Jewel's POV
Back at Dauntless, everything is quiet. Eric was silent the whole ride back to the compound, not saying another word about wanting to keep me safe or why I had left in the first place.
It was strange to say the least. I would have thought that he would have demanded answers out of me but he didn't. He simply lead me back to one of the trucks and we drove away.
Now, his cool hand presses into the small of my back as he leads up the stairs to his apartment. I'm too tired to even question why he is taking me here instead of back to my place. I have the urge to ask him about what he did to Four but the thought leaves my mind as quickly as it came once we are at the door of his apartment.
Once inside, without even thinking, I head straight towards his bedroom. I need rest.
"Where ya headed there, Amity?" His low voice brings me out of my trance and I turn back to him to see him smirking as he nears me.
"I'm tired." I say, simply. This seems to bring slight amusement to his eyes as he runs his hands up my arms until his palms are firmly pressing on either side of my face.
His touch is icy and it burns my skin on contact. I love it.
"That's too bad. You have to reprimanded for your actions tonight." Eric's gaze is penetrating. A nervous tingle rises up in my stomach.
"What do you mean reprimanded?" He can't possibly mean what I think he does.
His hands leave my face and he pushes me back into the door of his bedroom. A very serious expression crosses his face and I know now that I'm talking to leader Eric.
"You have to be punished for running off like that. It's against faction rules." I'm very aware that there is nowhere for me to escape to. His forearms rest on either side of my head as his body firmly presses into mine.
I just want to sleep and he wants to talk about my punishment? Sometimes I wonder where his mind is at. There's only one way out of this and that is to distract him.
I bring my hands up to the front of his neck and with either of my index fingers, I lightly trace down the black ink. He watches me closely and I smile, sweetly up at him.
"But I'm really tired, Eric. Can we talk about my punishment in the morning? Don't you just want to come lay down with me right now?" For a moment, I swear I see a flash of excitement glow in his eyes but it soon disappears and is replaced with darkness. His smirk widens and he leans his body closer to mine, practically crushing me into the door.
"Oh, there's a lot of things I'd like to do with you right now." I'm completely surprised when his hands come down on my ass and he lifts me up, forcing me to wrap my legs around his waist. He kicks the door open and trudges to his bed where he practically throws me onto it.
I don't even have time to catch my breath before his whole body is looming over me, looking down at me hungrily.
"I can be very creative with my punishments, you know." I watch as his left hand traces down my side until he's found the hem of shirt. His icy fingers sneak up under the material and I gasp as they come down directly under my breast.
"Eric, please. No." I whimper out. The evil smirk is immediately replaced with worry and he removes his hand.
"What's wrong?"
Do I tell him? Seeing Robert tonight brought back an ocean of bad memories from the past. If I tell Eric what happened, what would he do?
I squirm under him, trying to find room to breath. He understands and moves so that he lays on his back next to me. But he's too far away now so I scootch myself over and straddle his hips.
He doesn't seem to mind at all as his hands grip hold of my thighs. I press my palms to the center of his chest, causing him to grunt.
"I saw someone tonight...while I was at Amity....someone from my past." I look deep into his eyes, trying to read his expression but of course he is a closed book. So I continue.
"Someone who hurt me." That gets his attention. His palms tighten around my skin and his jaw clenches.
"Hurt you?" He says, his voice with an edge to it now. I lean down, putting more pressure to his chest. Just say it.
I bit my bottom lip into my mouth before speaking again. "I was raped."
Out of all the times I had seen Eric angry this had to be one of the most frightening. It's like his eyes turned into black pits. He pushes me off of him and stands, pacing the side of the bed before looking back at me with rage.
"Who the fuck was it, Jewel?! Who? I swear to God, I'm going to fuckin kill them." He's screaming now. Honestly, I wasn't expecting this reaction out of him. We weren't a couple. We barely knew each other really. Sure these past couple of months, things had happened but I didn't expect that he would care enough to want to kill someone.
"Jewel!" He screams again. I lean up on my knees and grab his hand as he walks by and pull him down on the bed. His breaths are heavy as he sits next to me and I rub his back, soothingly.
"It was a long time ago." I whisper to him. He turns to me and pulls me into his arms. My body sprawls across his and I take in his scent again. My head fits perfectly into the crevice of his chest and I welcome his boa constrictor hold around me. I've never felt so protected as I do now.
I look up at him and bring my face to his so that are lips touch. "Just lay with me, okay?" I say before kissing him. In normal Eric fashion, his tongue slides into my mouth as soon as my lips part slightly. When we finally break away from one another, our breathing is heavy.
I nuzzle myself back into his embrace and smile when his arms tighten around me.
Moments pass and I think that he might have fallen asleep but then he starts talking.
"I'm going to kill him." His words should frighten me, but they don't.
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