Niccolo Knights

I couldn't sleep the night of Tessa's birthday for my conscience was bugging me when I sided with Rebecca instead of her, that's why I made up my mind to go to her place and apologize for shouting and not letting herself explain.

Mom and Tessa were mad at me for what I did to Olivia, even Dad actually. The day I was going to apologize to her, I received a mail. When I looked into its content, my blood boiled and I swear I wanted to kill somebody.

In there I saw a note that says:
Olivia North and Adolph Vogel.

Enclosed in the envelope thereafter was pictures of her and a man I assume was Adolph. There were pictures of them hugging affectionately with each other, Adolph giving Oliva a kiss on the forehead, him entering her apartment building, and them having lunch at a restaurant --- near from what I can see in the background is the Cathedral of Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany.

I studied the last photo of them and saw the necklace I gave to Olivia hanging around her neck. That means this photo was taken pretty recently and it's when she went to Germany.

Was that why she was extremely cheerful and happy when she told me she's going to Germany? Was it because she'll be seeing and spending time with him?

Then it dawned on me, that was why the news about her cheating on me with a German won't die down even if I put a lot of effort extinguishing it. Suddenly I remember what Cassandra told me, that some news about Olivia was true, that she's only acting and playing victim.

I was fuming when I went out of Olivia's apartment and I didn't care if I would break her door.

I came here to confront her about the pictures taken of her with the fucking Adolph guy. When I went inside her apartment, I didn't waste any second and I poured the pent up anger I kept inside me since the night I was going to confess my love to her.

What irked me was that she did not even explained herself, she just stood there looking at me dead in the eye. I couldn't read what's going on in her mind because she gave me the fucking heiress look. The one I hated the most, the one she used to sport on when I first saw and met her.

I guess I really made a fool out of myself. I shouldn't have assumed that she's also into me. I commend her for being a good actress for making me and Dylan believe that she cares for us.

Dylan. How can I tell and explain to him everything, that he'll never call her his mom again. Damn it, I should've listened to Alex when he warned me about it. Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

A few weeks has already passed and I am still beyond furious but I am also missing her. I miss her kisses, her touches, her hugs, her jolliness, her occasionally hits whenever she's laughing out loud or when I tease, and the list goes on.

Whenever my phone rings, I looked at it immediately to see if it was Olivia checking up on me just like what she did over the past weeks I had gone unreachable but turned out it wasn't her.

I told myself that I am willing to start over with her if she will come to me or even just in a call to explain to me everything but she never did. I've already accepted the fact that she doesn't like me, and I am willing to swallow my pride just to be with here again.

But I think she already saw this as her opportunity to run away from our marriage deal. I should've known that what we had was too good to be true.

I was out of my reverie when my door was forcefully opened and saw the very furious Zachary North. Didith tried to stop him but it was futile. Then as if everything's turned into slo-mo, I saw his fist flew in front of me and hit my jaw, then another he gave me another punch and made me face him by holding both of my collar.

"You fucking bastard! I told you to never fucking hurt my sister in any way. You fucking asshole!" He made me stand from my chair and he punched me on the gut. I held my stomach and coughed but before I can compose myself, he held me again in my collar.

I can see it in his eyes that he's furious. Fuck everything, how can he be curious when I should be the one furious because his fucking sister hurt me. Then I removed his hands from me harshly and I pushed him forcefully and I spoke.

"Don't you fucking lay your hand on me again Zac or else I will forget that you are my friend." I warned him darkly.

"The day you hurt my sister was the day this fucking friendship ends! How dare you humiliate her in front of so many people? And how dare you let that fucking woman hurt my sister and believing her instead of Olivia? You asshole, you told me that you love her, that you will protect her from everyone that's going to hurt her and yet you hurt her!" He shouted and went in front of me holding both of my collar again.

I scoffed and replied at him.

"You're sister was the one who hurt me, Zac. She's fucking cheating on me. She's seeing that German behind my back. Now answer me, did you send her to Germany for a business meeting last month?" He didn't move but I can sense that he's thinking and I continued.

"You didn't, right? It's because she spent two days with that Adolph Vogel!" It's my turn to shout and I removed his hands on me.

"Do you know how it fucking hurts? It's like someone took my heart and sliced it in a million pieces and gave it back to me for me to fix it. That's how it fucking feels like. I confronted her about it and she didn't even try to defend or even explain herself, Zac!" I stated and slumped on my chair.

I put my head in my palms and coaxed myself to not cry.

I was busy calming myself when I heard him spoke again.

"But you shouldn't have humiliated her and you should fucking investigate first." With that, he walked away from my office leaving me in this state.

That night I went to the place I was at every night since this shit happened to a bar and drank away all of the pain. Jose, the middle aged bartender instantly knew what he would give me when he saw me walked straight up to the island.

"Tonight's different, who gave you those bruises?" He asked me as soon as he served me the whiskey and I just scoffed.

"The brother." I downed the hot liquid in one shot and I enjoyed the hot feeling when it traveled down my throat.

"He fucking ended our friendship. He told me I hurt his sister when in reality his fucking sister was the one who hurt me. He cheated on me. He fucking cheated on me!" I put the crystal whiskey glass with a thud and asked for a refill. He just sighed and hesitantly poured the golden liquid.

"You know, from what you've told me, it seems that you assumed everythi--"

"I knew what I heard and what I saw, Jose." I raised my voice at him and glared.

"Yes but you never asked her. You did not confirm that---"

"Her fucking face says it all! She didn't explain herself she just looked at me with that fucking look of dejection." I angrily said.

"You know silence does not usually mean agreement. Sometimes, people used it as they're defense mechanism to not show the people that they're hurting inside. They opt to not speak what's on their mind when they knew that whatever they say or explain won't help the situation." He said and I laughed.

"Well, Olivia's not fucking like that. She always make it a point to voice out what she's feeling and she won't fucking care if it hurts the person." I countered him and took the bottle of whiskey at him and drank from it.

He just sighed and left me to serve another customers.

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I woke up from glare of the sun. I held my head and groaned when I felt the excruciating headache I have from drinking last night.

Upon remembering where I was last night, I opened my eyes and looked around me and I immediately realized that I was not in my room.

Where am I? Why is this room looks so familiar to me? I thought to myself. I looked at my body to see if I was wearing anything and thankfully I was still in my yesterday's clothes.

Then the door opened and I saw Alex entered the room. I see, I was in his apartment that's why this room looks so familiar.

"It's about time for you to wake up, asshole." He spoke without any traces of playfulness in it. I looked at him and rolled my eyes.

"Whatever, I going home." I stood up but he pushed me to sit on the bed.

"You're not going home until you tell me what happened, Nick. You were so fucking drunk last night that the bartender called me to pick you up. I thought you were kidnapped, man. Turned out that you told him to call me. Anyway, thankfully you were not intoxicated. The bartender also told me that you're his frequent customer for weeks now. Now tell me what happened to you?" He asked angrily.

"You know, you talk too much. I have a hangover so please shush." I stood up and was about to exit his room when he turned me around and punched me squarely at my jaw.

What the fuck!? Why does everyone get the hang of hitting me? Was there a hit me sign written on my face? Fuck! It hurts.

"What the fucking hell?" I glares at him and he spoke.

"Tell me what happened to you, Niccolo! You're acting differently. Is this about a ruined contract? Or did you not get the Gupta deal? Or is this something to do with Olivia? Ugh for God sakes Nick, speak!"

"Do you want to know what happened? Olivia cheated on me. That fucking news was true. She was only acting that she likes me because of the deal! She toyed me and used me to gain everything her Dad took away from her! That's what fucking happened to me, Alex! Are you happy now?" I shouted at him and saw his very shocked face.

He blinked repeatedly and took a deep breathe.

"What deal?" He asked. I sighed.

I guess I'll have to tell him everything.
I took a sit on the bed and started telling everything to him, from when  Tony asked me to marry her, to meeting her in his office, the dinner in the manor, the press conference, the day she went to my office and saw Dylan, and up until what happened last month.

After I finished telling him my ordeal with Olivia, he was speechless but he regained himself immediately.

"I actually know about the deal with Tony, Nick." It's my turn now to be shocked. I furrowed my brows at him and waited for him to speak.

"Olivia told me. She told me when I talked to her in the night of Mr. Sherate's party. She was getting tipsy that moment and it slipped in her tongue telling me that she's actually thankful that her dad made her agree to your marriage deal. Then when she realized that she spilled your secret, she tried to runaway but I didn't let her. I forced her to tell me what the fuck was the deal she was talking about and she said it to me not before she made me promise to not tell you about it" He paused when he saw the shocked look in my face.

But he still continued.

"She told me that she's happy that you're the one she's going to marry. That she's lucky to have you and Dylan in her life. You know Niccolo, when she was telling it to me, I saw it in her eyes that she's in love with you." I deepened my frown and scoffed when I heard it but he raised his finger to shush me for him to continue.

"Her actions says it all, Nick. The way she looks at you, the way her eyes sparkle whenever someone's mentioning your name, the excitement in her eyes whenever you touched and kissed her. No one can miss that, Nick." He sighed.

"She even asked me if there's something you really wished to buy in your birthday and she will buy it to you as a gift and I told her that you've been dreaming to buy the limited edition Lamborghini Sian FKP37 when you heard the news about its production. And that was 5 months ago, Nick. She told me that she will buy you one but I told her that reservations for that were already closed but she said to me that she will do everything to give you one."

I didn't think that I would want to hear anymore from Alex because I know that she was only acting in front of him that she likes me because Alex already knew about the deal.

"Enough! I don't want to hear anything about her, she was only acting so that Anthony wi--"

"You listen to me asshole, I know you're fucking hurt but you're the one who did this. You hurt yourself and her because of your foolishness. You let your ego dictate you. Before you acted out, you should've man up and talked to her about what you heard!"

"Or you should've fucking stayed and listened to what they were talking about if you're so afraid to confront her. Niccolo, you only heard a part of it and yet you already concluded the worse! As for confronting her about her alleged cheating, you made her feel that whatever she will say you wont accept it. You didn't give her the benefit of the doubt, Nick. You assumed the worse of her! Right?"

"You of all people knew that she was being bullied by the media. They tell lies about her to gain profit. Now this Adolph, did you ask her what's her relationship with him? Did you bother to ask if he's just a friend? Or if he's a cousin? You did not because you let the news get to you. You let Cassandra's words control you. Man, you know very well that kind of woman, she will do everything to ruin someone's life!"

"Did you even tracked who mailed you those pictures? Have you even thought of how did it mailed to your parent's house instead of your house?! Did you even think about tracking it? No! Because you're so blinded by the things you've heard. You know how Olivia is, she won't force herself to someone who will not believe her. And you became that someone." Alex took a deep breathe after he pointed out what I mislook upon.

He was right, I was blinded by my anger, jealousy, self-pity, and insecurity to hear Olivia out. I jumped into conclusion without listening to her side and I chose to act impulsively.

I stood up and went to the door ignoring Alex's calls. I went out of his apartment and promised to myself that I will get to the bottom of this.

I immediately called Domenik when I got inside my car and barked some orders at him. I then went straight to my house.

When I arrived at my house, I gave my keys to Jenko to take care of my car. As I went inside, Maria informed me about the visitor in the house and that he's waiting at the drawing room.

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