DEVIL

ADELINE'S POV

I get up from my bed with a jerk as I hear the numerous gunshots that go off. Immediately, Colton rushes into my room with a worried look on his face to make sure I'm okay.

"What the hell is going on?" I ask him, ignoring the pounding in my chest and ignoring the fact that I do not want Colton in my room right now. He looks around my room to make sure I'm alone, as if anyone had the ability to magically appear in my room while he was standing outside as a guard.

"What's going on Colton?" I ask him again. "Why do you have that look on your face?"

I don't hear gunshots in the place a lot. This place has an eerie feeling and is nothing short of dangerous and evil but it's not often tat gunshots go off and to say I am scared will be the understatement of the century. My mind immediately drifts to Naomi and I pray to God that she's doing okay. For all I know one of those gunshots might have gone into her skull. Veronica has been threatening to kill her for the longest time. What if she finally decided to?

"Your friend is fine." Colton says as he paces back and forth in the room, as if reading my mind and he knows exactly what I am thinking about.

"So, answer me then. What the hell is going on outside?" Colton creases his brow as he comes to a stop in front of me, frowning his face in contemplation.

"Stay here." He says and heads towards my door.

"Well, it's not like I can actually leave the room." I say with a roll of my eyes as the fear in my chest dissipates and turns into anger instead. I hate feeling helpless and I absolutely detest not knowing what is going on around me and right now, I can't focus on anything but the gunshots that I heard.

As Colton is about to walk out of my room, Veronica pushes the door open and walks in with a sinister look on her face. Whatever happened out there, I know for sure that it has something to do with her. She's the last person that I want to see right now. She's the last person in the whole wide world that I would ever want to see.

Every time I look at that stupid face of hers, that face that seems to beautiful to belong to a monster like her. I just want to scream and launch for her and drag my nails down her skin until she bleeds. I have so many bad thoughts about her an I don't even think it's healthy but what am I supposed to do. I am in hell and she is the demon continuously torturing me.

"Get out Colton." Veronica orders with a cold voice and Colton obeys with a nod of his head. I don't miss the apologetic glance that he shoots my way before walking out of the door. Once Veronica and I are alone, she smirks.

"Well hello there Angel." She addresses me by that name that I hate more than anything. "I have a visitor for you today."

As soon as the words leave her mouth, my mind immediately drifts to Arthur, the man who said he would stop at nothing to have me on auction day. I didn't think I would see him again but I guess he couldn't keep to himself after seeing me for the first time. The man called me exquisite, a beautiful word but deadly coming from a man like him.

If any man in this place admires a woman, I immediately know that it can't end well for her. I shake my head slowly but subtly and veronica smirks.

"Oh don't worry. It's not Arthur. You'll only see him again on auction day. I have a very special visitor for you today. Someone wo has been dying to see you again for the longest time." I twist my face at her words and contemplate on who it might be, and then all the blood drains from my body when my door slowly pushes open to reveal the face of the man I never thought I would see again.

The face of the man who ruined my life. The face of the man who assaulted me and then sent me to the worst place imaginable. Adrian Wellington, in the flesh walks into my room with wide eyes and a sinister smile on his face. My body freezes in shock and I stay in place in my bed, shivering and trembling as he walks in with that confidence that he has always had, his hands in his pockets and his head held high.

"No…" I whisper lightly and almost inaudibly but the way his mouth twitches further upwards into a smile tells me he heard me. He hears the desperation and defeat in my voice and he likes it. He likes the fact that he put me in this position and he likes the fact that he won.

After finding out about Dante, I was hoping that Adrian would eb dead by now, but somehow here he is, in the flesh, not a single bruise on his body. A tear falls from my eyes and runs down my cheek as I look up at him.

"I'll give you two some space." Veronica says and my head snaps towards her as I come back to reality and I somehow start trembling even more aggressively when she walks out of the room leaving me alone with the predator.

"Get out." The words leave my mouth before ic an stop myself but Adrian only smiles and walks closer to my bed. I want to do so much to him right now. I want to scream at him and I want to slap him and I want to use the last bit of energy that I have inside me to fight him and make him pay. I want to gouge his eyes out with my nails and make him eat them. I want to make him bleed but I have been in this place long enough to know that acting stupid doesn't get you a lot of reward.

Adrian is friends with Veronica which means that doing anything to annoy him would mean getting on Veronica's bad side and that is the last thing I want to do right now for someone in my situation. Do you know how frustrating it is to see the person that has put you through so much pain, the person that literally sent you to hell, standing in front of you and feel so powerless.

I cannot do anything. I can only cry because in this place, Adrian has all the power.

"I hope you rot in hell. I hope you get the worst punishment possible and I hope you never know peace for the rest of your days." My voice breaks into a sob as I speak.

"Oh don't be so bitter." He says to me with a calm voice. "You've been here for a while, I thought you would be used to it by now." He takes slow and calculated steps towards me and then takes a seat at the end of my bed only inches away from me.

Just the sight of him disgusts me and having him this close to me makes me want to do something that I will definitely regret. However, I am so completely and utterly powerless and I hate it. All I can do is cry and freeze in front of the man who ruined my life.

"Do you have any idea what I have been through in here?" My voice comes out in cracks as I cry. "Do you know what they did to m-?"

Before I can finish my sentence, I feel a harsh slap on my face. I taste blood in my moth as my body falls to my bed. My head hurts from the pressure I just felt on my face and my vision instantly becomes blurry. I suddenly hate myself for evern opening my mouth in the first place. Did I expect him to feel sorry for me? Did I expect him to apologize?

"I don't really give a damn what you've been through you bitch!" He spits out in anger and I cannot say I am surprised at his words.

"You think you've been through hell?" He stands up and starts pacing the room. "Do you know what your psycho of a boyfriend did to me? Do you know how he tortured and used me?"

So Dante did get to him, and from the anger and fear I see in Adrian's eyes, I can tell Dante made him suffer. But then why doesn't he have any bruises on him? How come he looks so kempt?

"You brought this upon yourself Adeline." He says and then takes a seat back on my bd. He grabs my hair and lifts my head so I'm looking at him. The pressure on my head from his hands in my hair makes me wince in pain but he doesn't let go. He pulls me even closer to him and places his fingers around my neck. If he presses down any harder, he'll suck all the air right out of my windpipe and I'll pass out.

I don't think he even realizes how hard he's pressing down on my neck. All I can see in his eyes is anger.

"You lied to me Adeline. You stole from me and fucked that freak behind my back. I wanted to make you pay. I had to make you pay baby." He says, his voice getting softer as he speaks. I remember that on top of being a terrible person, Adrian suffers from a bipolar disorder which makes him even more dangerous than he seems. You never know when he'll snap when he gets worked up.

"Why did you do it baby? We could have been happy." He sing songs.

"I will never be happy with you." I use the little bit of energy I have inside me to get my words out but all I do is piss him off even more. He grabs my face and bring my lips towards his and laces a forced kiss on m lips. I almost gag as I struggle to get out of his grip, feeling nothing but disgust in this moment.

"I hope you know that I would have given you everything. You would have lived like a queen. You probably think you won by stealing from me but did you really think I only use one account for all my money? I am still as powerful as I have always been and you lost. I will go out there and live my life and fuck whoever I want while you'll be stuck in here wondering what life would have been like for you if you just obeyed me. I will bring that pesky boyfriend of yours here and kill him right in front of you. I will make sure you never go back to the normal life you had before. You played with fire Adeline. It's about time I burned you!"

He lets go off my face with so much force that I fall back to my bed, sobbing as he stands and walks out of my room and slams the door shut.

As soon as he leaves the reality of what just happened settles in even more and I completely break down and tremble aggressively when I remember everything that this sick fucker did to me. As soon as Adrian walks out, Colton rushes into my room as he stops in his tracks at my door when he notices the state I'm in.

I look up at him and keep crying. Colton has seen me at my worst in this place and right now I do not have the energy to hide my pain. I don't have the energy to hide the pain I feel from him.

"Adeline..." He whispers softly.

"He ruined my life." I say in sobs. "He's the reason I'm in here. How come everyone who has every hurt me gets to get away with what they've done and I'm the one who gets stuck here with all the pain? Why am I the one suffering Colton? Why is this happening to me? When does it end?"

I rush towards him and grab him by his shoulder, shaking him as I speak no matter how weak I am. He doesn't stop me, he just looks down at me in pity.

"You have a gun. Just shoot me Colton. Just shoot me and put me out of my misery. I can't live like this anymore. The man who assaulted and sold me is walking free. The woman who has drugged me and trained be to be a slut since I got here is walking free. I'm going to get sold at an auction and there is nothing anyone can do about it, so please just kill me. I can't take this anymore Colton. I can't!"

I don't even notice how raised my voice had become until Veronica appears in my room with some of her guards.

"What the hell is this commotion?" She says in an annoyed tone and gestures for her guards to grab me. As soon as he has in hands on me, a needle plunges into my neck and all I see is black and all I feel is pain.

I allow the darkness to take me because I am tired of fighting. I give up and allow myself to fall into the dark oblivion that Adrian and Veronica have sent me to. I fall and the last thing I see before I close my eyes is a hallucination of what my life used to be. I see Dante kissing me and telling me how beautiful he thinks I am and I see Liam sleeping over at my place as we watch the most boring movie ever.

Everything I used to be and everything I still want to be flashes before my eyes before I pass out.