Chapter 205 - Her Savior

"Argh! I'm so messed up." Harry bang his head on his steering before he took out his phone. Dialing Lisa's number.

A few times after the ringing, her phone was picked up. "B..I'm sorry I-" He started.

"She's in the shower. You want me to relay your message?" A man's voice said through the line and made Harry scrunched his eyebrow.

"Who are you?" He asked.

Chuckles, the man says, "Me? I'm her..Boy..friend?"

Bam! Harry smacks his hand on his steering. "Put her on the phone." He requests, and the man smirked. "She's in the shower man..you want me to get in there? Or do you want to listen when I do her in the shower?"

"Touch her, and I'd fucking killing you!" Harry ended the call and threw it away to the passenger seat beside him. He never felt this rage before. Harry then hit the road and back to New York. He drowned himself with alcohol at the night club until Henry gets him back to his penthouse.

"You're okay, Harry?" Henry asked while lying him down on the couch. He looks so sad, and he never acts recklessly like this. If the media were reporting him today, he'd have a lot to answer to their grandma.

"I'm stupid, bro… why can't I let her go?" He staggeringly stands up while finding a bottle of whiskey before he chugs it down.

Henry sighs and snatches the bottle from him. "Tell me, when did you not stupid? I always find you stupid." Henry comments and bonks the bottle to his head a little. He is hoping that he could make him a little sober.

"Why? Why can't I.." He sniffles and yank back the bottle from Henry's hand and drink it again.

"Hey!" Henry surprised when Harry suddenly yanks the bottle from his hand.

"Get your shit together, Harry. Don't be a chicken. You know why you be pathetic like this.. just face the fact as to why you can't let her go. You know, don't you? But you were afraid to admit it. You were afraid of your own shadow, didn't you?" He pokes Harry's head with his finger before he continues again.

"What's the harm anyway if you both having a real relationship? I don't see any problem here. Both of you have the same feeling…just get brave and get your girl!"

Harry laughs. He couldn't stop laughing until he cries afterward. "She's…she's already push me away.." He wipes his tears and bitterly smiles before he drowns his throat with the whiskey again.

"What?!" Henry was shocked. Totally surprised to hear this news. Lisa never told him about this. This is impossible!

Lisa, who known for having a deep feeling for Harry since their teenage years until now... it's more than a decade and why…why suddenly she had a change of heart?

'Is she already found someone better than Harry? Who? Can someone even replace her heart, which already rooted in Harry's charm since the beginning? This is so hard to accept.'

"I told you.." He hiccups and lay on the cold floor. "She's already had a boyfriend. That fucking man…argh!! I'd kill him…I'm fucking kill him if he tries to hurt her."

Henry pressed his lips together. No wonder Harry was this heartbroken. He's too late, isn't he? Henry feels sorry for him and could feel the same pain as him also. Even though he doesn't love Lisa like the way Harry loves her, but he can imagine what it's like to be in Harry's place.

"Get up, Harry. Don't be like this… it just a boyfriend thing, you can win her over again. Come on." Henry said and helped him, which already half-asleep on the floor to his bed.

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"I heard my phone was ringing. Who was it?" Lisa just walks out of the bathroom. She suddenly got her period and need to change her clothes and wear a sanitary pad.

"Oh, yeah..but, it's a wrong number." Brian smiles and gives her a blanket. Today he wants to watch a movie marathon with her so he'll be spending the night in her apartment.

He manages to erase the call log on her phone so that she won't find out. Just only half of the movie, Lisa already fall asleep beside him while he was caressing her hair softly.

When the movie end, he scoops her body and brings her into her bed. Tug her inside the comforter before he kissed on her forehead.

"Um…good night, Harry.." She sleeps talking and moves her body around to hug her bolster, which she thought is Harry. She even rubs her face on her bolster. "You're so soft."

It makes Brian dumbfounded with her action. He shook his head and walked out of the bedroom, did not intend to disturb her sleeping.

The moment he went to pick up his phone, his phone vibrates with Caitlin calling him for the hundred times. He sighs and picks it up.

"What do you want?" He asked.

"Ben…where are you? We promise to have dinner tonight, don't you remember?" She asked anxiously. Still with her soft voice and never once, she yelled at him. She tries as best as she can to suppress her anger from letting out.

"I already ate." He replies in short.

"What? But I.." She swallows hard before she said helplessly, "I already at the restaurant. I even pay them extra to wait for you. You could've told me sooner if you already ate. At least I can..nevermind," Her voice starts breaking as she tears up a bit.

"You're with someone, aren't you?" She changes her question when she could guess why he didn't tell her about it sooner.

Sighing heavily, Brian said. "Just give me your goddamn location. I'll go and pick you up." He ended the call and took his coat at the coat hanger. He writes a note and left it on the kitchen counter before he left Lisa's house.

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One and half of the hour, Caitlin wait for him to pick her up. The restaurant already closed, and she waits patiently at the side of the road. Her nose and eyes were still red because of the crying earlier.

She doesn't know how to tame him anymore. The more she got closer, the more he pushes her away. She knew she might not be a suitable partner for him because she's only a mistress daughter of Rochester clan. But the one who chooses her as his fiance is his mother.

Other than Sarah, she has better looks, figure, and attitude. She was soft and fragile because she was raised that way. Always act as a sophisticated girl, behave well in front of people, and respect each of people's opinions. Everything that was supposed to be a perfect girl needs to be learned by her. And that also makes her an easy target for her step-mother and half-sister.

She thought Brian would be the man who can save her and lead her into a happy life, but her guess was wrong. He never saw her more than a little bug in his life. He was okay a few years back, and now after a few months, he went to New York, his attitude change drastically.

It's like he found something that makes him that way. Drive him far from her, and she could do nothing about it. His heart was not hers in the first place. While her heart? She long ago gives it to him and only for him. Guess not every cinderella got a happy ending, huh?

A screech tire sounds that suddenly stop in front of her makes her jolt her body a little. She looks at the car as the driver's window roll down, Brian look at her with a bit annoyed. "Get in."

Caitlin forced a smile on her face and went to the passenger seat. She buckles up and let him drive her back home.

But the road he took is different and a bit far from their penthouse. Caitlin looks at him. "Um..where are we going?"

"Eat, what else?" He replies coldly, and Caitlin turned silent. Her stomach growls a bit. She hasn't eaten yet since this afternoon because she thought she would have dinner with him.

"Is it okay? What about your-" She wants to ask him about his 'friend,' and tell him that's okay for her just to return home. She can cook for herself. Or maybe she can just go to sleep and eat in the next morning.

"Shut up." Brian accelerates the car to the place he already makes a reservation earlier. He drives from Washington, D.C to Philadelphia in just within one and a half hours, which usually takes around three hours to arrive.

Of course, he's not in the mood to talk. He was sure he would get a pile of summons letters later.

Caitlin didn't dare to open her mouth again. She averted her eyes to the outside of the window. Maybe it was better that way. She doesn't have to know about his new 'addiction' as long as he marries her someday.

She thought she would be okay even though she will only have his body and not his heart. They have been living together since a year ago, and never once he tries to hurt her physically, and he only treats her coldly. In a year, she already accustoms to the way he treats her.

Living with him is much better than to have live with the Rochester. So, technically, he saves her from that house. He is her savior.