The Wedding Night

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.” …

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Giovanni POV

Nightmares

The woman’s voice in my dream keeps haunting me, begging me to save her. i wish I could see the woman’s face because anytime I’m close to seeing her face, I woke up from my nightmare.

People believe that because I had it all means I was happy but, they were all wrong. For the past five years, all I have ever experienced were pain and discomfort. I haven’t slept in a long time and anytime I plan to sleep, the nightmares keep coming.

I needed a cure for all the heartaches and problems but, no one was ready to help. My family tried all they could to make sure I was comfortable and happy but It was all futile because they abandoned me when I needed them the most.

I stood up from bed due to insomnia and walked down to my study room to read a book on nightmares. As I glanced through the pages of the book, my mind went off to my new personal assistant. she was something and the purpose of my hiring her was to find out what she meant by me being her husband. Even her voice resembled the woman’s voice in my nightmares. Was it coincidental or just my imaginations? Those were the thought going through my mind as I tried to sleep.

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” Good morning, welcome sir” the voice that haunted my dreams, greeted me as I walked to the office that morning.

I ignored her greetings and entered my office, slamming the door as loud as I could.

How dare she greeted me after haunting my dreams last night? I thought as I sat on the couch in my office.

I need to rest.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep but the knocks on my office door didn’t help it.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“Come inside,” I commanded in a hoarse voice.

The door opened and my assistant entered and stood at the entrance of the door.

“I did not call for you.” I pointed out and continued. “why are you here?” I frowned my face as hard as I could because I was not in good.

“Sir.” She bows and handed over a file to me. I looked up at her before collecting the file from her hand.

“What is this?” I asked as I read through the files. I had no idea why I was asking her that because the information I needed, was on the file but I couldn’t see it because my visions were getting blurred.

“It’s the Chinese investor’s file and I have fixed the meeting.”

“You fixed a meeting without informing me?” I tried to yell but the headache that was beginning to set in made me spoke in a normal tone.

“Sir, you told me to fix the meeting yourself” she argued.

“Meeting!” I shouted and kicked the glass center table in the office. The glass broke into pieces and shattered across the office.

I breathe in deeply when I realized my actions. Her whimpers made me stare closely at her. The left side of her face was bleeding and a slight cut ran down her face.

“I um…” I stuttered not knowing what to say. I was the cause of the cut but I didn’t know what to say to her. “You may leave,” I said and stood up from where I was sitting.

I expected her to have moved from where she stood but she didn’t instead she continued weeping.

“Leave my office! I said leave!” I yelled.

“Do not yell at me!” She shouted, “don’t you dare yell at me.” She retorted.

“How dare you?”

“How dare me? Are you insane? you caused this!” She pointed to her bleeding face. “You are the craziest person I ever met in my entire life. madam samosa is better than you” she shouted.

Why was she yelling at me as if I did something bad? And who the hell was madam samosa? Her face was red from crying and it was still bleeding.

“What do you expect me to do?” I questioned.

“Apologize!”

“Apologize?” I almost laugh because it was funny to me. I have never apologized to anyone in my entire. “I don’t do apologizes and you are not someone I should be apologizing to,” I said and walked closer to her.” you are my assistant and things like this do happens so deal with it,” I said arrogantly and turned to walk away from her but, she pulled me back and slapped me hard on the face.

“That I’m your assistant doesn’t make you a boss over my life. start treating your employees like humans and not animals!” She yelled and poke my face.

As her hand touched my face, I yanked it off my face and twist it.

“Ahh, ” she groaned.

“When you slapped my face, I did nothing and now you dare to touch my face. I hate when people touch me.”

“You are hurting me. Let me go!”

“I can ruin your life and make you pay for raising your filthy hands on me but, I’ll let this slide because I found you amusing,” I said and release her hand. What I didn’t expect was another slap.

“The hell?”

“Do you also find this amusing?” She smirked and walked to the door.” do not forget the meeting, by twelve sir.” she bows and left my office.

As soon as she left, I yelled and thrashed my office. How dare that pitiful thing slap me on the face? I caress my face and cursed angrily. My cellphone rang on my desk but I ignored it. The next time it rang, I picked up and lashed out at the caller.

“Why the hell are you disturbing my peace!” I yelled at whoever was on the call.

“Giovanni franklin Aderemi . how dare you to yell at your mother?” My mother’s sweet voice scolded me on the phone.

I remove the phone from the ear and stare at the caller.” fuck”I cursed under my breath.

“Hello, mother!” I greeted.

“Do not hello me Giovanni. You promised to show up at the family dinner last Friday and you didn’t. This has been on for months now. If this is about your brother, you need to…”

“This is not about Lorenzo and you know it, mother.”

“Giovanni I have already apologized to you. Why are you so unforgiving?” I could hear my mother sobbing on the phone but I didn’t care because she made me this way.

“Giovanni please ” she sobbed.”I’m sorry son. I’m sorry. Your father and I are sorry about whatever we’ve done to you” she begged.

“You are sorry? You abandoned me for a year because you thought I wouldn’t wake up!” I yelled.

“And I’m sorry son. I’m sorry”

“Sorry is not going to change the fact that you and your father abandoned me at a point when I needed you the most in my life. Goodbye, mother. do not call me again” I said to her and dropped the call.

I was not ready to face my family yet. They were evil and the worst kind of people on earth. My parents favored my little brother Lorenzo who was the pride of the family.

My life is a mess and everything that had happened to me was their fault. I have been lonely all my life and I was going to be lonely forever unless a miracle happens. I stared at my assistant through the transparent glass on my door. How do I wish she was my miracle? She was fierce and that was the kind of person I wanted in my life.

My life is a nightmare I’m never waking up from.