Chapter 16

"So you found it" Ashton's voice suddenly rang making my head snap to the door. He was leaning againts the door frame.

I stood up and clutched the notebook in fear.

"I-I need to go back to the bedroom... I-I wan't to go to sleep" I tried passing Ashton but he stopped me from gripping my arm tightly making me wince. 

"No you don't" he tells me while pulling me upstairs, I tried pulling my hand away from him, yelling for Hayley to help me. 

Hayley's door opened and looked at me surprised but then worry and then she bowed her head when Ashton growled at her. 

He pulled me to his office and threw me making me stumbled and drop on the floor. "You were the one who stole the key to the cells!" he yelled slamming the door shut and locking it.

I closed my eyes crawling away from him, he pulled on my leg making me drop down. 

"Don't ignore me!" he growled and pulled me up and then held me by the hair "Go to the room before I kill you" he growled again and pushed me out of the door.

I ran towards the bedroom and opened the walk-in-closet's door, I hurriedly changed into jeans, a shirt and boots.

I still feel his abusive hands on me, I fumbled through the drawers and got the old style key I found and placed it in my pocket. 

I searched for a phone, to call Jordan but when I found none, I ran out of the room down stairs. 

I ran towards the front door, trying to open it.

I glanced behind me and tried opening it. I went towards the back door and tried opening that too, the windows are glass, making it impossible to go through... but.

I got the lamp from a table and smacked the glass, breaking it.

I went through to be stopped by guards... I tried running at the other side but the guard held me in place.

Ashton came stomping towards me and pulled me from the guard's grip and brought me inside to flung me to a glass table, shattering it and making a glass hit my side.

I gasped at the pain, I already felt warm thick liquid, dripping on the floor and my feet.

Ashton threw me over his shoulder making the pain increase, I blinked away the black dots forming in my vision and kept myself from barfing. 

He threw me on a bed and I looked around to find me in Hayley's room, "Patch her up" Ashton told Hayley who nodded and walked up to me with a first aid kit.

I ignored her and stared at my side she's treating, my stomach is covered in bruises, I bet my legs and arms. 

"Done" I hear her mumbled and I sat up, gasping from the pain on my side.

I stood up, taking baby steps towards the door, I still can escape if I have time "Don't try to escape" Hayley whispers making me stop.

I turned around and glared at her "Don't try to escape?!" I repeat her, "Why would I not try to escape?! I live with a psycho! My 'best friend' won't help me while my 'mate' abuses me! Tell me Hayley! Am I really his mate or his real mate died?!" I yelled at her while using air quotes with my fingers.

She didn't answer making me fume, I limped towards her and slapped her "Tell me!" I shriek causing her to cry "H-his real mate died" she sobbed "Because he killed her?" I asked him and she nodded stiffly. 

I clenched my fist "I have to get out of here" I mumbled limping towards the door "Wait!" she stopped me making me look at her "Don't leave me" she whispered and I glared at her "And let him make me his punching bag? No way Jose" I hissed continuing limping towards the door. 

When I opened the door, Ashton was standing there arms crossed making me stumble and fall on my butt. 

He bent down picking me up by the arm, "You're going to escape? Huh?" he asked smiling sinisterly. 

My throat went dry "You’re not going to escape!" he yells making me close my eyes, he drags me out of Hayley's room and into his room. 

He pushed me in and I stood on wobbly feet, he stalked towards the walk-in-closet and came out with the pendant "I know you were the one stealing the keys! Now your stealing Evangeline's Necklace?!" he yells and grabs the empty picture frame and threw it at me. 

I quickly crawled away, dodging the picture frame.

"How dare you touch her stuff!" he yelled at me, stomping towards me and slapping me hard making me lie on the floor.

"and I found her again, and she died, and I found her again but she died again! I found Evangeline again! but she changed her name to Faith! Why does she always change names?! Faith, my Evangeline carried my pup! what did she do?! she killed my pup!" Ashton yelled furiously making me flinch.

He's spilling lies. 

"Now I found another Evangeline! My Evangeline! But you changed your name to Jessica?! What the hell goes through your fucking mind to change your name?!" Now he threw a chair at me, I screamed in pain. 

"STOP SCREAMING!" He snarled at me, he was clutching the necklace in his hand. 

"When I get back I want you to shut the fuck up and compose yourself!" he growls while storming outside. 

I held on the nightstand beside me, supporting myself to stand up.

Tears formed and I held on to the wall for support, I walked towards the door while leaning against the wall. 

When I got out, his office door is closed so I limped towards the stairs, I glanced down at my beaten body and whimpered.

I should start now, before he gets back, it would take log if I go down in my condition, we're in the third floor. 

I took one step and then his office door opened.

Panicked I clutched the railings hard and took a second step until I felt a hand on my back, I was supposed to glance at him but I was already pushed and rolling down the stairs. 

When I landed on the last step my head hit the marble floor and I stared at Ashton's smirking face before blacking out.

***

Waking up to a dark room, I wince when I try to stand up. 

My head is pounding, my body is aching and my throat is dry. I can't speak, or even yell for help because of my throat.

It's only now that I notice that my arms are chained. 

Looking around the room, it's dark and I'm not sure if there is even a door here.

I sit up slowly, and clear my throat but too scared to talk. What if Ashton's here, he's just waiting for me to wake up and beat the shit out of me.

I have to get out of here, I want to go back to my family.

Back to Jordan.

"You awake?" A girl voice startles me making my head whip to the left "Who--who's there?" I ask scared. 

I close my eyes, waiting to be beaten "Yeah, you're awake" I hear the girl mumble "Hey, I won't hurt you" the girl tells me and I open my eyes.

I sigh At least I'm not alone here. 

"W-why are you here?" I ask her, curious of why would Ashton lock this girl up? 

It was silence before I hear the girl shuffle and chains clank "I'm like you" the girl sighed making me gasp. 

"W-why, didn't he k-kill you yet?" I gulp at the word kill, The girl shuffled again before she answered me "While he can't mate with you yet, he uses me." she whispered that I almost can't hear her.

My eyes widened, "What's going to happen to me now?" I ask her, scared of what Ashton can do, he has killed, raped and abused many girls. I'm scared of what he'll do to me. 

The girl sighed and shuffled, I felt a hand on my leg making me yell but only to be muffled by a hand "Shh... If you yell it'll make Ashton come down here" The one holding on to my mouth hissed. 

I gulped nodding. 

Even in the dark I can still see the girl's silhouette, she was tall, that's for sure. 

Her hair is long and she seems larger than my petite frame. 

"He'll abuse you at first" she murmurs, I felt her presence beside me. "Then he'll use you for his pleasure" she continued. 

I closed my eyes, feeling tears falling from my eyes "He'll keep on doing that until he finds another girl that looks a lot like his dead mate." Silence fell and I can only hear my soft sobs. 

It took a while for me to stop crying, I placed my head against the wall I'm chained to. 

"You know, I'm confused as why there's many look alikes of Ashton's dead mate" The girl suddenly stated, making me close my eyes.

I don't want to listen anymore. 

"You must look a lot like her, for Ashton to be patient with you" The girl tells me, I've only been here for two months, it's not that long. 

"Because when he finds a girl that looks like his dead mate, he'll push her to mate with him at the second or third week" The girl now sounds like she's remembering something. 

"He only kidnaps girls with brown hair and brown eyes, claiming that she's his mate. He's a psycho" The girl spat. 

I opened my eyes and scooched to sit next to the girl. 

"What's your name?" I ask her softly, "Melisa" the girl mumbled, I nodded but I doubt she'll see me through the darkness. 

"Yours?" she asks back and I answer: "Jessica" Melisa hummed and I heard her chains clank together. 

"Do you know Faith?" I ask her and Melisa turns silent.

It takes a while for her to answer but she does "Yes" 

I look at her form beside me from the corner of my eye before asking another question "Does Faith really look like Ashton's dead mate?" I ask and Melisa laugh humorlessly. 

"Faith is Ashton's mate's sister, of course Faith will look like Ashton's dead mate. But they don't look that alike, just similarities. Faith didn't know that she's sisters' with Ashton's dead mate, actually" Melisa tells me. 

Didn't know? How come?

Like Melisa can read my mind she continues "There's where I come in, I was at the park, chillin until someone covers my head with a sack. Like I told you, It took two weeks for Ashton to woo me, two weeks for him to try throw himself at me and two weeks to be thrown here with Faith" 

"Me and Faith became friends because I was stuck down here with her for a month, a month of abuse, torture and rape. We'll because I'm his new 'toy' I just get to watch, until one night, me and Faith were sleeping, but then I woke up screaming because I felt his hands on me" Melisa started sobbing so I placed a comforting hand on her thigh. 

"Faith woke up, then tried to save me from Ashton I was a virgin then. Ashton got angry at Faith and punched her, yelling cuss words and telling her how stupid she was for not knowing she had a sister. That Faith didn't know that she was adopted and that she was doing it with her sister's mate" 

"Faith... sweet little Faith didn't know she had a sister until Ashton suddenly fell the bomb on her, she cried. At the state of her weakness Ashton got the advantage and pulled me out of our cell and violated me, when he brought me back to our cell Faith was already dead" Melisa kept sobbing so I hugged her and placed my head on her shoulder. 

"But you know" Melisa sniffed "I'm going to help you, I'm going to protect you. Even if I can't help myself or protect myself, I'm going to help you escape and protect you from Ashton" Melisa promises.

Then I cried, for Ashton's dead mate, for all the girls Ashton kidnapped, for Melisa, for Faith and for me.