The Darkness Within

Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1

"Chantelle... Chantelle, wake up." Chantelle jolted up from her fitful sleep. She frowned looking over at Blaine. Why was he waking her up?

"What?" She asked him angrily.

"You're having another nightmare." The look of concern on his face was very evident.

"Fuck off Blaine, I'm tired." Chantelle didn't want to admit she was still suffering of the nights. She hated Blaine during the dark nights when sleep finally took over after exhaustion kicked in, she detested Blaine, he was the cause of everything bad in her life.

Bad and good, she had two children by him but that was all that was good. She thought living back with Blaine might work out for her, maybe she would get over this intense fear she had in her heart whenever the dark memories of how badly he had treated her would take over.

Not that Chantelle really had a choice about moving back in with the man that had tormented for so long. He wanted his children around and she was not about to let them go... So she sucked it up and returned to the devil's lair.

Blaine was a great father there was no denying that and around their children they were both on their best behaviour. It was like life paused when they were together as a family. It was all happy days with their children.

Alone and Chantelle found it very hard to breathe around Blaine. Despite everything that they had been through and overcome she still could not get over what he had subjected her to.

"Are you okay?" He asked resting his head on the pillow in his trademark position with both his hands atop his head. Sexiest sight if ever... His chest... His tattooed chest was her ultimate weakness...

"Yeah, why are you in here?" Chantelle did not want Blaine in her space. She was already missing his touch so much and this was not helping any. Chantelle had sworn to herself that she was never going to be in any sort of sexual relationship with Blaine. He would use her vulnerability against her and fuck with her head.

"The fuck Chantelle?" He asked her exasperated. She just did not want to need him. She found she needed him so much at times it was scary. Chantelle had done everything in her power to learn to be without his touch... Without his security. She did not need to regress now.

"Fuck off, I'm serious, I want to be alone." She said shoving him hard. Blaine cursed when she almost pushed him off the bed.

"Settle the fuck down." He bit angrily. "You want another nightmare?" It was true, when Blaine was not in the bed beside her, Chantelle would often see nightmares, his presence would sort of calm her down.

Thing was he was the cause of her nightmares but he was also the only person who was able to stop them too.

"Yeah whatever." Chantelle did not want him to touch her. Being in the same bed always led to sex. It was their thing, she used it for the pain, to forget, Blaine had his own reasons as to why he would fuck her and fuck her so viciously at that. "I'm serious Blaine, don't touch me."

"Like I want to fucking touch you. Just sleep already. You're doing my head in." He snapped. Chantelle lay on her side eyeing him out.

Probably the sexiest man alive, she loved his tattoos. Not even realising what she was doing, her hands automatically began tracing his tattoos.

"You need to die." Was last thing she said before she fell into a calm peaceful sleep. First sleep in so long. Would seem that Blaine was over her screams of the night and decided to sleep in her bed to keep the monsters at bay despite the fact that he himself was the monster that was creating all this havoc within her.