On My Master’s Bed episode 20 – 21
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Nicklaus’s Addiction 🔥
Chapter 20
Written by: Racheal Dennis
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Anastasia’s pov 👠
My eyes meets the wall clock and I gro-n.. it’s 6:40pm already and Matilda is still not here.
I reach for the TV remote control and turn off the TV, the program I was watching is becoming too boring for me.
I continue eating my popcorn while staring at the blank TV screen.
Now Denzel’s operation will commence soon, my crush confessed love to me.. my dreams came true.
But why am I not feeling happy about it? Why do I feel like I wronged someone?
I hear a sound and turn towards the door, the handle move… my mind suddenly race back to the movie I was watching.
Then I hear a knock and my heart starts beating fast… Mummies!
Could it be those mummies magically came out of the TV to eat me?
“Maybe it’s just Matilda” I said on a second thought.
But that thought vanish when I heard the knock again..if it’s truly Matilda, why is she knocking?
She always bring her key along.
I drop my bowl of popcorn and get up and take slow, cautious steps towards the door.
I pick a textbook from our small end table, I stand behind the door and wait for the knock again.
There.. it comes again.
I grab the door handle and slowly open it, I hide behind the door… and wait for whomever was knocking to come in.
The person walks in, I close my eyes and lift my textbook to hit but….
“Ahhh… what are you trying to do?”
My hand freeze halfway, I open my eyes at the familiar voice.
“Tilda?”
She eyes the textbook in my hand.
“What were you trying to do with that? Murder me?!”
I sigh and throws it on a sofa randomly.
“I guess, I thought you were a burglar!” I said and walk back to my chair.
She follows me and sits on the sofa opposite mine, she looks at the book with a frown.
“And you actually think you can hurt a burglar with that?… A note book?” She asked.
I look at the textbook again and my l-ips quirks up in a smile.
“Don’t underestimate the power of a textbook!”
“Yeah!…I’m so scared” She mocks me.
I rolled my eyes.. who won’t be scared after watching mummies alone at this time.
“So…I saw your text, what’s with those sad emojis?” She asked.
I move from my sofa to hers and pulls her into a hug, she hugs me back.
“Denzel’s operation will commence soon!”
I sigh out.
“Hmm.. isn’t that a good thing? Shouldn’t you be happy?”
She pats my back and car-sses my hair.
“I should but I don’t understand why I’m not!”
There’s a brief moment of silence, Matilda clears her throat.
“How about we an-lysis what happened.. maybe then we’ll know why you aren’t happy!”
I nod. I pull away from our hug and sit upright, I push a strand of my hair behind my ear.
“Two things happened today”
“Ok, let’s talk about it..one after the other!”
I nod and begin.
“First, someone donated 12million for Denzel’s treatment!”
“Someone? Could that someone be Mr Statham?” She asked.
I shake my head.
“No, it was an anonymous donor!”
Mr Statham! Hearing his name makes me angry… he’s just a bluff that derives joy from taunting the poor.
“He didn’t donate it, he’s just a lying son of a bit*h you makes empty promises!” I said.
Matilda frowns slightly.
“If he didn’t make that donation, then who do you think did?”
“Jack!”
“Jack?!”
“Yeah!”
She stays silent and seem to be in thought, then she shakes her head.. muttering something under her breath.
“Who told you Jack made the donation?”
“He told me, but Mr Statham suddenly shows up and said, Jack’s lying.. that Jack didn’t make the donation!”
In fact my anger is increasing thinking about it.
“Ok.. what makes you think Mr Statham is lying and Jack is telling the truth?”
“Because he’s lied to me before, he said he’d pay Denzel’s bills but he didn’t.. rather he was busy blackmailing me with it!”
She takes my hand and squeeze it lightly.
“My dear Tasia, before you blindly take side.. have you thought about Jack’s and Mr Statham’s status each?”
I frown.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, Mr Statham is rich and Jack is broke.. how can Jack possibly get that amount of money to make that donation?”
She pauses to study my expression, she continues when she sees I’m not showing any reaction.
“Mr Statham is rich, 12million is nothing to him… have you thought if he’s the anonymous donor?”
What she said makes sense, but Jack’s explanation makes sense too…
“But Jack told me he took a loan from the bank… if it was Mr Statham that made the donation, he would have told me earlier!”
“Jack took loan, what can he use as a collateral?”
“His house?”
Matilda sighs and pushes my head back.
“Jack is lying! He is my cousin and I know what he’s capable of… he won’t risk taking a 12million loan when he’s got no way to pay back!”
Jack is lying? Klaus said the same thing too, if he’s lying.. then who made the donation?
It can’t be Klaus, he would have told me.
“Don’t just believe Jack blindly, he’s lying!”
“I don’t think so, I’ll ask him about it again tomorrow!” I said.
It’s not as if I don’t believe Matilda, it’s just.. I can’t seem to convince myself that Jack could actually lie to me.
“Now, let’s talk about the other thing… what happened again today?” Matilda asked.
“Jack… he confessed love to me!”
“And…?”
I reach for my bowl of popcorn and plays with it.
“I don’t know why but I wasn’t as excited as I had expected.. I.. I don’t know!”
Tilda takes the popcorn from me and stuffs her mouth, after chewing for a few minutes.. she speaks.
“Do you wanna know why you didn’t feel any excitement?”
I nod.
“It’s because maybe you don’t love Jack!”
“I don’t love Jack?”
“No! What you feel for him is not love!” She said.
I furrow my brows.
“If it’s not love then what is it?”
“Er..ah..Admiration!”
“Huh?”
She drops the popcorn back on the table and leans towards me.
“You know Jack has always being kind and gentle towards you, so in your heart he’s the perfect prince charming… ”
She coughs, I quickly hands her a glass of water.. I guess she choked on the popcorn.
I pat her back until she stops coughing.
“… you think you love him but you don’t.. you simply look up to him, you see him as a uh.. how should I put the word…”
She trails off looking for the right word to use.
“.. you see him as a mentor!”
“A mentor?”
“Yes! In your heart all guys should be as gentle and kind towards ladies.. that’s why you think you love him!”
Ok.. her explanation sounds crazy but at least it helped me a little.
“You don’t love him…”
She sighs and puts her hand on my shoulder.
“… don’t worry chica, your knight in shining armor is coming your way soon!”
I nod but frown slightly when I calculate her words.
“Knight in shining armor?! But I love prince charming!”
“Take a look at our life, babygirl, who we need is a knight in shining armor.. not a prince charming!”
She’s right, Knight in shining armor always saves the damsel in distress… and I’m also a damsel in distress.
Matilda’s stomach growls loudly and she laughs lightly.
“I’m hungry, I should go prepare dinner!” She said and get up.
“Hmm… Oh, right, I’ll be going to school tomorrow!”
She stops and turns to me.
“You’re going to school?”
I nod.
“May I know why?”
“Well, since Denzel’s bills are no longer hanging on my neck.. I have decided to complete my education!”
She jumps on me and hugs me tightly, showering k-sses all over my face.
“OMG! I can’t believe this! We’re going back to school.. we’re going back to school” she scre-ms.
She jumps up and pulls me up, turning both of us around.
“We’re going back to school, were going back to school”
I laugh. I understand her joy, when I wanted to suspend my education.. she said she’d do it with me.
I thought she was joking but she wasn’t.. she followed me.
She stops spinning around.
“You just made my day, I’m gonna cook you a great feast!” She said and rushes to the kitchen.
I slump back onto the sofa and breaths heavily, Tilda just drain my energy.. maybe I should be working out sometimes.
My phone starts ringing, I reach for it.. it’s an unknown number.
I reluctantly pick it the call.
“Hello?”
“Hi, is this Anna?” A male voice asked.
“Yeah, please who am I speaking with?” I asked back.
He laughs.
“Oh, I’m Marcus… Nicklaus’s friend, we met yesterday!”
“The guy that thought I wanted to commit suicide, right?”
He releases a laugh, I laugh too.
“Yeah, I was wondering if we can meet up tomorrow?”
I rolled my eyeballs, I know he wants to talk about Nicklaus.
Well, I didn’t give Klaus any chance to explain himself… I guess I should give Marcus a chance.
“Ok, but we can’t meet tonight.. it’s kinda late already!”
“I know, let’s meet tomorrow. I’ll send you the time and address!”
“Ok!”
“See you tomorrow then.. good night!” He said.
“Good night!” I replied and hang up.
Jack… I don’t know what I’ll do if I find out he’s lying!
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Authoress’ pov 👠
Statham enterprise… 7:10pm…
Claudia steps into Nicklaus’s office, she drops the tray of food she was carrying on the table.
She stares at Nicklaus’s sleeping form on the rocking chair, she walks towards him and stares at his face closely.
Her hand moves forward, tempting her to touch him but she stops herself.. she knows what will happen if she touches him.
*How can he be allergic to a woman’s touch?* She wonders.
Looking at his well defined face, she’s tempted to touch him.. her eyes settled on his l-ips and she smirks.
*He might be allergic to women’s touch but not my k-ss!*
She closes her eyes and leans forward, her l-ips were just few inches away from Nicklaus’s.. when Nicklaus’s eyes snaps open.
“What. The. F*CK!” He growls.
His thunderous voice sends Claudia falling on her butts.. he quickly gets up and steps away from Claudia.
Creating a very large space between them.
“Mr Statham….”
“What are you doing in my office?!”
Claudia gets up and adjust her clothes.
“I.. I.. I.. brought you dinner..”
she trail off pointing towards the tray of food laying on the table.
“.. you were drunk and…”
“Enough!” Nicklaus roars.
His eyes roams Claudia’s body, he notices she’s change her outfit.. she is in a more decent clothes now.
“Claudia, I have told you the reason I’m still keeping you here, correct?”
“Yes, Mr Statham!”
“Good, don’t push me! Your dad is gone, I won’t mind breaking my promise!”
Nicklaus picks up his jacket and head towards the door.
“Take that away from my office!” He said.
“Yes, Mr Statham”
He opens the door and step out, head towards the elevator and sees Graham rushing towards him with a bag in his hand.
“Oh, Mr Statham, you’re awake!”
“Hmm” Graham hums.
They both head towards the elevator together.. Nicklaus stares at the bag in Graham’s hand.
“Right, I thought you’d spend the night here.. so I rushed back to the mansion to get you dinner!” Graham explains.
They stop at the elevator and Graham presses the open button, the elevator doors open and they step in.
“Nina… How is she?” Nicklaus asked.
“She’s home now!”
Nicklaus nods and pushes his hair back, he rests his back against the elevator’s wall.
“She didn’t come to the mansion?” He asked.
“No, sir”
He nods.
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Statham’s Villa…
“Bill, don’t rush the food, no one’s taking it from you!” Mrs Statham said raffling Bill’s hair.
Bill shakes his head and continue shoving food down his throat.
“Mom’s gonna take my eggs!” He said.
Mrs Statham shakes her head and laughs at his words… Rhoda puts a glass of water in front of him.
“Right, Rhoda, what do you think about Claudia?” Mrs Statham asked.
Rhoda stops eating.
“Who’s Claudia?” She asked.
Mrs Statham rolls her eyes, she knows Rhoda is pretending like she doesn’t know who Claudia is…after all, Claudia has being visiting them since she’s little.
“Nicklaus’s assistant!”
“I don’t like her!” Rhoda said bluntly.
She cut a small piece of meat and puts it on Bill’s plate.
“But I think she’s a good girl, how about we help her win Nicklaus’s heart?”
Rhoda drops her spoon.
“Mom, firstly, Nicklaus is still looking for Nina and he won’t love anyone but her.. secondly, there’s more to that Claudia’s family….”
“Rhoda, you shouldn’t accuse her family like that!”
“I know mom, yeah, our families are close but I don’t trust them… they seem be have a malicious heart!”
Mrs Statham stares at her like.. how did you know?
“Mom, I can feel it in my guts!”
“But…”
“I’m done, mom!” Rhoda said and gets up.
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“Jack!” I called Jack loudly.
Everyone in the shop turns towards us, but I didn’t care.. I must do what I came here for.
He gets up and smiles at me.
I stop in front of him, raised my right hand up and lands it on his left cheek.
“Tasia…”
“Don’t say my name!” I backhanded his right cheek.
“Why….. ”
My hand land on his left cheek again…he opens his mouth to speak again but I didn’t even let a word out.
I backhanded his right cheek again.. I slapped him so hærd that I can even feel the pain in my hand.
“How dare you lie to me?!”
Chapter 21
Anastasia’s pov 👠
My eyes open as I t-rn on my bed, the reflected ray of the morning sun flashes through my eyes.. which makes me snap them shut.
I sit up and release a yawn as I rub my eyes.. I stretch my stiff limbs and combs my fingers through my hair.
My phone starts ringing and I reach for it on my bedside table… Marcus’s name flashing on the screen.
I saved his number last night.
“Hi, good morning, Marcus!” I receives the call.
“Good morning, Anna…” He said.
There’s a pause from him and I hear keys dangling, maybe he’s trying to open a door.
“Ah… I know it’s early but I just wanna check in with you.. if you saw my message?” He asked.
I quickly turn my phone and saw a message.
“Yeah! I saw it”
“Ok, please be prompt for our meeting, I have a very important client to visit later!” He said.
I nod but remembers he can’t see me.
“I will, I should go get ready!”
“Alright, bye!” He hangs up.
I keep my phone back on my bedside table, my eyes meets a photo of Jack, Matilda and I on the table.
We’re smiling, I can vividly remember the day we took this photo…
We had gone out to celebrate Matilda’s birthday, but we later turned her birthday party into a high school reunion!
I laugh as pictures of Matilda’s expression throughout that day looked like… she was so angry.
I sighed.. I just hope Jack didn’t lie to me.. I just hope he really did take loan from his bank!
Well, I’ll soon find out the truth, I better go brush my teeth first.
“Is Tasia dead in that room? Or she’s still alive?!” Matilda asked from the living room.
Or maybe dinning room, I can’t tell where exactly she is.
“She’s still alive!” I replied her.
“Then she should get her ass her let’s eat breakfast!”
I smile and hop off my bed.
“Give me a sec!” I said and headed towards my bathroom.
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“Matilda, you really outdone yourself this time!”
I compliment her while drinking the soup she made, she smiles proudly.
“Of course, I’m gonna be the number one chef in LA after I graduate!” She said c*ckily.
“For a young undergraduate who haven’t even started her business yet.. you’re being remarkably c*cky!”
She fl¡ps her hair and wipes the corner of her lip gently.. she sits properly.. in a more graceful manner.
“Yeah, I’m quite confident in my skills!”
I nod, she’s right..her cooking skills are second to none.
My eyes move towards the window, it’s dark outside, the sky is so cloudy… I hate month of July.
“Don’t forget to take your umbrella with you… looks like it’s gonna rain!” Tilda said.
“Eish! I was thinking it’s gonna be a sunny day today.. but nature has a mind of its own!”
Damn me for not checking the weather today. Matilda nods, she puts a bread on my plate.
“I don’t need bread”
“Tell that to your ski-ny body!” She said.
I wanted to argue but my phone beeps, I checks it and sees a message from Marcus.
*Are you coming now?*
Dropping my spoon, I pick my bag and phone.. I get up.
“Tilda, I should go, Marc is waiting for me!”
She frowns slightly.
“Who’s Marc?”
“Mr Statham’s friend!”
“Oh!”
I rushes to the door and grab the handle, but before I could open it and step out.. Matilda stops me.
She gets up and rushes towards my room, she didn’t spend 2 minutes in,side before she comes back.. with my umbrella in her hand.
“Here, it might rain!”
“Thanks!”
She simply hums and goes back to her food.
I open the door and step out, just as I took a step.. I felt something w-t drop on my face
Before I knew, it’s started raining.. I quickly open my umbrella and continue my journey.
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Finally, I arrived at our meeting place… Angel’s cafe.
I rushed in,side to take shelter from the rain, I looked down at myself and realized I’m partially soaked.
Although, I have an umbrella, but it was too small to defeat the might rain.
My eyes scan the place until they land on Marcus, he’s sipping his coffee while looking outside.
I take quick step towards him, I pull out a chair and sit down.. he turns his gaze away from the window.
“Anna, you’re here!” He said.
“Yeah…” I trail off and calls for a waiter.
The waiter came and I ordered a cup of hot chocolate.. he nods and leaves.
“Sorry that I called you out so early in the morning!” He apologised.
“It’s fine, I’m a jobless human anyway!” I said.
He laughs at my statement and shakes his head, sipping his coffee.
“Well, I called you because…”
He cuts himself off when he sees the waiter coming back with my chocolate.
“Thank you!” I said to the waiter.
“You’re welcome, please enjoy!” He replied and left.
I quickly take a few gulps.
“So… Nicklaus told me what happened between you two!” Marcus said.
I nod, I already know he wants to talk to me about my fight with Nicklaus.
“Anna, you were a little too harsh on Nicky, you hurt him so deeply!”
I scoff.
“There’s nothing on earth that can hurt him, he look like he’s invincible!”
“Yeah, nothing can hurt him but you…do you know what it feels like for someone to take your good for granted?”
I frown, what is he talking about?
I agreed that I was a little harsh on him…but why is Marcus talking as if Klaus done something for me and I should be thankful to him?
“Well, the truth is Nicklaus.. he is the anonymous donor!”
My eyes grows wide as I spill my chocolate all over the place, surprised written on my face.
“He’s the anonymous donor?!” I yelled, drawing attention to our table.
Marcus utter small sorries to them and they turn back to their various tables.
“Bring your voice down, Anna”
“Why didn’t he tell me earlier?” I asked.
“Well, you didn’t let him explain himself.. Nicky doesn’t go back on his words, he promised to help you and he did…”
Right, I didn’t let him speak, I didn’t listened to him yesterday because I was angry.
So he’s the donor?! Oh my God! Oh my God this is bad! I just dug my own grave!
What if he angrily withdraw his donation?! Foolish Anastasia!
“… he initially paid 9million, but he realized that money won’t be enough.. so he asked Graham to 3million and told the doctor to tell you and your aunt it was donated by an anonymous!”
My mind flashes back to yesterday when he was telling me that Jack’s lying… He wanted to explain but I didn’t let him.
Matilda is right, Jack lied to me.. how could he?!
“Don’t you think you owe Nicky an apology?” Marcus asked.
I nod.
“Yes, I do owe him an apology but I don’t know if he’s gonna forgive me!”
“Why do you say that?!”
I pick my chocolate and gulps down the little remaining in,side… Marcus is looking at me waiting for my response.
“I.. I.. said some very unkind words to him.. and.. he left angrily.. ” I trail off.
The image of him glaring at me before he walked away flash in my mind and I shudder.
“… It’s over for me!”
Marcus studies my expression and laughs.
“He’s not gonna stay mad at you for too long, just go to his office and give him a cute puppy eyes.. he’ll let you off the hook!”
“How sure are you?”
“100 percent sure, because he’s madly…. ”
I bang on our table gently, cutting him off.
“I’ll apologise to him, but first, I have something to deal with!”
I got up and grabbed my bag, then I head out.
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I angrily walked into Jack’s shop.
With anger curled hot and unstoppable in my gut, like a blazing inferno that wanted to burn me from the in,side out.
“Jack!” I called Jack loudly.
Everyone in the shop turns towards us, but I didn’t care.. I must do what I came here for.
He gets up and smiles at me, expecting me to smile back but I didn’t…I kept my straight face.
I stop in front of him, raised my right hand up and lands it on his left cheek.
“Tasia…”
“Don’t say my name!” I backhanded his right cheek.
“Why….. ”
My hand land on his left cheek again…he opens his mouth to speak again but I didn’t even let a word out.
I backhanded his right cheek again.. I slapped him so hærd that I can even feel the pain in my hand.
“How dare you lie to me?!”
He rubs his cheeks gently, he reaches his hand forward to touch me but I step back.
He clears his throat.
“I’m.. I’m sorry, Tasia.. I just wanted you to.. I didn’t want someone else…” He trails off.
“You can’t speak?” I asked angrily.
“I just wanted you to accept me, I love you and I’m scared you’d leave with whoever donated the money!”
“What?!”
I stare at him with an angry frown, my hand controlled itself and lands on Jack’s cheek again.
“How dare you?!”
“Tasia…”
“Shut up!” I cut him off. “I was a fool for even thinking I loved you!”
He shakes his head and takes a step forward, I glare at him and he stopped.
“So… in your heart, I’m a gold digger? Huh? All these years you’ve always seen me as someone who’s after wealth?!”
He keeps staring at me wordlessly, shaking his head.
“I have never seen you as a gold digger.. I have never even thought of it…”
“Listen, I might be poor but I’m not a gold digger.. what do you think you’d benefit from lying about something as big as this?”
I paused..I study his expression, he look so remorseful, but I didn’t mind his remorseful face.
I mean, because of his lie I have offended my helper.
“Even if I don’t love you, do you think you can make me love you by lying?”
“I made a mistake… ”
“You didn’t just make any mistake.. it’s a silly mistake! How can you stoop so low as to lie about something as big as this right in my face!”
“I did because I love and I didn’t wanna lose you”
I scoff unbelievably.
“Jack, you don’t love me… ”
“I do, I really do love you!’” he cuts me off.
I glare at him.
“If you love me, you wouldn’t lie to me.. because love don’t lie!”
“I’m sorry…. ”
I cut him off by raising my hand, I close my eyes and inhale deeply.
“Jack, we go way back, so I can’t make you my enemy… but don’t show your face in front of me ever again!”
“Tasia, I’m….”
I didn’t wait for him to speak, I turn around and walked out of his shop.
I board the first taxi I saw and head straight to Statham enterprise.
Time to apologise to Klaus, I only hope he’ll forgive me and not withdraw his donation!
To be continued.