CHAPTER 24
Jax leaned her head into his chest and started rubbing her hair while I started cutting the chain and I could see her tense up while I was doing it.
Lucas had a hold of her arms as I was cutting through the chains on her wrists and I could see that she was trembling but she was trying to hold it together so we could get her free.
It was a lot harder to cut through the chains as I thought it would be. The handsaw was really blunt and all I could do was keep apologizing to Skylar.
As soon as the chains were cut, I walked around the front of her and pulled all of the chains off while Jax stood back and she collapsed into my arms and burst into tears.
I was shocked at first. I wasn’t expecting that. She was so furious with us the last time she saw us, but after what those assholes did, I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised. She was a wreck.
I pulled her close to me as she was crying and she slowly fell to the ground while she was crying, and I did as well. I kept a hold of her the whole time and I knew that this wasn’t just about today.
She was letting out every bit of emotion that she’d been holding in all day. What Madison did, it was just the tip of the iceberg right now. Almost like a cathodic release of everything that she had been holding in.
She’d let out tears every now and again but she hadn’t cried like this. Not since I’d met her. At least, since we rescued her from her dad’s house. I don’t know what she was like in that house. If she cried much or if she got punished for crying.
But looking at her right now, I think I could guess which one it was.
I just sat on the floor with her while she cried into my chest and Lucas and Jax stood there looking like they wished they could do something. But there was nothing that they could do right now.
She needed all the time in the world to get this out of her system and that’s what I was going to give her. I wasn’t going to rush her.
I know that Lucas really wanted to comfort her. His way of apologizing for today. But right now wasn’t the time. He would get his chance to apologize. But right now, she didn’t need to hear it.
I finally got her up on her feet and we walked out of the basement and I had my arm around her very protectively. With Jax on the other side of her and Lucas was right in front of us. We didn’t want anyone seeing her the way she was with her clothes all torn and everything. And there were still plenty of students hanging around school.
But that didn’t stop a lot of people from staring at us. But as soon as I glared back at them they quickly looked away and dispersed. They didn’t stick around for too long. And they weren’t going to stare at her like she was a sideshow attraction.
How could these people live with themselves by just standing by and letting Madison do this. She thinks she rules this school, but she barely has any friends of her own.
She rules with fear. And if that’s what she responds to, I might just have to show her what real fear is. Maybe then she’ll leave Skylar alone.
We got to the car and this time I gave the keys to Jax and told Lucas to get in the front.
I got in the back with Skylar and I was holding her tightly against me.
I caught Jax and Lucas looking at me like they hadn’t looked at me before. I don’t think they were expecting me to be this protective over Skylar as what I was being.
They weren’t used to me being so gentle with anyone else. I guess it was different from my usual demeanor. I know I had barely even spoken to Skylar, like this morning at breakfast. All I could do was look at her. I didn’t know what to say to her. I just wanted to watch her.
But once we got home Skylar looked exhausted and hurt so I found one of my clean shirts and I took it back to the living room.
“Can I?” I asked. And she looked up at me. When she saw the shirt, she realized what I was asking. So she nodded her head.
I removed her torn shirt and pants. But I froze for a second when I saw all the scars all over her body. I had no idea how bad it was. I never could have imagined that it was this bad. They were everywhere. I know that the scars were from her dad but the fresh bruises that were covering her, that was from today. Madison did that. I stood there staring at her and she looked at me with fear in her eyes.
Jax suddenly appeared next to me because I wasn’t moving. I was just staring at her. But I couldn’t get past the fresh bruises on her body. They were all over her. On her wrists from the chains, they were around her waist from the chains, but there were other bruises like she’d been punched and kicked as well.
There were too many to count right now and I felt Jax take the shirt off of me.
I looked at Skylar and she was definitely starting to look uncomfortable standing there in her underwear. So I let him take it and I took a step back.
“I swear to you, Madison is not getting away with this. She’s going to pay for everything that she’s ever done to you.” I vowed as I stormed out of the house with Lucas.
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