Husband From Hell (Home From Hell)

Private secretary

Natalie walks slowly towards the room where Jennifer and Nicholas are staying overnight. It was so bad that he got angry and opened the door, but what was the power? besides, Nicholas will definitely bring up the matter of the incident the other day with Kevin.

He's back on the back foot. At least he heard no strange sounds there, maybe they were asleep, he thought.

"Darling, what are you thinking? ... Think about that woman?" Natalie's footsteps stopped when she heard Jennifer's voice ringing. He came back and listened to the conversation behind the door, like a stalker.

"Don't be, just divorce! really complicated. He's a guy who's obviously been caught cheating on me."

I want Natalie to be angry. Apparently the woman who had been pumping Nicholas all this time.

"*It's not that easy, Jen!"

"Certain why? you love her?"

"No, not that."

"Keep why?"

"I'm not content to play with him and his family*."

Hearing those words, Natalie opened her eyes wide. His body suddenly stiffened. He never knew that it turned out that Nicholas had married her only for revenge. He just thinks Nicholas's bawha changed because he knew Jennifer, but he didn't, worse than that. Nicholas never even loved Natalie.

"Oh, what else?"

"I want to see Nadia go crazy. I want to see Thomas suffer because of his son I wasted. I also want to see Nadia badly hurt by seeing one of her children gone. Well, maybe that's enough."

"*Are you really so vengeful for Natalie's family?"

"Hmppp .. very. Don't ever ask me to divorce her again. Because I still need him to make me a horse in my revenge staging drama on his family*."

"So, he married me just to avenge my family?" inner Natalie.

Obviously this is very painful for Natalie. He never thought that his love story would be as sad as this.

"So he never loved me?" Natalie walked backwards away from the room. He no longer wanted to hear anything they were talking about. Everything was clear, now he understood what the cold attitude of Nicholas had meant all this time. Now he understands why Nicholas always helps his family, it's because he wants to ensnare his family.

Pranks

The flower vase next to Natalie accidentally made her fall apart. Heard something fall outside the room. Nicholas hurriedly came out of his room. But she found no one there but a vase of flowers in front of her messy door.

Soon Helena came because she heard that voice.

"Bi, are there any pets in this house?" ask Nicholas.

"Nothing, Sir. I've never seen any pets in this house" Helena said as she tidied up the pieces while Nicholas thought for a moment in his mind, "Who dropped this vase?"

Jennifer came in behind Nicholas. While Nicholas circulated his gaze and he found a drop of blood in the vase. "Blood? .. Why is there blood?" Nicholas could smell the blood. He was sure, it was the smell of human blood that was still very new. But who?

"Natalie." His mind was fixed on the woman."Did he hear everything I said?" Nicholas hurriedly entered his room, while Jennifer just looked lazy and indifferent.

Chequelek

Nicholas opened the door slowly, but it didn't seem like Natalie. Because the woman was curled up quietly on her bed covered with her blanket.

"Huh, thank goodness. It's not him." Nicholas looked at him for a while, until he finally closed again. "Maybe my smell is wrong. Probably just the blood of a stray cat, "his inner self.

"Where from?" Jennifer was already blocking him in the living room. Separating room between his private room and the living room. "Abis see your wife? ... worried?" Jennifer keeps looking for her with a lot of questions that make Nicholas lazy.

"What the hell, Jen?" Nicholas sat down and down and drank a glass of water that was on the table. "Here sit!" then he patted the chair next to him so that the woman would be quiet. Jennifer who was in a bad mood was immediately sitting next to Nicholas while hugging him. "Don't care too much about that woman, honey. She's just a jal@ng."

"I shouldn't have had to worry about it so far," Nicholas' inner self spoke without caring about Jennifer's words.

***

"It's not fair, God." Natalie was sitting sobbing. He covered his body with a blanket. Natalie found out, a few minutes ago Nicholas came and opened the door. But he chose to keep quiet so that Nicholas did not suspect that he had dropped the vase.

Instantly, the tears that he had been holding back were re-dissolving with his hardening. He still could not believe the reality he had just received.

"Nicholas never loved me. He never considered me his wife. He married me just for his revenge on my family." Over and over again, Natalie kept saying those words in her mind. The more he tried to reject this reality, the more tight his chest felt.

His lips were shaking violently. His body temperature rose drastically. He really did not expect, that he would be trapped in a deep pit like this. Loves a man who doesn't think of him as more than a circus horse.

Natalie glanced at her phone as a vibration managed to make her phone screen light up. Erick's name is on there.

Erick: I still wish you would accept my offer.

The message was like a lamp in the dark of Natalie's night. It seems there is still a glimmer of hope for Natalie to get out of this hell soon.

"It looks like this is the door for me," he said.

Flashbacks

"Nat, honestly I'm not calm leaving you alone in this place" Erick said when he met Natalie who was working at her cafe.

"Why?"

"Yes, I'm just afraid, if something happens to you like last night."

"Why should I be afraid? didn't you tell me yourself that the man would never come to this place again."

Erick was silent for a few seconds, before he finally explained his point.

"Not so, do we never know what kind of men will come to this place .. You know, this place is actually not so good for a woman like you."

For a few seconds Natalie was silent, fondling Erick's words. The man had a point too, Natalie never knew what happened today and the days that followed. But for now there is no other choice. Only this job could Natalie do as her side job, to pay off her debt immediately.

"Then what should I do?" Natalie tidied up some papers strewn across her desk.

"What if you become my private secretary?"

"Huh? secretary?"

Natalie squinted her eyes she digested Erick's words well. He heard wrong, he thought. Erick knew that he was still working at Nicholas's place, how could he possibly be his personal secretary.

"I can pay double your salary there."

Natalie's daydreams instantly crumbled as the man uttered he would pay her double her salary.

"You're serious?"

Erick nodded.

Natalie who initially looked enthusiastic immediately pulled the look back on her face, she and Erick just a few days ago became acquainted, but why did Erik seem to give her something different? Natalie was only afraid that there was another meaning to the man. "I'm sorry, but didn't we just know each other. Why are you being so nice to me like this?"

Erick saw a clumsiness on Natalie's face. "I don't know why I'm like this either. But somehow seeing you treated like yesterday, I got scared that something bad happened to you. Maybe I'm just thinking about my ex-boyfriend who's gone."

"former?"

"Hmpp." Erick nodded. "Your face is very similar to her. So, I'm sorry if you feel I'm overdoing it with you."

"Ah, of course not." Natalie misjudged Erick. He feels guilty. "I didn't mean it that way. I ... " Natalie's speech stopped. "I'm just afraid you're like Nicholas. Giving hope only to be dropped. I'm just scared."

"Ah, forget it!" Natalie's trying to melt the atmosphere back. "We can talk about it another time."

"Hmpp."

Flashback Off

Natalie was very tempted by the offer. Because that way he no longer needs part-time work to immediately pay off his mother's debts, if by working as a secretary alone can get a fairly large salary.

But back to that man named Nicholas Jhonson apparently. She's the one who's been making Natalie's dilemma for days, and is backing down her desire to work at Erick's place.

Natalie still wants to enjoy the days with the man, even if it is just going and coming home from work together. For him it was enough to treat his longing for a romantic Nicholas on him.

Natalie also hopes that, as time goes by, Nicholas will return to love himself completely and forget the woman named Jennifer. But, after knowing all the actual facts, it felt like there was no longer any reason for Natalie to stay beside the man.

"Yes, I want to be your personal secretary." The Send to Erick

To be continued