Business Deal Between Mr And Mrs Billionaire

Chapter Sixty-Four

Bill stared at his friend as he wasted his life drowning in alcohol.

“You know you can't keep up with this.” Cherry scolded, her arms on her hip as she stood in front of Drix.

“What do you think she'd do when she finds out?” Drix asked, obviously blitzed as he sat on the floor with his fifth bottle of alcohol on his hand.

“She'd be fucking mad at you as expected, but you wouldn't get any sympathy from her by wasting your ass with alcohol.” Bill pitched in, hoping to talk some sense to his friend.

“How could this be happening man? I still don't want to believe it.” He sniffed in, placing the tip of the bottle in his mouth and downing in more of its content.

“Then you think you'd get your fucking answers by shitting your asshole life on alcohol?” Bill scoffed. “Get a grip man.”

“In my opinion,” Cherry crossed her arms over her chest, “I think it'd be best if you told Reil the truth.”

That caused a growl to leave him. “Mom, what the fuck are you telling me to do?”

“Then what else do you want to do?!” She furrowed her brows. “Waste your life in my house every fucking day of your life?!”

“She'd leave me if she found out.” He said and Bill had to admit it might be true, but it was still best for her to know.

“Don't you think her knowing and leaving you is better than you two living together with fucking guilt surrounding your shitty life.” Bill leaned back against the couch.

“She can never find out so there's no need for me to tell her.” Drix ran a hand through his hair. “How the fuck did I end up like this?”

“You can't keep up with this. You won't be able to work if you're this wasted.” Bill said truthfully, the concern evident in his tone.

“Fuck work.” Drix slammed the bottle on the table, but thankfully it didn't break.

He tried rising to his feet, but from his booziness, he staggered back to the floor. “What I need at the moment is to ensure Reil is happy, okay?”

Cherry snorted. “Look at how wasted you are, I can't stay here.” She walked out of the parlor.

Bill sighed. “Do you seriously think you can do this forever? You'll have to face her one day.”

“She'll never find out. I've made sure of that.” Drix lay on the floor, then closed his eyes and probably went to sleep.

Bill stood up, about to go help his friend to a room or something, before the vibrations on his phone interrupted him.

He reached for the phone in the pocket of his pants, his heart beating a beat faster when he noticed it was Sarah calling.

Why was she calling him?

He cleared his throat, heading out of ear reach before answering the call and placing the phone close to his ear.

“Hey Bill.” Her sweet voice filled his earring and gave him a sense of happiness.

“Hi, what a surprise.” And truthfully, it was a surprise, but a nice one.

“Uh, I was just wondering where you are.” There was noise in her background so he guessed she was outside.

“Where I am? Is there a problem?”

She went silent for a few seconds, before sighing. “I guess you forgot.” There was disappointment in her tone and he hoped he wasn't the cause.

“I forgot? What did I forget?”

“We were supposed to have a meeting today about the sales of our new product.” She said and he immediately remembered. “I'm at the company, but I wasn't allowed in since you're not at work.”

He'd been too busy with Drix's case, he'd totally forgotten.

“Oh my, I'm sorry.” He felt embarrassed and equally annoyed at himself for forgetting. “Something personal came up so I couldn't make it today.”

“Oh my, did something bad happen?” At least her disappointed tone had been replaced by concern.

“A little, I guess.” Drix's issue could be considered something bad actually. “I'm sorry you had to go through the stress of coming to the company.”

And when he was trying to gain her feelings, he just had to do that. Let her come meet him and not even arrive.

Well, but helping his friend was more important than gaining someone's feelings at the moment.

“It's alright, we could postpone it. It's no big of a deal.” she said, and didn't sound annoyed or disappointed.

“Thanks.” His word was followed by silence, neither aware of what to say next.

Bill, don't be dumb and say something. Anything.

“I guess I should get going then.” Way to go man. That's the best you could do?

“Oh, uh yeah, yeah you should.” She sounded like she'd expected him to say something else, which is probably what he should've done.

But dumb Bill had told her goodbye.

“Bye then.” She hung up.

He felt extremely disappointed in himself. He could've done way better.

After tons of scolding himself, he went back to check on Drix who'd now woken up and was sitting on a sofa with his head buried in his hands.

“Man, you okay?” Bill walked towards him, standing beside him.

“I'm so frustrated. Everything's just fucked up.”

“If you want my advice,” Bill chose his words carefully before spitting them out, “you should tell her.”

Drix leaned back against the chair, staring at him with a red face. “It's not necessary since I've made all the procedures to ensure she doesn't find out.”

“But that's killing you man.” Bill said in a soft tone. “Even though she'd never find out, you can't act all free with her now.”

And that was the truth. Even Drix was aware of that.

“I'm not letting her know and that's final.” He growled, leaning his head on the headrest as he closed his eyes.

“Hang in there man.” Bill patted his shoulder, sitting next to him. “When you've sobered up, I'll drop you home.”

“Reil.” He muttered, then groaned.

Bill could sense that things wouldn't go well for Drix in the future chapters.

He just hoped his friend would be able to cope with whatever circumstances he may in the future.