Terra Violette

Screams, that’s all I hear, they’re coming from all around me. I open my eyes and I’m immediately greeted by fire and a headache. All I see is fire all around me, where am I? I get up on my knees and immediately start moving towards the only opening I can see, a window. I have no idea where I am so I can only hope that the window is low enough to jump out of. By the time I reach the window my throat is burning, my eyes are watering, and I can barely breathe. The screaming abruptly stops as I reach the window but I’m too busy fighting for air to pay any attention to that. I look over the windowsill, it is about 5ft to the ground, well here I go. I jump out and black out right as the side of my head hits the ground. "Is she awake yet? Why did you bring her here, you know she's useless now that her father is gone", "I'm sorry sir we did not know that he was dead when we found her". I could hear two men talking, who were they talking about? I open my eyes slowly, I'm in a dim room and there's two men at the end of the bed I'm in talking. The taller one stops talking and turns to me as if he sensed me. I can't help but notice how handsome he is with his sharp jawline and grey eyes, I also notice that he has broad shoulders , tanned skin and tattooed arms. "Oh, so you survived, you always have been a tough nut haven't you?" he asks breaking my line of thought. "What?" who is this man, "Do I know you?" I ask again. He looks at me like I'm speaking a foreign language, "You don't know who I am?" he smirks, "Do you know who you are?". Do I? No, I have no idea who I am,how come? "No, no I-i don't know". This time he smiles , he looks at me for a while as if pondering what to say next, he then moves closer and sits slowly on the bed, he holds my hand softly, looks me in the eyes softly, "What exactly do you remember?", "Well other than the fact that I woke up in a burning house and jumped out its window... nothing" I reply. He smiles and moves closer,  "Its okay honey you're home now, my name is Jake Williams. and you are my wife, Amber Williams"                                                                             ⁕⁕⁕ “I thought I told you to dress up and look pretty!” he shouted as he realized I was still wearing sweatpants and a loose T-shirt. “I’m not going.” I calmly replied, “Draco is a p*****t and so are his men, I’m not about willingly go there and let them watch me like a piece of meat”. Last time I went with him to one of his meetings he had me dressed in a cocktail dress that barely covered my bottom, I naively thought he just wanted to show me off, only to realize too late that he was using me to please his soon to be ‘business’ partner. Never had I ever been so humiliated, he had me sit on their laps and let them touch me. For all I know, he’d let them do more than just ‘touch’ me this time. That’s how he worked, he used those around him to get him what he wanted not caring about how it affected the person. For five whole years I’d naively told myself that he cared about me and just had a tough time showing it. Boy was I wrong, I had a scar on my right thigh to remind me of that. “Are you listening to me?!” he shouted, snapping me out of my thoughts. I looked at him and remained silent, he continued, “ I said you don’t have a choice. You will get dressed and you are coming with me. But it is up to you whether I’m dragging you out or you walk out willingly”. I sat down on the bed. Maybe if he beat me up badly and I got bruises he’d think I was too ugly to take with, I could bare a beating but no way I’d be able to live with myself if I went with him to those men. “You fvcking b***h!” he shouted as he lifted a fist aimed at my face. BEEP BEEP BEEP! It was his work phone, he stopped half way and looked at his phone’s screen before walking out. I immediately pulled out suitcase and start packing my clothes, enough is enough, I’m leaving! I saw the look on his face after he looked at the message on his phone, there was something wrong with business and he’d be out for a while. Suddenly, I’m roughly pulled back, “What the fvck  do you think you’re doing?!”, “I come back to get my car keys and I find you packing where the fvck do you think you’re going?”. I straighten up and coldly reply, “I’m leaving you, I’ve had enough of you, I’m not some toy that you can  use to satisfy yourself and your friends and punch when your having a bad day. He laughs coldly before he lands a hard punch in my stomach, I bend over in pain. I cough a little and can taste blood in my mouth, I wince and straighten up. “Hit me all you like Jake it only gives me more reason to leave”, I knew I was provoking him but I couldn’t help it as I spat on his feet. “Where are you gonna go, huh? You have no one. You are nothing without me, you trash.” He said coldly as he held me by the throat above him. I probably looked pathetic as I refused to show that I was choking and looked him in the eyes, refusing to back down. You’d think I’d have learnt by now, I always saw it coming but I never backed down.                                                                                 ⁕⁕⁕ I now stood in front of the mirror nursing my multiple bruises, he was gone now. One of his sluts had called and I knew he wouldn’t be coming back tonight. I called my best friend Kayla and asked her to come over, less than half an hour afterwards there was a knock on the door. I got up from the bathroom and walked downstairs, to answer the door. She took one look at me and pulled me into a hug, it was a painful one but exactly what I needed as I sobbed into her shoulder. “I still don’t understand why you stay here though,” she stated after id finally calmed down and we were sitting with snacks in front of us, “why don’t you leave?”. “You know I can’t.” I replied annoyed, “And don’t tell me I will this time and I should go to the police. You know he owns most of the police in this city.”, “But-”, she started, “But nothing. I’m tired of having this conversation with you Kayla, we both know I’ll end up dead if I leave!” I knew she did not deserve to have me shout at her, but I was too selfish to let her know that he promised to sell her to one of his pimps in order to stop me from leaving. If she knew how much danger I was causing her, she’d leave me and other than him, she was all I had.