PROLOGUE

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PROLOGUE

Los Angeles, California -1985

Jessica Washington gritted her teeth in pain as she pushed as hard as she could until she heard small cries fill the air. She cried herself and stretched out her arms wanting to hold her child.

"It's a girl."

"Please, let me hold her. Just once." She begged with short breaths.

Her step-father looked down at his child then back up at Jessica.

"Just once." He said then handed his daughter over to her.

Jessica nodded and smiled when her child was in her arms.

"You're so beautiful." She kissed her little girl's nose.

"Get up, we have to drop her off at the orphanage."

She looked up at him. "I want to keep her."

"You will not! Do you know what your mother would do if she ever found out?"

"As far as I'm concerned, that's not my problem. You're the one who raped me!"

"You had your chance to runaway, Jess, but you didn't. I think you wanted it. And you want me to do it again." Adriel smiled wickedly running his finger along her jawline.

Jessica moved her head back and spat in his face. Adriel drew his hand back slapping her in the face then yanked his child from her hands. She was hurting but she stood up chasing after him and by the time she felt like she was going to make it, Adriel got in the car and sped off down the road. Jessica fell to her knees screaming his name saying that she was sorry hoping that he would turn the car around but he didn't.

After few days when she regained some of her strength, Jessica went out to the orphanage that they planned to drop their child off at and told them about her situation but shortly after learned that they received no new children meaning that he had taken her somewhere else. She left with tears quickly filling her eyes and hit the steering wheel with her hands shouting.

"That bastard." She spoke calmly with a shaking voice. "I'm going to get my baby back."

She drove back home with a plan in her mind and was relieved when she didn't see her mother's car parked in the garage but even if she was there, Jessica still would've done what she's about to do.

One thing about Adriel is that he's a lazy bastard and she doesn't even know why her mother married him in the first place. She knew that her mother was hurting after her father had died but still, Jessica wouldn't have married this man, depressed or not. He's worthless. Scum. She warned her mother about him before the proposal, but she never listened. Jessica summed it all up to her mother not wanting to be alone anymore.

She was going to leave off for college soon leaving her mother behind, but as she got to see more and more of Adriel's personality, she was starting to rethink going away.

Her father, Jackson, was the greatest man that she's ever known. He would treat her well, tell her that he loves her and always made sure that she and her mother ate every night. He was the breadwinner in the family and they have endured tough times, but Jessica knew that everything would be okay. As long as they stayed together, and prayed, everything will be okay.

She remembers the night like it was yesterday. Her mother's cries rang through the house one late night and she ran downstairs asking what was wrong. Jessica has never seen her mother that broken before so she automatically knew that something had gone terribly wrong. By the looks of it, it had something to do with her father since he should be home by now and she knew that he wasn't home because if he was, her mother would've been secured in his arms. Instead, she took the place of her father and held her mother tightly.

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