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Killian POV I storm up the stairs and towards my bedroom. I lock the door behind me, and I slam my hand against the wall several times. My knuckles start bleeding, and a shooting pain moves up my hand toward my arm. I let out a loud noise in frustration, and I hear a knock. “Fuck off,” I shout as I sit on the edge of the bed with my head between my hands. I feel the tears falling down my face. With the back of my hand, I rub them off and walk into the bathroom to have a shower and wash off the blood that is covering my clothes and my body. I close my eyes under the hot water, and all I see are the bruises on her arms. Is the rest of her body like that? I make up my mind. I walk out of the shower when I am done, and I grab my phone. I press Theo’s number, and he answers straight away. “Take her to the spare room next to mine, have the doctor examine her, head to toe, everything, and when I say everything, I mean everything, rape test the lot, and then she can have a shower and get d
Ashley POV “What did he do to you?” Killian asks, and my insides turn upside down. What hasn’t he done? He is a monster. I close my eyes, trying to figure out how to tell Killian. My entire body is reacting to his presence like he is my drug. Like I need him to function. “Ashley, I don’t know what to think. I can’t just pretend that I believe you completely; I just can’t”, he says, and I know he is right. He believed way too easily about the little show he witnessed. What is preventing him from believing that I am a manipulative liar? Nothing. He is right not to believe in me. Hell, I wouldn’t believe me either. If the roles were inverted, I would give him the shit of his life, and I wouldn’t even look at him, let alone explain. I hate that he is feeling like that. I hate that I am feeling like this. I hate what Tobias has done to me, to us… Killian stands up and walks to the door, and I know this is my last chance. I need to tell him if I want him to consider believing me. I look
Killian POV “What have you done to her?”, I ask Tobias as I hold him by his throat. His eyes are barely open from the beating I gave him, his breathing is shallow. His feet away from the floor as I lift him. He is not even showing fear. Tobias starts laughing between coughs and my entire body reacts to the bastard doing that. He thinks it’s funny to destroy someone else’s woman, fuck to destroy a woman, it doesn’t matter who she belongs to. I can’t even begin to imagine what she is going through. The fucker. “She will never be the same, I made sure of that”, he says and I slam my fist against his nose, it starts pouring blood as Elliot stands next to me with his arms crossed in front of his chest. Tobias coughs some blood and then looks at me. “I made sure she will always remember me, she will never enjoy your company, I will always be the one she thinks about when you have sex with her, she fought hard, she fought for you, but not hard enough, she even tried to kill herself but it
Author’s note This chapter contains a graphic descriptions of rape, readers please be advised, to read at your own risk … Ashley POV “Tobias likes to play a game”, I let out feeling the skin on my body get warm. I hate thinking about this, I hate what he did to me and the effect that it has had on my mental health and on my life. I swallow hard and look down at my hands, finding the courage to tell him. ***** Flashback ****** There it is, the sound I dread every day. The gun. I know what I have to do. I grab my shoes and put them on as fast as I can. I need to hide, and I need to run. I open the bedroom door and look both ways on the corridor, no sign of Tobias. I sprint to the end and down the big staircase. The marble floor is wet and very slippery. I can’t run, or I’ll break a leg, and then it will be a lot worse. Slowly I walk towards the kitchen. The chef is preparing dinner, and I look at the pantry. I look big enough for me to find a row to hide, but then I will have witn
Killian POV “Everything is ready,” Elliot says as he opens the office door. Dad looks up at him and smiles. Today is the first day he will be coming out of hiding, and we have a meeting with some of the other mafia leaders in New York, and we are claiming back our territory and our businesses. We left it without proper management for a long time. Theo and Elliot obviously have been dealing with this, but they are not me. Dad agreed to leave me in charge. He will run the operations in the background, whenever I need some help or time off. Mum has become my chief of security and detail. She really knows what she’s doing. She’s even been teaching the guys some stuff. Some of my men don’t know about me, or my dad is alive, and today, everything has changed. I am taking over with Ashley by my side. I am claiming her in front of all the leaders, and we will be assuming Tobias’s death. I don’t run from my responsibilities or what I do. Ashley is already settled in my New York penthouse.
Ashley POV I finish typing the email and press send. I know Killian will read it today before he comes home. I just hope he doesn’t think it is too much, that I was too much and too soon. I close the laptop and walk to the living room, curling up on the couch with a blanket on my legs. It’s Halloween today and I always used to go out and celebrate with my friends, but this year, here I am, sitting in this beautiful room, without friends. Alone. With security guards, and that’s it. I miss my old life, my life before Tobias got in it. I miss going out with friends and having a social life. I wonder if I will ever have that again. I am scrolling through social media on my phone when it starts ringing. Kill’s name appears flashing. I close my eyes as I answer it. “I don’t want to know”, I let out and I can hear him chuckle. Bastard. Why is he laughing? Was it that depressing? Was it too much? “Thank you, Thank you for those words. It was the most beautiful thing anyone has ever told
Ashley POV “I said fucking no one,” he replies, walking away from me. I see him walking through a set of double doors. I know better than to stay behind, so I follow him. He is in his office with his head between his hands. “Theo, what is going on?” I ask as I walk to him. He raises his head, looking me in the eyes. I have never seen him like this. Theo is the coolest person I have ever met. I have never seen him lose his shit like that. I don’t know how he is at work, but in his personal life, he is carefree and bubbly. He is funny and gentle. I have never seen him so destroyed in my life. Theo passes a hand through his beard, and his eyes meet mine. I don’t know what to say or what to do. He looks so sad… He stands up, filling up his glass with an amber content from the small bar in the room's corner. He empties his glass straight away, and I raise both my eyebrows, looking at him as I sit on the chair on the other side of his desk. “She is the bane of my existence,” he says, a
Killian POV I walk into the flat, and I can smell her scent in here. I can tell Ashley was in there. Her smell is all around this house. I can tell. I walk into the bathroom next to the bedroom and I see all of her makeup and hair stuff spread around. I smile, looking around, and slowly I put everything away before turning the tap on and washing my hand. The dry blood goes down the drain with the water, washing it from my hands. I look in the mirror and smile, as I can’t see any bruises. Good. I strip my bloodied clothes off and turn the shower on. I get inside, feeling the hot water falling on my head while I rest both my hands against the wall with my head hanging low. I shake my head before getting my shower done. Once I am done and dressed in only one pair of jeans when I hear the door open. I walk towards the door, and I see her, beautiful. I feel a pinch of jealousy as I see her dressed like that. Man looked at her and appreciated what was mine. I know Theo would let nothing h