HEARTACHE

ADELINE'S POV

Colton walks into my room in the middle of the night with Veronica and two guards and as soon as they walk in, one guard stomps towards me and plunges a syringe to my neck.

"What the fuck? What the fuck?" I scream and thrash around the bed as I start having post traumatic stress disorder from all the needles that have been stuck into me since that day everything went downwards with Adrian. What the fuck are they going to do to me now.

I push myself back against my bed and cover myself up wit my sheets. As if the sheets could save me from whatever the fuck is about to happen. I immediately start feeling weak from the drug and I cry and shake my head as veronica looks down at me.

"Please stop. No. Please." I don't even know what I'm begging for but I know whatever is about to happen cannot be good. I glance over to Colton and a guard behind him, pulls him backwards as the other guard plunges another syringe into Colton. My mind goes into a spiral. Did Veronica find out Colton and I are working together? Did she find out we're betraying her?

"Let me go!" Colton fights but the other guards walks towards him and now he has two people holding him down. His eyes are red as he looks to me with sadness in his eyes.

"I don't like the fact that you and your guard are friends, Angel." Veronica addresses me with that cold look in her eyes. "it makes me wonder what the fuck you two might be planning when I'm not in the room." She says. I stare at Colton and he breathes heavily as the drug takes effect on him. The drug Veronica gave him clearly doesn't have the same effect as the one she gave me.

"Colton and I aren't friends. I swear. Please whatever you're about to do, don't. Please just leave me alone. I haven't done anything. Please just leave me alone." I cry as I push myself further against my bed in an attempt to push myself away from Veronica and her guards.

"Aww, I don't believe you Angel." Veronica cease her brows as she talks to me. All I can do is cry because I'm too weak to do anything else. I'm too weak to defend myself from whatever the fuck this bitch is about to do.

"I just gave you a drug to weaken you, and the one I gave to Colton is going to mess with his head so he's going to do exactly as I tell him to a few hours. It's a new product we're developing. It hurts like hell but it looks like it'll take effect on him soon. Colton is the first person we're trying it on and what a great opportunity." She claps and one of the guards pushes Colton on to the bed with me.

"Hopefully this puts a dent in whatever relationship you were planning on developing with him? Just who do you think you are to come in here and think you can control my guards?" Veronica widens her eyes at me as Colton winces in pain on my bed.

"Give them both another shot. I don't want the girl to have any fight in her. I am stressed and I do not have the time to deal with her stubbornness tonight." Veronica orders and in seconds, the guard is on me again, holding me down and plunging a syringe into my neck.

I can't even scream. I start seeing double and I wish I were dead. Veronica stoops in front of Colton and pushes his hair back. She caresses him as he screams out in pain and then starts whispering something into his ear.

"Look at her." She orders. Colton focuses his eyes on me and I see a deadly look in them. Colton has never looked at me like that and my stomach drops as I realize what Veronica is about to do.

"No please." I cry weakly. "Please stop."

"You want to fuck her. So bad. And you won't stop until I come back I come back." She says to Colton and then exits the room with the guards. As she leaves, I hear a click and I realized she has locked the room shut.

"Get out of here Adeline." Colton whispers to me as he thrashes in pain on the bed. I widen my eyes at him when I realize that he's fighting the drug that Veronica gave him.

"Colton?" I call out to him but my voice is so weak and I start feeling dizzy. As he's about to speak, Veronica walks into the room.

"Oh and I forgot to add…" She says. "If you don't fuck that girl right now, Colton. All I have to do is make one call and your sister is dead. Oh and Adeline, I'm going to fucking put a bullet through Naomi's head if you resist him. Oh, and I'll kill Della too. I hear you care about that one too. You two have an hour." She says and then walks out of the room, locking it up again.

"You have to do it." I say, letting go of all reason and all fighting. Colton's eyes widen as he falls off the bed and hits his back to the door in an attempt to get away from me. It pleases me that he's trying to fight the drug but Veronica is not joking. If Colton sleeps with me now, it'll ruin our friendship for good. I wont be able to sit in the same room with him without breaking down.

I wont be able to stand his presence. I'll hate him.

"I can't." He says weakly. I fight against all my natural instincts, crying as I raise myself from the bed forcefully and walk towards him despite how weak I am.

"She'll kill Naomi." I say walking slowly towards him. "And she'll kill your sister, and she'll kill Della. I can't let that happen Colton. I can't let all those people die knowing there was something I could do about it." I say getting so close to him that I can feel the heat emanating off his body.

"Please Adeline. If you touch me…" Colton cries.

"I wont blame you. She drugged you." I say.

"You'll hate me."

"At least the people we care about will be alive." I say and then I raise my legs off the floor and place a kiss on Colton's lips. I don't want to think, I don't even want to look at him. All I want to do is get this over with, even though I'm drugged and I feel like I'll pass out. I want it to be over soon so that Colton can get the hell out of here.

As soon as I place my lips on his, I can tell the drug Veronica gave him takes over, because he groans and lifts me off the floor and I wrap my legs around his waist instinctively. He's gentler than I thought he would be. He places me on top of the bed and takes me in. Veronica isn't doing this because she thinks Colton and I are too close. I already know how to read into her game.

She's doing this because she wants to show me how easy it is to control the people in this place. She wants to show me how easy it is for her to just bark out an order and have it be realized.

She wants to show me that I have no one here. She wants me to think that even to Colton, I am just an object. She wants me to feel completely and utterly alone, and it's working. I have never felt dirtier. Good job, Veronica. You own.