NICKLAUS THE MASTER
Chapter 56.
Written by: Racheal Dennis
Authoress’ pov ?
“This way, Mr Statham!”
A waitress ushers Nicklaus to a table, a man in suit and nose mask is already seated… a lady of Claudia’s age sits next to him.
“Hello, Mr Ghost!” Nicklaus greets the man.
The man (Mr Ghost) lifts his head and sees Nicklaus, he smiles and shake hands with him.
“Welcome, Mr Statham, I’m Mr Ghost, CEO of G.L groups… please have a seat!” Mr Ghost said and gestures to a chair.
Nicklaus sits down, Claudia sits next to him.. but a few meters away.
Mr Ghost locked gaze with Claudia and frowns deeply, he studies her before turning to Nicklaus.
“This should be your girlfriend or fiancee I presume?”
Nicklaus takes a glances at Claudia, she’s smiling sweetly.. Nicklaus turns to Mr Ghost.
“No! She’s just my assistant, my fiancee couldn’t come!”
“Oh!” He nods. “Do you live together with your fiancee?”
“Yes, I do!”
“Is your fiancee pregnant?”
Nicklaus narrowed his eyes, he doesn’t like where this is headed… this is what he hates most in business.
“Mr Ghost, we’re here to talk about business, not talk about my personal life…”
He notice the nose mask Mr Ghost is wearing, he inhaled deeply.
“… If you don’t mind taking off your nose mask, I should know who I’m doing business with!”
Mr Ghost looked towards Claudia and shakes his head in disapproval.
“I always discuss business with my nose mask on, if you wanna know me…”
He trails off and reach for his phone, he types a few things in and hands it to Nicklaus.
Nicklaus stares at it with his mouth hanging open, shock and surprised written on his face.. he wanted to ask questions but Mr Ghost hushed him.
“…. If you don’t mind asking your assistant to step out and wait a few minutes!”
Nicklaus turns to Claudia, she’s busy setting up her writing materials and laptop on the table.
“Claudia, wait outside for me, I’ll call for you when I need you!”
“Yes, Mr Statham!” Claudia replied.
She drops her notepad and pen on the table and got up, she also dropped her phone and head towards the door.
Nicklaus quickly noticed the phone and called her back.
“Yes, Mr Statham?”
“You forgot to take your phone!”
“Oops!” She exclaims and picks it up.
Then she heads out, Mr Ghost also asked his assistant out.. he made sure both assistants are no longer in sight before he turns to Nicklaus.
“Mr Lopez! You’re alive?!” Nicklaus asked.
Mr Ghost nods, he takes off his nose mask for a few minutes before wearing it back.
“Wasn’t that girl Benjamin’s daughter?” Mr Ghost asked referring to Claudia.
“Yes!”
“Be wary of her, her father must have something to do with what happened that year…”
“You think it’s a conspiracy too?” Nicklaus cuts him off.
Mr Ghost chuckles.
“I don’t think, I know it’s a conspiracy! Back then, after Statham enterprise was established.. a lot of people were against your father being the chairman… Benjamin was their ringleader…”
While Mr Ghost is explaining, Nicklaus is wondering within him if this man isn’t a scam… What if this is not really Mr Lopez?!
What if it’s not really his fiancee’s father?! Is that why he was asking so many questions about my fiancee?!
“… this is not what we came here to discuss today, we are here for business, If you wanna know more… ”
He reach for his pocket and brings out a card, he drops it on the table and pushes it towards Nicklaus.
“… come to this address and I’ll tell you more!”
Nicklaus picks it up and stares at it, he nods slowly.
“Ok, let’s talk about business, my assistant can come in now.. right?” Nicklaus asked.
Mr Ghost nods. Nicklaus reach for his phone and dialed Claudia’s number… she picks up on the first ring.
“Come in let’s start!” He hangs up before she could reply.
Nicklaus stares at Mr Ghost, Mr Ghost smiles at him in return.
“Mr Ghost, let’s introduce our new project to you… Claudia, get ready”
Mr Ghost shakes his head.
“There’ll be no need for that, I have already made up my mind to invest in it!” He said.
“You don’t wanna know a little about the project?”
“No! You should know why I’m doing this.. for her!” He whispers the last part so only he and Nicklaus could hear.
Nicklaus nods.
“Let’s sign the necessary documents!” Mr Ghost said.
“That will have to wait until next tomorrow… I’ll have to think about accepting your proposal” Nicklaus said.
Mr Ghost nods in understanding, he got up and reaches his hand out, waiting for Nicklaus to shake him.
“It’s nice doing business with you, Mr Statham!”
“The pleasure is ours, Mr Ghost!”
Mr Ghost and his assistant walks out the door, Nicklaus studies him as he went.
“That man is weird!” Claudia said.
“Aren’t you weird too?” Nicklaus asked her.
She shuts up and starts packing up, when she’s done, she turns to Klaus.
“Mr Statham, it’s almost dinner time, should we head back to the office… Or straight to your home?”
Nicklaus pulls out his gloves from his pocket and wears them, he snatches his briefcase from her and heads towards the door.
“You’re done for today, take a cab home!” Nicklaus said.
Graham rushed to Nicklaus when he saw him coming out, he takes his briefcase before going to open the car’s back seat door.
Nicklaus slides in and Graham shuts the door, then he got into the driver’s seat and drives off.
“Sir, how was the meeting? Did it go well?”. Graham asked.
“Shut up and drive!”
“Yes, sir!”
Nicklaus dials Marcus’s number and waits for him to pick up, luckily, he picked sooner.
“Hello, my darling, Nicky!” Marcus said in a very sweet voice.
Nicklaus shudders at his tone and shakes his head.
“Stop it, it sounds so gross!”
He heard Marcus scoffed loudly.
“I’ll send you some information, look into it and give me a satisfactory results… Dig very deep and let me know what you find.. latest tomorrow morning!”
“Yes, sir!” Marcus said, mimicking Nicklaus’s workers.
Nicklaus rolled his eyes then hang up.
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Anastasia’s pov ?
I feel someone caressing my hair, I opened my eyes and saw Klaus squatting next to me… He smiled at me and I smiled back.
My eyes moved to the wall clock in his office, it’s 4:43pm… Luckily, I had come back from my lunch with doctor Hemsworth earlier.
“How was your lunch meeting?” I asked.
“It went well” he replied and I nod.
“So… are we heading over to your mom’s or we’re going home?” I asked again.
I know he’s already promised to go with me, but I still wanna confirm with him again… Klaus can change his mind any time!
“We’re going over to mom’s, but I’m not gonna stay long… We’ll leave after thirty minutes!” He said firmly.
I nod quickly, he opens his arms and I jump in, then he head towards the door.
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Statham’s Villa….
My eyes grow wide as Graham drives into the premises, this Villa look familiar.. so familiar.
or am I having nightmares again?! Isn’t this the Villa I always see in my nightmares?!
“Nicklaus, are you sure your mom lives here?” I asked in a shaky voice.
He lifts his head with a frown, he look around and nod.
“Yeah.. why?”
“You know it’s been long since you visit her.. are you sure she haven’t moved?”
“No, this is our Villa!”
“Huh?!”
Their Villa?! Why am I always seeing it in my dream?! Is it connected to my past?! Are my nightmares coming to reality?!
I panic!
“Are you ok, Anastasia?” Klaus asked.
He keeps his phone in his pocket and turns to me, he takes my hand and rubs them.
“Your hands are cold.. are you ok?”
I shake my head.
“This Villa.. this Villa… ”
The car jerks and stopped, soon Graham comes to our side and opens the door.
Klaus steps out and helped me out too, I look around as my body shake more… why am I shaking?
“Anastasia, are you ok?” Klaus asked.
But I didn’t reply him cause I wasn’t looking at him, my eyes are on the door… the door I couldn’t open in my nightmares.
“We can go back if you want!” He said.
I ignore him and walked closer to the door, I reach for the handle.. but I couldn’t hold onto it.. my hand is shaking.
What if I can’t open it too?! What’s stopping me from opening it?!
“Anastasia, what’s going on?”
Suddenly, my hand grab the handle and pushed the door open.. I stepped in.
I look around as I find everything familiar.. then my eyes lands on the chandelier light hanging up in the living room.
A blurry scene flashes through my mind and my hands flies to support my head… a beeping sound deaf me as I couldn’t hear anything.
I feel an unbearable pain in my head, I gasp for air and fall on my knees… it’s as if I’m feeling this pain inside my head.
The picture of a little boy laying on the ground and a man hanging from the chandelier…with that little girl watching them appears in my mind.
I couldn’t bear the pain and before I knew it… I blackout!
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The little girl run as fast as her legs could carry her, finally she made it to that Villa.. she stopped to catch her breath.
Her eyes moved to the door, it’s just a few steps away from her.. she rushed towards it, she grabbed the handle and pushed the door open.
This time I rushed in with her before the door would close back.
“Uncle! Uncle! Come help my mama and papa!” She started calling from the door.
My eyes move around, I see a man hanging from a chandelier, a rope around his neck and blood dripping off him… so much blood, the man is already dead.
A teenage boy is laying unconsciously on the floor, the man’s blood is dripping on him… A man is standing in front of them, he’s holding a blade in his hand.. a very sharp blade, I can’t see the man’s face because his back is facing me.
The little girl is still by the door, she haven’t seem them yet.
“Come with me, let’s leave! There’s a bad man here!” I warned her but she doesn’t seem to hear me.
I tried to grab her hand but my hand caught empty air instead…her face is still not clear.
“Uncle, come save my mama and papa, there are bad men in our house!”
She cries as she runs towards the living room.. where the horrifying scene is waiting for her.
“Uncle, uncle…..”
She swallows her words as she sees the man she was depending on, hanging from the ceiling… Her eyes travels down and she saw the boy laying down, she rushed to him.
“Klaus!”
Klaus?! My Klaus?!
“Klaus wake up! A bad man is in your house!”
What is she doing?! Why didn’t she run out after seeing this?!
“Klaus! Klaus wake up a very bad man is here!” She shakes the boy but he wouldn’t wake up.
The man turned around and I saw his face…I think he’s a hired killer!
“Who are you?! What are you doing here?!” He growled at the girl.
She ignored him and continue trying to wake Klaus up.
“Klaus wake up!”
“I said who are you?!!”
She got up and put her hands on her tiny waist.
“I’m Nina Lopez!”
Nina?! Isn’t that me?! Is this my memory?! This must be my memory!
The man turned away from little me and used his blade to cut off Klaus’ father’s right arm.
“Stop it, bad man!” Little me screamed and jumped on his back.
With my tiny hands, I start hitting his chest as hard as I could.
“Get off me!”
Just then another man walked in, little me turn, she seem to recognize the man.. she breaks into a smile.
“Uncle, come quick, help us.. this bad man killed Klaus’ papa!”
The man laughs loudly.
“Boss, what should I do with her?” The bad man asked.
Boss…so, this is the man behind everything?!
“Kill her!” He replied.
“Uncle, he…..”
She didn’t complete her statement before the bad man flings her off his back.. he throws her across the living room.
He watches as she lands on the hard floor, her head hits the skirting and a very sharp scream left her mouth… then she went unconscious!
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My eyes snaps open at once.
“Anastasia! Are you ok?!” I heard Klaus asked beside me.
He’s holding my hands in his, he looked so worried…I look around and realized I’m still in the living room but I’m laying on a sofa bed.
Aunt, Rhoda and Bill are all standing next to us with worried expressions.. though Rhoda wasn’t so worried.
I guess she knows I’m fine.
“Are you ok? Should we go home?” Klaus asked again.
“I’m fine, I.. I just remembered something!” I replied.
“You remembered something?” Aunt asked.
I nod.
“Something that happened in the past?”
I nod again.
“What did you remember?” Klaus asked this time.
I stayed silent for a brief moment, before speaking.
“I know who killed uncle, I saw his face”
“Do you know his name?”
I shake my head.
“No, but he seems to be someone I know before.. I guess you all know him too”
“But will you know him if you see him again?” He asked.
“Yeah!”
He nods and pulled me closer to his chest, he kssed my forehead.
“That’s good, we might see him at the gala… or other place!” He said.
I nod.
“Also, you will be attending all my meetings with me, both very important ones.. until we catch him!”
I nod, my stomach sees it as a perfect time to growl… Aunt and Rhoda chuckles lightly.
“Let’s have dinner first!” Aunt said.
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