Chapter 103
Nicolas
I walked to Nikki’s room where I found Nicol and Nikki sitting on the bed looking through the photo’s we took. Nikki grabs the phone from Nicol and ran to me “Dad dad, mom said we can print this photo and put it in a frame next to my bed.” “Oh, that’s very nice sweet pea I love it.” “Me to.” It was the same photo I chose for my office. But I’ll keep that as a surprise. “You wanne come and meet your new bodyguard.” “Yes please.” She walked out of her room with Nicol walking to me “Are you sure she needs this?” “Yes, angel you know she do.” It was the first time I called her angel outside the bedroom and it felt good the only problem is it will become confusing with her calling Nikki angel. But I’ll find another name for her sooner or later. When we entered the office Nikki walked straight up to Rika, “Hi I’m Nikki.” “Hi Nikki please to meet you. I’m Rika.” Nikki was almost the same length as Rika. “Rika this is Nikki’s mother Nicol.” Nicol walked to her and shook her hand, “Nice to meet you Rika.” “Same Nicol.” “Well then Nikki you want to tell me more about yourself.” Clearly Nikki wasn’t a shy person because she immediately started talking, “Well I’m almost 12 years old; I love ballet ……” I took Nicol’s hand and moved slowly out of the room, leaving Rika and Nikki alone.
“Why did we leave?” Nicol asked as we walked to the living room. “Let the two of them get to know each other, I mean they are going to spend a hell of a lot of time together.” “Okay, but you think she’s up for the job? I know it’s not mobsters that’s after Nikki but still?” “She’s most definitely up for it Nicol, she is a champion at Muay Thai, sounds like a drink to me, Karate, she is an MMA fighter and she does box to relax. She’s definitely qualified besides her size help actually she will blend in and not stand out like a 6 ft man would have.” “That is true.” We went to sit in the living room, “Can I pour you something to drink?” “Whatever you having is fine.” I poured us each a glass of scotch and went to sit with her. “I want to make a toast.” “Okay.” She said skeptically. “To our first real family outing.” “I can cheer to that.” “And to many more.” I said as I held my glass up. “To many more.”
Nicol
I wanted to talk to Nicolas about my plans or should I say the lack of plans I don’t want him to think that he gave me all that money, yes it was ‘child support for the past few years’ but he said I should use it for the ballet school and now I’m not doing anything with it, but how do I tell him that my plans have changed or the lack of plans? Probable the same as anything else rip the band aid. “Nicolas.” “Yes Nicol?” He said with a huge smile. “We need to talk.” “Oh, that’s never good if a woman tells you ‘We need to talk.’” “No, it’s nothing serious.” “Then what is it?” “It’s the ballet school.” “Okay what about it?” “I don’t think I want to do that anymore.” I looked down because I felt like I was disappointing him and myself. “Sweetheart why are you looking down?” He called me sweetheart, oh wow. “Because it feels like I’m disappointing you.” “Sweetheart look at me.” I slowly lift my face to look at him. “You are not disappointing me; you can do whatever you want to do.” “But you said I should use that money you gave to open a ballet / dance school.” “Nicol you can do with that money what you want, I just thought you wanted to do that and I wanted to give you the opportunity to do it.” “I think my dreams have changed.” “Okay what are you thinking?” Oh, wow do I really go into this now? “You really wanna know?” “Off course I do.” “Don’t think I’m not ambitious anymore because I am but I’ve lost so much time with Nikki because I worked so hard, I want to spend time with her after school.” “Okay so what is the problem with that?” “I want to be a stay-at-home mom and when we have more children, I want to give them the attention I could never give Nikki.” Nicolas surprised me he got up and took my hand pulling me to stand as well. “Nicol, I love that idea.” He touched my face and then he kissed me he devoured me giving me a taste of what is to come later tonight. When he pulled away, I asked him “You that happy with my new plans.” “More than you can ever imagine, firstly I will have time with you and we can see each other any time of day, which is a win for me.” “You work of have you forgotten?” “No, I haven’t forgotten but I’m my own boss or have you forgotten?” He asked me “No I’m aware.” “Secondly I think Nikki would be so happy to have her mom home when she gets here and thirdly you said when we have more children.” “You so desperate for more?” “Oh, believe me Nicol I would love to have a lot more children with you, in fact what do you think about stopping your birth control?” “Don’t you think we should do it the right way this time and first get married?” “My father is gone Nicol nothing is stopping us from starting right now.” I couldn’t believe my ears was he serious, stop birth control and start trying for a baby, but what message would that send Nikki, but then on the other hand I had her while I was at Uni so this this is a whole other story. “So, what do you think?”