He Called Me Gorgeous. Disaster Engagement Series Book 2

Episode 16

Chapter 24 POV The Big Man

I stood in the hotel room in disbelief as I watched the TV. What the f**k was happening? That prick Stefan was smiling like an i***t with his arm around Gorgeous and I wanted to break his f*****g neck. She was doing her fake smile but I could tell she was scared. I stared at her beautiful face on the TV and I wanted to reach in and grab her. She was staring at the floor and slightly stepping away from him but he put his hand around her waist and held her close to him. I promised her I would never let anything happen to her again but now I was watching her with that animal after everything he put her through and I was livid. I looked at that smug bastard as he kissed her cheek and I could feel my blood boiling. The two girls I was with were quiet as they lay on the bed. They could obviously tell I was annoyed but I wasn’t about to tell them why. I just stood there naked watching Stefan smiling and waving at all the fans outside the awards ceremony. I had only went to the toilet for a minute and had came back out to see this on TV and I was in shock. I stood in front of the TV with my hands clenched at my sides. I felt like punching the wall but I didn’t want to bring any attention to the fact that I was there with two prostitutes. How would that have looked in the papers? I would never have lived it down. Then one of the girls said in her Russian accent “I’m sorry Jamie I only wanted to put some music on TV” I just ignored her and started to quickly put my cloths on, then my phone rang and it was Fran and he was just as pissed off as me “what the f**k is going on Big Man? why is she on TV with that bastard?” He shouted. She had told us a while back that he was making her go to some awards thing with him, but Fran had contacted his new manager David and told him to keep him away from London for his own sake. David knew Fran wasn’t to be messed with. That i***t Stefan must have went behind his managers back and went anyway. He must have thought that me and Fran and Chris had forgot what he had done to her. Well we hadn’t and although I was pissed off that he had black mailed her to go to the awards with him, I was kind of looking forward to finally getting my hands on him. “I don’t know what he’s playing at Fran. I will make my way over there right now” I said “I’m on my way to the airport I’m going to f*****g kill him” he shouted. “Not if I get to him first Franco” He ended the call without another word and I called Stacey. We had been seeing each other for a while and I was pretending to be a good boyfriend to her in front of Gorgeous. To tell you the truth I thought that maybe being with Stacey would have made Lydia jealous and make her realize that she maybe had feelings for me but it had the opposite effect. She told me she was happy for us and it broke my heart that she didn’t care who I was with. But being with Stacey wasn’t all bad. It gave me an excuse to be in Lydia’s flat all the time and Stacey would always fill me in on where she was and what she was up to. But she hadn’t mentioned that Gorgeous was going to meet Stefan and I wanted to strangle her. After one ring Stacey answered her phone “Where are you Jamie? Are you coming over later?” I had told her I was going out to watch football with a couple of mates. “never mind that! did you know that Lydia was going out tonight with Stefan?” She took a deep breath “She made me promise not to tell you” “I’m going to kill him” “please don’t do anything stupid Jamie” I hung up on her and ran down to get my car but I was pretty wasted and way over the limit to drive. But I didn’t care. I just needed to get to Gorgeous. I was driving fast through traffic and I ran a red light and before I knew it the police pulled me over. I didn’t have a leg to stand on. I was actually kicking and screaming as they threw me into the cells till I had sobered up. I was worried sick that he was going to hurt her again. I couldn’t live without her. She’s my whole world. He had tried to kill her before, but I was there to stop him, but now I was trapped in a cell, I wouldn’t be there to save her again. I just had to hope that Chris or Franco would get to him first. The next day Chris came and bailed me out, I hadn’t slept a wink I just spent the whole night pacing the police cell. When I got into Chris’s car he was chalk white. And I knew something must have happened “what the f**k happened last night? is gorgeous ok?” He shook his head “Big man shes in hospital, she’s ok but Stefan kicked the s**t out of her in her flat” “where was Harry?” “Fran flew up from Glasgow and attacked Stefan and Harry was cleaning up his blood and that’s when he attacked Lydia. Harry is in bits, he’s blaming himself but Gorgeous said he was fine one minute then went nuts for no reason. The police took Stefan away and they are holding him for assault” “I’m going to f*****g kill him” “auntie Elaine called Fran she wants us to stay out of it, her and uncle Joe want to sort him out themselves” “no way” “that’s what Fran said but he’s with Lydia in hospital and she doesn’t want him to leave her. Stefan’s management have been told to bail him out and uncle Joe will make him disappear” I thought back to when my brother disappeared and I knew better to back off and let Joe handle it himself. “I need to see her” “she said she doesn’t want to see anyone until she gets out of hospital” it was like a dagger through my heart she was obviously upset that no one was there to save her after we had promised to protect her “why doesn’t she want to see me?” “It’s not just you big man, Fran said she’s on painkillers and she’s been sleeping a lot” “but she will see Fran and not me” “she should be home soon and we can see her then” he dropped me home and I went up to my flat and opened a bottle of vodka, after a couple of hours I had worked myself up into a frenzy I was going to kill Stefan for this but I was angry with Fran for being there with her. And angry with her for wanting Fran instead of me. I went up to her flat to see Stacey to see if she knew why Lydia didn’t want to see me but stacey wasn’t home. I let myself in and went into Gorgeous bedroom there was blood on the bathroom floor and the door had been kicked in. My heart sank, my poor Gorgeous girl must have been terrified and the place was a mess. I sat on her bed and wept. I cried because of what he had done to her. She was my everything and I couldn’t stand back and let him do this again. I thought back to the night the dragon and Joe found out that Jimmy had abused her and all hell had broke lose. The dragon barged by my dad with a golf club shouting and screaming and she went straight up to Jimmys bedroom as Joe explained why they were there and what he had done to Lydia. My dad was in shock but he said he knew Jimmy was bad but he didn’t realize what he had done. He tried to protect him like any dad would but when my mum said that he had tried to force himself on her too my dad let Joe and the dragon take him. I stood at the window watching them take Jimmy into the boot of their car and I asked my dad what had happened, he said he had hurt Lydia and that he had been abusing her. I still didn’t understand but I knew that if he had hurt her then he deserved to be taken away because I loved her even then. I didn’t see Jimmy again, no one did and my family and friends were better off without him. I never told my dad the things he had done to me. There was never anything s****l but he mentally and psychically tortured me for years. It was clear that he was jealous that dad had chose to leave him and his mum to marry my mum and go on to have me. But I was only a kid and I was desperate for him to like me. So to begin with I thought it was a game then it turned really nasty. He would beat me up and say that dad wanted to send me to a home to live. One day he told me to ask Lydia over to my house to play, I remember he gave me ice cream and told me to watch TV and that he was taking Lydia to his room to show her his new computer. I often thought about that day and the look on her face when she came back into my living room. I asked her what was wrong and she just said “ I hate your big brother” I beat myself up for that for years and it was the same look she had on her face on TV standing next to Stefan. I looked at the blood on the floor and decided then and there I was going to get him myself and I didn’t care who stood in my way. I sobered up the next day and finally called Fran. He said he had been worried sick about me and had been calling me constantly but I hadn’t been answering his calls because I didn’t want to hear that he was looking after her because it broke my heart that I wasn’t the one with her. He just said she was ok and they would be home soon but that Stefan was out on bail and Joe flew over from Spain and asked a couple of his mates to come down from Glasgow so they could help sort him out once and for all. I tried to get more information out of him but he said that’s all he knew and that the dragon had told us to leave it to them. There was nothing I could do. So I did what I always did. I hit the bottle and dreamed about Gorgeous one day being with me.