Life of a Billionaire's Wife

Chapter 5

Caroline's P.O.V.

I stood in front of my door breathing in slowly. After making that deal with Alexander I had been regretting it. Only because of my grandfather. My grandfather was like a father, but older. He was protective. Very protective and definitely did not agree with me basically selling myself to a man.
I calmed myself down and opened the door. I walked in and saw my grandfather reading the paper. Veronica was doing homework. She was the first to see me. As soon as Veronica saw me, she lit up.
"Cara! Your finally home early. Last time you were early was 2 weeks ago!" She squealed, super excited.
"Hey V! I know isn't it surprising? Anyway I have news. For both of you." I stated. Grandfather looked up at me. He narrowed his eyes.
"Something tells me it won't be good news we will be hearing." He said darkly.
"Well it is sort of good and sort of bad. So my boss is making a deal with some Italian customers. However they think that he is irresponsible especially since he is a bachelor and all. So they want him married. While talking to his family, they suggested I marry Alexander. Today he proposed the idea." My grandfather looked ready to snap, but he kept calm. For now. "At first I denied it. Then he told me that he would pay me a lot of money for us. I would continue my job as well. He said that you guys will be taken care of, and you papa, will get the medical treatments you need."
"So you basically sold yourself." He told me with venom on his voice. I gulped.
"Not really. Think about it. We will get enough money to get us out of this ditch and Alexander gets his deal. It is really just a compromise." I rubbed my grandfather's back as I sat on the arm of the chair.
"When do you leave?"
"Tomorrow." I muttered looking at the ground. Grandfather sighed and looked very upset and disappointed. "So why don't we order pizza and play some board games since we don't have a TV?"
"Yes! I'll go get the board games, you start ordering the pizza!" Veronica ran off to a closet where the board games were. I laughed at my sister, but suddenly I felt sad. I realized that this would be the last moment in awhile that I could spend time with my family and have no worries. I sighed and ordered the pizza.

Time Skip

"Are you ready?" Alexander asked me. I looked at him. We were standing by his limo and I was in a simple outfit. My sister and grandfather were standing at the door and people were listening in on everything.
"Give me one minute." I said quickly before running back to my family. I hugged my grandfather, but he was still kind of bitter that I had agreed to this deal. The I hugged V. She squeezed me tight and I didn't want to let go.
"Don't worry Cara. We'll be fine. But I'm going to miss you. Please come back soon." She told me. I laughed and tears pricked in my eyes.
"When did you become the braver one?" I joked. Veronica chuckled slightly. "And of course I'll visit anytime I can. But work will be heavy. And I'll miss you too. Bye little sis." I squeezed her hand and walked away and into the limo.

Veronica's P.O.V.

My sister walked away and got into the limo. She gave me one last smile and stepped in. Her smile was supposed to be encouraging and brave. But instead it was sad. Scared. For the first time my sister was afraid. In all my life Caroline has been brave. I have never heard her cry. Not even when dad died. But now she was nervous. She was afraid something would happen to me. I tugged my sleeves down.
It was spring, and I ought to be wearing short sleeve shirts, but I couldn't. Not with my scars. Over the past few months I became depressed with my life. I know my family loves me, but everyone at school, except my bestie Samantha, hates me. They bully me for being poor and having no parents. Over time it got to me. And I started cutting. It was the only thing that brought peace to me.
"Veronica, lets go inside." My grandfather said, shaking my thoughts away. I nodded and followed him in. Suddenly the house felt cold. Like a dark winter came over the house. It was because my sister left.
Caroline had brought so much light into our lives. She brought money and financial support, but she had also brought happiness. She found the good things in the bad thing. She made everything seem ok. I don't know how she did it. For all I know she should be like me. Depressed. She witnessed Dad's death and mom's parents hated her. For no reason. Technically they didn't know I existed. But still. She was so happy and now that she's gone, everything seems so sad.
I duck my head and walked to my room. As soon as I shut the door, my tears came to my cheeks. Now my sister was gone. First I never meet my mom. Then dad dies when I'm only 2. And now my sister is being forced into a loveless marriage only for the well being of me and grandfather. I started sobbing by this point. Why was the world so cruel?! I stood up and grabbed my knife. I lifted my sleeve and slid the blade down my arm. It didn't hurt. It felt good to get the pain out.
I slid the knife down my arm 2 more times. I wiped the blood off the knife and put it in my secret compartment. Then I washed my arm and bandaged it up. All I could ask myself, was why did I do this?

Ok this was really sad and hard for me to write. But I do want to make this clear. Suicide is a big problem. I have been suicidal and though I never got to the point Veronica has, it is important. I have a friend dealing with suicide and I would love it if you could pray for all those people who have it.
Anyway I'll see you in the next chapter.
~Marissa-Meyer-Fan 🙂