Chapter 48: Chapter 48

As the car stopped Nick rubbed his forehead. He glared at his wristwatch and enunciated, "Ohh, we have already reached."

It was a tiring day, he had to attend so many meetings and his schedule was full. Taking out his coat he got off the car.

Somehow he felt eerie as soon as he immigrated towards the entrance hall. Weird loneliness enveloped the whole place, not only he could not see anybody but he felt it that way.

Ignoring it he ambled upstairs towards his room. The first thing he did was to take a bath, getting freshen up was what he needed that time.

He put on his bathrobe and then he came out of the bathroom while wiping off his hair with a towel but the weird uneasiness kept growing. He scanned the whole place as he could not remember where did he keep his phone when it was ringing continuously.

He could hear the sound getting closer when he walked towards the bed so he walked a little further to find his phone. Until the time his hand touched the side table and an envelope plopped down.

Randomly he threw his towel on the table and grabbed the envelope from the floor. "Mrs. Elisa didn't tell me about this."

Sitting on the bed he opened it only to get shocked. He was stunned to see photos of him with women. He seemed to be intimate with them. 'What the...' he stared at them again and he could not remember going so close to them.

As he moved the envelope upside down he found nothing written on them so he looked down on the floor in search of anything if he could find to understand who had sent it to him and even to his room.

Suddenly Nick found a note. It had some words on it. He read it in a low voice...

"I am leaving. From now on you can have how many affairs you want, there won't be your wife who will get hurt anymore. Hope you happiness..."

And then the note dropped down to his hand. He stared at the photos again. 'I did not do this... I didn't cheat...' taking a photo he squeezed it in his hand angrily and then threw it away. 'You can not leave me.' Grabbing all the photos he tore them apart and then threw them in the air furiously.

Nick quickly ran to Sanaya's room. Her room was just like it was when nobody lived there, it did not have her smell lingering on anymore. Running to the cupboard he opened it and he was disappointed. It was empty, all her clothes were gone.

He could not find any of her belongings in her room either. Quickly going to his room he called Aiden.

"Find Sanaya. She left the mansion. Find her from anywhere. As soon as possible, find... Find her." He sounded frustrated and like 'wanting to order but begging'.

Aiden replied immediately, "Ok, boss. We will start finding her right now."

Nick was not in the mood to look around but put his phone aside. He let out a sigh of distress. 'Where... Where did she go? She doesn't know anything much, it's foreign... Foreign country for her. What if she runs into danger? No... Damn... Damn it! How did things...' he rubbed the back of his neck in frustration.

Suddenly grabbing a shirt he put it on. 'This stupid girl! I need to find her. She must be at that best friend... In her home. Yeah...'

Nick was running down the stairs when he saw Mrs. Elisa. "Are you going to search her?" She asked him in a calm voice.

"Why did not you call me when she left? Why did you stay quiet even when I came back? Why did not you tell me anything?"

For all his questions she answered him with one line only. "She said, to not get hurt anymore she must stay away from you."

"What ..." Tonight he was getting all shocks at together. When did what happened he had no idea and now he was getting to know everything.

Seeing Nick's expression Mrs. Elisa let out a sigh of frustration. She smiled a little and said, "She is like my daughter, but I could not stop her today. I don't want to see her hurt, I had no option left."

"She can't... She can't leave me like that. I will find her. I will not..."

"Did you tell her that you married her because she is beautiful?"

Hearing her he stepped back and exhaled a deep sigh. Then he nodded his head. Mrs. Elisa was expecting this, 'they say you can't clap with your one hand'. Now she understood that he was really...

"You can hate women but in all the women she is definitely not like your mom. Today I am... I am not going to sit up only. If I am hurting you, then I am not sorry for that. Little Nick, if you wanted to play with her then you were wrong. You shouldn't have married her since you did not have feelings for her and you decided to play with her feelings only." Mrs. Elisa broke out in tears as words were getting stuck in her throat.

Nick shook his head in disagreement. He was definitely not some kind of a jerk. He did not cheat on her, he did not. He did not even have any idea that things were getting out of his hand already. "I did n..."

Mrs. Elisa did not let him finish. She walked towards him and added more, "Do you remember her background? Do you remember she left her home back in India and how did she try to get adapted to here?"

Nick bobbed his head while looking down.

"Even when you remembered, you still did this to her? Now I feel like I don't know you anymore. The Nick I knew, I expected him to love her and live like a happy man. But you... Anyway, I don't think you will like me talking this much. I am just a caretaker anyway." Nick held her hand as Mrs. Elisa turned away from him. He was sad.

Still holding her hand he expressed, "I know it was my fault. I will make it up to her. Can you please tell me where did she go?"

"I don't know... She did not tell me."

Answering him she walked away slowly without turning back anymore. Nick could feel coldness surrounding him, that coldness that he started hating now. She gave him warmth when she was here, now she was gone and she took the warmth along with her.

'I won't let her go. I... I want to treasure her. I will explain it to her.' Nick quickly ran to his car. He was not going to sit and do anything. He wanted to find her himself.

He started driving his car as fast as he could. It did not take him much time to reach Clara's house. As if he was a giant and his car was nothing to him, like throwing his car away somewhere he got out of the car and then he ran faster towards Clara's house.

"Sanaya, I am Nick. Open the door." He could not keep calm. He knocked at the door and since the door was not opened he kept hitting it.

It was only the fourth time when Clara opened the door. Seeing her instead of the person he was expecting to see, he got disappointed.

Moving her aside he walked into her house without waiting for Clara to let him get in. "Sanaya? Where are you?"

"She is not here," Clara answered him. But not wanting to believe her, he kept searching Sanaya.

"Sanaya, please come out. I know you are angry at me. But trust me, I will solve everything once I..." He walked into the room Sanaya stayed in before. But sadly he could not find her.

Clara was already angry at him and his behavior was making her blood boil. Seeing him still looking for her she lost her temper.

She pushed him out of her room and then she kept pushing him out of her house. "Get lost from here before I kill you!"

"I won't go. I want to talk to her. Where's my wife? Where did you hide her? Sanaya? Please come out." Nick got a hold of a door tight and stood still, declining to leave.

Crossing her arms over her chest Clara let out a sarcastic chuckle as she shot, "Mister. What type of sorcery is this? You have thrown her to the pool yourself and now you want to save her? Waw. I can't believe this."

"Sanaya, I know you can hear me. Please come out, I promise I will explain everything to you. Gimme a chance to explain ok? Please come out. You, tell her to come out. I really have something to tell her. I..."

Cutting him off Clara asked him in an angry tone. "Explain? Explain what and to whom? You. You have hurt my best friend, she cried. She was in pain because of you. Now what else you want huh!"

"I... I am... It was all my fault. I know... But I am serious now. I will explain everything to her. Please tell her to come out. I..."

"She already left." Her answer made him surprised. Where could she go if not to Clara? He could not believe it. Since she was new here she could not possibly go anywhere else, right? "You are lying, she is here. You don't know what will you face if you hide my wife. So you better not play around, I am telling you for your good. Don't hide her and..."

"My goodness, you are a thing you know? After hurting my best friend how can you warn me? You have guts huh!" Clara did not wait anymore. She kicked him out of her house as she was furious at him. "I don't know when she will be back but you won't meet her the same way, remember."

And he heard those last words by Clara. Standing outside of her house Nick looked at the stars. Now, what could he do? Where he could search? He did not have any idea if Sanaya had any other friends except Clara.

'Where are you? Where can I find you?' He walked to his car all sad. Even if he did not know where she could possibly go but he could search all the city if he had to. Just when he was about to get in he felt a sudden pain around his chest. He touched his chest heavily and tried to breathe in and out deeply.

Something was wanting badly to obscure his vision and make him fall asleep but he as the owner of his body did not want it to happen. He sat in his car somehow and tried breathing heavily. Just then his phone started ringing.

"Mr. Davis, that girl works at a bar who sent that video and photos to Mrs. Davis." The person from the other side of the call informed him.

"Send me her location." As Nick ordered the man did so. Before starting to drive Nick touched his coat under where he had his gun...