I ripped her shirt in pieces from her bodyand tore apart her bra, roughly gripping her flesh and biting intoher. She tried to claw and punch at me, but I grabbed both of herwrists and slammed them down above her head causing her to shriekin terror.
Good. I wanted her scared. I wanted herabsolutely terrified so she would know who she was fucking with andthat she was never to run from me again. She would fear me for therest of her life because she would know exactly what I would do toher should she ever disobey me like this again.
After about a minute, I flipped her overonto her stomach and re-entered her just as hard. She screamedagain, clawing at the bench, but she had nowhere to go. I then tookout my phone and began to play the video my men had sent me from aday ago. I set it down in front of Jaden’s face and pulled her headback by her hair so she had no choice but to watch.
The video showed her uncle, who lived on hisown in Muskegon, Michigan. After my men hadtorturedhim for a short while, they lit his house onfire, leaving him to the flames as she had my home. Luckily, I hada sprinkler system set up for any such occasion.
Jaden screamed and cried even harder as shewatched the video. She tried to fight me again, but she had nothingto go on.
“I hope it was worth it, Jaden,” I spat inher ear. “Because if you thought things were bad before, they areabout to get so much worse for you. I told you running was amistake. I told you I would always find you, and now, you’re goingto pay the fucking consequences.”
A few seconds later, I came inside her andshe continued to scream and cryunderme, but I wasn’t letting up. I would never letup.
I picked her back up and tossed her again,fury boiling in my veins as I thought about all the other bullshitshe could have accomplished had she had more time. I grabbed herright wrist, pulling her to me and squeezing hard until I felt thebone finally snap from the pressure. She screamed and thrashed as Ibrought her to my chest and crushed her to me. I cut off her criesas I pulled her face to mine and kissed her fiercely, tasting thefresh blood on her lip.
“Darren, stop, please!” She screamed when Ifinally pulled away, terror filling her voice, but I refused toback down. I suddenly had no desire to hear her speak. She hadbroken so many rules, and now, she would learn.
I gripped her jaw, squeezing it in my handuntil I felt the bone crunch like sand. Jaden’s muffled screamssent a flurry in my chest as I held her there, her tears fallingover my fingers as I kept her mouth shut. I tossed her againstanother wall before grabbing her again, snaking my arms around herrib cage and tightened my grip until I felt the bones crunch undermy weight. Jaden tried to scream, but it only came out as tightlittle screeches and gasps. I then let go of her and she dropped tothe floor in a heap at my feet.
She shook at my feet—fear, pain, and regretpouring from her eyes. I pulled out the needle I had in my pocketand bent down over her broken body. I plunged the needle into herarm and she groaned a little more. I then reach down and spoke intoher ear before the drug kicked in.
“Run from me again, Jaden,” I challengedher. “Because if it ever happens again, I can’t promise you I’llstop next time.”
I heard her whimper slightly before the drugfinally took over and she passed out on the floor. I then gentlypicked her up, wrapped her naked and bruised body in my suitjacket, and carried her in my arms as I walked out of the cell andback toward the lobby. Scott, Hagen, and a few of my men werewaiting there as I walked out with Jaden in hand.
“All set?” Hagen asked me as I approached, alittle bit of concern in his eyes.
I nodded gravely at him. Now was not thetime to ask me questions.
Scott joined me while the rest of my menfollowed behind. I headed out to the black armor plated Escaladethat was waiting for us in the parking lot. I carefully rightedJaden in my arms and laid her in the backseatwithme. I eased her head on my lap as she sleptthe pain I had just caused her away. When she woke up, she wouldn’tbe feeling much better.
Everything I did, I had already planned todo. I fractured her jaw because I didn’t want to hear her fuckingspeak for the next month. I fractured her ribs because I didn’twant her to move a single inch without the painful reminder of herstupid attempt to run. And I broke her right wrist because I wantedher skills diminished so she could see that I could easily takethem away if I wanted to.
The car quickly took off as Scott got in thedriver’s seat and we headed for my private jet. With my house underconstruction and Jaden clearly capable of manipulating the shockcollar, I needed her recovery to occur in a secure location – one Iknew she would never be able to escape from – my private island inthe Caribbean.
I already had Sid set everything up forJaden since she’d be out of commission for a while. He was alreadythere, waitingwitha privatenurse who wouldfinishthe jobonce Sid had to leave. I only planned to be there for the firstcouple of days as I had so much more shit to take care of backhome. Once I had that under control, I would lay low for a while onthe island with Jaden while she recovered, reminding her every dayof the rules and what would happen if she didn’t follow them. I wasnot about to let this fuck-up happen ever again.
I looked down at my sleeping broken beautyand began to string my fingers through the softness of her hair.Even with all the bruises, she was still the most beautiful thing Ihad ever seen and the thought of her being gone from my life hadthe storm inside me raging for blood. In a very short span of time,she had become my obsession, my light, my reason for living.
It was the most remarkable thing andcompletely unexplainable. I didn’t know how to rationalize my needfor her, but anything more than a moment away from her presence wasabsolute torture. I craved her all the time and the fact she foughtme at nearly every turn always had me excited as fuck. She was thecolor in a white room, the sugar in black coffee, and the fire inmy darkness.
My addiction.
When Jaden woke up, things were going to bevery different for her. If she thought she hated me now, she had noidea what she’d soon be feeling when she finally opened herbeautiful amber eyes. Jaden was mine. And I made it my lifelonggoal to make her embrace it. And I knew just how to ensure it.
A dark smile formed on my lips as we pulledup to my jet, the sun setting beyond the horizon in a wave ofgolden embers. The wheels in my head turned a thousand miles aminute while I twirled a strand of Jaden’s red hair around myfingers. So beautiful, so mine … and so infinitely fucked.
ChapterForty-One
Recovery
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I woke up to the sounds of a slow rhythmicbeep. Beep … beep … beep over and over again. My eyes felt heavy,my entire body roared with pain, and it felt like ajackhammerwas pounding away inside my head.Forcing my eyelids to crack open, I saw the source of the beep. Itwas a heart monitor. I looked down to notice I was in a hospitalbed with an IV insertedintomyarm and the heart monitor clip attached to my finger. Groaning, Iadjusted my body only to wince in ultimate pain. Everything hurt.Everything.
I tried to open my mouth to call out forsomeone, and suddenly realized that I couldn’t. I heard theheart monitorspike as fear tookover my body as I realized my jaw wouldn’t open. I began to panicand nearly screamed.
“She’s awake,” I heard a male voice call outto someone, and I instantly turned my head to the source to find aguard dressed in a black suit and tie standing beside the door.Then a woman, whom I didn’t recognize, quickly came out of anotherdoor near the guard.
