Chapter Eighteen : Have You Slept With My Dad? (1/2)
Maya's POV
I was startled awake by a huge bang on my door. I groaned, dragging myself off the bed to answer whoever was trying to drag my door down.
”what the f*ck! ” I swore when the door missed my face with barely a few inches had it not being my quick reflexes
Amanda stared at me with flushed cheeks and apprehension ”s-she's go-gone ” She stuttered pointing at a door.
I raised a brow at her attitude ”whoah slow down, who's gone? ”
Amanda took a deep breath, this time her words making sense ”The lady of the house is gone” She announced and once my brain figured out everything, I froze and felt a terrible chill travel down my spine.
Oh no
I ran like crazy down the stairs leading to Izzy's room and yanked the door open where I was treated to an empty bed. Her bed was laid neatly as if nobody slept in it at all and I felt my heart crumble into pieces. What have she gotten herself into this time?
”what about the security cameras? ”I asked once I noticed Amanda beside me.
”No clues, she avoided all of the cameras perfectly ”
Great! How did I forget I had such a great genius under my care?
Something made sense at once and I turned to ask Amanda ” Yesterday, did Izzy ask you any unusual question or was she behaving strangly?I know you've not being around her enough to study her behavior but was she behaving weird? Like out of this world? ”
Amanda nodded negativity but stopped midway entering thinking mode. After a while of intense concentration she exclaimed ”Yes! You are quite right”
”What do you remember?”
”Yesterday I thought it quite strange when she kept bugging me about showing her around the house. I mean normally, one would be stressed out from such long journey and demand sleep but unlike her, she kept pestering me about the house, how the cameras work and how difficult it was to get in and out the house..... Now I think about it, I'm quite naive, how could I not figure out her plan? ”
I rubbed my hands on my temple where a vein was throbbing painfully ”Don't beat yourself too hard It's not your fault , it's not like you knew she was going to try such thing ”
Neither could I believe I just lost a kid not even an adult , on the second day of my job as a nanny. Could this get any worst?
Almost immediately, as if I jinxed my luck , my phone rang at once and I looked at the caller I. D and froze
Nik!
My heart beat so hard that I thought it would jump out of my chest pretty soon while my palms began to shake and sweat .I nervously picked up the phone and prayed to God to Help me survive this.
”H-hello”
”Hello” A deep husky voice hollered and I almost died from fright. I clutched my chest as if trying to steady the heart that have being pumping non stop
”Hey,whats up? ”I called trying to sound normal but God knows I'm trying to grab the concept of normal at the moment .
”Fine, everything's fine” he answered, a bit absentminded if I may say
”Why did you call?” I asked hoping nothing but for this conversation to be over cause I'm about having a panic attack
”How is Isabelle? ” Nik asked out of nowhere and I choked on my saliva entering a coughing fit at once
”Hey, you OK? ”The voice from the other end asked concerned but my muffled answer saved the day
”Choked on my drink”
”oh”
”Izzy's fine, why do you suddenly ask about her? ”
”Don't I have the right to ask about my daughter? ”
Maya: ^...^
”Don't I? ”
”oh... N-n... Yes.. You do but it's just strange you asked out of nowhere ”came my pathetic excuse
”Well, I just saw a kid who looked almost like her being hurled into a police car and I suddenly thought about her, you know, to check up on her. You do know how self destructive Isabelle can .....”
”what?! ” I shrieked when my brain connected the dots. It surely wasn't a coincidence that Izzy goes missing and then a girl her age who looks like her gets hurled into a police car. If anything, it sounded a whole lot like her. In conclusion, I'm deadmeat
”Hey, you OK? ”
”ye-yeah... Great.... Well.... Never being so good ” I said giving out a fake and nervous chuckle ”I'm absolutely good, why do you ask ?”
”In case you haven't noticed, you've been babbling for a while which is something you do when you're nervous or scared .so what's wrong? ”
I began to perspire, he's getting suspicious .If he finds out I'm dead
”No, I'm just under the weather ...you know... Change of environment and all ”
I muttered while my mind scolded me about how flabby my lies were becoming .Nik was smart, so one wrong comment and move, I'm over and then my name would enter the world genius record of being the first multi-million paid nanny to be fired after two days of service. How cool
”Fine, If you're OK then hand the phone over to Isabelle. I need to speak to her”
I almost spat blood at his request, Amanda must have figured out the situation cause she was about questioning who was on the phone but I signalled her to speak no more and she obeyed ,thankfully .
”I'm afraid she's down as well, she've being sleeping since yesterday like a log of wood and won't stir even after I tried waking her up. She's so stressed out ”I said yawning loudly putting my acting skills into action. There was no way Nik was going to doubt me after such a display.
”Fine then, tell her to be up in two hours cause I'll be back to speak with her”
He said and hung up but I discovered a hint of mock in his tone making me shiver. Could he have discovered that Izzy was missing? I mean he owes this mansion, there was practically a high possibility someone must have given the news away. Well whatever the case was, I need to find Izzy before he does.
I warned and grabbed my jacket heading out at once not even muttering ”I'll be back with izzy” How could I when I wasn't even sure I was going to find her before the two hours deadline was over.
Thankfully , Nik awarded me with a car upon my arrival to go about my errands but when I entered the garage to get it, I froze in my tracks
No way, a Bugatti Chiron !!!