Neglect created a monster.

{Trigger warning - This chapter also have themes of abuse.}

[Third person POV]

Knowing the power Clayton Beckett had it felt quite too easy for Ellen to kidnap Kaleah and her brat.

With the help of the media, he was able to locate Kaleah as early that morning in her art studio and he was able to tail her all day, waiting for a good time.

It was quite hard to get her alone, since the paparazzi also wanted to snatch pictures and she seemed to also have fans who kept asking for pictures.

But after she went home and came out to go to the salon he had a good chance, she was alone and vulnerable the presence of her brat was a problem, but he was to improvise.

She was sure beautiful, just as beautiful as he remembered in her short denim skirt and graphic T-shirt. He was sure this was a good idea.

Everything was a good idea, even though she put up a fight, he still was able to knock her out.

As he feels her skin touch his he couldn't help but lick her cute unconscious face, it made his skin crawl with excitement.

He had taken her to one of his houses just on the outskirts of town, making it a quiet place for him and his new lover to have fun.

He had put her on the bed gently, he stood at a distance to admire her, she was beautiful, a true beauty, Clayton Beckett doesn't deserve her, she needs a man like himself, a man not afraid to get his hands dirty to get her.

"Boohoo," the brat cries yet again, maybe taking her with them was a bad idea as she wouldn't stop crying.

"Shut!" Ellen angrily shouts, before walking to her and putting a cloth over her mouth, "keep quiet, this my house you should follow the rules."

He yells at the poor child who couldn't stop crying, ugh… he had bigger things to do than to babysit.

When he hears muffled sounds, his mood that was ruined by all the crying immediately improved.

"You are awake?" he happily says, moving to the bed, "my Kaleah, you are finally at my hands."

Kaleah looked terrified, she knew the man in front of her, and she knew she was in danger.

"What do you want from me?" she said, shaking with fear

"Oh… don't worry Kaleah love, we will be together forever, not even that fool Clayton or Archie can come between us," Ellen continues to blabber as he massages Kaleah's hand.

"Boohoo," Zoey continue to cry over the cloth covering her mouth, making Ellen angrier, "shut up you brat, I am romancing my future wife."

"Are you sick? I will never be your wife?" Kaleah shouts, yanking her hand away from Ellen's grasp.

This made Ellen even angrier, how dare she reject his utmost confession and love, Ellen doesn't love anyone that is not his parents and Layla and now that Kaleah has been given the honors, she is rejecting him.

"Oh… maybe it is because I haven't confessed my love yet," Ellen says, "see Kaleah, I love you, I love you so much."

With the creepy confession of love that made Kaleah's skin crawl, she was in danger, she had put both her and Zoey in danger.

"Can you please hand Zoey to me, she might be hungry," Kaleah says.

"What?" Ellen groaned angrily, "I just confessed, and you are ignoring my love? You b*tch."

He had raised his hand giving Kaleah a slap on her cheek, it turned red at once, making Ellen scared.

"Oh… no, I didn't mean that, I didn't want to hurt you, I just wanted to condemn your bad ways," he cried rubbing Kaleah's sore cheek.

"See this is why I want you to listen to me, when you don't I get angry and end up hurting you, please my love just listens, just allow me to love you."

He continues to gaslight her, but it doesn't stop her from feeling fear, "just… please…. Let me go." She begs, "my husband must be worried sick about me."

"Worried, you think a proud man would worry for a woman who ran off with her lover?" he mocked, "he is probably looking for you angrily trying to kill you for humiliating him."

"You kidnapped me," Kaleah shouts, "my husband loves me he will never abandon me."

But her shouts were in vain, as Ellen had already concluded his own story in his mind, "you are not going anywhere, you are mine," he says.

He walked over to where Zoey was, before tossing her violently at Kaleah, who desperately jumped to catch her.

"Ha-ha-aha-ha-ha-, that was pathetic my love, all for that brat you look so pathetic," he mocked.

"Milk, she needs milk, can you please get her milk," she pleads, Ellen snorted.

"So? You are not getting what you want until you accept my love," he says with a smirk on his face.

"I.... I accept your love, please go get Zoey some milk, make sure you get the right age and a bottle." She says with a muffled voice.

This made Ellen happy, watching her beg like this, this is what he hoped to do after their first date, but no, she was too proud to go down on her knees.

"Fine, I will see what I can do," he said, "stay put I will be back."

After he had left Kaleah panicked and started to look for a way out or a phone to communicate with Clayton.

She didn't find the phone she needed, but she had found a pin, though she had not picked a lock before; she was too desperate not to even try.

And that is what she did, she picked the lock until it was open, "finally," she said, as the door was finally open.

She quickly ran to pick Zoey up but when she came to the door a second time her dreams were shattered.

"So, I am running around like a fool trying to get the milk you requested, and you are trying to run away from me?" Ellen was back, in his hands was the milk she requested.

She looked at him with fear tightly hugging unto Zoey, "I… I am sorry," she said.

He had pushed her inside the small room, before slamming the door and locking it.

"That was a bad idea, you shouldn't have defined me," he angrily said, he put everything that were on his hands down folding the sleeves of his shirt.

Be had pushed Kaleah to the ground before beginning to angrily beat her.

"You will love me, I am lovable, you will love me," he kept repeating as he beat the poor woman who was protecting Zoey from his fists.

"How dare you defy me," he said after finally stopping, Kaleah, lays on the ground soaked with her own blood.

"I told you not to make me angry, look now what you made me do," he says, "oh… my love what have I done, let me help you."

He gently lifted her up before taking Zoey who was now crying and laid her next to Kaleah.

"I will nurse you back to health okay," he says smiling, "and you will forgive me, and we will be together forever."

With the pain in her body, she was still happy she protected Zoey, at least Zoey was safe. She felt tears fall down her eyes, 'at least Zoey is safe,' she kept telling herself.