He is always there. Chapter 5 I'm so dazed I can barely tell what is going on. I grip the arms of my chair as Jace puts some boxing gloves on and climbs into the makeshift ring. My father grabs the back of my neck and punched me ,then pushed me away as he climbs in the ring as well. I'm left gasping for air as Alex walks in, he makes me stand up. They start to fight and Alex presses both arms into my chest, Jace sees and gets more wound up. My father just laughs at him. Alex presses tighter, hard enough to make me scream. I'm still screaming at the pain in my chest. Jace gets distracted by me and my dad knocks him out. Alex takes him to the spare room, I follow and stay by jaces side. When Jace begins to wake up, my father comes in and starts beating me until I'm bleeding from several cuts and I'm coughing up blood. He walks out of the house with Alex and locks the house. Probably to get beer and that. Jace picks me up and puts me on the bed with him. Tears are strolling down my face as he holds me. Once I've calmed down, he rolls on top of me and kisses me. I kiss him back, placing my arms around his neck. He kisses me even harder on my lips, then my cheek, below my ear and trailing kisses down my neck and collarbone. Trailing his lips back up my neck and cheek, he smiles and laughs. The front door slams open, My father comes into the room, grabs me, opens a beer and I realise he's in a bad mood. I swallow and he takes a long swig of it. Alex forces Jace to leave the house as I squirm in my fathers grasp to get out of the house.He walks us into my room and pushes me on the bed, he laughs then leaves, locking the door behind him. I get changed into jeans and a shirt, then climb out of the window and down the trellis. I run straight ahead, right into someone. I look up " I'm..I'm so sorry. I wasn't looking. It's my fault." Then I realise it's a police officer. " hi, are you Alexia Adams?" "Yea. Why? Am I in trouble for something?" " No, we are looking Mr. Adams. He is wanted around the area." "oh" I back away from the officer and say that it's just me and my brother. He asks about the bruising on my arms and I say it's because me and my brother box in the gym in our house. He walks away and I continue running to Jaces. "Jace, open the door. Open the door please, Jace. I need to talk to you. Please." I can hear Jace on the other side. " Come on Jace, open the door or I will kick it in." This seems to grab his attention and he opens it. " what do you want alexia?" He says to me in an agitated voice. " I love you Jace." At that he grabs my waist and pulls me to him, shuts the door and pushes me against it. Chapter 6 He kisses me passionately and takes me upstairs and kisses me again. I fall backwards but he catches me and swings me onto the bed. He crawls over me, using his hands to keep me from moving my head and his legs to pin my hips. My father walks in to jaces room even though it's not his house. I scream and Jace rolls onto the bed next to me. He grabs me by my wrist and pulls me off the bed. He pushes me against the wall and puts his hand round my neck and squeezes. I try to pull his hands away from my throat but I can't. My vision goes red and hazy. I give up, I'm going to die. He places his body on mine and looks me in the eye before I hear gunshot. My father falls to the floor and so do I. We land next to each other, him dead and me alive. Alex lets go of Jace and kneels next me, hugging me and crying with me. We are happy that we are rid of our father but without him we have no one. Alex's mum is dead and I don't even know who mine is. The police come upstairs and take him away and lead Alex away. Jace holds me while the police explain everything to Alex as he is the oldest one. I mean he is 19. but