My Angels and Demons

2. My Angelic Knight

Nora POV

Beep beep..!! beep beep..!!

Literally saved by the bell or in my case its my alarm, which bought me back to my reality from the bad memory lane of my dreams. It is not easy for someone to relive their horrific moments in their sleep as well.

I'm a victim to recurrent dreams, it’s not a medical condition but the consequence of my lower psychological well-being. It’s like when you sometimes have the same dream more than once over a short period of time Or maybe you’ve had the same dream over the entire course of your life. These repetitive dreams are called recurring dreams. Believe it or not it is extremely common. Recurrent dreams occur between 60 percent and 75 percent of adults and more often in women than men. Because women naturally tend to attain the power of intuition. Most recurring dreams are assumed to reveal the presence of unresolved conflict or stress in the dreamer’s life and that quote towards me.

Nothing helped me, I tried everything to stop this nightmare., psychiatric consult, yoga, self-defence class, therapy., everything told me that I just have to deal with it! And so I did, over the time when years have passed the occurrence period of this nightmare has reduced gradually. From every night to weekly once in this 8 years. That's my progression and I'm proud of myself to be grown this far...

Drenched in my own sweat. I woke from my bed and marched straight to my restroom.

Seeing myself in the mirror and remembering the past made me realise how much I have changed, I removed my oversized t-shirts, and saw my bruises in my lower abdomen.,

As years passed by, it got faded and now it’s looks like nothing traumatic had ever happened. Plain, smooth, pale region of skin is visible.,

But ‘only I can see’ the trauma even now. Touching that region I can still feel the big lumps caused by his kicks and punches, which were black and purple, I can still see them, even now it sends me shiver to my body remembering my dreadful experiences of that night...!

It took a moment for me to get composed and get back on the track with my regular life.

After a very long shower, I came out and went to my closet, I choose a white pencil skirt with pink blouse and white over coat.. yes it’s a formal attire, after blow drying my mid length brunette hair I decided to tie into a bun leaving two strands in the front of my face..

Once my lotion got dried off, I decided to wear some mascara to my honey brown eyes and some peach lip-gloss to my pink lips, I topped my look with a single stoned white diamond earrings and finally I wore a 3 inch black pointed heels enhancing my 5.7 feet height. I looked my at complete look, Wow, Not bad!

Reaching my living area I turned on my coffee machine and saw my phone, two missed calls and one voice message from my son.

“good morning my beautiful momma... keep rocking, have a great day momma. Me and Nana miss you always, see you soon momma, we love you...byeeeee. oh god!! my school bus has arrived. Nana where is my lunch box...”

I listened to my son’s voicemail smilingly, I took hold of his framed picture with my mom, he is 8 years now living with my mom in Ohio,. After that incident my mom gave me all her support by taking care of Evan and told me to go conquer the world, she thought only by facing my problems alone can help me with my situations, one way or the other It really did help me, so I moved out of my home when Evan was just 2 and half years.

I changed my name from Lenora pierce to Nora Higgins because I know that there are possibilities for the villain of my nightmare is still searching me, after all I'm his obsession and the one who rejected him. Spending a year with him that maniac, I know that he won’t let me loose that easily, so I changed my complete identity and started my new life.

It’s been 5 years since I started to work with ‘Adams industries’, they are multinational corporations dealing with many industries in the business world. Their main focus is on fashion and I work with them in their fashion line, I'm one of the senior designer with my own team but again that is for the outer world, in secret I'm their head of fashion designing unit all over the world and I go by the brand “LN”.

When I got offered as the head, I couldn't accept it, because positions like that will grasp all the media attention and I will get caught to the devil of my past.

My persistent boss doesn't like No for an answer, he keeps demanding the reson from me to neglect such a high position. Eventually I gave in and told ‘Mr. Christopher Adam’, the CEO of Adam’s industry about my past and my reasons for not accepting the offer.

It was not hard for me open up to Mr. Adam , working with him, I genuinely get to know that he is a good man, this man always understand the needs of his other employees and employers, working close with him, I had moments of observing his wellness towards the people around him, so gradually we happened to create a beautiful friendship out of respect for each other, he even let me know about his sour married life with his wife ,Rachael Adams, that was the sign of trust he had over me. He even had my back whenever I was dealing with company politics and he believes that I won’t be wrong or do wrong. So, I started to entrust him, and so, it was not difficult for me to share my past with him. After listening patiently, he completely understood my situation and suggested me that I can be their “secret” head of the department, just like authors who us their pen name to hide their identity. I gave a thought about it, took my time and agreed to it only when I thought I can pull it through without any hustles. I chose to go by the brand name ‘L.N' as its the initial of my real name and for another personal reason as well. What surprised us more was that strategy worked like wonders for me and the company. I got to lead a normal life and be a star in my dream job and as for as, for the company it gave more marketing and up rise in the stock market because of the hidden talented designer, the anticipation and the curiosity raised more and more among the people in the fashion world, and as a result our brand LN sold more and always in demand. That way it’s a win-win for both the side and I keep to rock being the best in both Worlds.

Since then Me and Christopher have become close friends and respect each other dearly, not just professionally but even in personal aspects as well. We both know that we got each other back if needed and he has proven the point many time in several occasions for me.

My thoughts are interrupted as I heard my front door clicked open, revealing to the person I was waiting for ‘my angelic knight’ “Alex Vincent”.