My Only Sunshine

Chapter 20

For the next few days, I was kept in a basement cell. He fed me and gave me sufficient water but it seemed as if he was waiting for something. As the days went by, I felt myself losing hope. On day 5, I didn't move the whole day. I just laid in the bed he had put in the cell. Which was much better than the cell itself. He came down the stairs with a tray of food and I ignored his existence. He was not happy. 

That was the first time he hit me. He left the food but I didn't touch any of it. On day 6, I had decided to eat so I could try and hit him with the tray of food to escape. When he came downstairs to collect the tray, I pretended to hand him the tray but I swung, aiming for the head. He caught it and ripped the tray from my hands. He back handed me across the face and my head whipped to the side. 

"Hadley, I don't like hitting you, but when you treat me this way, I have to." He said softly. 

"You don't have to do this. You're locking me up down here. You're keeping me away from my family!" I said, trying anything to get him to let me go.

"Your family?" He laughed at me. "Jackson has already moved on! He stopped looking for you the day after I took you. Your best friend Donna doesn't care about you enough to even pressure them to find you. Opie? He's totally fine that you're gone and let's be honest, so is the rest of the criminals you hang around." He spat cruelly at me. I didn't believe him but I played along. 

"Really?" I thought about Abel and I felt my eyes well with tears. He touched my cheek and sighed. 

"I'm sorry, my love. It's the truth." I wanted to vomit but I held it back. 

"Can you stay with me tonight?" I asked softly. He nodded and got into the bed with me. I pretended to fall asleep after 20 minutes. He audibly sighed and ran his hand up and down my arm. He brushed hair out of my face and then touched my cheek. 

"You're so beautiful, I almost can't help myself." His hand grazed my chest and I tried not to move even though I wanted to tense. After a little while, he stopped touching me and laid down. When I heard his breathing even out, I slowly shifted and slid off the bed. 

I did my best to make it up the stairs as quickly as I could and when I got to the front door, I was ripped back away from it by my hair. I cried out in pain and tried to pull away from him but he gripped my hair tighter and then pushed me against the wall beside the door. 

"I wish you hadn't done that." He growled. He pulled my head back and smashed it against the wall. Everything went black immediately. 

When I woke up, I was chained to the bed. My arms were chained to the headboard and my feet to the footboard. I groaned in pain. I tried to move but I couldn't really move at all. "Finally awake my love?" He questioned with a smile. "I really wish you didn't make me chain you down." 

He shook his head and sighed staring down at me as he stood over the bed. "I just want to go home. I didn't make you do anything." 

He shook his head. "Wrong thing to say Hadley." He taped my mouth and proceeded to slide the shirt and shorts out of the way that he forced on me. 

He had his way with me and then put my clothes back the way they were while I wished I was dead. This happened for weeks. I had lost hope that anyone was coming to save me. Jax and Abel were a distant memory that made me cry every time I thought of them. I tried my best to remember without thinking of it often. 

One night, I had a dream that Jax stood over me and was trying to get me out. I woke up in tears. One night, I dreamt of Abel and that made me cry as well. Thinking of anyone in the club made me want to cry. I missed them so much. 3 weeks had gone by and on a Friday night, I laid in the bed. I fell asleep around midnight and I woke up a couple hours later, feeling like someone was watching me. I sat up and looked around and there stood the stalker. 

"Why are you watching me sleep? Creep." I asked with disgust. 

I heard a bang upstairs and I knew someone had come into the house. "HELP ME!" I screamed. He just sat there saying nothing as footsteps got closer and they filed down the stairs. Tig was the first down the stairs and my eyes lit up and I immediately began crying. 

"Tig!" I cried out and he looked straight at me. 

The stalker stood up and that's when I realized he had a gun. "Tiggy, he has a gun." I cried as more of the guys filed down the stairs. Happy came out from behind Tig and I felt relief. Chibs followed suit with Bobby, Juice, Opie, Clay, and finally Jax behind him. Happy, Opie, Chibs, and Jax stood inside the cell while everyone else stayed in the main area of the basement with their guns trained on the stalker. My eyes met Jax's and I bolted out of the bed and threw myself into Jax's arms. 

"Oh my god, you're here." I cried. His arms went around my waist. 

"Holy shit babe, I missed you." Jax said softly. 

"My name is Andrew." The stalker said before using the gun to shoot himself in the head. I yelped in surprise and turned to shove my face into Jax's chest. 

His hand went to the back of my head and held me so tightly. "He can't hurt you anymore okay?" Jax said softly. I nodded but he let go and picked me up bridal style. He carried me out of the house with Happy in front of us and Chibs behind us. Happy opened the van door for us and Jax set me inside. Everyone got in and they made the drive back to either the club house or his house. 

"I missed all of you so much." I said as soon as everyone was in the van. Opie started rustling around and he took off his kutte and handed me his sweater. I smiled gratefully and slipped it on. 

"We missed you too doll. Not the same without your sarcastic ass around." Tig said with a grin on his face. 

"How did you guys find me?" I questioned. 

"I took a while, but Juice had a list of new comers and he narrowed it down. This guy was the last one. No one living in Charming would have taken the VP's old lady. It had to be a new comer." Clay said. I nodded at his words as I squeezed Jax's hand tightly. 

"What did he do to you?" Chibs was the first to question me. I knew it was coming and I knew they would want to know, but I figured, if they knew, it would just hurt them. 

"You guys don't need to know, okay? It's only going to cause anger that no one can fix because he's not here anymore. He's dead." I said softly. 

"Hadley Hale." Chibs snapped. I looked up at him with wide eyes. He had never been so angry with me. 

"What Chibs?" I questioned. 

"Do we need to take you to the hospital?" He questioned. I thought about it for a moment before slowly nodding. 

"Yes." I said simply but softly. We pulled up to the hospital moments later. Jax carried me inside even though I could walk. I laid my head on Jax's chest and even though we were moving, I fell asleep in his arms.