LUPITA


    I tired, God above knowns that I have tried. But Olivia and her family don''t like it when people are good to them. She got my grandmother killed and yet know I had not right to retaliate or to feel anger about that because it''s Olivia, the mafia don''s daughter.


    I clicked my tongue in anger. The woman should have been grateful to me for everything I had done for her. I treated her like a younger sister and my grandmother treated her like her younger granddaughter.


    Now she had the audacity to let her father kick me out of her house. How dare she! I raised her son for two years while she was locked up in prison, I was more of a mother to that child than she can ever be.


    Now that things were going well for her, other people like me and Nick had no right to be angry about the painful things she did to us? Who did Olivia think she was?


    I thought she had nothing to do with her father kicking me out, but her noting to see me for a week now after I left made me think that she was the one who asked her father to kick me out. She no longer had use for me now.


    "You look angry." I turned to look at Nick, I didn''t even know when he arrived. "Of course, am angry." I crossed the room and got to me. "What is the matter?" I liked how worried he looked, it showed how much he cared for me.


    "Olivia," I only mentioned her name and his whole demeanour changed. I chuckled shaking my head. The man was still very much in love with Olivia, why did I ever think he could have a thing for me?


    How na?ve of me! I looked him dead in the eyes, I wanted him to see that I was not na?ve, that my eyes were wife opened, and I could see right through him. what I didn''t know was why he was after me.


    It was not for a rtionship that was clear. He cleared his throat. "Did you get into a fight with Olivia or something?" my lips curved into a condescending smile.


    Nick thought he was smart just like Olivia. "No, but I am mad as hell at her for getting me kicked out of the house. I thought it was all Luke but her noting here tells me that she was involved."


    He furrowed his eyes brows. "I think you know why Luke kicked you out, why are you bring Olivia into it." that was what I wanted, for him to show his true feelings, to stop hiding and show me what his true intensions were.


    "I know what I did, Nick and that is why I didn''t fight it when Luke asked me to leave. But I thought Olivia didn''t know about it, if that is the case then why hasn''t she called or visited?" Nick''s facial expression changed.


    It was the same expression he wore when he was reprimanding me at Olivia''s house. Well, that wasn''t a reprimand, it was the threat. "Why is it that people like you can never be grateful?" Iughed.


    There we go, that was what I wanted, the real Nick, the monster to appear. "Grateful, people like me? what does that supposed to mean, Nick?" He clicked his tongue.


    Now he didn''t bother to hide his distain, that hurt, I had to admit. I know he didn''t love me, but I didn''t think he resented me.


    "Olivia gave you this house, you can never afford to live in a house like this even if you used all your saving and took a loan on top of that. then she gave you a car, it''s new and one of a kind. Then, she paid you more than any nanny is paid. You lived in her house for free, your grandmother got free medical


    treatments. Even now, they are


    willing to pay you until you find


    another job. What more do you want from them, from her?"


    His words hurt me more than I had imagined. "So, it doesn''t matter that my grandmother died because of her. I should just be grateful for the material things I got. Will they bring my grandmother back?"


    Nickughed mockingly, now I could see why Sandra went crazy, those people didn''t care about anyone else other than the queen bee, Olivia. Everyone else was disposable to them.


    "You know the circumstances surrounding that, also, you both went with Olivia to that ind willingly. No one forced you. I don''t understand what it is you want now. Do you want more money, what is it, tell me?"


    He was now angry; he looked at if he could get violent. I stepped back creating as much distance between us as possible. Heughed. "Oh, you scare now?" he raised his eyebrow looking at me.


    I didn''t like the look in his eyes, it was like he wasn''t seeing me as a human being


    at all. It was like he was looking at an obstacle he needed to remove.


    Heughed. "Don''t worry, I won''t kill you. want to know why?" he raised an eyebrow. I said nothing. I was so ufortable with him being there. I wanted him to leave already.


    Nick was a killer; I might not have seen him do it, but I saw how he looked after getting out of the warehouse. He was bloodied, I was freaking out, but I thought I could handle it as long as he loved me.


    But I didn''t think it through, he was more than I could handle. "Olivia, she cares so much about you that she would resent me for the rest of her like if something were to happen to you the same woman you now hate forno reason."


    I kept my mouth shut, I wasn''t going to do anything to her, I just wanted to cut ties


    with her. "I don''t hate Olivia; I am just angry about what happened." Heughed.


    "I don''t care what you are feeling, I


    am going to warn you for thest time though. Don''t mess with Olivia, You wont only have to deal with me, you will have the ck mafia and the Walkers after your ass. You know better than anyone of what we are capable."


    He paused and gave me a look that send cold shovers running down my spine. "Choose carefully, it''s either you are a friend of a foe. Your choice." He walked


    away.