Chapter 2

That night when the knock came to my door and I knew that it was Heath my heart sunk. I didn't want anyone to see me like this, especially him. I called to him to come in and he stopped dead in his tracks as he saw the tears that still streamed down my face. Making his way over he sat in front of me. For the first time I really saw the way he looked at me. Yes, I could see the concern on his face but there was so much more there. I could see that he cared about me more than I ever thought that he would.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Nothing," I said quietly trying not to look at him as I lied.

"Alana, something happened," He said pulling me back so that I was facing him.

"You can't be here anymore."

"What? What are you talking about?" he seemed confused and rightly so.

"Stu doesn't want you hanging out with me."

"So, he hit you?"

"He hit me because I stood up for myself."

"Do you want me to stop coming to see you at night?"

"No," I said looking into his eyes. "It is the last thing that I want."

"Than I am not going anywhere, I am going to stay here with you for as long as you want me to."

"He will just get mad and it will just happen all over again."

"Than I will confront him. He can't possibly think that he can be with all those girls everyday and you aren't even allowed to have one friend."

"That is just Heath, are you and I really just friends?" I asked him through my tears.

"No, we aren't. In the little time that I have known you, you have become the most important person in my life. I need you in my life and if I didn't have you in my life it would have no meaning."

I threw my arms around him, cried into his shoulder and he pulled me as close to him as he could. "I don't know what I would do without you either."

"I wish you had never married Stu," he said to me as I pulled away and looked into his eyes again.

"If I never married Stu than you and I would never have met."

"If you and I were meant to be we would have found each other," he said as he leaned in and kissed me.

I kissed him back taking in everything that he was and devouring it. Breathlessly, I pulled away from him and ran my hand down his cheek. "Make me yours," I said kissing him softly. He answered me back with his endless kisses.

The next morning I awoke in Heath's arm, a smile formed on my lips until my eye caught sight of something just behind his sleeping form. Stu stood there looking down at us. He was fuming mad and immediately I was on the defensive. "Stu, I can explain." As I spoke to him Heath's eyes opened and he turned over in the other man's direction.

He folded his arms, "What is there to explain? It looks like you cheated on me."

I sat up taking the blanket with me to cover myself. "Me? Cheating on you? Really because I am pretty sure this is a fake marriage and you have yourself a different woman every goddamned night."

He screamed louder than I had ever heard him. "You are Mrs. Stuart Barrett which means you belong to me!"

Before I could stop him, Heath was out of the bed and in Stu's face. "You don't love her. You used her for what you needed and you don't even care that she is miserable. She has feelings too."

"You I will deal with later. Get out of my sight," he said pushing Heath away from him.

"No," Heath said turning Stu towards him. "You won't touch her, I won't allow you to."

"You know I only have to make one call and your ass is done." Stu said with a smirk. "You need to understand that whether this is what she wants, this is what she chose and you are done with her. Pick your clothes up and leave. I do not expect you to come back."

I watched as Heath picked up his clothes and left the room. Stu walked over and locked the door behind him. "Sorry but your boy toy felt his job was more important than you."

"I'd never expect him to lose his dream over me," I said as he walked closer to me.

His hand rose up and he slapped me across the face. As my hand went immediately to my cheek and tears began to run down my face. I felt him climb over me and push me down. "This is something I should have done a long time ago," he said as he ripped the blanket off of me and pulled his pants off. "Time to consummate this marriage," he said with a smile as he held his hands over my head and penetrated me. I tried to fight him but each time I did he hit me again and again. My screams went unheard as he repeatedly called me a whore and told me that this was only the beginning of my punishment. It was in those words that I felt what it was like to want to be dead because in all reality inside I was dying.