I WILL MAKE YOU PAY

JADE

At the station, Henry appeared but I denied setting fire to his car despite how much he insisted I did it.

"Do you have any evidence?" The officer speaking to us asked him.

"I saw her with my eyes," he replied. "Before I could come out of the house, my car had already gone up in flames. I spent almost fifty thousand dollars on that car and I am yet to insure it. She has to give me back my money, I don't care how she gets it."

I scoffed and stared at the officer as I said, "He owes me a hundred thousand dollars and he wants me to pay him? Let him give me back my money."

The officer sighed and asked Henry, "Do you owe her a hundred thousand dollars?"

He shook his head, "That's a big lie. She gave my mom a hundred thousand dollars out of her own volition. No one asked her for it and there was no agreement to pay it back, so I do not owe her.

Even though I had decided not to cry, tears rolled down my cheeks, "Henry, was it not from the hundred thousand dollars your life was saved? Was it not from the hundred thousand dollars you bought the new car? The life you have now belongs to me and I will take it back."

"After burning my car, she's now threatening me," Henry told the officer. "I want to charge her to court, let her rot in Jail."

After Henry left, I was put in a cell and left there until the next day. I could barely get any sleep throughout the night as I kept remembering how hard I had tried to raise money for Henry.

I recalled when I had first gotten the deal to have sex with Max Anderson. I had immediately refused but Cass convinced me to go through with it, otherwise Henry would die. I should have just let him die.

I inwardly made a promise, "Even if it takes a hundred years, I will never forgive you, Henry. I will make you pay."

The next morning, I was taken out and asked to make a phone call. I had no one else so I called my aunt.

The moment she learned I had been arrested, she flared up, "Why would you go and get arrested? You've been a liability to me, and nothing good has come out of keeping you in my house. I do not want you coming back here. If you are ever able to get out of there, do not step your foot in my house again. I'm going to dump your things outside."

After my aunt hung up on me, I broke down in tears. The officer asked me to tell him the truth and I explained from the very beginning. He was surprised at how much of an ingrate Henry was. He gave me his number and said, "I know you are telling me the truth. If Henry ever makes trouble for you again, call me and we will take him to court and make him pay you back every single dime."

After that, the officer told me I was free to go. I thanked him immensely and decided to hurry to my place of work. However, I bumped into Henry's mom just outside the station.

She slapped me so hard before I could say a word and asked, "How dare you destroy Henry's car? I can't believe I wanted my son to marry a slut like you."

I smiled bitterly, "You are an evil woman. You kept telling me to do whatever I could to save your son and now you call me a slut? Where else did you expect a young girl like me to get fifty thousand dollars?

If I want to, I can drag you to pay me back every penny. Instead of that, I curse you and your sickly son. You will both die miserably."

She raised her hand to slap me again but I caught her hand and flung it. She heaped abuses on me as I walked away.

When I got to my place of work, I realized I had been fired. I went back home to shower but saw that my bags had been thrown out by my aunt and the locks had been changed.

I went to her shop and pleaded on my knees but she refused and insisted that she no longer wanted me to live with her.

I picked up my bags and began to search for a job that came with accommodation. After searching thoroughly, I finally found one but the pay was so little. Nevertheless, I gratefully accepted it. It was much better than nothing.

My boss was a nice lady who told me I didn't have to pay for food. This made me so happy and I started working immediately after I freshened up. I was ready to start saving from scratch until I had enough money to leave.

But the next day, I began to feel sick. I kept retching until my boss gave me some money and asked me to visit a health center and find out what was wrong with me.

I thanked her and went to the closest health center. I thought I was feeling sick because of everything that happened recently and my change in environment.

However, the doctor handed me my test results and said, "Miss Hart, you are more than three weeks pregnant."

I instantly got up and my eyes widened in shock as I exclaimed, "Pregnant?"