I apologise for the state of this chapter. More apologies to come after (aren't you all lucky)...
"Wha- what?" I stutter, completely overwhelmed.
"I'm sorry, I wanted to tell you. He said he hired him to scare us into letting him buy into the bistro. I don't know the details or how he knew you'd be in there or whether he even knows what Jamie tried to do or about what you did." He rambles on as I go to sit down, not wanting to believe this.
That he is capable of this.
I look up at Nick as he talks, trying to decipher from the expression on his face whether he's pretending or if he truly doesn't know the truth. The whole truth.
"Why?" I ask, bluntly.
"Like I said, he wanted to scare us because I refused to sell him half the bistro." He tells me, clearly taken aback.
"So wh-why did you sell? I don't understand Nick." I admit.
"He told me how he paid Jamie to scare you and he said that if I didn't give him half the bistro for the price I did then he would persuade Jamie to pay you another visit. I'm sorry. I didn't want you to worry." I struggle for breath as I try to take in what he's saying.
I can't believe it. I should've known that Nick wouldn't have sold half the bistro to Robert if I wasn't okay with it. I should've trusted him.
"Does he know? Do you think he knows about Jamie? Is he bluffing or is he still in contact with him? What if he's awake? Oh god what if Jamie's awake." I start to panic as I bring my knees up to my chest, hugging my arms around them before he comes over and places his arms gently around my frame.
"Sweet heart, it's okay. It's okay." He soothes me as I shake uncontrollably, unable to see anything but his face in my mind.
"It's not, Nick. Stop saying that." I snap. "You can't say that it's okay because it's not. It's really not. Anything could happen, Nick. Jamie could come back and try to finish what he started or he could remember and he could go to the police. I could get sent down. Everything is not going to be okay!"
Before I know it, he has put his arms around me again and just runs his fingers through my hair as he holds me close to his body, rocking me gently back and forth.
"Shhh." He says, gently as we lie back on the sofa, saying nothing as no words are needed.
All we need is each other.
I'm sorry that was so small and bad to be honest. I'm also really sorry I didn't update last week but I had a lot going on and just couldn't get round to it. I'm very quickly losing both motivation for this FIC and time to write so please review to let me know if you are still interested in this and want me to carry on? I'm still going to try with weekly updates but I'm going on holiday and have exams so apologies for when I don't. I'm not sure whether I'm going to keep this as being regularly updated or switch it with another or just regularly update One Year so, like I said, please tell me what you want and any suggestions are welcome although I won't necessarily do them as I am losing motivation. Thank you so much. Please please please review? (Sorry for the essay).