Chapter 23Stacey and Jake
Carter pulled her to a stop in front of his car, she tried to pull away again but he just held her arm tighter.
She knew her chance of getting away had passed when she felt Jake snake his arm around her waist and grip her hip which made her wince in pain.
"Let's go sweetheart, shall we?" he whispered and then bit her cheek Stacey yelped in pain and flinched away from him reaching up to the sore spot on her face, she was surprised he hadn't drawn blood.
Jake opened the back door of the car and shoved her in and climbed in after her. he strapped her in and started to strap himself in when he noticed Stacey watching him with furrowed brows.
"We wouldn't want to get hurt if there was an accident now would we?"
Stacey snorted at him and turned away to look out of the window only to have her head whipped back into Jake's direction by him yanking on her hair.
"Aggghhh please stop Jake! what do you want? Why can't you just let me be? What did I do to you to make you hate me so much?" She sobbed feeling useless and wishing she could just hide away in Ben's arms.
Carter got in the car and started up the engine glancing in his mirror he locked eyes with Stacey and offered her a sympathetic smile and Stacey glared at him and turned to Jake.
"Well?" She demanded feeling utterly pissed off at her situation.
"Wow the bitch has bite! Where have you been hiding I like this new you full of confidence and attitude your adding to my list of things I love about you baby!"
" Love? Don't make me laugh Jake you don't love me and never have and I'm full of nothing but hate for you, you make me sick. I realize now I never loved you I thought I did but it was fear I could never love a monster like you no one could but it's fine you can't hurt me anymore I know it's not my fault,it you it's all you your a fuck up!" She spat.
Jake was completely lost for words. He had lost her, lost the hold he had over her. She wasn't afraid of him anymore, she wasn't hanging off every last word he said to her. She despised him, he loved her and she hated him.
Jake felt his heart breaking and didn't know how to handle it he wanted this girl and he had fucked up any chances he had of getting her and the money now. He didn't even want the cash now it wasn't like he needed it, he just wanted Stacey.
How he wished he had realised this sooner but now, now she was Bens and that hurt even more he always knew there was something between them. He had been right all along and she lied.
She had lied from the start.
He felt a lump stick in his throat and felt like his airways were closing up he couldn't swallow, couldn't breath. He felt tears threatening to spill out over his eyelashes and his stomach was churning so he retaliated the only way he knew how and he started throwing punch after punch onto a cowering Stacey.
He laid punch after punch onto a fragile Stacey's face and head she wasn't even making a noise each time he struck her now, the car jerked to a halt and carter jumped out and ran round and dragged Jake out breaking out of his vicious rage fueled attack.
He climbed in the back of the car to get to Stacey make sure she was alright, she obviously wasn't the way Jake had just laid into her but he could hope.
Carter had never seen Jake lose it like that before, he had always been calm never gone too far unless he wanted to but this, this was something else.
Carter was used to seeing bloody messes but seeing her in this state really got to him but he couldn't get involved he had his own shit going on.
He moved the stray bits of hair out of her face and wiped the ones covered in blood that wouldn't move as easily, he closed his eyes tightly an counted to ten then he looked her over she was staring at him through one eye as her other one was swollen shut.
He wiped her tears away that we're mixing with her blood.
"Stace are you OK? Stupid question I know, I'm sorry he won't hurt you again I promise I won't let him. I won't!" he shouted the last part loud enough for Jake to hear as I was only sat on the ground next to the car head in his hands.
"Fuck off carter your just as bad as him" Stacey croaked at him it's all she could manage all the damage was to her face but there was a few blows that she felt to her ribs and it made it it hard for her to breath let alone talk.
"I promise Stace."
He got out of the car and shut the door behind him and crouched down to Jake .
"What the fuck Jake? she didn't deserve that your a sick fuck you know that? Jake ?"
"Back off Carter" Jake sighed and got up looked at his hands that were covered in Stacey's blood and wiped them on his jeans.
When he tried to open the back door to get in next to Stacey carter stepped in his way a blocked him so couldn't.
"You're in the front with me!" he snapped. He really needed to tread carefully but this moment in time he was struggling to rein it in.
Jake just nodded his head and climbed in the passenger seat put on his seat belt and slowly looked round to Stacey who was glaring at him he swallowed down the vomit rising up his throat at what he had done and turned away and looked out of the window for the first time in his life he was ashamed of himself.
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A Good Hiding (complete)
General FictionStacey is in a relationship with Jake and has been since her mother died two years earlier he was there to pick up the pieces but then became violent, but can her best friend Ben save her? He had an inkling that something was going on but knew she...