บททั้งหมดของ ESCAPING THE BILLIONAIRE TO MARRY HIM: บทที่ 81 - บทที่ 90

CHAPTER 81JENNA’S POVI heard the familiar sound of Adrian’s car pulling up the driveway. Damn it!I picked up the bottle that was on the floor and carefully placed it back into the drawer, the same way I picked it up. Without further hesitation, I ran back to the room. I didn’t want him to see me awake. And I didn’t know how to act with him now that I recently found out something I wasn’t supposed to know. I propped the blanket roughly on my body and shut my eyes. This time I could already hear his steps approaching slowly, with my name in his mouth as he called out. Of course I knew better than to answer. My heart was thumping loudly inside of me. Right now, I could tell my body is already preparing for the worst. Fight if there is a need to. Flight if I couldn’t handle it. The floor creaked closer and closer until the door flung open and I could feel his presence in the room. I dared not to flinch. My back was turned to the door so I couldn't even pry my eyes open just a lit

CHAPTER 83ISABELLE’S POVHot water drops on my skin in tiny continual splatter. I don’t even remember how long I’d been in here since I got back from Christopher’s office. Twenty? Thirty minutes? I’d lost track. My shoulders ache from repeated action. I scrub harder in bid to wash away every trace of him on my body. I can still smell his cologne and that gives me more reason to wash more. It wasn’t until my skin started to sting that I now felt a semblance of being clean.Tears come down my cheeks with a violent sob that rips directly from my chest. I slump to the floor of the shower, letting water cascade over me as though it could wash away this heavy feeling of shame. Every form of dignity I once felt had now vanished. “Stupid! Idiot! Asshole!….” I cursed, throwing blows at the tiled walls with that loser in my mind. Afterall, this was all I could do. Rain curses even when he had nothing to lose. It’s quite ironic because those curses should have been directed to myself. I had

CHAPTER 85ISABELLE’S POVI hear the door slam with the usual violent thud. Each step was already memorized and I knew exactly what came after the next. I didn’t even need to look at the clock to know Rob was back. He never came home gently anymore. And it had now become a routine since the last few weeks. Work frustrated him even more than before and he always carried that rage back home. Raw and loud, ready to unleash it at whatever stood in his way, so I always keep a good distance. Crashing objects now felt like a stress reliever, hence the clanking of objects against each other didn’t make me flinch as i would before. His safe space was the study, after taking one or shots of whiskey. And during that time, I’d learned to give him space first just so the fire in him would burn out before I approached. In a way I felt sad for him. Every part of him was crashing down and so was mine. Perhaps I didn’t need to feel sad, this could be the universe’s way to show us how much we’re m

CHAPTER 87JENNA’S POVI can feel my head splitting open. The ringing in my ears just seems to drown out my thoughts at once. “Arden,” I called out in realization. “My poor baby.”The next thing I’m hearing asides for the ringing are footsteps. Adrian is walking out. Maybe he heard me call out Arden’s name. My heart drops. “Adrian!” I choke out, still trying to drag myself across the floor. “Don’t touch my son! He’s not the one you want!”I don’t even know where the sudden burst of energy comes from but I appreciate it. And that’s when I feel it. The primal rage of a mother and my heart is pumping ten times than normal “If anything happens to Arden, I swear I’ll kill you!” By this time, Adrian has vanished from the room. My hands tremble and my head still hurts like crazy. I’ve got to find help somehow. My phone. Where’s my phone?I can’t stand, so I fumble on my sides searching for it, and luckily my fingers brushed against the back pocket of my jeans. Found it. I slid it o

CHAPTER 89JENNA’S POV“She’s waking up.” I hear a voice say and it sounds like a woman. My vision is hazy, and I think I hit my head again, because the pain I feel right now is double of what it felt like before. I try to move, but my left arm feels a bit too heavy. I still try anyway and that’s when a sharp pain slices through me. I manage to look down to see what’s causing the pain. My arm is bound and a crimson color is mapped around the surface. It takes me less than a minute to properly regain my sense of self. Firstly, I’m in a hospital and secondly…..my brain goes fuzzy for a short while. I was shot! The last thing I heard were two loud bangs. Panic shoots through me almost instantly. Where’s Arden?I was holding him. I remember clearly now. “Where’s my son?” My voice sounds raspy that I don’t even remember it as my own. The nurse standing at the foot of my bed doesn’t say anything. She’s just looking at me with sadness in her eyes. Why’s she looking at me like that?