Chapter 102 - Story Of Nikki Lindsey

CHAPTER 102: HIS HAPPINESS

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"What did you say?" He is uncertain if he heard it correctly or Jeremy, just kidding at him.

"Is this a prank, Jeremy?" 

"Do you think this is something to joke around, Theo?"

He keeps a moment of silence. Nikki, as the mother of his child? That is wonderful for him. But to think of the reason, the child will go to Jeremy for adoption. How could he explain that to Nikki? Can he just approach her and tell her, 'I choose you to bear a healthy child.'

Who's he kidding here? Did it sound ruder?

He already struggled to approach her to offer a role for his project, then this? Ah, it was like jumping from the bridge!

It was already hard for him to choose a random woman. How could he make Nikki the surrogate mother that she would not hate him at the end of the agreement?

The child will go to his uncle. Once Nikki learns that is the case, would she forgive him?

'Jeremy, why are you making my life even harder? I cannot hurt Nikki like this.' But he did not voice this out, and he only keeps it to himself.

"And regarding this matter, Theo. I leave it to you to tell her."

"What? How could you make things complicated for me?"

"It is easy. As you can see, you can take advantage while Nikki needs help."

"What are you talking about, Jeremy? Are you referring to her mother's condition? I can't believe you are this heartless!"

"I'm just suggesting with something. Unless you come up with better steps?"

Theo looked at Jeremy. How could he tell his brother that he could not break Nikki's heart like this? Offering her help, but there is a price in return?

"I will give my blood to help her, but I am not considering what you want to happen, Jeremy."

"Then, do you prefer another woman?"

"Not!" he firmly refused. He hurls a sigh and sits up. "I will think about it first," he said before he left the room.

Theo finds himself seated in the rooftop garden to breathe fresh air. He was really against it. Although the idea entices him, on the contrary, it confused him. It would truly make him happy if Nikki became the mother of his child. But the case is different, and both of them cannot keep the child.

Contemplating this matter, it urges him to see her. He made up his mind and came up with an alibi.

Theo took the emergency staircase, but he heard faint cries.

'Nikki...' He watches her from the tenth floor.

She was seated on the cold-cemented surface. She looks too helpless at how she's worried about her mother.

It tempted him to show up, but Nikki now occupied herself by contacting anyone to get a blood donor.

Theo sits on the floor and takes out his phone.

"How are you?" He texted Nikki. He waited, hoping for her to respond to him. Maybe he could offer a friendly talk even if he is not good at it. He wants to help her lighten the pain she is getting through right now.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!"

That is what Nikki replied to him instead. And he understands why she acted like this, as she was in pain.

"You need me."

"I don't! So leave the fucking out of my life!"

Theo takes a moment before he replies to Nikki. How should he replied to her that she would calm down?

"I have just arrived in your life, so I can't grant your wish to leave you out that quick." It is what he came up with; it is his true feelings.

"What the heck? You are out of your mind! I have no time to waste it for you. Look for someone else to fool around!"

"But you need me."

He insisted.

"I don't need anyone, especially the likes of you!"

Seated away from the railings, he bent over to glance at Nikki on the eighth floor. She's wiping her cheeks when tears are silently trailing down her face. 'Nikki, don't push me away.'

"How could you say that?" He responded.

"You're out of your mind is the truth!"

"You should not judge me quickly." It is not time to give up. Theo thought.

"Why not? If you have a backbone, show yourself and not stalk someone!"

He would show himself. But since Jeremy introduced Nikki to be the surrogate mother, it becomes even harder for him to confess he is the one sending her messages as he has a reason. Now there is another reason, so maybe it is better if he stays a mystery man. He will just worry about it later if he tells Nikki the truth.

"I did not stalk you around," he denied.

Isn't what he has been doing since the beginning? He needs to punch himself with this one fact.

"Oh, yeah?"

"It's the truth." He has to deny it again.

"Whatever. Could you stop pestering me?! I have more important things to care about than wasting my time on you!"

It is what Nikki replied to him. He understood why she was acting like this; it was all because of the weight she felt right now.

Oh, shit! Now Nikki climbed the stairs, and he quickly got up and hid behind a door. She went to the rooftop garden, and he was debating whether to follow her.

Nikki was in the garden right now. It will appear a coincidence as the rooftop was exclusive only and not for most patients and their family members like Nikki to hang out there. But if he shows up now?

'Ah, that considered stalking, is it?' Theo asks himself. 'Okay!'

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(Ends and complete chapter 17-18 scenes POV)

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Nikki left already, but Theo remains in the rooftop garden.

After that talk, still, he cannot feel at ease. He can't come up with how he will offer surrogacy. He's pondering how he will explain, and Nikki will understand him and accept it without a long persuading process.

Should he better mention the insemination procedure?

How about asking her to sleep with him?

Ah, he is hiding his identity! Besides, he cannot take advantage of Nikki.

How about he offers her a marriage first? 

He doesn't want to raise his child without a complete family. Although he grew up with his brother, father, and stepmother, he had no memories if they were happy or he was happy back then.

And most of all, he pictured a perfect family of his own.

'Shit. I can't do that!' The world knows who his fiancée is and even looks forward to that wedding.

Theo helplessly sits back on the bench.

"Hey, master. It was lonely to sit here alone, but mosquitos will be your date."

Huh. If only Roland knew that Nikki was here and left just now. But he suspected Roland knew.

"Roland, how messed up my life is…" he mumbles.

"Hmm. What do you want to do about it?"

"I wish to be happy. But how could I fulfill that if there are too many things to consider?"

And the few things he must consider: he should marry someone from High Society, and someone cannot be harm by the Clan. He sighed.

"How can you become happy? Simple, master! What will make you happy? If it is an object or something you can buy, then purchase it! If it is a person? Do you have the opportunity to have her? What will you do if you have that chance, master? Would you take it or not?"

Theo just heaves a sighed as a response.

"That was a deep one, master."

"But my life is in a great complex, Roland. Can I even take the risk? I have this fear because still, it lost me without my memories. Every aspect of my life is incomplete."

"Hm. Then how if all you need is she to complete you?"

Theo turns his head. Somewhat Roland's advice to him makes sense. "I didn't know you are like an angel to me."

"Eh? I'm always the angel by your side!"

"Heh."

"So, what have you decided, master?"

"I know what I want, Roland. But this uncertainty fears me. Can I protect her?"

"Do you love her?"

Theo takes the silence from Roland's question.

"Anyway, master, since you mentioned this angel. Miss Nikki posted on her Instagram. She thanked that angel sent by heaven to help her safely get through the traffic. She meant about you, didn't you?"

Roland gives his phone to him, and he reads Nikki's posts. Then his attention focused on her post about how critical her mother's condition is, and it breaks his heart.

He grew up without his blood-related mother. So that aspect of his life is empty. Even if they say that Nina cares for him, but he knows that the love between Nikki and her mother could not compare.

At this moment, Theo made up his mind. He wants to make Nikki happy.. Saving her mother this also brings him happiness; seeing her happy is his purpose from now on.