Chapter 109 - One Hundred And Nine: Missing Her Already (1/2)

Nik's POV

Blood trickled down my forehead but I remained still, more was yet to come.

”You bastard! ” Adam raged and rose up from his seat with a jerk, grabbed a golf club from its bag leaning against the wall opposite his desk.

He approached me while removing the headcover and brought it down on the side of my arm.

”Do you know what you have just done !”

The second hit was on my back but aside from a quick intake of breath, my expression was neutral.

”All because of a woman! ” he took out his anger on me.

This time Adam hit me on the back of my leg forcing me to my knees but it seems my silence aggravated him further.

”Say something you fool! ” He yelled and hit me, this time the impact sent me sprawling to the floor.

I groaned out ” What do you want me to say? ”

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, I looked up at him. ”I did wrong and came to take my punishment, what more do you want to hear from me? ”

There was anger in his eyes and he made sure to show it. Adam tossed the club to a side of the room carelessly, breaking some pictures hung on the wall showing him accepting one award or the other in the process.

He began to walk to and fro the room exasperatedly while I pushed myself off the ground with a pained groan and assumed a kneeling position, my body was aching all over.

He suddenly stopped right in front of me, glaring down at me before he asked ” Where is Maya? ”

I wiped away the trail of blood about to drop into my eyes, answering

”You don't need to worry about her anymore, she's gone as you wanted. So just let her be ”

Adam scoffed in disbelief  ”Let her be? I should let her be?!  ”

My face whipped to the side while blood was drawn from my lips as he backhanded me.

”You took away Gerald's ledger and handed it over to our enemy just for her sake? Do you know the gravity of what you just did?

”You betrayed your own clan for a woman! You jeopardized the future of the Spencer clan for the sake of a woman that isn't worth an inch of you ”

”She's worth everything, you are just too blind to see it ” I defended Maya.

”Say that again and I make sure she doesn't see the limelight tomorrow  ”

I looked away, there were still words unsaid but it was unsafe to push my father's button now.

Of course, I knew the intensity of what I did, but I had no choice and I wouldn't mind doing it over again if I'm given the chance.

I watched Kay die with my both eyes, there was no way on earth I would have let the same thing happen to Maya. I would not live with that amount of guilt for the rest of my life.

After the death of Kay, I had managed to dull the guilt and pain by distracting myself with women and work. Sure it worked fine but late at night when I'm all alone, I battle the demons inside.

Until Maya came, she showed me the light even when I was afraid of tainting her with my darkness.

She was one of a kind, a softhearted angel who wouldn't mind putting herself in danger if it meant saving the people that mattered to her.

Maya took my shit and everything, even when I hadn't shown her all of my messy sides. Letting her go was the best, she deserves more than me.

”Niklaus, what has come over you! Do you know you sound like someone who is bewitched! ”

I choked a laugh, bewitched? Maybe I was. Maya truly might have bewitched me else I wouldn't be behaving this way.

Adam lowered himself to my level and said to me sternly ”I never brought you up this way Niklaus, what did that woman do to you ”

There was a spasmodic silence the moment our eyes met but I froze, coming to a startling realization.

I croaked,” Did you not even have this much of a feeling for mom? ”

Adam froze too, then his gaze hardened and he warned me ”Do not bring your mother into this! ”

”At least these strong emotions I have for Maya, did you never experience it with mom or were you just a cold, astute, emotionless bastard who deceived the woman he claimed to love till she… ”

A crackling sound was heard as a slap sounded on my cheek. Twice.

”Don't make me regret ever grooming you to be who you are today ” he said through gritted teeth but the threat was apparent.

He stood to his feet, hands on his hips, face scrunched tight in concentration.

”Just when we had Gerald wrapped around our finger ” he mumbled under his breath but I heard it clearly.