Madison Taylor
POV
So I'm standing in front of Starlight Entertainment, a fun fact, a company Nikolai Martelli started to show support to his best friend and sister in law... I had learnt that on YouTube a video interview Nikolai did with a beautiful woman... He was so professional he spoke about his childhood, he refused to speak about the time before Quinn came into their lives... Which was a bit weird if you ask me...
I walked into the five story building it looked very intimidating to be honest... I walked up to the woman at reception...
"Hello I would like to see the CEO Nikolai Martelli" I say trying to appear confident
"Hey... Do you have an appointment?"
"Urh... No, but if you tell him I'm hear to see him he'll let me up I promise"
"I'm sorry ma'am but its against company policy to let you see him without an appointment, I could call his assistant for you to make an appointment with him sometime in October..." She fakes a smile and an apology I really want to slap this woman in her face...
"Its February!" I say
I was about to say something when I heard a ding of the elevator... I looked over at the doors slowly opening and there the panty dropping playboy was standing in all his glory... My was watering at the sight of this gorgeous Italian man... I wanted to prove this woman wrong, and I was praying Nikolai would play along...
I walked up to Nikolai... I hugged him, I felt his body stiffen... I put my lips on his... And started kissing him... He remind frozen for a few seconds then he wrapped his arms around my waist and started to respond to my kiss, the kiss was special, his soft yummy lips knew how to kiss a girl and make her panties wet...
I removed my lips from his
"Hello" I say
"Why hello Miss Taylor, why do I have the pleasure of tasting your lips so early in the morning?" He asks raising his brow at me...
"You receptionist, made me upset... All I wanted to do was to come and see you, to apologize for being a complete b***h to you on Friday night" I say with pouty lips... and a whiny voice
His expression went to confused to a dark lust expression... I knew my plan was working... So I continued
"I just... I'm not used to hot guys like you even being remotely interested in me... And I just came out of a relationship where my ex cheated on me with roommate in my bed and he blamed me... I'm making excuses I'm just explaining my behaviour on Friday night" I explain
He nods...
"Madison I need to go to the school Micah is throwing a tantrum to see you." Nikolai says in low voice... We were standing in the corner people could see us embracing but they couldn't hear us...
"Do you want me to go with you? Maybe I could help... I have a degree in Psychology, now that I know what's wrong with Micah I could help him open up, if that's okay with you" I ask genuinely concerned about Micah, the boy had grown on me, I had always paid special attention to him, because all the signs were there, I had noted his behaviour was strange, I just assumed Micah had an issue with noise since I had ruled out abuse early on...
Nikolai nods... He keeps his arms around he turns me so my back is to his front I'm assuming his hard and he doesn't the world to know... We walk like that to the door, the man by the door opens it for us... Nikolai thanks him and he walks to the Audi in front of the building...
"Thanks Ben... You can leave take the rest of the day off to pick the kids up" Nikolai says
The man thanks him and nods...
He opens the passenger door for me I get in and put my bag in my lap... Nikolai runs to the drivers side and get in... He starts the car and let's just say he was driving above the speed limit... In no time we were at the school... I decided to wait in the car. For one I'm supposed to be home sick and I didn't want it to seem like I was involved with one of my student's parent... Its not against the schools rules but its still frowned upon by a lot of these gossiping witches I work with... I didn't have any friends here, for one I was the youngest, with a degree in Psychology and teaching... My aim was to help kids like Micah, kids who needed help that a normal teacher couldn't help with... That's why I wanted to teach at a public school, I to be honest I didn't think rich kids had the same problems, like the poor kids did... So helping Micah would be a blessing... It would be refreshing to use my skills... I had specifically majored in Child Psychology...
Micah was smiling with dad, he was in his father's arms... He looked so tiny in Nikolai's arms... I could see this man loved his son... Nikolai opened the door and got in the car, the problem with this car was that it was a two seater... He asked Micah to sit on my lap... I took Micah... I could see dried tear stains on his face, I took a wet wipe out of my bag and wiped his face...
"Micah what happened?" I asked cautiously
"You weren't there... They said you not my teacher anymore..." he whispered but both Nikolai heard him...
"Micah..." I said trailing off, I couldn't say yes I'm his teacher so I looked at Nikolai for help
"Micah we're going to daddy's office today, you're going to talk to Miss Taylor about your bad dreams okay?"
Micah looks at Nikolai then at me I nod, and hug him to comfort him, I could sense he was scared... I had a feeling it would be better for him to open up to me than a stranger... I noticed the only time Micah ever showed emotion was with his father... I'm almost scared to know what made such a sweet caring boy so stuck in his shell...
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We arrived at his office and we got weird looks from his employees, one I'm a woman with their boss. Surely not good enough for their boss I had a skinny jean on with a with a white F.R.I.E.N.D.S top on... and a pair of Sharp toe white heels... I was dressed casual... and then a boy who looked exactly like their boss was in my arms... We had made our way to Nikolai's office and Nikolai took Micah into a room next door so we could talk...
"Has Micah ever told you what the bad dreams were? Or if it was the same dream over and over?" I stand in front of him crossing my arms
"I've asked him about the dreams but he won't tell me, I don't even know if its repetitive I'm sorry... I'm a terrible father" Nikolai says throwing his hands in the air... He seems agitated and frustrated...
"You're not a terrible father... You're getting him help Nikolai, you care about your son... I've seen you with him"
"Nick"
"What?" I looked at Nikolai confused
"Call me Nick"
I nod... "I'll head in now"
He nods...
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Micah was sitting in front of my drawing I had given him a page and crayons to draw his bad dream... I knew he'd prefer this way over any other way... Micah wasn't one for speaking...
He was done and he handed me the page... I wasn't prepared for what I saw, I gasped, tears threatening to fall... It was a picture of a woman with pink hair and what looked like a rope around a boy's neck with the boy in a dog house and the drawing at bottom was worse I actually shed tears, tears fell from my face a man standing over a little boy shouting at him, calling him a dog... I had no idea why... But I grabbed Micah I held on to the boy for dear life... From what I got from the drawing was enough to give me nightmares, who the f**k would have a kid if they going to treat them like dogs...
"Micah can you tell me if your mommy made you stay in the dog house if you were naughty?"
The boy didn't say he weakly nods his head...
"Micah why don't you draw a nice drawing for your daddy as a surprise for him..."
Micah nods happily and goes back to drawing
I honestly needed to speak to Nick, I really was having a hard time trying to help Micah, I didn't know how to, treating a four year old like a dog is the most cruel thing anyone could ever do... I wiped my tears and got up with the drawing... I walked back into Nick's office... He's assistant was standing next to him, while he signed something... I waited... His assistant spotted me first... She looked annoyed....what Did I do?
"Uhm N-Nick..."' dammit my voice broke... I wanted to cry again...
Nick looked up at me... He must have sensed something was wrong because he dismissed his assistant...
"What's wrong Madison?"
"I know about his nightmares... urh" I couldn't bring myself to say it, so I showed him the drawings
He was quiet for a while examining the drawings...
"My son... my son Micah drew these things?" I could hear by the sound of his voice he was upset
I nod
"Those bastards treated my son like their f*****g pet?!" He roared
He started speaking in Italian and I couldn't keep up with him... He started pacing
"Nick" I said
"Nick" I repeated
"Nikolai Martelli!!!" I screamed and he looked at me
"I need you to reassure your son, that he'll never have to go back there... I need you to also make sure that woman never sees Micah again the boy has been through way too much" I say
Nick nods slowly
"I'll sort it out... That b***h Isabella will wish she's never met me!" He roared again
Micah came out of the room happily and handed a drawing to Nick
"Papa I drew this for you" You could see Nick's anger evaporate into thin air... I don't care what people say but I know kids have the ability to make your anger melt away...
Micah was special, I felt bad that he had to go through what he went through...
"Thank you baby, I love it... I'll frame it and put it right here in my office, so when I miss you, i can look at the beautiful picture my son drew" Nick says picking Micah up hugging him the same way I did when I saw the drawing, like he wanted to take all the bad things that happened to Micah...
I felt bad for the boy no one deserves going through what he went through...
"Mi I promise you, you'll never ever have to go and live with your mommy, you'll never have to see her again... Micah I promise you I would never let anyone hurt you or treat you like a dog again okay?"
"You promise uncle Sam won't come?"
"I promise to protect you from uncle Sam okay?"
Micah nods happily like we just gave him a new toy... Micah needs therapy, he needs someone who specializes in child trauma, I couldn't, I don't think I'll be okay listening to Micah's story, if a picture scarred me imagine the actual story I would never survive that...
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I had spent the rest of the morning with Nick and Micah... By afternoon Micah was out, he had taken a nap... Nick was working and I was chilling on his two seater couch in his office, I was looking up pictures of Nick on the internet
"If you wanted a picture of me all you had to do was ask"
And boom my phone fell... Nick was on his knees sitting next to me I didn't even see him move...