The Queen: Love's Death || ✔️

Chapter 4: Working Princess

Hera

Two weeks later, the house went from full to the rim to emptier than a bottle of wine on a Friday night with Hilary, and she'd be the only one drinking.

"You sure you're ready to go to work today? You can literally just skip a day and stay here with me and we'll watch all of the movies you'd like." Hilary tried to persuade me, but I wasn't going to fall for her trap.

I hadn't been to work in two whole weeks and today, on a freezing Monday morning, I decided to go back there and catch up.

"I have to go Hilary. The business needs me." I smiled while finishing off my breakfast of fruit salad and yogurt.

"I also need you. Hey, I might just need you more. Pretty please, stay with me." She begged me, clasping her hands into each other and pulling a convincing puppy face.

I had to admit, Hilary was a little childish. It suited her, she didn't have a reason to be sad her entire life. She grew up in a stable home and married into a rich one. She had had it easy her entire life, it was a no brainier that she'd be such a positive person.

"Hilary please don't do that, it's making me want to stay."

"Then I'll keep doing it until I manage to convince you to stay. Come on Hera... Zeus is already long gone. Mason and Jason are already at Bhavani's with Tanu again, and everyone else left just as suddenly as they had came. I'll be lonely all day by myself."

"You've been able to do it so far for the past five years, I don't understand why you're only starting to struggle now." I joked, lowering my wheelchair from the high marble kitchen counter.

"The loneliness has taken a toll on my sanity, Hera, I apologised to the chocolate cake in the fridge for having to cut through it so that I could eat it. Then I cried after eating more than what I had planned, not because I was scared of gaining weight, but because I felt bad for hurting the cake."

I laughed at her silliness, though she looked so serious from her words, and an idea popped into my mind.

"Come to work with me." I suggested, checking the time on my watch with a smile on my face.

"What? Work? Me? Hera... anything but that..."

"... no ways Hilary, you won't work. You'll just keep me company there. The office gets extremely boring after a while, and I think that it'd be fun to have someone by my side to entertain me from passing out while working."

"Oh thank God! I was starting to think that you were going to ask me to be your P.A. for the day. I'd laugh while walking away, honey, being a housewife is way better then having to be stuffed into an office from nine to five."

"We're the management team. We don't do nine to five." I stated.

"Of course... you do four to ten in the bloody night. Please my beautiful, amazingly sweet and big-hearted sister-in-law. I don't want to go to that boring office, I want you to stay here with me. At home. Watching Netflix and chilling. Eating our faces off. You know... fun stuff."

"I'm not staying. Are you?" I asked, not allowing her to get into my head and persuade me, though she was doing a great job at coming close. I already knew how tiring today would be, but I also knew that I couldn't not go to work.

"Fine." Hilary said in defeat, then walked out of the kitchen.

"Dress appropriately!" I screamed, hoping that she wouldn't come wearing skinny ripped jeans and her favourite black tank top with claw marks and side boobs. She loved being extremely casual, but now of all times, I needed her to be professional.