Chapter 5 Tired of living

Henrietta's POV

I slept with Harry King! Oh my God

Harry is the richest man in this city and one of the top 5 in the country.

Holy shit. I slept with Harry King!

And I left money for him? Oh my God. No wonder he's mad at me!

I only realized this when I was in my apartment two hours away and watching the news.

I chugged the whole bottle of wine so I could get drunk.

What else is left for me to do? I have no loyal friends, no family who has my back and I'm all single again.

What do I do with myself now?

I picked up my phone getting ready to scroll through my contacts to find someone to talk to when my wine finished.

Well damn. I guess I need to walk to go get more.

I threw on a jacket and walked out of my house. Did I lock it? I don't know

I just need to get more wine or vodka. I don't want to feel anything anymore.

People glanced at me multiple times and I tried understanding why they did but i can't be bothered.

On my way to the store I passed by a bar with it's shiny neon lights flashing. I was drawn to it like a moth to flame.

I walked in and avoided dancing bodies and sat at the bar.

"woah babe you look sad" a female bartender came up to meet me

"I'm tired of living. Can I get vodka please?"

"don't you mean shots sis?"

"no just get me the bottle" she stood looking at me for a while then she went to get the bottle for me.

I thanked her then proceeded to get black out drunk and I must have passed out or something because I woke up in my house.

Groaning, I pulled myself out of bed and saw a note beside my phone,

'hey I took you home after you told me your address. Come and get your key from the bar later.

P.s your favorite bartender

Pps I'm adopting you as my sister'

I've had enough of sisters to last a lifetime.

I pulled myself up and to the shower and managed to make myself presentable enough for work.

I was able to last the day without killing anyone and myself. I work in a factory and if they had known I was hungover I'd have lost my job today and that's the only thing that currently gives me joy.

I drove back home and before I could get out of the car my phone rang and I saw Chloe's name on the caller ID.

"what?" I picked up the phone in a harsh way, "what do you want? Haven't you ruined my life enough?"

"you don't have to be so angry at me I just did what anyone would have done"

"excuse me? When one of your boyfriends hit on me, just hit on, I rejected him but no you went ahead to sleep with my fiancee and marry him too. Now what do you want?" the phone was quiet for a few seconds then she had the guts to say,

"I just wanted to collect your ID card. You know for the honeymoon. It's registered under your name and Peter's and they won't le-" I cut her off at this point

"Chloe let me get this straight. You want to borrow my ID card?"

"yes. God you're so slow"

"no"

"what do you mean no? I need to go on this honeymoon"

"no meaning I'd rather throw myself off a bridge than give you my ID card. Fuck you Chloe" I managed to spit out and hang up.

Huge sobs spilled out of my mouth. I cried and cried and it was like the weather knew my mood, the heavens opened and a storm rained down.

I managed to tire myslef out and came out of my car when it was just drizzling.

I went up to my house and laid in bed and I must have cried myself to sleep because I'm woken up by banging on my door.

I slowly walked to the door and opened it only to see my brother and some men.

I left the door open and went to lay down on the couch while he screamed at me.

"can you cool it? I'm right here you don't need to scream"

"what is wrong with you Henrietta? Do you know what you just did, the damage you just caused to the family?"

"damage? What stupid damage? The family was already damaged long before. I just shielded you from it"

He sat down looking confused, "shielded me? I don't understand"

"well baby brother of mine. Your father gambles and he has done it so much he drove the company into the ground"

"that's why you were supposed to marry Peter! So we could get better"

I say up and faced him, "you don't get it. Peter's family is living in debts. Trillions of debt. Now what did you want from me?"

"who said I wanted anything?" he said looking around my house.

"wow Hen your house is actually very dope. You've been hiding all this money from the family. You cannot even try to help"

At this point he had successfully made me raving mad.

"Are you daft? I have given dad thousands before. All the money I have given dad has gotten to millions and what did he do? He ate the whole fucking thing. Now you talk about help?"

"I funded your stupid education. I funded Chloe's travels around the world and when I told dad I wasnt giving anything anymore he decided to marry me off to a family that is even broker than ours. Get out. GET OUT! All of you take and take and take nobody asks how I feel. I'll still come home and they praise Chloe more than me. You lot can rot in the deepest pit of hell for all I care" I shouted at him while tears streamed down my face.

He looked shocked at my outburst because I'm a very calm person.

In a calm voice I asked, "what did you actually come here for?"

"umm I came to get your ID card" I laughed and looked a the guy's he came with, "you see? Even after what I just told him he still wants the ID card. We'll you will be getting that card over my cold dead body"

I shoved them all out of my house and slammed the door in their face.

I broke down in tears all over, questioning what kind of life this is.