not close enough for me to kill him."Hey, good morning." He says as soon as he gets down the stairs in only shorts, with his abs on full display. I must admit he looks so sexy? He isn't going to work today because it's a Saturday.“Good morning Nick, did you sleep well?" I ask him with a big smile, as I finish setting up the table for breakfast."Yes, I did. Also, thanks for Last night’s dinner, it was perfect." He says, making me blush hard, “Did you
CHAPTER 12NICHOLASAs soon as he sees her walking down the stairs, his breath hitches in his throat. He has always found her beautiful, but she looks more than beautiful this night, and the beautiful smile on my face just made everything better. The tight black gown she wore did a lot of justice to her shape, bringing out all her curves in all the right areas, making him want to her there and then. Her breasts look fuller and it makes him mad with desire, as he pictures himself bury his head between them, and it made him so horny that he just wants to tear off her clothes and fuck her senseless. Her red hair was like fire drawing him towards her, like a moth draw to a flame and her innocent black eyes looked so perfect. She looks so stunning. Fuck! She’s beautiful and has so much effect on me. He thinks to himself, not being able to take his eyes off her as she descends down the stairs."Hey, how do I look?" She asks as soon as she stops in front of him, and his eyes move to her lips
CHAPTER 13CASSANDRA This is exactly what I wanted; for him to fall deeply in love with me to the extent that’ll he’ll let his guard down around me, so I can find an opening to kill him, but I wasn’t expecting myself to waste time in doing it, and I don’t like the fact that I enjoy his company and look forward to seeing him daily every time, it wasn’t part of my plan. I couldn't sleep well last night because my mind kept replaying the kiss he gave me on my forehead. For Christ’s sake, hear yourself out Cassy, it's just your forehead and yet you keep thinking about it. What if he had kissed you on your lips? You’d probably drop dead on the spot.Since today is Sunday, Nicholas is still going to be home, and perhaps I’ll finally finish the job I failed to do last night; I shouldn't miss my chance today. I need to end this before it escalates to something bigger, something I’ll have no control over. Now I understand what Victoria meant when she said to not fall in love with him, and get
CHAPTER 14CASSANDRA "Hey!" I call out to him, walking towards him, “Are you trying to poison me?” I ask while peering over his shoulders to look at what he is cooking. He is making pancakes, and they kinda look okay, although they are so freaking shapeless. I guess it should taste okay since pancakes aren’t that hard to make.“What do you mean?” He chuckles, still focused on what he is making. I giggle lightly at how cute he looks when he’s focused, I’ve never seen anyone so focused on making simple pancakes before.“You’re cooking.” I deadpan.“I don’t get what you’re trying to say.” He says, still focused, and wipes sweat off his forehead with the back of his arm.I roll my eyes at how dense he is. “You don’t know how to cook, remember? You never paid attention to your mum’s cooking lessons, and you said it yourself that your cooking is very terrible.”“Come on, don’t be like that. At least its’ edible." He laughs, with his back still facing me."If you can cook, why then did you
CHAPTER 15NICHOLAS"What are you doing?" Cassandra asks Nicholas, as she tries to get away from his touch but he does not budge, instead he presses into her further, determined to not let her go. He wants nothing more than to have her, to kiss her and make her his for the rest of his life. He has been trying his best to ignore the way he feels about her, telling himself it was just lust, but he has no choice than to accept the fact that he loves her so much. He has never felt this way about any woman before, and it is driving him crazy. After the little kiss they had just shared, all his heart crave is nothing more than to kiss her senseless, and make her feel the same way he did."What I should have done the first day I met you." He says pulling her away from the wall, and against the counter and without giving her time to understand or protest, his lips crashes hungrily against hers’ as he presses his body into hers, as if trying to meld it into one.He pulls her into his arms and
CHAPTER 35CASSANDRAI’ve been awake for two months now, I’m not really sure, since I’ve lost track of time and I don’t know which days are which. Although I’m awake, I still feel dead because I can’t move or do anything, I can only sit still and listen to what is going on around me, and every time Nick comes to my bed, I feel so heartbroken because of how sad he sounds. I can her how heartbroken he is by the fact that I’m in a Coma. I just want to wake up, kiss and make love to him all night long, but I can’t.Julian and Frank have been coming here a lot to see me, they tell me about how the police has intensified their search on Victoria, and I just hope and pray she doesn’t go near my family, because Coma or not, I’m going to kill her. They also tell me about how their business is booming and how they miss me, and how I should wake up quickly because Nick has not been himself since I went into a coma. Just a few days ago, they told me Julian is three weeks pregnant, and I wanted to
CHAPTER 34CASSANDRA“Where in the world are you guys? We’ve been here for the past two minutes and I’m tired of waiting for you guys, so you had better hurry your ass up.” I yell into my phone, at Julian.I hear her let out a sigh, and I can feel her rolling her eyes, “We’ll be there very soon Cassy, it’s just two minutes. Chill out.” She says.“Just hurry up.” I frown, hanging up. Nick just looks at me from where he has just finished setting the picnic mat on the ground and has placed the basket on it, and starts to laugh, making my frown deepen, “What are you laughing at mister?”He walks towards me where I am standing with an umbrella over my head, “Well, I’m laugh at how overbearing you’ve become since you got pregnant.” He says, leading me to the picnic mat.The frown on my face disappears, and is replaced by a sad, worried face, with teary eyes, “You don’t love me any less, do you?” I croak, about to cry.It’s been six months since I was told I’m pregnant, so now I’m eight mont
CHAPTER 33CASSANDRA“Oh, Hey Frank! I was just about talking about you; why don’t you take a seat?” I say sarcastically, this time getting really angry. How could they not even bother telling me about their relationship? I mean, they’re my only two friends that I actually talk, and now that they’re in a relationship, they keep it from me. I’m starting to wonder what friendship truly means to these guys, because they clearly don’t get it.I suddenly feel a wave of fatigue wash over, and I start to feel dizzy. I stagger slightly and since I’m standing, I drop to the couch. I’ve been feeling this way since for the past two days now, and I’ve vomited at least seven times since then. Nick said that he’s taking me to the hospital when he gets back from work, and I really don’t want to go, because personally, I hate hospitals.They both rush to me to make sure I’m fine, but I just give them a death glare making them halt in their steps. Much better. Turning to Frank, I say, “As I was saying
CHAPTER 32CASSANDRAIt’s been a week since Nick proposed to me, but I haven’t had the time to tell Julian, since I’ve been busy at work and she hasn’t been picking her calls, and I couldn’t have gone to see her either since she has been travelling around to different parties and events since it is her Catering company that is in charge of the catering services for them. Yes! Julian is the owner of the biggest catering company in New York. It’s so funny how she went from being a stripper to an inspiration to those who want to also go into catering.After the arrest of Victoria, Nick said he wanted to meet my family and friends, and then I told him Cole was out of the country and my only family was Frank and Julian, and I took him to the club to meet them. After knowing that Julian was a stripper, and the only reason she did it was to get enough more to grow her small time catering business, and he gave her… I don’t really know… I think it was about four million dollars to kick start t
CHAPTER 31CASSANDRA“So… what was up with that lady that pushed me out of the way when she was leaving your office? And why was she looking at me like I had just stolen something from her? And also, why was she crying? Did you do something or say something to make her cry?” I start to ask Nick as he drives out of his company’s parking lot. That lady looked like she wanted to strangle me on the spot, and I wear I just wanted to disappear with the way she was looking at me, it was so scary.“Slow down with the questions, babe. How many questions do you want me to answer at once?” He chuckles, his eyes fixed on the road.“As many as you possibly can, so start talking.” I say.“Well, she’s my secretary Laura who has been in love with me way before I met you, and was always showing it.” He pauses, and I nod my head for him to continue, “She got angry at me because I brought you into the company as my P.A, a position she has apparently been eyeing, talked about how I shouldn’t trust you… A
CHAPTER 30NICHOLASHe pulls up in the company’s lot, parking his car at an empty spot. He looks over at Cassy to see her inhaling and exhaling, and he knows she’s nervous and so he reaches for her hand, and gives it a light squeeze. “You’ll be fine, I promise.” He says reassuringly, and she nods her head, calming her nerves.They both get out of the car, and together, they walk into the company. The staffs in the office greets him politely as he walks past them to the elevator leaving them wondering who Cassy is. “What if I say nonsense? Or I fall to the ground?” She asks him as soon as they her in the elevator, her panic rising.He kisses her on the lips, and she forgets all about her worries. He pulls away, “You won’t say nonsense, and you won’t fall either.”“But what if I do?” She asks, taking deep breaths of air.“If you say nonsense, then I’ll laugh it off, and if you fall, I’ll be there to catch you.” He says, and she relaxes a little.“Thank you love.” She says, regaining her
CHAPTER 29CASSANDRAI have just finished setting the dining table when Nick comes in, dressed smartly for work, with his briefcase in his hand. “Ooh! Someone’s looking good.” I compliment him, as he takes his seat at the dining table, dropping his briefcase on the floor, by his chair.“I always look good.’ He says with a proud look on his face, making me roll my eyes, as I walk into the kitchen to get glass cups for the wine since I forgot about it.“You think you’re such a hot cake, don’t ya?” I say to him, walking back with two glass cups in hands before placing them before him, pouring water into one, and wine into the other.“Of course I am. I mean, look at all this?” He says, gesturing to himself and I just have to laugh, almost spilling wine on the table.“Well, I don’t know what you’re talking about because there’s nothing remarkable about your looks.” I tease him, serving him spaghetti, before adding barbecue on top of it.“Well, I highly doubt that the million girls dying to
CHAPTER 28CASSANDRAIt’s been three months since Victoria disappeared, and the police have still found no leads on her, and sometimes I feel scared she’ll come back for me, to get her revenge since I’m the reason why she was arrested, but I’ve gotten over my fears now due to my boyfriend’s constant reassurance that he’ll make sure she gets arrested and that nothing ever happens to me. Yes! I’m talking about Nicholas, the one I was hired to kill, we’re official now.I can’t help but smile whenever I think about my past and how we both started and I don’t know if I sound crazy but I’m actually glad I met Victoria, else I wouldn’t have met my amazing boyfriend who has, since the mess with Victoria, taken care of me and loved me wholeheartedly, not caring that I had once attempted to take his life. He even moved into my father’s house because of how much I loved it, and despite the fact that his is way bigger than my dad’s own, saying that we didn’t need to live in a house that’s too big
CHAPTER 27CASSANDRA“What the hell happened to you? You are bleeding. Where did you go to? I’ve been so worried.” Nick says as soon as I am inside the house. I collapse on the couch in the living room, knowing I have lost a lot of blood but I don’t want to go to the hospital since I know it’s Victoria who is behind this and I really have to tell Nick about it.“Nick, it’s fine.” I say and smile at him. “It’s not fine Cassy, you are bleeding and you look so faint.” He says.“I’ll go to the hospital, I promise, but first, I really have something to tell you. I need to tell you.” I say, looking into his eyes with regret in my eyes.“What is it? Don’t tell me you are going to say lady night was a mistake and that you don’t love me all over again because for me last night was the best thing.” He says and I pull him down to my level, kissing his lips to shut him up.“Last night wasn’t a mistake, it will never be a mistake and I still love you, I promise.” I say, and a smile forms on his l