Bent

□CHAPTER: 25

Jace's P.O.V

"You need to calm down Clarke!" Fabio shouts as I punch the punching bag in my home gym with everything in me trying to get rid of all the anger coursing through my veins at the moment.

"He touched her! He fucking hurt her!" I growl in an immense amount of anger. "I'm gonna kill him Fabio. I swear I'm gonna fucking kill him!" I shout throwing punches with a greater force than before. And since I don't have any gloves on I can feel my knuckles begin to throb.

"You need to calm the fuck down before you hurt yourself!" Fabio continues to shout. I'm trying. I'm really trying to calm down but I just can't. Flashes of Kathy breaking down in my arms fill my mind and that only intensifies my anger.

"I can't calm down knowing that she's in that house with that man! I fucking can't Fabio!" I shout breathing heavily. I'm exhausted but I can't stop punching the fuck out of this punching bag because I know that once I stop without calming down then I'm going to kill someone. Although for all the things that he's done to Kathy and to my dad, killing him wouldn't be such a bad thing.

"I know it's hard but you need to try by all means to calm down. Have you tired other methods of getting rid of all the anger?" He asks and I throw one last punch and then I catch the bag as it swings back to me breathing heavily. "I've fucking tried everything. Mediating. Shooting. Taking a cold shower. I even spoke to Rene telling her to deliver a rose to Kathy and then I actually thought I was calm but do you know what happened right after I hung up huh," I start anger seething through every word that came out of my mouth leaving Fabio waiting expectantly for what I have to say next.

"I saw her name on my call log and I remembered the call we had when that man...that just got me pissed off all over again and since then I've been down here punching the shit out of this thing to no fucking avail. I'm gonna kill him Fabio, I really am." I say breathing heavily.

"Think about her Jace-"

"I'm fucking thinking about her right now! And that's really not helping my case but I can't get her crying frame out of my mind and I so badly want to!" I say running my hands through my damp hair and then I pull on the ends in frustration.

"That's because you're thinking about her in the wrong way. Think about how she makes you feel when she smiles at you or when she walks into the damn room. Think about how angry she's gonna be at you if you hurt yourself 'thinking about her'! Get your mind out of your fucking ass and calm the fuck down before I beat your fucking ass! And I don't want to repeat myself!" Fabio shouts at me and that instantly puts me in my place and I can feel myself physically start to calm down.

The first indication being that my breathing is slowly getting back to equilibrium. Sometimes Fabio reminds me of my father because what he just said is something that my father would've said.

"Good! Good. I know it's hard but we'll nail this guy. We're really close. With the blood sample we found in the hidden basement at his garage and the fact that he even has a secret basement in his garage means we're close. We'll get the papers we need soon. There's no need for you to have blood on your hands. Your father wouldn't approve of that." Fabio says and I just sit down and rest my elbows on my knee caps.

"He's buddies with half the police force in this damn town that might be hard. I have no choice but to end him. Permanently." I sigh looking down.

"And who the fuck said he's the only one that has friends in the police force huh? More so we have friends in police forces around the whole damn country and places around the whole world. How hard can it be?" He says somehow boosting my confidence up. This is exactly what I needed.