Chapter 6

My eyes crack open and my head is pounding like a drum is being played in my head. What the hell did I do last night.

  Shit.

   I try to sit up and that’s when I realize there’s another person in the bed right next to me.

  Motherfucker.

  Everything comes crushing down on me in one go and I can’t believe it was me who did it. 

  I fucked a stranger.

  Multiple times. All night long. In different positions. 

  I stumble out of the bed with uneven steps trying to get the fuck out of this room before the stranger wakes up and sees me. If he sees me and realizes who I am he might want to use me. I’ve learned guys do that now, thanks to Shane. He might also just want to forget this happened so really I’m sparing us all the trouble of having that awkward conversation. He should thank me really.

  I grab my potato sack dress hustily putting it on grabbing both my underwear and bra from the floor and making a run for it. I chance one look at him but decide not knowing who he is, is better. No strings attached is safe for both of us right now.

  I open the door and breathe a sigh of relief when I’ve successfully escaped. I have to rush to my room before anyone sees me because even though I haven’t looked at myself I know without a doubt that I look a hundred percent thoroughly fucked. If anyone saw me they’d know for sure.

  I walk a little faster but when I make it past one of the rooms in the hallway I hear raised voices. I stop in my tracks, straining to listen. I’m nosy sue me.

  “You were supposed to sleep with Shane Ryder not Percival Black! Why are you so stupid Clare”a woman’s voice rings out and from what she is saying I realize it belongs to Clare Haistings mother, Iris Haistings,

  “Mother I don’t know what happened. Shane Ryder was not in the room he was supposed to be in that’s not my fault but Arias. She was supposed to get him there and she didn’t!” There’s a loud screech then she’s says “I’m going to kill that bitch right after I kill her mother”

  What?

  Kill my mother? Isn’t she looking for her cure?

  “I’m the only one who is responsible for poisoning that bitch all you have to do is act like you’re trying to save her. Don’t mess with the plan Clare”Iris tells the other person who is obviously Clare. I almost fall because a whoosh of air leaves me breathless at their words. Iris is poisoning my mother? Am I still drunk? Am I having a bad dream. 

  What the fuck?

  “Mother listen I was looking for Shane in the other rooms but he wasn’t there. If we find him maybe we can still salvage this. Please mother give me another chance” Clare’s pleading voice rings out.

  “Let’s go find him, I’ll make sure Percival leaves the country as soon as possible, we can’t have this getting out. Not now” I can hear the fear from Iris’s voice even from here.

  “Mother please don’t tell father about this. I don’t want him to be disappointed in me”

  “He will find out on his own if we don’t fix this, let’s hope that brat got that boy wasted enough otherwise we will be fucked”

  “She did, I made sure of it”Clare reassures her 

  “Good now you go and find Shane Ryder. Make him believe he’s the one you slept with”something ruffles and heels start clicking “I’ll go into the surveillance room and clear everything from yesterday so he doesn’t find out the truth”

  “You have to save the one where Aria is getting him drunk. If he realizes we were anywhere near that he’s going to suspect me and we can’t have that. If he sees that Aria Reed was the one who did it he will discard her like the piece of trash she is”

  My heart starts pounding so hard that it’s the only thing I hear. What the fuck is wrong with these people. I need to reach the surveillance room first so I can delete the video evidence. Not only can they not find out about me sleeping with some random man but they can’t show Shane Ryder proof of me getting him drunk on purpose. It won’t end well for me so my steps become faster.

  The Ryder family is very powerful and they won’t take well to someone harming their own.

  I start running fear clasping me in a vide drip. I make it to the surveillance room while actively hyperventilating, I can’t let Mrs Haistings see these videos I just can’t. I open the door ready to give the security guard any amount of money he demands but by the grace of all things holy he’s not inside. I make quick work of the computer deleting everything without even watching it. I can’t have Mrs Haistings find me here. I make sure it’s permanently deleted even on the cloud and completely wiped off even on the back ups and then I bolt, running to my room and locking the door behind me.

  I take deep breaths trying to calm myself down and finally processing what’s been happening under my nose.

  My mother is being poisoned by the Haistings.

  Even though I knew Clare was evil I never would have thought she was this type of evil. After everything this family has done for her.

  I have done for her.

  she still has the nerve to do this. I mean most of the things happened after my mother got sick so I guess their plans are working.

  I wonder if my mother knew she was being poisoned by someone she considers her best friend how would she act.

  A chocked sob escapes my throat and I can barely contain the shaking that takes over my whole body.

  Shane Ryder betrayed me.

  Clare Haistings betrayed me.

  The Haistings betrayed my family as a whole. And I can’t even tell anyone about it because it’s all just rumors if I don’t have proof. Father trusts the Hastings  with his life so it’s clear to me that even if I tell him he won’t believe me.

  More tears fall down my face and sobs wreck their way out my throat.

  What the fuck is my life right now.

  

  I should really stop eavesdropping on other peoples conversations.