Nicholas and Natalie 3

Nicholas's POV

Everyone has secrets. Mine is hidden far away in another state. It all started six years ago.

I had fallen into my deranged great aunt, Emilia Lorenzo's scheme. I had woken up the next morning, a girl of about twenty sobbing next to me, a tiny red stain on the sheets, and a throbbing headache. It didn't take a second for me to realize what happened. We had been both dr*gged in the ancestral mansion.

At first, I suspected it was my uncle Ethan's punishment for staring at his wife, Avery, with moon eyes the day I saw her in front of his executive suite in King's Hotel. But I had dismissed the thought as soon as it came; as cold as he looked on the outside, he took great care of my mum and me. It wasn't something he would do.

Feeling guilty and responsible for taking her first time in such a manner, I took her far out of the city, bought a house, and registered her for a therapy session even though her shy smiles and quiet laughte