Chapter 91

Nicolas

I let Nikki slipped her arm in mine walking down to the limousine. When we got to the limousine, I open the door for her like I would any other women I’m dating, I need to teach my daughter to only expect the best from guys. When she got in, I went to the other side and slid into my seat. “Where are we going for dinner?” she asked. “It’s a surprise.” “Oh, I like surprises.” It was quiet the whole way, I decided to take her to Manhatta, the view was something out of a fairytale you could see the whole of Manhattan as well as the bridges. When we got there, I opened the door for her and we walked arm in arm into the restaurant. When I looked at the menu when we sat, I knew I had made a huge mistake bringing her here, but I was going to take a change and ask the waiter to make Nikki something other than what was on the menu. “Good evening what can I bring you to drink?” The waiter asked, “Soda for me dad please.” “Well, a Soda for her and a bottle of your best red wine.” “No problem I’ll be right back.” I knew I wasn’t going to be able to drink the whole bottle but yet again they don’t do wine by the glass and I made a huge mistake coming here. It might have been better if we just went to McDonalds. The waiter came back with our drinks, “Can I take your order?” “Yes, can you ask the chef to make my daughter here some deep fried hake and chips I know it’s not on the menu, but I will pay more for it.” “I’m sure he would be able to make a plan for you?” “Thank you and I’ll have the grilled Lobster with black garlic, Tokyo Turnips and Carolina Gold Rice.” “Sure.” When the waiter left, I took my glass, “Shall we make a toast?” I asked Nikki “Yes sure.” She lifted her glass “To more daddy and daughter dates.” She clicked her glass to mine and gave, a little giggle. “Yes please.” “What do you think about the view?” I asked her after a while. “It’s beautiful I wish mommy could see this.” “I’ll bring your mom here some time.” “Like in a date?” “Yes, like in a date.” It didn’t take long before our food was presented to us, the chef did a marvelous job with Nikki’s food, you wouldn’t say it was just plain hake and chips, “This looks to pretty to eat, can you take a picture for mom?” “Yes, off course.” I took my phone and took a picture of Nikki’s food, “Come let’s take a picture of you against the window then mom can see what you are seeing.” Nikki leaned closer to the window and smiled at me. That smile was going to get me in a hell of a lot of trouble, Jason was right she did have me wrapped around her little finger. I would absolutely do anything for her. I took the picture and send it to Nicol.

Nikki and I were eating when I felt someone tapping me on the shoulder when I looked around I looked into the face of Karen. “Karen what are you doing here?” I asked because wow of all the places in New York she’s at the same restaurant as me and Nikki. “I came to eat, and who is this?” she asked making her voice small like Nikki was an infant. “I’m Nikki, Nicolas daughter and who are you?” Nikki said, clearly not a fan of Karen. “I’m Karen one of your dad’s girlfriends.” Fuck no she didn’t just say that. “My fathers what?” Karen wanted to answer again when I stepped her. “Karen you better not say that again.” “What why not? It is true.” “No it’s not my mom is his girlfriend.” Karen gave the ugliest laugh I’ve ever heard. “Poor you.” She said. “Nikki just ignore her.” “But she said she’s your girlfriend.” “Sweet pea she’s not.” I got up grab Karen by the arm and told Nikki “You wait right here I’ll be back I’m just going to escort Karen here to the door.” “Okay.” She didn’t look very sure or very happy with what just happened. As we walked to the door I was still holding Karen’s arm. “You can leave me now or don’t you want to?” she sneered at me. “It must be very boring with a kid in the house?” I was not going to take the bait. When we got to the door I looked at her and said “You stay away from me, my daughter and Nicol do you hear me?” “I do but I can’t help if we are in the same restaurant.” “Then ignore me, I will really not mind.” “That is just plain rude.” “NO it’s not please ignore me when you see me because believe me I’m going to ignore you.” “Why? Didn’t we have a good time? I mean you did take me out twice.” “Yes, well clearly that was my mistake. I want to make it very clear to you we where never boyfriend, girlfriend, you where a fuck that is that, now leave us alone.” I turned around and walked back to Nikki but not before I heard her sneering behind me “It’s not the last time you will be seeing me.” I didn’t turn around I made as if I didn’t hear her. Fuck did I chose a crazy bitch? It would appear so.

When I got back to the table Nikki’s first words where “I don’t like her.” “Me neither.” I told Nikki. “Why did she say she’s your girlfriend, I mean you can’t have more than one girlfriend.” My first reaction was to say because she’s a crazy ass bitch but I knew I can’t say that. “She’s just being silly sweet pea, I promise you only your mom is my girlfriend okay?” “Okay.” Then she ate her fish and chips further. If life was that easy with grown ups, because I’m very sure if Nicol was here the conversation would have gone very differently.