Love Will Remember {Sequel to ATB}

Chapter 18

After I went to my place to pack, I find myself in front of Zayn's place. It's actually a nice place, almost as nice as mine. I shake my head, how the heck can I say his place is nice, when this is going to be my hell for some time.

I ride the elevator to his floor, and when the doors open I frown. As I walk out into his livingroom, I see him standing by the bar. I can already feel this isn't going to go well, well not that it actually was in the first place. He meets my gaze, and it's scorching. And him drinking isn't going to help. Fuck.

"About time you showed up." he snaps.

"You never said at what time I had to get here, so calm down." I smile sweetly at him.

He narrows his eyes at me, and gracefully makes his way over to me. I keep my eyes on his, I'm not going to let him step all over me. I have to stand up for myself.

Next thing I know his fist connects with my jaw. I stumble back and fall on my butt. Fuck that hurt. I look at my hand, and it has blood on it. My eyes begin to water, and try my best to hold back the tears. I'm not going to cry on front of him. He grabs a hold of my neck and pushes me up against the wall.

"Don't you ever answer back to me, got it." he growls. I nod. I'm only going to get bruised and fucked in here. How did I fall into this again. Oh yes, because I'll do anything for Nathan. Even risked getting killed. He takes his hand off my neck, and walks away. I stand there frozen, not knowing where to go.

"You will be sleeping with me, and trust me you won't be doing much of it." he turns and has a disgusting smirk plastered on his face. "You can leave your things there, the help will get later. Lets go to the room." He puts his arm for me to take but I refuse. "You can make this much easier if you listen to me." I don't want to go in his room. I know he'll beat me, and then fuck me. I know how this works.

This morning I actually have to put on more cover up than usual. Zayn last night was a savige. Not only was it enough that he straight up punched once, he had done at least five more times. Well at least those were the ones I counted. I blacked out after the fifth one, and woke up naked and bruised. I make sure all the visible bruises are hidden, and I walk out of his restroom. He's still asleep, oh how I wish I could just stab him right now. But I'm not a murderer. I get my purse and walk out.

I arrive a few minutes early to work, and I bump into Peter accidentally. He smiles at me, and I give a weak smile back. I see him narrow his eyes at me, then he grabs me by my arms and pulls me closer to him. He looks at my face closely. Oh no. I made sure to cover everything up well, I don't think I missed a spot did I?

"Why are you wearing so much make-up it's not like you." he keeps examining my face.

"I just wanted to try something new." I shrug him off, and walk into the break room. That was a close one. I take my phone out only to see I have a text from Zayn.

'You left without permission.'

'I work today. Plus I don't think I need your permission to come to work' I press send and leave my phone in my locker. I don't even want to see what he's going to reply. I get my first first patient, and my day begins.

By lunch I'm so hungry, no I'm beyond hungry. I run down to Subway and eat there, that way I don't have to bump into Peter in the break room. As I'm eating, all I can think about is how to get rid of Zayn. If I were to tell Nathan when he comes back he could fix all this. I just don't even know if I'll be alive when he comes back. He never told me when he was coming back.

After work I head to my apartment, to check on things, to see if Nathan by any chance came back. But everything is like I left it yesterday, and Nathan isn't back. I sit down outside on the balcony. And look out, into the wonderful view. Please god let Nathan come back home soon. He's the only one that can help me out of this situation.