Chapter 1

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by EchoesoftheWanderer
Dedicated to hella_rachella
by EchoesoftheWanderer
                                    
                                              While this book is not my top priority I still feel the need to update it when possible! This is the first chapter!
                          
                          Chapter 1

                          
                          Jacqueline winced as her uncle threw the book past her head as she walked away. She tried not to let tears cloud her vision as he screamed at her back.
                          "Jacqueline! Get back here, we are not finished!"
                          She couldn't help but let a tear slip as her parents turned their aristocratic noses at her, completely avoiding the fact that she was their daughter and her dillusional uncle was abusing her. She launched herself up three flights of stairs to the top floor where she spent most of her lonely life.
                          "Jackie?"
                          She wiped the last tears out of her eyes before he could see them. Axel her little brother peeked around the door and slowly approached her. 
                          "Why was he yelling at you again?"
                          She hated doing this, lying to her little brother, but she only did it to shield him from the truth. Their family, that was the worst knowledge she could think of having to bare.
                          "No. No. He didn't hurt me Axel. I'm fine, it was my fault anyway. I accidently broke something of Uncle's."
                          Axel was not amused nor pleased. "Well it was an accident, Uncle needs to learn to forgive."
                          She laughed as she held him to her. This, this is what she had to protect, her little brother's innocence and childhood. She would not let them corrupt her sweet Axel. She would die before she let them.
                          Jacqueline had been cracked a long time ago. When she was fifteen they took everything she'd ever wanted from her. Two years ago she had met the most excruciatingly handsome man she had ever seen and they ripped him out of her life. His name had been Roman and he loved her, he wanted to save her from her family. He taught her life wasn't meant to be lived with your records full of dirt and blood stained hands. He was right.
                          After Roman was ripped away from Jackie she realized she had to save Axel if no one else from the fate of the Richardson family legacy. If it was the last thing she ever did she'd die happy.