#1 In LSJU Series
~he lost everything~
Elizabeth Grey has gone through hell with her psycho ex, and her move to the uni in Cali has been secretly planned out to get away from him.
What happens when she meets the cliché...
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Chapter Nine
The Cardinals won easily with a score of 33 to 14. I can't say I was focused on the game at all because I wasn't. Watching my girls be so carelessly happy drug me down from the high I've been on ever since I left my home.
I'm not saying I'm triggered by Jayden, fuck no.
It was just at that moment his promise to me repeated itself over and over again. I couldn't push it out of my head even if I tried. The memories of the day I started planning my escape to college replayed over again as if my mind was on a loop. It was the day I realized I wouldn't get away from Jayden for almost a whole year.
It was only a month ago when I found Jayden cheating, and he threatened to kill me if I leave him. My stubborn personality is refusing me from accepting that my life is in his hands. I have tried leaving multiple times now.
As I lay in bed with Jayden beside me, I stare hopelessly at the white ceiling above us. His small snores feeling the room around us. I cling the black sheets on my cold, bruised naked body as if they will swallow me whole.
Jayden is manipulative. I haven't learnt that very well this past month. It's like he's fighting to keep me as his and why? I have no fucking idea.
He could have anyone he wants. He was money and looks, but he wants me.
Like I said I knew he was manipulative, but it never crossed my mind that he would use that tactic to get me to sleep with him. I've been refusing too ever since I found him cheating the first time.
It takes a fucked-up man to coerce someone to do something they don't want to. And Jayden has proven himself to be that fucked up.
I tried throwing it in his face that he can go have sex with anyone he wants to, but that seemed to anger him more. With one blow to the side of my head, I collapsed on the floor while he accused me of not loving him anymore.
Of-course I don't love him anymore. Look what he has done to me.
He had the audacity to question on why I would push him to cheat. I scoffed at the idiocy that came from him. Like seriously how fucking stupid.
With death threats, and beatings so bad I had no other choice to cave and give him what he wanted. It was disgusting, but I pushed through it.
I'm strong, and I always will be. I won't let him break me.
With one glace towards Jay, I slowly peel off the sheets and force myself to stand. Ignoring the pain radiating through my whole body, I make my way towards the shower. I don't bother looking in the mirror because if I get one look at my broken state my brain my register how destroyed I am. I can't let that happen. My hope and strength are all I have.
