All On Contract

Chapter 141 - All For The Contract

"Olivia and you look happy together." She states. 

"We are." I lie as I shrug lightly. 

"Hmm." She nods before she stands up. I watch her gather up the empty plates before she walks out of the dining room. I quickly stand up and reach for the knife by the bread and place it in the back of my jeans. 

I clear my throat and sit back down quickly when I hear her heels clicking down the hallway. Rose smiles at me widely as she walks back in. I watch her as she gathers up the plates. 

"So, what do you do for a living?" I ask. 

"I...Work in the music industry. I work along side managers." She shrugs. "But you should..." She slowly trails off when her eyes land on the bread plate. She glances up at me and then down at the the place where the knife was. I watch her clear throat as she tucks her hair behind her ear. 

"You were saying?" I place my hand ontop of the table. 

"You should know all about my job." She says. I stand up and gather the rest of dishes as I follow her out the dining room and into the kitchen.

"Ahh...That I do." I say. "You ruin people's life with contracts." I say and hear her let out a laugh. 

"Hmmm....I make their lives better." She says. 

"Better?" I let out a bitter laugh. "You ruined all of us!" I yell. Rose lets out a laugh at my little outburst before and shakes her

"You know, Olivia and Jay told me a lot about you." She points her finger at me. I clench my jaw lightly as I watch her laugh in amusement. "Now you Nicklaus, I feel sorry for." She says. "I heard Tessa stopped speaking to you Chris and Karla are....well gone." She shrugs. 

"Shut the hell up." I say quickly. "You don't get to say their names!" I point at her.

"Poor Nicklaus." She pouts. "He is back to being lonely again-" She doesn't get a chance to finish her sentence when my anger gets the beat of me. I grab her by the neck and slam her face ontop of the counter, making her fall onto the ground with a painful groan. She lets out a laugh as she backs up against the wall. "That's it Nick, lay your hands on me again you wuss. Beat down a defenseless woman!" She raises her voice. I get a good bunch of her hair in my fist and pull her up to her feet.

"You're not defenseless. I saw that pistol sticking out your shirt." I spit. 

"And that still give's you the right to lay your fingers on a woman?" She asks. I yank at her hair, making her moan out in pain.

"Did you kill them!" I yell in her face. "Did you leave their kids as orphans and ruined their fucking future!" I scream. 

"I think you know the answer to that one." She laughs, making me slam her back into the wall. 

"Why?" I ask. She shrugs and smiles and this time I don't hold back. I grab the knife and press it to her stomach. "Why!" I scream, making her laugh again. She's lost her plot. I push the knife into her slightly making her hiss in pain. "Why? What the fuck did they do!" I shout. 

"It's not what they did, Nick. It's what Tessa and her 'husband' did." She says. 

"But they had nothing to do with the fucking contract." I state. "So why them!" I yell again.

"Nick. Nick!" I hear Olivia scream as she runs towards me and try's to pull me away. Olivia falls back against the floor when I pull my arm away from her and push her away. 

"Karla did...And so did you Nick. You tried to get rid of it and me and my friends weren't having that." Rose says, making me look down at her. 

"So why didn't you kill me instead of Chris?" I ask. "Why not just me. They had kids. They had fucking kids to look raise where as-" I start and get cut off.