Chapter 2
I get home that evening and Jason is sitting there waiting on me. I move to the kitchen to start dinner and when he walks into the room, I visibly stiffen. He leans against the counter next to me and I don't look at him or say anything. "I'm sorry." he tells me. I don't respond. "I was drunk and I know that's not an excuse but I wanted to tell you I'm sorry." he says. "Okay." I say simply and go about finishing getting dinner done. Once it's done, I plate his food and put it in front of him and move to clean the kitchen. "You need to eat." he tells me. "I'm good." I tell him, still not looking at him. After finishing the kitchen, I move to get the laundry done and he follows me to the laundry room. Turning me around, he picks me up and sits me on the dryer. Kissing me softly, he deepens the kiss before running his fingers on the inside hem of my shirt before pulling it off. He sees the bruises from where he hit me last night on my ribs and looks at me and says "I'm sorry. It won't happen again." he tells me. I just nod. He kisses me again and lowers his shorts after ridding me of my pants and panties. Sliding into me, he thrusts in and out but all I can think about is how he hurt me just the two days before. He finds his release with me never finding mine. I go about finishing up what I need to do before getting a shower and getting into bed.
The next morning, I get up and head to work and still keeping to myself. Just like yesterday, when the prospect come to watch the office I send him away. The rest of the week goes like this. "You coming to the party tonight?" Jax asks. "Nah. I think I'm just going to head home and relax a little." I tell him. "Jason hanging with you?" he asks. "Why wouldn't he? He lives with me." I say. "Why don't you hang with us awhile?" he asks. "Jax, I'm fine. I just want to go home and relax." I tell him. "Okay. But if you change your mind, you know where we'll be." he says. I nod and get back to work.
That evening, I close the shop and head out the door, not even telling anyone goodbye. I walk in the door and upstairs to change into something comfortable when I hear noises coming from my bedroom. Walking to the door, I see Jason on his back and another woman riding his dick. I open the door. "You son of a bitch." I say. The girl jumps up and grabs her things before heading down the stairs and out the door. Jason jumps up and asks "What are you doing here?" I look at him and say "I fucking live here. You really cheating on me? In my fucking bed?" I ask. "You better watch how you talk to me bitch." he says. "Or what? You gonna hit me? Force me suck you off again? What the fuck are you going to do?" I ask finally standing up for myself. He gets in my face and I back out of the bedroom door. He keeps walking towards me and get in my face. "I will do whatever the fuck I want to you. I want to bring some whore here and fuck her in front of you, I will. I want to make you fuck her, I will. You do what I fucking say and you don't question me. You hear me bitch?" he asks and I spit in his face. He grabs me by my upper arms and shoves me backwards, down the stairs. I tumble down the stairs and am out cold before I hit the bottom.
Beep...Beep...Beep...is what I hear when I wake up. I open my eyes and see Gemma sitting next to my bed, holding my hand. "Gem?" I whisper but she hears me. "Hey Grace. How are you feeling baby?" she asks. "I hurt." I say. "I'll get the doctor." I hear Tig say as he leaves the room. "What happened?" I ask. "I came by to check on you and found you at the bottom of the stairs. You weren't responding." she tells me. The doctor comes in and asks "How are you feeling?" I look at her and say "I'm hurting." She looks me over and asks "Scale of one to ten. One being least and ten being worst you've ever felt." she asks. "About a seven." I tell her. "Okay. I'm going to get you something for pain but I need to ask you what you remember?" she asks. "I remember leaving work and heading home." I tell her. "You remember anything after you made it home?" she asks. "No." I tell her, looking down at my hands. "Okay. That's normal after a fall like you took. It will come back to you but don't stress too much about it." she tells me before leaving the room. "Do you remember what happened?" Gemma asked me and I just shake my head. I remember everything but I won't tell them that.
A few days later, I am released from the hospital and get home to see Jason had moved out. Good. Gemma helps me to my bed and sees that there are drawers opened. "Jason moved out?" she asks. "Guess so." I tell her. "You don't seem too broken up about it." she says. "Been a long time coming I guess." I say and shrug my shoulder. "Well, you are to stay in bed. One of the guys will be here with you at all time and I will be here tomorrow to check on you and bring you something to eat." she tells me. "Thanks Gemma." I say before she kisses my cheek and walks out of the room. Looking up, I see first shift belongs to Tig. He walks over and sits on the bed. "Hey Doll. You okay?" he asks and I just nod my head yes. "You remembering anything about what happened?" he asks and I just say "No." He takes his boots off and sits back against the headboard and turns on the television while I snuggle into my pillow and try to get some sleep.
The next week goes by the same way with the guys taking turns staying with me. Most of them stay in the spare room except for Tig and Koz. Neither one lets me be alone long. Koz is sitting with me tonight. "What do you want to watch?" he asks. "Whatever you want to watch is fine." I tell him as I turn my back to him and stare at the wall. "What happened?" he asks. I don't respond. He touches my shoulder and sees me quickly wipe away the tears and moves to the other side of the bed. Kneeling down beside me, he says "Talk to me." I don't look at him but say "I just want to sleep." Kissing my temple he says "Okay but I'm here if you need me. But I wish you would tell me what happened. I know you remember. I see it in your eyes. You remember what happened." I don't say anything. "Grace, we miss you. The bright, happy you that we are so used to seeing. Please come back to us." he says before kissing my temple again and moving back to his side of the bed.