Lahat ng Kabanata ng Eight Years For Loving You.: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 4

Elena Hart's hands trembled as she slipped out of the back door of her stepfamily’s house. She was breathing like someone who had a panic attack. At nineteen, she was already used to hiding from her stepmother, Lydia who always badmouthed her. She dodged her stepsister, Vanessa's glare. She knew Vanessa never liked her anyway. But fate wasn't on her side tonight as she was sneaking out.Though tonight wasn't about sneaking out or dodging her stepmom and Vanessa. It was about him. Adrian Cole. The only man who made her feel like she's worth it, like she's the same as every other random person out there. He saw her when every other person looked through her and assumed she was okay even when she wasn't.Adrian was the only person who understood her. That was why she never missed out on their little moments. She would go through any risk to be with him.She held her sketch-book, it is her one constant in the house that felt like a battlefield. While growing up, Elena had learnt how to st

Elena Hart sat down on her bunk with her legs crossed, and the rough blanket scratching her thighs. She'd been there for three weeks and it already felt like the cell had been swallowing her whole. The air was odd and uncomfortable with a bad smell from unwashed bodies, but she hardly noticed it anymore.Her fingers traced the edge of her sketch book, it was the only thing they left her with after stripping her of everything else. Did she even have possession of anything? Well – she did, her sanity and human rights.She hadn't made a sketch since the night Adrian's gray eyes turned cold and Vanessa's lie tore her life apart. The pencil felt foreign now and heavy with the weight of who she used to be.She was nineteen, but she felt old, her eyes were dull and she looked tattered. The paintbrush necklace was still hung around her neck, that was a memory she couldn't bring herself to remove.Every time she touched it, she saw him, his hands on her face and his voice promising her forever