Chapter ten 010: FAMILY

*love is make believe till trust comes into place *

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It was morning and there was noise outside, must be the neighbors Adria thought, immediately her phone rang.

Berlina "Hey little pumpkin. It's morning over there right?. So why are you still in bed, get dress so u won't be late. You don't want to give them a bad impression on the first day, do you? ."

"So your keeping time now huh." Adria laughed.

"Actually yes, now stand up and get ready." Berlina said "ensure to call and tell me how your day went alright bye."

"Wait! how am I supposed to locate the company." Adria asked but Berlina cut the call.

"She just want to make me suffer huff." Adria scoffed.

She stood up and called out to her Bluetooth Alexa "Play me female energy by willow."

She took off her clothes and rapped her robe around her body, as she picked up some bathing supplements from her storage room.

She went straight to the shower, taking off her robe prepared to shower. She spread the soap across her head, slowly washing her hair and body, she turned on the shower and let if flow through her as she bent her head looking at the floor while holding the wall.

She could still hear those noises from before, it sounded like people were breaking glasses now. She took her towel and clean herself as she headed towards her dressing room she picked a black suit and office heels.

She sat in her bed and brushed her hair gently when she was done, she packed it up as a ponytail as she headed to the kitchen to make some coffee and took out some bread from the refrigerator.

When it was ready she sat in the dining, looking around the big dining it was empty, she hated this. She looked at the food and left it there.

She dressed up and was about leaving when a knock startled her, she approached the door and saw the baby from the other day. Seems he had been sitting there for a while before deciding to knock or maybe he did knock but she was in the bathroom, he was full with Adria's sparkly tags on the door that says do not enter.

When the baby saw her he giggled "ma ma."

"What the fuck who's your mom." Adria scoffed at the baby while making funny faces.

"Hihihihi." He giggled as he peed on himself.

"Oh God not today, I got a job to attend to ugh!!." she brought him inside and ran him a bubble bath, when she was done she realized she had no baby clothes so she texted the driver to bring some.

"Yum yum." the baby stretched his hand towards the dining table. Adria looked over to see what he was trying to reach when she realized it was the dining room she took him there. She was glad atleast she wouldn't have to starve cause she would have someone to eat with, they ate everything and the driver arrived with the clothes.

"Here you go ma'am." The driver said.

Thanks dear." Adria took the clothes and began to dressed him up as she she played with the baby.

The driver looked at the both of them looking all adorable like a mother and child, but ma'am Berlina never mentioned a baby. Due to curiosity he asked "If you don't mind ma who's child is this."

"To be honest I don't actually know ." Adria said while adjusting his shirt perfectly.

"What?!." The driver felt like crying, Berlina will kill him if she finds out.

"But! I've seen his mom before." Adria said, reluctance evidence in her face.

"She must be careless not to know when her child leaves the house." The driver said

"Might be true but we shouldn't judge, everyone has their own struggles you know." Adria said.

"All done." she said as she tapped the babies nose gently earning a cute giggle from him.

"Ugh your so cute!." She said as she hugged him, the baby played with her hair.

"Umm ma'am, you didn't wear him the diapers I got." The driver said.

"Uhhhhmm." Adria scratched her hair, she didn't know how to, that's why she didn't, she turned to the driver and he got the message.

"Alright I'll do it." he said please get ready you might run late.

"But I'm ready." Adria said.

The driver glanced at her "umm your on suit?."

"Yh what's wrong." Adria said.

"You don't have any office there yet don't you think this dressing is a little bit too much, if you don't want to have a bad day at work please change ." The driver said.

"What are you seriously kidding me! Ugh fine whatever." Adria went back to her room and dressed in a white shirt and black office trouser.

"How's this one." Adria asked.

"Better." he replied

"Ok then let's go." Adria said.

"Umm ma'am I wasn't told to and what about the baby?." The driver said.

Shoots! how do we send him back now." Adria thought for a while and let the driver stay with the baby while she left.

The traffic wasn't much so she got there in time, she entered the company and felt so many eyes on her. She was used to this she had to deal with the press for years in Nigeria so this would be a piece of cake she thought.

She headed straight to the top floor through the elevator, while in the elevator she noticed everyone avoided her for an unknown reason, she didn't take it as anything and headed to the bosses office on her way in she was stopped by the security.

"Yamete." the first guy said in Japanese.

Adria didn't understand so she pushed further.

The second guy said to her "yamate onegai."

"The fuck you mean I don't speak Japanese." She yelled in frustration.

They were arguing as they couldn't speak English, they looked around and found someone to interpret "Oh sorry ma'am they don't either." a guy dressed in a suit said as he began interpreting the word "The security guys were saying you should stop, your supposed to show your Id before your going in." He said.

"Oh alright thanks tho." She said.

"Your welcome." The guy said as he left.

She showed them her Id and was lead inside.

Lu jingze smiled as he saw Adria "Look who we have here, you made it huh."

"Yes thank you for this opportunity." Adria said.

"It's ok I'll do anything for Berlina, Well you'll have to work hard to impress the board members tho that's if you want to get things on your side and it won't be easy I tell you." Lu jingze said.

"I'll try my very best sir." Adria said.

"I hope your best is enough tho for now I'll place you with Asachi." he pressed a button and said "tell Asachi to report to my office now." he said as he ended it. He looked up and studied her dress "nice dress tho thought you would show up here looking like a boss." He chuckled softly.

"Thanks sir." Adria said as boredom and uneasiness strikes her.

"What brand." Lu jingze asked

"Huh." Adria was confused.

"The cloth your wearing." He said.

"Oh! It's HFH brand it's a trusted brand in Nigeria." Adria replied.

"Nice, I hope you get me one of their clothes on my birthday or maybe the celebration." He said.

Adria smiled, immediately there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Lu jingze said.

Asachi came into view, he was a tall and slender guy with a nice hair cut he had a cute goggle on and well lined brows.

When Asachi came in he stared at Adria for a while before shifting his gaze to his boss.

"You called for me boss." He said.

"Yes this here is Adria, she will be assisting you from now on, treat her with respect." he said and turned to Adria "This is Asachi he's my assistant and most trusted, I'm really honored to someone like you working for me."

"Thanks sir." Adria replied.

"You both can leave, get to work." Lu jingze said shortly.

"Umm sir this is from my company to you." she handed him a wristwatch made with real gold.

Lu jinze and Asachi were stunned by the design of the watch.

"Berlina was really right about your creativity." lu sighed as he remarked.

"Thanks sir, I'll take my leave now." she said as she and Asachi head out.

Walking towards the corridor Adria noticed the cold attitude from the other workers again so she asked "umm Asachi right?."

"Yes." He replied.

"Why do these people look at me this way." She asked.

"Who?." He said looking around, when he saw what she was saying he replied "Ahh, they are not familiar with you and they usually feel threatened when they see people from other race don't mind them they would come around eventually."

"That's weird the Asians I see back in Nigeria weren't like this." Adria remarked.

"Welcome to Japan then." he said as he gave her a quick glance.

"So today I'll be showing you around." He said.

"Alright." Adria said.

He showed her " this is the secretary's office and around that Conner the managers office that's the coordinators office this here is the restroom here this strictly for engineers and here is out of bound." He looked at his watch it was lunch time.

"Why is everyone leaving ." Adria asked curiously.

"It's their lunch break and we have a special canteen or plaza whatever you want to call it, you could purchase what ever you want to." He explained.

"Oh ok." She said.

"Yh, come with me." he said as he lead her to the plaza.

"Wow! when you said canteen I didn't expect this." Adria remarked flicking a tounge.

"Lol I know right. What you having." He asked.

"Burger and soda ."she said.

"What no way pick a Japanese meal." He said as he wanted to see how she eats Japanese meals.

"Umm I don't know any." Adria said.

"You've never had any Japanese meal?." He raised a brow.

"No." Adria shook her head.

"When did you come to Asia." He asked.

"Yesterday." she pressed her lips into a thin line and looked everywhere except his face.

He stared at her for a while and said "It's ok let me show you Japanese meals you would fall in love with."

He took her to one of the restaurants they took a seat, they were lot of other asian people there.

The waiter came and took there order Asachi requested for some ramen, unagi and tempura.

When they were served Adria looked at him "this is too much." She said.

"It's just for a start." He winked.

"I don't have an asian account yet tho." She paused her lips.

"Don't worry the bills on me, so eat up." He said.

"Ugh I don't want to." Adria felt frustrated, she was really hungry and she was a bit disoriented when she get hungry. Why don't he let her eat what she wants she might explode anytime soon she thought.

Asachi looked at her "come on is not that bad have some."

"No you asian peeps tend to eat rubbish like insects and worms an-." She realized what she was saying oops she just messed up, she looked up to see a glint of dissatisfaction in the young mans eyes.

"It's ok you don't have to eat it if you don't want to and you have no right or what so ever to question our choice of food." he said irritated just when he started feeling comfortable ugh stupid African judging everything he thought.

"I'm sorry I went a little bit out of line." she felt arkward cause the issue seemed to draw other people's attention.

"A little bit huh." he scoffed.

"I'm sorry fine look at me I'll eat it." she said as she picked up her chopsticks and started from the ramen, it's just normal noodles she said to herself, she began to eat it smoothly.

"I thought you wouldn't be able to use the chopsticks." he said feeling less annoyed.

"Umm I learnt from my sister." she said

"Do you like it." He asked curiously.

"Mmhm." She said as she stuffed her mouth with food.

"You see I told you now skip that one go to the unagi." He said.

"Please no I'm filled." Adria begged she hated this one it looked like it was made from a snake and stuffed with rice or something.

Asachi smirked "try the tempura then."

"You mean the shrimps covered in the yellow stuff?." Adria asked.

"Yh." He smiled.

"Ok." She said as she took the plate and ate it.

They ate lunch leisurely when they were done Asachi showed her their offices they were gonna work in the same offices.

"That's all for today, I'll leave now." He said.

"Oh ok." Adria said as she moved for him to pass.

"Ladies first." he said

Adria hesitated for a while but eventually she left and when she got to the company's garage she got into her car and started her car, she called Berlina.

"Hey sis." Adria said feeling excited to tell her about her day.

"Mmm how was it?." Berlina asked.

"A bit boring but it's still fine,I got a position as the assistant's assistant. But overall it's boring!!!." She said as she chuckled.

"Give it time dear you would enjoy it." Berlina assured.

"Alright." Adria said.

"So your headed home huh." Berlina asked.

"Yh, what's that noise over there." Adria asked as she listened carefully.

"That's nice, me and mom are on our way to the airport talk later." Berlina said and ended the call.

"Go wh-." Adria couldn't complete her word as Berlina had already cut the call.

"Ugh they never inform me about thing." She thought for a while "oh goodness I hope nightmare doesn't do anything stupid." she thought, immediately recalling an event a bit similar to this.

THE PAST

It was an event, different elites where present celebrities and rich people.

Adria and nightmare went together as a couples because of a business deal Adria wanted to get from one of the elites. Nightmare refused to go with anyone and lied to Adria that no one wanted to go with him, so they had to go together.

Nightmare came to pick Adria for the event, he was shocked to see Adria when he arrived. She was looking stunning and beautiful, she wore a black dress that had gold beneath it had a high slit that exposed her slender legs, her hair was longer due to the extensions added and paced up, with curls dangling at each side of her ear and some gold earrings she looked so stunning she added a little makeup, a short false lashes and carved her brow a red lipstick that complemented her red purse.

"Let's leave when your done staring." Adria said.

"I'm sorry you look...Good." he remarked.

"Thanks." she smiled and turned to Ryan was still upset, he didn't want her to go with this loser,she gave him a reassuring smile as she headed towards Nightmare's car.

Nightmare opened the door to the car and she entered.

They had a long drive to the event and nightmare kept staring at her.

"We are here sir." the driver said drawing nightmare away from his disturbing thoughts

"Ok." nightmare replied simply. As he stepped out the paparazzi began to take shots as they waited to see his date for to night.

He opened the door and the first thing they saw were black heels with gold designs, it was the latest design of the Roy foot ware company and it was worth millions who ever this is, she was bloody wealthy they thought.

Adria stepped out and the paparazzi flashed lights were much as they were taking pictures of her, she found it difficult to see because of the flashing lights, when Nightmare noticed her uneasiness, he shielded her from the lights.

The paparazzi's began to asked a lot of questions.

"Is she miss nightmare?."

"That's the young billionaire Adria isn't it?."

"Hey mr what relationship do both of you share."

"Is she your new partner."

"Are you both in a relationship or she just came as your guest to the event."

"Miss Adria do you love him or are you her for his money."

"I love your dress miss Adria, will mr nightmare be taking it off tonight."

Adria scoffed these people really had no shame she thought to herself.

"Aww nightmare is being such a gentleman around her."

They kept asking a lot of questions and they were a lot of them, making it hard for Adria and Nightmare to get through.

"Mr nightmare I thought your a lost soul who doesn't care about love what changed now."

"Have you had a romantic night with him already Adria ."

"Adria what about dreggo your ex who you broke up with."

"I heard he was hospitalized and I saw a picture of both of you together, I thought you guys are back together."

"Mr nightmare is this miss the one."

"Yes." nightmare replied. Adria quickly flip her head towards him as she was upset about this, cause it was going to be the headline for tomorrow "why did you say that." Adria asked anger evident in her eyes.

"When we get inside Adria, don't make a scene." He said as he lead her to the event.

They finally entered the hall, they were the last to arrive, so there arrival drew everyone's attention.

Adria saw all the females throwing a dangerous look at her as she heard a lot of whispers but she was not in a good mood to think about it.

"Is she not the young billionaire." One of the ladies at the event said

"Her name is Adria right." One of the bachelors whispered.

"How did nightmare come across her I heard she isn't social." The other guy next to him said.

"Remember she dated dreggo and later broke up with him."

"Yh I heard he had to be hospitalized cause the breakup took a bad toll on him." Another guy joined.

"Ugh." a lady on a red dress scoffed "she is too full of herself."

When Adria and Nightmare got to there own sit, he pulled out her seat for her but she went to the other one. He smirked and sat down coolly, no body noticed it cause it happened to fast.

When she sad down she looked at Nightmare sternly and asked. "Why did you say that."

"I had no other choice." Nightmare explained.

"Oh no you did! staying silent was one. This is really bad and it's gonna be really hard to clean this up." Adria said angrily.

"You know how those people can be, they wouldn't have let us leave that place if we hadn't given them an answer. Just leave it, it will die down." Nightmare knew that wasn't true, Infact that reporter was called by him to ask that question.

Adria felt really uneasy this wasn't good, Ryan won't be happy about this, immediately a waiter passed and offered her drinks. She stared at the tray for a while before she took a cup of wine. She wasn't aware of the amount of alcohol was in it, she gulped it down as she felt a bit bad and guilty.

Ryan told her not to come but she insisted because of an important contract.

Nightmare took her around and greeted everyone as the event started, a lot of people wanted to meet and talk to Adria because it was really hard to meet her on a regular day but where scared of Nightmare.

After greeting a lot of people, they finally got to talk to the person who she wanted a contract with luckily he liked Nightmare so he accepted and while conversing, Adria excused herself as she felt tipsy. She headed to the restroom as she felt uneasy. Nightmare watched her as she went to the bathroom as he conversed with free people.

When she was done, she went to the sink to wash her hands and face, few ladies came in. They kept staring at her and she recognized them, they were staring at her at the party. They walked passed her throwing negative talks.

"Some women would do anything to gain more power." A lady on a silver dress said.

"They are gold diggers you know." The other on a peach dress replied.

"Show offs." they spat.

Adria ignored them, when they saw she wasn't replying they approached her

"How is dreggo doing Adria." The lady on red spoke while accessing her from her head to her toes.

Adria ignored them as she tried to leave but they blocked her path.

"Can you move." Adria said impatiently.

The lady in red and strong cologne pushed her, Adria was a bit drunk already so she stumbled back.

"Are you ok why did you do that." Adria said irritated.

"Oh your a bit drunk huh." one scoffed as she tried to slap Adria but Adria hit her instead as a fight broke out. Adria beat them to stupor but she began to feel the place spin the other ladies on silver and peach saw this and took the opportunity to hold her down while the lady on red hit her.

"Leave me alone." Adria struggled.

"Shut it loser." One of the ladies said.

"What should we do to her now I don't feel satisfied." The lady in red said.

"Let's destroy her face." The one on peach said.

"Good idea." the one on red said as she fished out a little knife from her tight.

"Don't you dare."Adria said as she freed one of her hand.

"This is a reminder to stay clear from nightmare." She said as she approached her.

Nightmare stood for a while greeting people and still no sign of Adria, he looked around but she wasn't there, he gave one of his guys her purse as he headed to the restroom.

"Sir your not allowed her-." before she could complete her word she was thrown to the ground. Nightmare immediately realized something was wrong so he ran to the toilet, when he got to the door he heard sounds of slaps and then a threats, he hit the door and with a loud thud it opened the ladies were stun, he saw a lady trying to press a knife against Adria's face he was gripped with fear as he saw a little cut on Adria's face.

"How dare you ladies." He said in a threatening manner.

"What is he doing here." One of them said.

He immediately strode toward the lady with the knife and smacked her with that she slumbed.

"Oh my God." The other ladies where shocked and began to beg.

He went straight to Adria and examined her body as he asked "Are you ok."

"No night..mare they hit me, hard!!." she began to cry as she was drunk.

He turned to the lady with a deadly glare and asked Adria "Do you want to slap them back."

"Mhm slap them for me." she said as she buried her head on his chest.

Nightmare ordered his boys to beat them up, when they stopped the ladies faces were full of bruises.

"Take them away." he ordered.

When they left he looked at Adria and asked her to look at him, she refused but after persuading she did her cheeks where red and she had a little cut. He was really angry about this he cleaned her face with his handkerchief and brought her out of the bathroom, he took her to one of the room assigned to him, he applied some cream to the places that was hurt.

As he blew on it his eyes fell on her lips and the way she held him tightly, he lost it and held her head rubbing his thumbs against her lips, he knew she would never accept this if she wasn't drunk.

He whispered softly "I love you this way." he bent over and kissed her feeling the softness of her lips.

Adria resisted as she pushed him "away stay away from me." she said.

"Come here Adria." He beckoned.

"No, stay away from me." She said trying to walked away.

He approached her and tried to hold her but she hit his hand shoving him off in the process .

Nightmare was fuming with anger. This was the only woman who didn't want him even in this state and he wants her, he held Adria tightly why did she just reject him he thought searching her eyes but she looked away, turning in the process.

"Look at me Adria." nightmare said calmly trying to keep his demons at bay.

Adria ignored him while trying to free hers from him.

"I said look at me!." he turned Adria and forcefully kissed her, she didn't have time to register what was going on as he held her down, she didn't protest she was giving into his demands as she felt the place spin a little.

He sucked and nibbled her lips, trailing kisses down her neck leaving marks behind, he did it as a punishment when he was done he went back to her lips and forcefully pried her lips open as he slide his tongue into mouth, the warm feeling was like an addictive drug.

He pushed her on his bed as his hand roamed around her body, she tried to struggle but he held her down, she tried moving her hands and found a vase in the process she immediately smashed it against his head as she stood up and staggered out of the room.

Nightmare grunt in pain as his demon came loose, he was really angry at her. He chased after her and caught up with her and he carried her on his shoulder and lead her back to the room Adria kept hitting him and struggling to get away from him.

"Let me go! let me go!!!." Adria screamed.

"Stay calm Adria." He hissed.

"No let me go or I'll call the cop." Adria said.

"I'm getting pissed Adria I don't want to hurt anyone because of you." He threatened.

Adria ignored his warnings, when he placed her on the bed she slapped him. Immediately he ordered his boys to bring the lady on the red gown.

When she arrived she saw Adria resting her head on the head board looking tired.

Nightmare approached her in a domineering manner, she shrugged as she thought he wanted to make out with her as the thought crossed her mind she immediately smirked and began to act seductively. When he got to her he traced his nose along her neckline she bent her neck lost in the sensation.

"Adria." nightmare called out to her, Adria turned to him and immediately he slit the woman neck, stabbed her on the chest till he felt satisfied.

Adria eyes opened widely, she was shocked at what just happened she stood up swiftly approaching the body with her shaking hands she looked at the woman "hey....hey stand up jokes over stand up." But the body just slumbed wen she touched it, she turned to nightmare.

"Nigh....nigh....nightmare what have you done." she said as tears poured down her eyes "she did nothing wrong to you, so why did you kill her?." She said trembling.

"Well if you disobey me or runaway just like you did next time, I'll kill someone else that's close to you or anyone at all cause I know you can't stand it." he said as he approached her.

Adria was shocked by his words "Don't come close to me, stay where you are." She said as she moved back but unfortunately there was a wall at her back and not a door.

When he got to her, he cleaned her tears,kissed her and dragged her out of the place, she kept staring at the body which was laying lifeless on the floor.

"Dispose it." he ordered his boys as he took Adria somewhere else.

Adria kept hitting him as she sobbed "your killer! your a bloody beast." she said as she cried "you kill a woman....cuz...cause I refused you."

He held her "don't touch me." she screamed.

"It's ok calm down Adria your gonna pass out if you keep struggling."he held her tightly.

Adria was shocked, what she had just seen tonight proves Ryan's word " nightmare was really obsessed with her, this was insanity, she needs to break whatever this is." she thought.

He put her to bed and pat her gently, eventually he put her to bed.

THE PRESENT

Peee!!!! pee!!!!

Adria was brought back by a cars honk, she was startled "shit." She said as she was almost hit by another car. Worry and fear spread through her body as she kept calling Berlina's line.

"Pick up,pick up Berlina pick up urgh God please don't let anything happen to them ." She began to tremble as she didn't know what to do.

Asachi was was about entering his car when he saw a car almost run into a black suv but luckily it only hit the side not causing much damage he immediately ran towards the car which had been hit, when he got there he saw Adria inside looking very scared and trembling.