Enchanted By The Villain

CHAPTER 4.

The ringing of my doorbell interrupted my thoughts. Standing before my door was Nicholas as I switched to the live feed from my doorbell camera. I had a state of the art, motion triggered, audio doorbell camera.

"You can enter." I said and tapped a button on my computer system to unlock the door.

I had electronic control of virtually everything in my house such that I could practically shut down the entire house from my room. I had the best of IT engineers headed by one genius, Akmal. These guys were insanely innovative. If I listened to everything they said, my house would be the kind you saw in American sci-fi movies.

I quickly hibernated my system and stood up to join Nicholas in the other room. The other room was a more realistic and comfortable room with chairs, a mini bar and a large bed. It was very different from this room which was more or less my IT theatre with different electronic devices circling the entire space, some of which I was yet to master. Thanks to Akmal; he was a stereotypical computer nerd. Sometimes I even wondered if he wasn't an alien or a time traveler from the distant future. His aptitude for digital technology was fascinating.

"Good afternoon sir." Nicholas greeted as I walked into the room.

"Afternoon Nick, how is she?" I casually inquired as if I was asking about the weather.

"Fine and settled." He answered as a wry smile sliced through his face suggestive of the fact that I already knew the answer to the question.

As my oldest staff, he knew I had eyes all over the house.

"I hope she is comfortable?" Ignoring his innuendo as I sat down on my favourite chair knowing full well that I wasn't supposed to be overly interested in her. Not that I feared how Nicholas would perceive it, but because I always preferred keeping things concerning women I liked to myself.

"Most definitely sir, I personally made sure of that as you directed."

Nicholas knew me well. I suspected he knew when I was pretending because he had known me all my life. He was there when I was born. I inherited him from my late father. He was his most trusted and loyal staff.

"I told her that she would meet with you tomorrow." He added.

Sometimes I found myself wondering what always went on in the mind of this man. He was so dedicated to pleasing me. It was surprising to me because this was the same man I feared while growing up. He hardly laughed or played with anyone unlike other domestic workers. He was a very serious man and always did with dispatch everything my father asked of him. The same allegiance he extended to me.

"Fine. Do you think my daughter would like her?" Now appearing to be serious as I asked.

"I think she would."

"Why?"

"Ms. Harvey has an endearing personality."

"Endearing? That's interesting. How so?" Touching the side of my bears hoping to play down on my increasing desire to know his impressions of her.

"She is a beautiful lady, very different from all the nannies I've worked with." Nicholas said with a happy face and I held back the sensation to smile to that as I was also puzzled by his observation. He wasn't the type that paid attention to women, and it was rumoured that the reason he had no girlfriend, wife or kids was because he was castrated. It was believable knowing who my father was.

"Okay. Thanks, you can leave now. I will be coming down to the pool in a couple of minutes. I will need some grilled fish and small chops. And then a bottle of my favourite champaign."

"Noted sir. Anything else?"

"That will be all for now."

Nicholas quickly hurried out of the room as I pondered on his observations. I wasn't the only one that saw this new nanny as beautiful. Even this eunuch did. That was something. I stood up, walked to the wardrobe, changed into my swimming pants, and pulled a boxers on top of it. I looked at my shirts, saw a new beach shirt and flung it on my shoulder. I selected a Turquoise towel from the stack of bath towels on a separate shelf and left the room.

(Alexia's POV)

I was now fully settled in the room. As I searched through the Netflix movies in my tablet, my mind was elsewhere. I felt like going downstairs and asking Nicholas to take me around this beautiful Island. My boss knew me for my focus and dedication to any assignment, but this was different. I had always fantasized about retiring young and going to a peaceful island, away from the hassles of city life and settling there and possibly having a kid or two. I wasn't exactly hopeful of a husband or a permanent relationship with a man I loved. That would be asking for two much considering who I was and what I had done. I would be satisfied with hooking up with any regular guy I fancied and getting laid. Nothing permanent. All I needed was to get laid any time l felt like it and then a kid I could call my own and bring up in a decent way totally different from my own story. That was all I wished for.

As I dropped the tablet on the bed, frustrated that my mind wasn't really interested in watching any movie, I walked towards the window and drew the curtains. The next thing I saw got me speechless. What a male specimen! I said to myself as he emerged from the water like an Adonis. He was tall, perfectly built, not the hulk or bodybuilder kind of build that I found excessive most times but his was moderate, and stunning. His abdomen was effortlessly ripped as if he was born that way. His broad chest slightly divided and not puffy. The muscles on his arms were perfectly toned. He looked 6 ft 3 and weighed about 92 kg from my assessment, because if there was one thing I was good at, it was determining people's sizes and weights by just looking at them. It was included in my tactical training as people's physical attributes determined how best to physically overpower them. As he sat near the pool looking extremely handsome, I knew that pictures could be deceiving. Yeah he looked good in his pictures I saw but not this good. Is this the piece of beauty I was sent to kill? That would be an injustice to the artistic ingenuity of mother nature. I thought for a second but quickly snapped out of it. I rebuked myself for entertaining such discouraging and fickle thoughts. I was particularly trained to be emotionally detached from my targets even when they were charming and irresistible. I couldn't afford to fail in this mission. It was the mission that would give me all the powers I needed in the cartel as my boss had promised to relinquish control of the Barbados territory to me. I was going to be the boss lady of the cartel's biggest market, and second in command to him. In fact, Gabriel Alejandro died the moment this mission was given to me.

Nicholas was standing with a lovely little girl of about 7 years when I stepped into the lobby. As he saw me coming, he smiled.

"Olivia, this is Ms. Harvey, your new nanny."

"Hello darling," I said with the best smile I could muster, determined to make her like me as I bent over to touch her silky hair.

"Good evening Ms. Harvey. You look beautiful." She said with a lovely voice that made me immediately wish she was my child.

"Oh that's so sweet darling coming from you. Thanks"

"Are you going to replace Miss Parker?"

"Just for two weeks sweetheart, and then she will be back to you." She frowned on hearing that.

"What is it sweetheart?"

"I don't want her back."

"Why?"

"Nothing."

"Now you have to go to your room Olivia," Nicholas cut in."Ms. Harvey starts officially from tomorrow."

"Bye Ms. Harvey." Olivia waved happily as she followed Nicholas who led her to an elderly woman waiting by the corner.

Quickly Nicholas returned to me.

"She is such a lovely kid." I said with a genuine smile. For the first time in years, I was feeling the closest thing to normal.

"She likes you." Replied Nicholas.

"I'm happy she does, and who was the old lady?" I asked, immediately regretting using the word 'old' as I looked at his face.

"Her cleaner, she is only standing in for you until tomorrow."

"I see. Well I was bored in my room so I decided to come down here and get acquainted with the environment."

My tone suggested that I wanted him to show me around, but he seemed not to take note. I feared that I may have touched on his sensibilities with my description of the lady.

"OK. I will officially introduce you to the entire staff tomorrow morning."

"That will be nice. So can I look around the house?"

"Of course you can." Nicholas said with a note of finality as he bowed and left with a perfunctory smile.

I immediately knew for sure that I had offended him, and this worried me.