Adrian's POV "Hey, Coach. You got a minute?" I approached Coach Nick at the basketball court, my mind burdened with the weight of some priorities.Coach Nick looked up from his clipboard, a scrutinizing look in his eyes. "Sure, Adrian. What's on your mind?"I took a deep breath. "Coach, I've got some assignments and tutoring at home today. I was wondering if I could skip today's training session."Coach Nick leaned back, assessing my request with a stern expression. "Adrian, I'm thrilled that you're taking your academics seriously. It's important. But you know I can't tolerate indiscipline. Skipping training can't become a habit."I nodded, understanding the coach's perspective. "I get that, Coach. It's just a one-time thing. I'll make up for it."He sighed, a hint of disappointment in his voice. "Adrian, I want you to succeed both academically and on the court. But you need to find a balance. Your commitment to the team is crucial, especially now. We have four more games to win to m
Chapter 20Jane's POV "You may take your textbooks out." I told Adrian.I cleared my throat, trying to focus on the task at hand. But it was difficult, because around Adrian, I felt like a bag of mixed emotions. It's like standing straight like my hair right there, unsure where to settle. His presence made my heart do funny things, like butterflies were having a party in my stomach.He wore this black T-shirt, kinda cute, showing off his muscles. It made me wonder if the shirt was conspiring with his body to make my thoughts a mess. His jeans, casual but cool, added a touch of that "I don't care, but I do" vibe. The simplicity in his dressing oddly contrasted with the chaos he brought into my world.Like, what is going on exactly?His hair, a bit messy but in a way that looked deliberate, like he just stepped out of a movie scene. Some water droplets clung to his hair, and I knew it was because he just had a recent shower. It felt like I was observing a scene from a teen romanc
Chapter 21Jane's POV Then I heard a knock on the door.Without a second thought I shouted, "If you would please leave me alone to my solitude, I would really appreciate. I need a break from your insecurities Adrian. So leave." My heart racing so fast at the mention of his name. The room felt very tensed and that heightened my unease.To my surprise, the response that followed wasn't Adrian's voice. Instead, a calm and familiar tone came through the closed door. "Jane, it's not Adrian. It's me, Richard."My heart sank as the realization hit me, and I quickly got to my feet. Opening the door with a mix of embarrassment and surprise, I stammered out, "Richard... I mean, Dad . I thought you were someone else."He regarded me with a gentle smile, an understanding in his eyes. "No need to worry, Jane. I heard the commotion, and I wanted to check if everything is okay. Is everything alright?"I nodded, trying to compose myself. "Yeah, sorry about that. It's just been a long day, and thing
Chapter 22Jane's POV"Funny, coming from the king of arrogance," I shot back, unable to stop the words from escaping my lips.Adrian chuckled, his smirk widening as he leaned casually against the lockers. "Chill, princess. But seriously, what's got your panties in a twist today?"I rolled my eyes, refusing to give him the satisfaction of seeing how much his words affected me. "None of your business, Adrian. Just leave me alone."He raised an eyebrow, his stare lingering on me in a way that made my skin itch. "Aw, come on, Jane. You know you love our little exchanges.""Yeah, because nothing is fun like being constantly harassed by the school's resident bully." I scoffed, my frustration mounting as I slammed my locker shut." Harassed? Please, Jane. You know I'm just teasing."I shook my head, refusing to let him get under my skin. "Well, I'm not in the mood for your teasing today, Adrian. So why don't you go find someone else to bother?"He chuckled, unbothered by my defense."As tem
Chapter 23Jane's POVI heard footsteps approaching the kitchen and I looked up and saw Adrian's confused look."You know, you don't always have to control me. You act like I should tell you my every move, you're not my mother Jane." I took a deep breath, trying to find a way to break through the wall he was putting up. "Adrian, I'm not trying to control you. And I'm definitely not trying to act like your mother. Can't we just live together without causing unnecessary complications."He rolled his eyes, dismissively, "Complications? You're the one complicating things. I can't even have a simple day without you turning it into a family crisis."My frustration boiling over, I shot him a deadly look, "Adrian, it's not a crisis. It's a conversation. If we're going to be siblings, we need to communicate. I've told you this before.""Communicate? You make communicating really hard Jane. And I'm sick and tired of this." Adrian said, looking really hurt. But I'm a victim too"You don't get t
Jane's POV.I woke up on the cheerful side of the bed and decided to stay optimistic through the day. Despite how my first attempt to make things up to Adrian turned out, I chose not to give up. I was fighting with myself and my emotions, while trying to fix things with Adrian and I. I didn't care so much about being on good terms with him, I had tried several times and failed. But I was more interested in making Richard and Mitchell happy. If for nothing, they deserved a peaceful environment.I thought out of the box and decided to do something that would make us bond. I didn't know a lot about him, but I searched my mind for something that he would enjoy and I would enjoy too.Maybe I would ask him to teach me how to play basketball. That sounded like too much to ask for, I had a feeling he would decline with insults. Maybe we could go to a party together. I didn't know if any parties were happening as I had no friends, and I knew that Adrian wouldn't want to be caught dead with m
Jane's POVThe butterflies had vanished and rage replaced them. I cursed aloud and kicked my bedside. I was pacing back and forth in my room, fuming. Adrian just had a way of making me lose my mind and patience.After thinking about it for many minutes, I realized that Adrian was not wrong completely. I wanted him to learn in a different environment, with the hope that he would learn better. I also wanted to spend time with him, hoping to bond. Although I tried to deny it, I wasn't hoping for a sibling kind of bond. I wanted to bond with him in other ways. But even if that wouldn't happen, I didn't mind getting close to him, enough to hold a conversation without a fight.I sank into my bed, and let my gaze rest on the ceiling. He had been a handful lately. Quite a lot to manage. And I was really trying my possible best. But instead of showing gratitude, he thought of new ways to piss me off. "I think I miss it when he wasn't my brother," I was speaking out loud to myself. "Back then,
Jane's POVI stretched lazily as I woke up on Saturday morning, the soft sunlight streaming in through the curtains. It was the weekend, and I had a few things I wanted to get done before diving into my study session later in the day.First on my agenda was food, I needed to eat quickly. I walked slowly to the kitchen.I made myself a healthy breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast, enjoying each bite as I planned out the rest of my day. I had a few errands to run, including picking up some things and returning a book to the library.As I finished my breakfast, I glanced at the clock and realized it was almost time for the library to open. I quickly washed up and grabbed my book, eager to get it returned so I could check out a new one.Then I saw Adrian. Taking hesitant strides towards me, his gaze on me. When he saw that I had noticed him, he forced a smile. "Good morning," He said. Sitting on a chair next to where I stood from. "Sit next to me, will you?" I looked at the chair and si
Adrian POV Mum pulled out a CD from her pocket and put it in the CD slot, the television turned on and it was a dark room. A door opened and someone was thrown in it, I recognised who. It was Jane. She was in a revealing two piece dress, my eyes widened and I looked at Michelle. She was looking at the floor and tears were pouring down her face. I looked back at the television and saw the door slammed close on her, she was banging on the door begging to be let out. She was sobbing and crying. I couldn't keep my tears in and began to cry. Ollie and Steve walked out of the room and I could see Steve had his arm around Ollie because of how much she was crying. I could hear a different voice and I gasped. That was my voice. I sat up straight in my bed as Jane looked up at the camera and it was heartbreaking to see the state she was in. Jonas was using my voice to verbally abuse her, he began to hurl insults at her. She was rocking back and forth and I could hear he
Adrian POVI could feel my eyes slowly opening, the headache I had was killing me. I didn't really want to wake up. I'd rather go back to sleep, I felt so tired. My eyes opened and the blinding light in the room made me groan and I moved my hand to cover my eyes. A sharp pain ran through my arm making me yelp in pain.Fuck sake, what was wrong with me? Maybe I should be working out more. My muscles were too sore. Screw that, the only exercise I needed was with Jane, I tried to feel around for the body of my darling.I moved my hand all over the bed trying to find her. When I couldn't, I opened my eyes and sat up, which caused more pain to erupt through my body. I groaned and held my head and used my other hand to massage my shoulder. That only made it hurt more.I looked around the room and my eyes widened whenI saw it wasn't my room. I looked all around the space feeling a sense of dread.This definitely wasn't my room, the white walls and constant spell of medicine told me I was
Michaelle POVI chucked it on the floor and smashed it with my foot. I looked back up at the police officers and they were looking at me with wide eyes and puzzled expressions."Well what are you looking at? Keep fucking going. Don't just stand there."I pushed them out of the way and walked out of the room. I could hear voices from the room next to me and walked to it, it had a lock on it. I shot the lock and then kicked the door open. My eyes first darted towards a boy tied up at the door. Wait, I knew that boy. I think his name was Steve and he was a friend of Adrian. My eyes widened and I began to head towards him. Why was he here? Steve used his eyes to try and signal me towards something else making my eyebrows furrowed in confusion. What was he doing? I looked at where he was trying to tell me and I felt my heart break. My baby girl.I dropped my gun and ran towards Jane on the bed, he wasn't wearing anything and I could see every inch of her body. There were new scars,
Richard's POV ( Adrian's father)It hurt me to admit it but Michelle was right, I knew down inside me she was right all along.Jane has helped him, so much more than I could have. She's helped him heal and forgive himself.She's made him feel loved like I or the rest of his family never could.But I just needed someone to blame, someone to give the blame to so I would feel better. Because knowing who's caused your child pain is better than not knowing at all.I grabbed a chair and placed it beside his bed. I sat down and grabbed his hand."Adrian, please don't leave us, this is one of the only times you'll ever hear me begging. But please don't leave. You're my only son, you can't leave us. You mean so much to so many people and if you leave they will be heartbroken. We don't know where Jane is right now but ,when we do find her, imagine how she'll feel when she finds out the man she loves is dead. Please don't die on us, I beg of you son. Please don't leave."I let a tear fall and ki
Jane POVJonas lowered his head and began to kiss my breasts, I tried to move my body but because my feet and hands were restrained I couldn't. He took my nipple into his mouth and I finally stopped fighting. He sucked and bit at it, making sure to leave marks and hickies on itI was numb to everything, he was going to rape me. What would Adrian think of me now? He's probably looking at me disappointed, I cheated on him. He may be dead but I still cheated on him. I am such a whore.Jonas let go of my hands and I left them where they were, no point trying to fight him. He wasn't going to stop. Jonas always got what he wants, I've learnt that. Plus he was way stronger than me and I was too weak to even consider fighting him. I just laid there and let my tears silently fall.This was it, he was going to finally break me. I would no longer be Jane Williams. I would be that girl that got kidnapped and raped by her step brother and boyfriend's cousin.I would be no one.How would people
Jane POVI've been tied to this chair for ages and my back hurts. I feel like I've lost any movement in my legs and I can't move my fingers because my body is so weak. I struggle to keep my eyes open sometimes and half the time I don't want to anyway. He's hasn't touched me like that since the first time I woke up here, I don't know why .He's had so many chances.I've hardly slept in days, i’m too scared to sleep because I'm terrified he's going to do something to me in my sleep. I'm scared. I'm so scared. I just want to go home.He sits in the room and tries to talk to me as if we're the bestest of friends, he asked me about my life andwhen I refuse to talk to him he slashes my body.I've stopped screaming now, my throat is as dry as adesert and hurts. The wound between my breast ishard to look at. How was Adrian supposed to want me when I looked like this? Hell he would have thought I was ugly, like I was a piece of garbage. He wouldn't have wanted to even look at me let alo
Jane POVMy head was hurting me. I felt like there were little men in there banging my skull with sledge hammers It really hurt. I felt like my head was going to explode, It was dark. I couldn't see anything. Maybe that was because my eyes were closed and refused to open. I tried to peel them open but my dizziness prevented me. Why was I dizzy?I was sitting on something really hard and there were itching things around my wrists and ankles. What's happening? I want my daddy.I forced my eyes to open and when they did I was confused. I was really drowsy and it was hard to keep them open, I was in a dark room. I didn't know where I was. I sat up straight and became alert.There was a bed in the middle and I didn't like the color. The rest of the room was a sickly green, I tried to move my arms and legs but I couldn't move. I looked down at myself. My arms were bound to a wooden chair by a rope, I tried to move again but I couldn't. I was beginning to panic. Where was I?Why was I h
Jane's POV"Adrian what's happening?" He leaned his head back a little."Don't worry darling. Everything will be fine."One of the men came running towards Adrian, Adrian pushed me to the side and I fell on the floor.My palms were grazed and a tiny bit of blood began to come out of them. Adrian punched the man coming at him in the throat before grabbing his hand and bending it backwards, I heard a funny crunching sound and Iknew it was broken. I couldn't help wince a little. That must have hurt.The other man came at him, he had a knife in his hand. He tried to stab Adrian in the shoulder. But he ducked and then grabbed the man's hand, took the knife out, went behind him and stabbed him in the throat. The thug made a horrible gurgling sound before falling to the floor. I covered my eyes with my hands and shuffled so my back was making contact with the car, I began to cry and little sobs escaped my lips.I heard someone else run and suspected the man Adrian had stabbed in the hand
Jane's POV“Daddy, isn't this dress pretty?” I asked while twirling in my dress.“Yes princess. It really suits you too.”Adrian and I were in the mall trying to look for a dress for dad's next event.I turned around and saw Adrian looking at me with darkened eyes.I suddenly had an idea and I wanted to have a little fun."I have a few more pieces to show you, Daddy." I said, biting my lip."Okay Princess," he nodded with a smile and I hoped this would go well.I disappeared into the changing room, putting on the red bra and 'Daddy's Girl' thong I got from the store we just visited before sticking my head out the door, "Ready?"He nodded and smiled but that smile quickly dropped when I came fully into view."How do I look, Daddy?" I said in a low and sultry tone before turning around and showing off the ass I’d been working to tone for months now before flicking my blonde hair over my shoulder.And when Adrian didn't answer, just stared at me, his pupils dilated, his pants tenting, I