Jenna
Jenna Maxwell, a 25-year-old woman with a kind heart and a fierce personality. She is a complete package of what men want in a woman. Looks, kindness, potential and mostly a loving nature which she had was every man's weakness, but she wasn’t any longer available for men. Her life was given to her best friend. Yes, she got married to her best friend who was also her second cousin, Liam. They never talked to each other as kids, nor ever barely saw as they used to live far from each other. In their teens, their families used to meet at festivals or family get-togethers, but they both had never gotten a chance to entangle with one another.
Back in the day of Jenna’s sixteenth, she attended a cousin’s birthday party where Liam noticed her for the first time. At the start, he couldn’t agree on the fact that he was attracted to her and wanted to have his ways with her, he lusted her at first glance but at the time when she passed him a piece of cake with her brightest smile, his heartfelt a thing for her, a deep emotion he never felt for anyone 20 years.
He kept staring at her innocent face even knowing their family could notice his excessive attention to her. Her beauty was a shiny thing that was visibly getting out of Liam’s hands.
To him, he couldn’t handle his lust for her. His hands wanted to touch her soft body, kiss her gently and eventually get on top of her but despite having such thoughts, he resisted being a horny teenager to her too soon. He had keenly his eyes on her until the moment she left.
That’s where their story began.
He texted her first, and she hated him at first. Her nature was to stay out of boys' situations and she knew Liam could have no chance with her at all. She sensed how his eyes were roaming from top to bottom, she felt his stares, that’s why she named him Mr. hornyjerk and just like the name, his first text was actually jerky, “Whoa, I saw you driving your car. Do you drive?” quite stupid to get a girl, right?
His intentions were too obvious that she immediately noticed him. But for some reason, she didn’t feel like leaving him on blue ticks. So, she replied to him as politely as she could, without giving him any rude vibe.
That night till today, they were together. First as friends, then as best friends, later a couple and now, as divorcees soon. Life didn’t remain the same after they wedded each other.
Before the marriage, it was all beautiful, all perfect. They suited each other in the beginning. But when their relationship picked colours into a bond, Jenna found her husband cheating on her with his childhood crush, according to him his first ‘true love’. He used to talk a lot about her with Jenna but she always overlooked his overwhelming feelings for her because she had believed in the power of her love.
Now, not anymore.
The first year was compromisable as they both gave each other time to adjust, they admitted friendship bonding was different and now when they’re in a marriage bond, things would have changed, slightly much than they both expected.
As time gradually passed, he became an obsessive abuser from a sweetheart lover. As every single day passed by, he started exposing up his wild side to her. Keeping a constant check on her, doubting her, not letting her contact even her mother, he made her cut off from the outer world and left her only for bearing him.
It was Jenna who worked like dogs to run the household. He enjoyed watching in pain. His eyes loved to catch her eyes dwelling in pain. She knew he was treating her like a stray pet intentionally because he had more than enough resources to give her a life he promised her before marriage. He was the sole heir of his father’s business which was playing in millions, he even had his owned side businesses.
When Jenna asked her for money, he hardly gave her bucks as a reward for bearing his whips.
She never imagined him like this, even had no idea he was something inhuman like this.
He was such an expert at hiding his dark side from the world and portraying her as the torturer and gaining all sympathies. It was one of his ways of torturing her, but she bore it with courage.
He had mistresses, affairs, secret drug business but it was all unknown to Jenna before their marriage. The night she learnt about him couldn’t let her sleep or stop crying for a second.
She got to know about his drug business lately and that was the first time she argued with him, they had a huge argument over it but he was not ready to withdraw his addictions at any cost.
So, that’s when she decided to leave him forever. Jenna had it more than enough and there was no reason left behind to stay. He had to choose between his drug business or his wife and he had picked the first option, so Jenna decided.
But those problems didn’t end there for her, her mother got remarried after her father’s death and his stepfather was a complete rascal. When she asked her mom if she could live with her for a few weeks. She couldn’t argue with her because of her husband, Jones.
He hated Jenna for no reason. Maybe because she rejected him first for her mother. But even after her rejection, her mom tied the knot with that man and he took her away from Jenna, leaving her all alone. He even made up his ego issue and parted her mother far away from Jenna to another state so she could never see her mother again. and never passed a day she didn’t miss her. Jenna did miss her only true partner.
Now, the only last option she had for her was her other neighbour friend. Eliana James was her childhood buddy. They were close to each other till she got engaged with Liam.
Eliana was his first target to wipe off her life in which he got successful because he saw Eliana was a great threat to him. She had a strong fierce personality and was also a psychic.
And because she warned Jenna about his sick nature Liam became her biggest enemy; he trapped Jenna in his game-talks, which caused a distance between both of the friends and now, she regrets it.
Jenna contacted Eliana after a long time, she thought Eliana would deny to recognise her but luckily, she offered Jenna her hands.
Jenna got confidence and decided to count on her, she asked her if she could live with her till she manages to get a nice decent job and able to pay for LA’s life.
Jenna wasn’t exactly expecting any positivity from her, but Eliana agreed on helping her; she was too kind to reject her childhood friend. Jenna was in tears to know that her old friend still cares for her.
While Jenna lived in Pasadena, California. Where Eliana was in Los Ángeles which was a 6-hour drive, so she had to wait for a smooth opportunity to elude Liam and get away from him forever, she was planning to file for divorce once she reached Eliana.
One of the hardest things for Jenna was to dodge Liam. A few days earlier she got to know that Liam fixed a tracker in Jenna’s car, he even hacked her phone to keep a check on her. He was way too clever to be dodged easily, so where the step that Jenna has to take should be a safe move. She was going to play with fire. His super possessiveness for her had become a loop trap for her. It was not a healthy obsession, which gave Jenna a hard to even breathe freely. She was too sick to be in his jail and now; she wanted to free herself from him. He was only super manipulative to her.
Before Liam, Jenna was a bright kid. She was an optimistic and carefree type of girl who never cared what people thought about her, she never gave a damn about it but now, whenever she thinks of doing something progressive, she could only think of Liam hitting her because she would ask him for her freedom which he’d never give her. But for her, enough is enough. She will escape him. Soon.
Brandon
Brandon Grande, 32, considers being a playboy, enjoys life to the fullest and lives in the present than history. He is the highest-paid model in the modern world and so far, one of the most attractive men alive; according to the social Internet. His body looks metallic in Vogue magazines, one of the strong reasons behind such fame and attention was his talking skills and heavy manly voice. He has been a face of many popular brands, his fans are dying to know about his private life, but certainly, he keeps it behind the newspapers and cameras. Though, he is confirmed to be an exceptionally bold person in front of the lights and movies world.
But in reality, he has a distinct character than on screen.
He is rumoured to be dating his co-star of a recent movie; Stella Swanson. An all gorgeous and elite couple on the screen. In many articles, they’ve been pictured together; many times at dinner and attending Hollywood parties as a couple. Some say they’re engaged which Stella confirmed but Brandon openly denied, he further clued that he and Stella might not be dating but keep it as good friends, this news went hot on the trending list.
He doesn’t like women to boss him around. Prefers young, humble, vulnerable, inexperienced, petite and submissive kind of females, who he can train as he desires them to see. He is a punctual man both; inside and outside of the bed. His every move is considered to be calculated and smart. The way he judges people has always been accurate. He carefully observes them and reads every minor detail on their faces, like God has given him an extra gift. No one could even think of cheating him or if they ever tried to, they ended up losing the battle.
If we talk about his family then, he lost his mother when he was a little young boy. His father didn’t care much for him and instead of acting both parents for him, he chose to become an abusing father to him.
Having no siblings around made it even harder for Brandon to survive as alone and abused. He used to feel lonely and damned because his mother died giving birth to him and his father slandered him for her death. He was too young to understand his father’s hatred for him.
His childhood life was a curse to him. Even if he had cousins and friends around him, they were always distant and a bully to him. He had no such friends or cousins to talk or play with. His father knowing his son used to be scared of darkness, dry and vacant places.
That’s how his father decided to punish that little boy, wherever he wished something from his father, he used to lock him over in a room which he named it ‘a darkroom’, he scared him way too much that whenever somebody asked him if his father is treating him badly, he could only think of his own shouts and plead to his father. Never dared to tell anyone about a single abuse. Brandon knew if he opened his mouth and his father got to listen to complaints against himself, he would be a dead man by the next day.
Years passed by and he crossed his 15. His father remarried his classmate’s mother, both boys equally hated each other. He was angry when his father told him his new wife and his annoying son would live with them. Later on, her stepmother gave birth to a boy again, named August Grande.
At 19, Brandon finally ran away from that house and left his family behind in Arizona.
Struggled for years and started a new life in LA as an actor. Never could he imagine his life would turn upside down in the city of light and he would become someone wanted and loved by his fans.
His dark past has always been a secret he buried deep in himself. Something between that period happened to Brandon which made him a man who he never wanted to become,
And that mystery is yet to be revealed...
1Marriage. A word that changes human lives in a different yet sometimes beautiful way. For lovers; marriage means the celebration of love, peace, joy or a forever they promised to each other. Finding a home in someone, dedicating your whole life to that person and experiencing everything with them is said to be living in a dream world whereas only a few get to live in it till the end. These eight are stronger than any other word in the world because it purely means a new phase of life. However, for some, it could only mean signing up for a death warrant. Perhaps consider me one of them.At first, the word marriage was the same for me as I described it at the start but then, when I chose my life-partner, it changed the definition for me. I got married to my childhood best friend who I thought nobody knew better than me. Now I realised I was living in a fantasyland. I just knew his fake shades. He turned out to be a man I don’t recognise today. And that was when I decided to leave hi
2“Hey there, love!” Eliana exclaimed in pure happiness and pounced on me with her arms caging me tightly, “Ah, Hel-lo, Eliana, i-it’s tight,” I couldn’t speak a sentence properly because her strength was suffocating me. When I about to breath my last breathe she left me panting hard,“You’re here! Thank God I finally get to meet you after so long, bubble!” Her eyes were sparkling in genuine love and my heart wished if she could’ve been a boy, I would’ve asked her to marry me right at this moment. I blinked twice to control my natural emotion back in my eyes.She helped me with my suitcase and invited me inside her cute condominium. I won’t lie but her little apartment was frankly adorable and I took my time to admire it for minutes. She had a narrow corridor right after the entrance, then came a huge tv lounge of light-grey theme with white curtains joining an American Style kitchen adjoining corridor’s wall, going further straight after the kitchen, we got two elegant bedrooms with
3WeekendIt’s been five days since I’m with Eliana and trust me on those first 2 days when I hadn’t lived a second for my own. I kept fearing Liam and his gang breaking our condo and assaulting both of us; especially me.Right this moment, I was sitting at a salon which was way out of my range these days; it was all lavish and for sure expensive but Eliana didn’t care and got me here. Getting my hair and makeup from some professionals for the night. Yes, I was forcefully willing to go at the Premier even though I tried to stop her with the sharpest excuse possible but resulted in fog. Eliana didn’t stop pleading with her puppy eyes and I couldn’t ignore her ‘wish’ despite how big and exhausting enough it was to me. My final touches got done and I stood up, fishing to find Eliana somewhere in other makeup sitting. My eyes followed back and stopped at the entrance by a man wearing a grey-striped suit with a hat covering his face. His broad chest, brownish exposed hair, whitish tone a
4It’s been two hours since we have stepped into Grand Atrium, everyone around me was enjoying the movie like they would go blind after it, though I was only the one realizing much bigger facts apart from the movie, I had realized what a boring and robotic life I was living back there; so loyal to my husband that I couldn’t see what I had become. Eliana told me about her friends and how they left their spouse barely after their marriage just began because they wouldn’t allow them to club alone. Here I was, serving my husband’s needs all the time and still being treated like a trash can.Throughout the movie, my main focus was to reduce this heavy feeling of getting caught, I couldn’t be able to find any excuse to lessen the growing anxiety; whenever my mind thought of Liam watching me on TV or social media, that haunted me to my deep cores. Clearly, it meant he could easily spot me in LA. I let out a huff and concentrated on the movie which I was faking to enjoy because Eliana and her
5An hour had passed away being alone while admiring others from afar. I stood somewhere in the corner and watched couples dancing adeptly, it was a pleasant sight to the eyes and throughout I started swaying around after one glass of champagne and a few shots of tequila. Yeah, it’s been a hell of a ride in quite an hour. Thanks to constant worries.I closed my eyes, my smile grew wider as lyrics registered momentarily in me, I was totally lost in the rhythm and melodies every beat was offering me. “Excuse me, Miss.” it felt like someone was calling out for me but I only responded with a snigger. But then I heard it again, “Miss…?” this time I opened my eyes to check out if someone was really looking out for me. I turned around to find a tidy waiter presenting me his warm smile, “Yes?” I frowned at him with the same potential as he was offering. “Miss. I’m sorry to disturb you but I need to inform you that Miss Eliana -your friend- is asking for you in her private cabin,” informed
6All I could hear was my deep breaths, I had darkness all around me and I couldn’t fathom how I could help myself get through it, the black and white shades were surrounding me and I was finding a way out. Suddenly a manly voice echoed, “hey hot piece,” it travelled across my mind like a bullet, “whassup huh? how’s you doing,” his voice was making me obnoxious, wanting me to get it out through some way but I was unable to throw it out, instead, It grew further. All the scene happened with me in the club replayed like a movie, making me unsteady to feel loath each time I heard that man’s voice and then out of nowhere another man’s punches him, Who was he? My eyes wide-opened, I was hugging a pillow which was trapped in between my thighs too, I turned straight, inhaled deeply to get some fresh and lessen this hateful feeling after the nightmare, I raised my head, looked to my right to find open curtains, crystal sunlight passing brightening the room all around, giving my eyes a ple
7Before I could click on the messages, the screen went black and showed no sign of life. “Shit!” I cursed in annoyance. I went to my room, fetched the charger to plug my phone in the switch, I sat on my bed and again my lower abdomen started hurting badly, I stood up and staggered towards the bathroom, I got in and the first I saw in the mirror was a bruise on my neck. “What the actual fuck!” I left shocked. It was like my eyes would come out of their sockets. I kept cursing and took off my shirt, The bruises which I didn’t want to call hickeys were all over my chest and stomach. I started panting heavily due to the horror these hickeys brought. “Oh My God,” I couldn’t control my watery eyes to flow down. And what would happen when Eliana would see it? Oh no, she wouldn’t see it, I can’t risk it. My teeth cluttered in fear. Liam, if he saw me having this, he would’ve killed me by now. After this thought, I went hysterical. I could feel terror balling up in me. I inhaled heavily
8“We’re starting with you, lovebird.” She raised her left eyebrow, plastering a smirk on her face. Don’t call me that, El! “Start what?” I counter-questioned hesitantly. I hoped she wouldn’t notice my slightly cracked voice. “How was the party for you? Banged a guy or came home sober?” she winked and started rocking me. I smiled faintly and lowered my gaze to the ground in shyness, I probably was blushing. “Look at this red mess!” she teased. She knew I became edgy from such other-guy-involved-questions. “No, nothing guys thing happened to me (or at least I don’t believe it) I… came home, sober!” I kinda tried to shoo her but she was planning to exaggerate longer -her face told me. This side of Eliana I had never liked. She always thinks pulling someone’s leg makes other people feel butterflies in the stomach but it’s totally the opposite of what I felt every time she did this with me. It was exasperating me. “Like I believe you. When did you reach home?” Okay, that’s where I lef
2 Years LaterJennaI scanned every corner of the hall to make sure everything was going according to my planning. After all, it’s going to be my daughter’s first birthday, I wanted everything to be perfect. The glee I felt was beyond human comprehension, words weren’t enough to describe my life after Renai’s birth, she was, is and always will be my lucky charm. “My darling, what’s that look on your face?” I heard my husband interrupting me and my thoughts-land. “I’m observing if anything is out of line,” I replied, roaming my eyes everywhere while I could feel one pair of bluish orbs sticking at my face. “Everything is perfect as long as you’re happy with it,” replied my husband in the most romantic way possible. He surely knew how to sweep my heart away just with his words. I was already flushing like red jello. “Has cake arrived?” I asked him, gingerly. “Pretty sure, yes. Guards have made sure to put it in the refrigerator with careful hands,” He informed, “Where’s our daughte
42One Year Later I miss sleeping like a normal human being. This man who I accepted as my husband last week woke me up today by shagging himself in me while I was in a deep slumber after our long sex night session, but alas, four rounds weren’t enough for him, he was a man with an exceptional sexual appetite in comparison with me. I sometimes wondered if calling him the real-life man of steel wouldn’t be wrong as his endless stamina cost me my sleep and strength, to endure his lengthy manhood wasn’t an easy part either.Right now, his tongue was giving me the pleasure of sacred nirvana as he shoved it in and out like he promised himself to destroy me today. I held out his head for my holy soul, my shouts and moans were filling the room’s space while he succeeded in gifting me orgasm for my breakfast. I grunted at last as his tongue cleaned out the corners of my lips, “You’re fucking irresistible, my one and only,” Brandon stated, ascending towards my face. I flushed as his predato
41JennaThis was real. Everything that I had been through passed by me. I thought I would meet my grave next but I was still laying beside the man who I fell for, then hated and now again, I feared falling for him again. He never left my side or even my hand. He didn’t know that I was conscious but I couldn’t move for a while until I had gotten the power to open my eyes. Since the moment I had been awakened, he made sure to pepper me with kisses all over my face. “Dove, I can’t thank God enough to God for giving you another chance. You scared the life out of me you know?!” He spoke, hyperventilated. It was difficult for me to speak out for myself because of the oxygen mask and weakliness, so I just let him do the talking work, he didn’t miss out on any chance of proving how worried he was about me and somehow, I also started believing in him. His eyes weren’t lying this time, they had some sort of clarity and honesty. My heart said to trust him once more and grant him a chance. “D
40“Liam…” I gasped, my heart skipped a beat.“Yes, buttercup, Liam. Your own husband Liam,” He said, his tone blended in satire and venom. His aura was filled with malevolence. I inwardly flinched at his words because they were sarcastic enough to take my heart out. “Strange that you have forgotten me so easily… Tell me was that your pussy boyfriend’s cock that made you forget me? Huh, was he that good?” He kept on trudging towards me like a vampire was about to have his feed on a candy human like me. “L-Liam—stop, you can’t do—this,” I stuttered even when I tried to portray myself a little courageous. “Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Still the world hasn’t taught my girl enough all this time,” he mocked, as usual. I kept on reserving while he continued taking my life out of its place with his gait. “Actually… I was here… to talk about us,” “What is left to argue?” I lashed out, not giving up too soon. I had to fight for myself. “There are lots of things that have left unfinished between us,” he
39The wolf was coming to prey on his targeted mouse, watching him coming towards me along with his powerful aura, I had only one thing to do, pray to God that he’d disappear in the thin air or I’d lose my sight but nothing as such sort happened, instead I clearly saw him reaching near me, “Miss. Maxwell,” “Mr. Grande,” My mouth abruptly left out. “Please can you come with me to my office?” He asked, his tone was polite but his aura made it felt like otherwise, I gulped the lump of my throat when his burning heat that was emitting through his covered chest hit my skin, he was standing that close to me and I couldn’t lie I was getting under his effect. “I’m sorry, Mr. Grande but I’m not here for you,” I tried to kindly reject him in every way so he would leave my direction. I stepped away to rush outside but he blocked my way. He came closer to the extent where our chests were about to contract, his head buried near my ear and he whispered, “For the sake of my son, I ask you to lis
38Somebody kill me!Only because of Kevin I agreed on going to the place that I considered a jailhouse. Miss. Beckett promised me to ensure Brandon wouldn’t cross my path and I didn’t even want him to. It’s better he would stay the hell out of my way for his own good otherwise I didn’t know what I would do to him. He caused a never-ending formula of pain on me and I didn’t want my heart to burn into ashes again once again when he’d appear in front of me. It was ten past seven in the evening and I was travelling in the cab to that spooky mansion after my work. I promised myself never to turn back there ever but today, I had to break my ego with my own hands after a short span of keeping it. What if Brandon would come across my way? How would I react? No, he better not come in front of me otherwise I wouldn’t be able to hold back my grudge or maybe tears too. Where he had become my biggest enemy there is a soft corner in my heart that yearns for him and tells me to give him a chance
37Two Months Later I couldn’t believe I was still alive and very much stable after two months of the worst period of my life. Life was finally coming back to its track and I couldn’t be much happier. I thought I’d be dead in a day or few when I was in San Diego but I didn’t lose. I left my past back in there and got back to where I belonged; Los Angelos, leading a new stable life now. I was still in Eliana’s apartment, moving as soon as I get my first salary. But the thing was I was alone in her apartment because she moved in with her boyfriend; that poker-faced Ryan. I wished the best for her, she was the one who helped me like no other and at least I could pray for her betterment. I would never forget her favours, I was actually indebted to it with my life. Alright, enough with the emotional episode, now let’s get back to reality. I mentioned working. Yes, luckily I got a job in this month, it was hard to find but scratching every corner of newspapers and job search site, I was
36I walked out of the mansion with my suitcase packed, I didn’t care who was calling out my name and why. My goal was to pass the mansion’s gate and hop inside the booked cab. That was it. I would never trust anyone now, perhaps this was my wake-up call so I would make sure to stay away from love affairs in future.I again heard my name being called out by the man who I was loathing the most at the moment, I spun around when his callous hand pushed me his way, I was forced to glance at his face, there was a time when I wished to keep looking at him for hours and now, I just wanted nothing more than to avoid him. “Dove, you can’t leave me just like this. You’re my official girlfriend.” There was a hint of whine in his tone. “And what makes you think I would stay with you after I learnt your ugly side?! How can you be so disgusting, Brandon, you were my everything!” My eyes filled with tears but I kept them unshed. He wasn’t worth my tears. “Yes. I know I did wrong, I admit it but p
35I was shivering badly. The picture I held in my hand was of a girl lying naked and unconscious on a bed. Her body was bruised with the same purple and red marks that I had after the night of the movie premiere. I couldn’t stabilise my nerves, I held out all the stack of pictures that laid remaining in the drawer. And with each passing picture of different girls fully naked and bruised got my breath heavier. Tears were forming up in my eye sockets. A sudden hit of the emotion of running to save my life from the abuser hyperventilated me or he’d kill me for finding out all of this. My hands were unstoppable, I kept swiping the pictures to make my brain accept the fact that the man who I called my boyfriend had such stuff in his private wardrobe. He was a famous celebrity who was being adored by millions but the ugly truth about him made me instantly abhor him. Tears blurred my vision as they were flowing without my permission. Just then I saw what I prayed never to see again, I wa