11. Confronted with my demons

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️AN: Trigger warning: This chapter might trigger you if you have been through abuse in any kind of way

Strong arms wrap around me, lifting me off the ground into a cab. His arms don't leave me and I am seated on his lap. Tears keep streaming down my face.

"I've got you Statement girl. We are taking you back home now, ok?" Evans whispers soothingly.

I simply nod, while the sobs get even louder.

"Can you stay tonight Evans?", I hear Emi ask. "I don't know if I can handle this on my own. In all those years I've only seen her once like this and that was the night it all happened."

"Don't worry as long as she needs me, I'll be right there."

I hear him sigh loud. "I had no fucking idea."

"She doesn't talk about this, she's been through hell because of it. And what you heard tonight is only a very small part of it."

"Why didn't she mention she knows Jake?" He questions.

"That's not for me to answer. You will have to ask her yourself and to be honest, I don't know if she is going to