The Niccolo She Had Never Seen

(NFTMB)Chapter 53
Victoria
(The Niccolo She Had Never Seen)
If anyone had told me that something like this would happen, I never would have believed it.
I knew this morning wouldn’t have gone by really smoothly. Who was I kidding? Of course it’s the Rossi family, anything and everything could go wrong.
Actually, everything could go wrong.
Thankfully, Fabiano wasn’t here yet.
That old scum and Alessandro were the worst of the bunch. Niccolo was now coming in third.
The extreme silence that drummed in my ears after the shocking incident that happened just now was quite very very silent. Just that, silent.
I never believed that the loved up couple that I saw, the over protective and caring boyfriend that I saw could even pull a strand of hair out from Jasmine not to talk of smacking her across the face with so much aggression in front of everybody.
Was this a family trait? Hitting women across the face?
It’s a disgusting habit if that is so.
It brought back memories of the day I almost lost my little bunny because of Alessandro’s rage.
I shuddered in fear at the memory which didn’t go unnoticed by the man sitting beside me, Valentino.
“Are you okay?”
The sudden cold that covered my skin was thawed by Valentino gently placing his hand over my shoulders.
I was grateful for the warmth and portal back to planet earth as I showed him a smile before nodding.
“Yes, I’m fine. Just remembered something”
He looked me in the eyes and it was as if my eyes were transparent enough for him to look through and see that horrible day through my eyes.
For a moment in the middle of the chaos, it seemed as if we were just alone in the hall. Everything was irrelevant.
The whole world was just a blur.
It was just us here.
He had a pained look on his face as it seemed as if he was sharing in my bad memories and horrible past.
“I’m sorry”
As soon as those words slipped from his lips, tears journeyed straight from my eyes and down my face as his hand gently came through to wipe it away.
“Don’t cry. Pretty girls like you shouldn’t cry”.
I slowly nodded at his words as I believed him in that second.
“Valentino, that is your brother’s wife. I need not say anything else, do I?”
Elena Rossi’s authoritative voice snapped me out of the bubble that I was previously living in with Valentino.
His warm palm which I was holding onto as it perfectly held onto my face was immediately retracted as the warmth was also snatched away instantly.
“Get up!”
I returned back to the scene that was still unfolding before us.
“I said get the fuck up, Jasmine!”
“You’ll pay for this, Nic! You all will pay for this! Gabriel’s death will not go unpunished!”
I looked around the table to see that everyone including Valentino had focused their attention back to eating while a very enraged and infuriated Niccolo stood over Jasmine with flames in his eyes.
I even visualized smoke coming out of his ear.
What the hell is wrong with me?
It was definitely one of two things, either it was the baby or it would be the aftereffect of Alessandro’s nonstop copulation.
For some weird reason, I had a feeling that it was the second one.
Finally, he had successfully rammed me into a state of lunacy.
His plan had finally worked. He had made me lose my mind. No wonder he planned to give me a gift. Possibly, to celebrate my new state of insanity.
I’m very surprised that I wasn’t fidgety or frozen on time after I figured out that Alessandro might have killed someone dear to Jasmine yesterday.
Maybe it was a family member of hers.
In a split second Jasmine was pulled up from the floor harshly by Niccolo before he gave her another slap sending her toppling over and hitting the floor rather too painfully.
I jerked in my seat at the unpredicted assault but looked around to see everyone else concentrating on their food.
I didn’t know that Niccolo had this side to him. He really is scary. So, Alessandro isn’t the only insane one in the family.
“Nic! Son, that’s enough now”
“On your feet Jasmine!”
“You should be ashamed of the man you fucking raised, Elena! You should be ashamed of yourself! All of you barbaric clan! You hide behind your pearls and poised speech and pretend to be Mother Teresa but inside you’re just like the rest of them! You’re an animal!
You raised a coward that would raise his hands on a woman in your presence and you do nothing but eat! I wish you would choke on that caviar!”
I gasped at how harsh and hurtful her words were while Elena did nothing else but eat and request a refill of her glass.
She didn’t seem disturbed. Not one bit.
Who knows what happened between these two lovers?
What went wrong in their love story? She must have done something to upset him and trigger this harsh side of him.
He marched to her once more as she scrambled away and tried to crawl far away from him but he was faster.
Were they just going to let him beat her to death without getting to know what the problem was.
Unless.
They all knew what was wrong. They knew the full story and I was quite very excited to hear it from Valentino’s mouth later.
I knew he wouldn’t hide anything from me.
“Get away from me, Niccolo! I’ll have you arrested for this! You and your crazy associates! You can’t do this to me and get away with it! I know my fucking rights!”
Her statement made him more angry as he took large strides and got to her before she could crawl away from his sight.
Holding her painfully by the jaw and by her hair he had her locked in and definitely in a great deal of pain.
“I made you who you are, Jasmine! You’re nothing without me! You don’t even have a family that loves you! Everything you are and everything you have is all because of me! Me! You hear that? me!
And you have the nerve to deny me of the only thing I have ever asked of you but you would gladly betray me over and over and over again!
Did you think I wouldn’t find out?!”
Niccolo yelled angrily in front of Jasmine’s face angry veins popped out on his forehead before he hit her once more across the face.
Did she cheat on him? Wow. Who would think of cheating on someone as handsome and attractive as Niccolo.
She really was insane.
As Jasmine hissed in pain I couldn’t help but wonder which hurt her the most.
Was it being tugged harshly by the hair, being hit countlessly on the cheek or was it being gripped so dangerously by the jaw.
I’m sure that it must be the former or maybe the middle option.
I’m sure they all must hurt.
I know because I have experienced all three of them.
At the hands of a Rossi as well.
“I have a good mind to offer you up to Alessandro as a peace offering. He can do whatever he likes to you. I bet he would kill you first before thinking about it thoroughly”
Jasmine’s eyes almost bulged out of their sockets as she started to claw at Niccolo’s hands seeking release.
“Fuck you, Nic! And fuck your family too! You think that hitting me like the fucking pussy you are will make me beg you for forgiveness?! Beg you to shoot me up with your seed till I’m carrying your child? Never! I would never make such a senseless decision! Fuck and you and your dumb quest for an heir! You all are so backward and ancient that it makes me sick!”
I wasn’t the one being hit but when she said those words, I started to feel for her.
I know it wasn’t going to end well.
A smirk adorned Niccolo’s face as he looked like he had come up with something.
“Oh really?”
“You won’t carry my child?”
What was it with these men and heirs? I snuck a glance at the only sane man in the room, Valentino, to see him watching the scene like a movie with his chin placed delicately on the back of his hands.
There was no emotion on his face. He just watched as a woman got hit repeatedly like it was the most normal scene ever.
I just hope he isn’t crazy or doesn’t turn crazy in the future like Niccolo has now.
“Over my dead body will I ruin my body for you! You’re not worth it!”
One moment her head was in Niccolo’s hand then the next it was now on the floor as Niccolo smashed her head onto the floor.
She let out a blood curdling scream but nobody cared.
Bianca and Elena continued eating like nothing was happening. She must have given up on the matter when the woman she attempted to save hurled insults at her. Bianca on the other hand would sneak peeks every now and then at her phone.
Who was she texting? Or rather stalking seemed to be the fitting word.
“Your body? Well, I would be fucked if l let a whore like you fuck me over. Come here! Let’s see how strong you are!”. Niccolo said that with the most unamused laughter I had ever heard. He really looked dangerous now.
Next thing I know he was dragging her off the floor and up the stairs in angry strides as she tried to defy him by gripping the railing tighter. It was almost as if she knew what was going to happen to her upstairs.
“No, Nic stop that! No! Somebody help me!”
“Niccolo, I’m about to have a nasty headache from her screeching”
That was the only thing Elena said. Still she didn’t seem unordered at the least.
“Sorry mother”
“Valentino! Victoria! Somebody help me! Are you all going to just stand by and watch him do this to me against my will?!”
My heart thumped in my chest as she called out to me. What did she think that I could do in this situation? Alessandro would have my head if I do anything contrary to his instructions or likes.
I was just as much a victim in all this as her.
Besides, she used to bully me and embarrass me so I wouldn’t help her even if I could.
I’m no damn saint.
We all watched Niccolo forcefully drag her upstairs to probably forcefully impregnate her.
I scolded my inner self for thinking so low of Niccolo just because he was Alessandro’s brother.
But could that really be what he was going to do to her?
I could only get an answer from one person.
“Hey, Valentino”. I whispered to avoid anyone listening in.
“Are you alright? Do you need anything?”
His concern warmed my heart with the thought that at least someone here genuinely cared about me.
“No, I’m fine. I just want to ask a question”
“Sure, go ahead”
“What do you think that he’s going to do to her?”
I watched a smirk appear on his face.
“I have a few nasty ideas in mind but I’m very sure that you wouldn’t want to know”.
“Like what?”
An evil glint appeared in his eyes before he spoke.
“Trust me, darling you really wouldn’t want to know”