WANTED BY THE BILLIONAIRE I BETRAYED

Helena woke up to the sound of her alarm, her eyes still heavy with sleep and her mouth tasted sour. She sighed and yawned as she got out of the thirty inch high bed.

As she sat up from the bed and realized that she was having a migraine. She opened the cupboard that was beside her bed and took out a pack of medicine.

"Too early to take a drug, huh" she muttered to herself as she swallowed two tablets from the plastic container.

she had gotten a call the previous day from an anonymous person and from the way the person spoke, it sounded like he needed her help.

Helena is a Sophomore at a university in San Francisco and she was having a hard time trying to cope with school and also take care of her sick mother.

She has been putting up for a long time and has been taking many jobs even as a student but there is a soft side of her that would always want to help people despite the difficulties she is going through.

Her phone suddenly beeped and she checked on the notification to see that it was a text from the same contact that had called her the previous day.

The unknown caller had dropped a location via text which was a popular resort center in the heart of the city.

"One good deed deserves another," she said to herself in a low voice as she prepared to leave her apartment that morning.

Two weeks earlier, Helena got an emergency call while working at the coffee shop where she took a part-time job.

The call came from the hospital where her mother was rushed to after she fainted at a grocery shop.

Helena left everything she was doing and took a permit to go and see her mother in the hospital. When she got there, the doctor said that her mother's condition was very critical and that she would have to make a huge deposit with them to begin treatments on her.

The amount of money the doctor requested to begin treatment on her mother was so much that she would have to take up multiple jobs to be able to make that kind of money so that the doctors could commence treatment on her mother.

She was grateful when the doctor said that they were going to give her mother some mild treatments that were going to sustain her until the deposit was made.

Helena was not feeling well as she left the hospital because that was not the first time her mother had experienced such an attack but this time around, it scared her.

The doctor who treated her mother the first time had said something about the attack being more severe if it came again. He advised them that time to book a surgery with the hospital and have her mother treated once and for all but the bill for the surgery was too much for Helena to carry alone. She was hoping that she would come up with the money for the surgery before her mother got another attack but it didn't work out.

Two weeks later, her mother was still lying on the hospital bed again and her condition, just like the former doctor had said, was getting worse.

She walked into the shower but was worried that her phone would not stop ringing.

"What does He want?" She asked herself when she came out of the bathroom and noticed it was the same anonymous number calling.

She picked up the call and said to him in a low voice "Hello, who are you?" She asked.

"I told you before, I need your help. I have to meet with you today unless something very bad is going to happen" The male voice said.

"What do you mean something very bad will happen, are you threatening me?" She asked.

"No, I am not threatening anyone. I mean something very bad is going to happen to me if you do not come out to see me today. The voice said.

At this point, Helena could not find her voice. She intentionally pressed the end call button and ended the call before the man could say any other thing.

She was already getting late to work and without thinking much of his words, she made herself toasted bread and dashed out in a hurry.

There was a blow when she got to work at seven fifteen. Her boss yelled at her for coming late to work and was about to punish her when Nicole stepped in.

"Oh my God boss, I'm sorry I did not tell you," Nicole said to the Boss.

The angry woman shot a glare at Nicole before saying in an angry tone " You did not tell me what?" She asked.

" At six forty-five, Helena called and told me to inform you that she was stuck in traffic. The traffic began at six thirty when I was on my way but I'm sure it must have gone worse by the time she was coming"

"Thank you so much Nicole for this one, I will not forget it," Helena said to Nicole as they both served coffee together.

After the morning rush with customers, They both had time to rest when there were fewer customers and Nicole noticed that Helena was unusually cold.

" Helena, are you okay?" Nicole asked.

Helena, who was lost in thought, did not respond to Nicole's question. She did not hear it as she sat still there staring at nothing in particular.

Nicole moved closer to her and asked again "Helena are you thinking about something? Is there somewhere you want to be right now? I can cover up for you" She asked.

Just immediately after she said the last word, Helena's phone beeped, and a notification appeared, she glanced at Nicole whose gaze was completely on her.

She was startled when she saw Nicole standing beside her.

" Oh my goodness, Nicole! "Helena exclaimed in shock.

" Is your boyfriend texting you? "Nicole asked with curiosity.