Niccolo Knights

We are currently having lunch in one of the private rooms of McAfee Hotel and by we, I meant Anthony, Olivia, and I. Anthony seated beside me while Olivia was seated in front of me. The expression of the two were opposite, Tony was smiling ear to ear and Olivia was playing her food by her fork. Does she not like her food? Or was she not hungry?

Suddenly, we heard Tony coughed nonstop. Olivia and I asked him at the same time.

"Tony, are you ok?" I asked

"Dad, are you ok?" Olivia asked concerned and handed him her glass of water.

I looked at her quite shocked to hear and see her concerned at the same time she called Tony dad. This was the second time I heard her call him dad, not old man. Then I heard Tony said in quiet voice.

"Yup, wrong pipe. I'm fine, dont mind me." he assured us after drinking water.

"Can you stop smiling for a second and eat your food properly?" Olivia reprimanded her dad and returned to playing her food.

Tony just laughed and told us that he was just happy to see us together. He told us that we did a good job even if we didn't follow the story and that we looked good together.

I heard Olivia scoffed and I looked at her again. She sure is fast to switch her attitude, but nevertheless, she is still good looking even now that she's just playing her food.

A while ago, when I saw her entered the room, my breath got knocked out because of how breathtaking she was. She was  wearing a white dress and a light makeup on. I saw her how she exchanged pleasantries with Lorna and it was very different as to how she treated other people. Maybe she's not in a bad mood today, if I do say so myself. Then I felt my phone vibrated and took it out to check my emails. As Tony left us two alone in the penthouse, we bickered immediately and I gotten so tired of fighting with her that's why I took my phone out again to ignore her tantrums. It's too early for me to handle that kind of attitude and I didn't like to start my week off fighting her. However, the feisty heiress really don't know how to recognize frustration and dared to snatched my phone from me. When I made sure that I won't be getting my phone back from her, I leaned towards her until our faces were only inches apart.

In that amount of time, I realized that she was more beautiful this close and was tempted to kiss her. But I scolded myself because if I lose myself and kissed her, it would mean that I sexually assaulted her, and I don't want that, but I admit, I was so satisfied to see her somewhat distraught reaction. As I was about to look at my phone again, I felt a pillow was thrown at me. This woman was really violent.

Then, she asked me about my reasons on why I agreed on marrying her. I told her 3/4 of my reason and she stared at me searching for any lies in my eyes. What I said was true, I owe everything to Anthony North.

At the press conference, I was actually the one who answered almost all the questions. It's hard actually when my attention was divided because all I can think about is Olivia's hands holding mine. On the latter part of the interview, she was asked about my son, my most feared question because I didn't know what will I react if she bad mouthed about my son, but thankfully and surprisingly, she spoke about my son in a good way. As per her making out with Cameron, I was actually mad about the reporter because he dared to open that subject.

When the reporters asked us to pose for pictures, we complied and I admit that Olivia was quit natural in front of the camera. That's when I lost my control and kissed her cheek.

I should've known better that she will retaliate secretly. What she did was she pinched hard the soft skin on my arm near the armpit and it hurts so bad. This woman sure really hits me a lot.

I smiled a little at the memory and looked at her again. She looked up at me from her food and glared at me, with that I resumed to finish my food.

The silence was broken when Tony's phone rang. He excused himself and went out to take the call.

"You shouldn't have done it." Olivia said flatly.

I looked up at her and saw her looking at me while leaning on the chair with her hands folded across her chest. She saw the confuse look on my face and clarified what she's pertaining to.

"The kiss. You crossed the line." she stated flatly.

"It was just on the cheek, Olivia. Don't make a big deal out of it. We're acting remember?" I replied a bit agitated because it was just on the cheeks.

"Yes, we were acting Niccolo, that's why I engaged myself in skinship with you. I hugged you, held your hands, and put my arms around you. Were it not enough to make them believe that we're together?" she bursted and slammed her right hand on the table. The force of her hand made the cutlery bounce a little on the table. Her attitude's starting to get on my nerves. I closed my eyes, took a long deep breath and composed myself. When I opened my eyes, she was still looking at me angrily.

I sighed and I chanted the mantra I always tell myself when Dylan's being difficult.

Patience. Keep calm. Patience. Patience. Keep calm, Nick.

"So you're a mute now huh? What? You don't have an explanation as to why you did that to me?" she spat. This girl really knows how to provoke a person.

I bit my lower lip to contain my anger but the feisty heiress in front of me really don't know how to shut up.

"What now, huh? Are you deaf? I asked you for an explanation, Nicco..."

I slammed my fist on the table and that made her shut up. She looked at me shocked because I bet she didn't expect this.

"You utter another word, Livy and I will kiss you senselessly right here, right now. I don't fucking care if someone or your father sees us but if that is the only way to shut you up, then I would gladly do that. Now, you listen to me. I only did that because I had to not because I wanted to. If you're thinking that I kissed you because I've been dying to do so then you're wrong. I told you before and I will tell it to you again, get off your high horse, because not everyone worships you, especially me." I said angrily. She was dumbfounded to say the least but I think I put her into place. I admit I was lying to say that I kissed her because I had to but she gave me no choice, she made a big deal out of it. It was just a peck on the cheeks nothing more, nothing less.

On the way to the hotel lobby, I bumped into Tony and he asked why I was going already. I lied and told him that I suddenly had an emergency meeting, he smiled and hugged me briefly while thanking me for showing up today. I nodded at him and went to the hotel's receiving area to ask the valet to get my car.

When I got to my office, I asked my secretary to get me a cup of coffee. She complied immediately because I think she saw the not so subtle irritation on my face which was caused by someone. I walked inside my room and slumped myself on my chair. I leaned my back on it and shut my eyes to recompose myself. I told myself to calm down so I won't transfer my bad mood to my employees.

As I was in the midst of my self peptalk, my phone notified me that I have a message. I saw mom's name as the sender and clicked it, she sent me a video of Dylan eating scones messily all by himself. I chuckled because my son took "grown up" seriously. In the middle of the video, he spoke and said, "Gwandma, can I take home some of these to give to daddy?" My mom replied "Of course, sweetie, we'll give some to daddy, can you say 'I love you, daddy' so he can see this video?" Dylan nodded, he looked at the camera and said I love you to me while he put his two hands on his head to gesture a big heart and made a kissy face then the video ended. 

Maybe Theresa, my sister, was the one who taught him that heart gesture.

I chuckled and started to work.

The next day, I was extra early in my office and feeling refreshed and recharged, also, Dylan will be coming home today. He spent the whole week to my parent's house. Every month, Dylan would spend a week at my parents in the south of the city to bond with them, and to play with his cousins. From here, the city center, it would only take you a two hour drive to get to our parents house.

I was engrossed on my work when Alex bursted in to my room.

"Are you serious? You're dating Olivia fucking North?!" I flinched when he cursed.

"Hello to you too, Alexander. It's been a while." I greeted him. He walked towards me and sat on one of the chairs in front of me.

"Cut the bullshit, Nick. You're dating Olivia North?" he asked in irritation. He really was adamant to know the truth. I think a little beating around the bush won't kill him. I mentally smirked.

"I've told you before to watch your language whenever you're here, Alex. What if Dylan's here?" I reprimanded, focusing my eyes on the screen in front of me.

"I always asked Didith if Dylan's here before I come in. Now quit fucking me and tell me if you really are dating the North's heiress." he asked curiously yet annoyingly.

"I suppose you heard it from the news?" I inquired.

"Niccolo, answer me for God's sake." he slammed his palm on my desk.

"Yes, I'm dating her." I affirmed to him and saw the widening of his eyes.

"What the hell. And you didn't even tell me? And I have to know about it from news? It says in that you've been dating for 7 months now. 7 months Nick, you could at least hinted me about it. Geez man, I thought I am your best friend." he said dramatically. I chuckled at him and spoke, "She wanted it to be a secret ok. We were trying to see where our relationship headed until she was photographed making out with that actor." I lied. I couldn't afford to tell him about our real situation because I promised Tony to keep it a secret.

"And you were ok with that? Her making out with someone?" he asked. I sighed and thought why do I have a chatterbox of a friend?

"Of course not. We broke up that time ok. What matters is that we're back together. Now quit making a big deal out of it and stop asking me about my relationship with Livy, I need to finish this." I actually used her nickname to add a little romantic feel to it.

"Seriously Nick, this is a big deal. You're dating Olivia North. The infamous arrogant, spoiled, and bad mannered heiress." he stated. I frowned and looked at him.

"She's actually not. She may be known as one but she really wasn't." For the third time, I lied to him again. In the short time I've known Olivia, I've never seen her being sincerely good.

"How did you manage to date her anyway?" he asked whithout knowing he interrupted my thoughts.

To be honest, I ran out of lies to tell him. Thankfully, Didith informed me that a client was on the line asking to talk to me.

I looked at Alex and he understood that he needs to go. He looked at me and bid his good bye after he patted my shoulder.

I finished the call and closed my eyes to rest a little bit. I heard a knock on the door and as I opened my eyes, I saw my favorite son entering my office with my mom.