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It's over. It's fucking over. I'm a liar because she meant everything to me. I swing another punch at the punching bag. Sweat was no longer tricking down my forehead. I looked like I just drowned in Niagara Falls.
I still look like I'm drowning in Niagara Falls. My arms feel like they're about to fall off as I continue to throw punches, thinking the punching bag was me.
I broke Bailey's heart, when I knew how hurt she was on the inside. I throw one last punch before the bag breaks. That's the second one in the past two hours. Fucking hell, I need to get myself together.
I kick the collapsed punching bag aggressively before tossing my gloves on my bed and heading towards the bathroom to shower. My aching arms refuse to move but I manage to turn up the shower to hot so I can ease the pain in my arms.
I step into the shower, the scalding hot water hitting my body. I press my palms into the walls in front of me, wetting my hair.
You're worse than my dad.
Her words still echoed through my mind. It was like someone has a blunt butter knife and is trying to cut through my heart. It hurts. I'm not even going to deny the pain. I deserve to feel it for what I did to Bailey.
Slowly, I turn off the shower but I don't step out. My thoughts ran back to earlier today when Blake came over, demanding the reason why I broke up with Bailey.
I can't tell him. I can't fucking tell anyone. Even if I do, Ava will find out and it's game over for Bailey. I'll have to figure it out on my own because there's nothing I can fucking do.
I trudge out of the shower, drying myself with a towel, wincing at the pain in my arms. I shouldn't have done so much punching. Then again, there are a lot of things in my life I shouldn't have done. One of them is ever dating Ava.
I let her into my life, and she's not going to leave. I let Bailey out of my life, and she's never going to come back.
I pull into a pair of sweatpants, and drag myself out of my bedroom. The same bedroom I broke up with Bailey in. I walk down the same staircase that I carried Bailey on. How could I fuck everything up so bad?
Because you're you, you dumb fuck.
Just as I reach the living room, I hear shouting from outside. I grab a gun from near the door, and go out to see what the commotion is all about.
What the fuck is he doing here? Might as well see what he wants. "Let him in," I order, and the men blocking his path move away allowing him to enter.
"I know Ava's the reason you broke up with Bailey," He growls. I match his intense gaze, sizing him up. It sucked that he was about the same size as me because it made intimidating him harder.
"Those are rumors."
"Then why'd you break her heart like that?"
I feel my heart hurt, but I don't let him see. "She got boring," I lie. That was far from true. She kept me intrigued, making me want to know more about her. She would never get boring. "Besides, shouldn't you be glad," I sneered. "You can hit on her now."
If he hit on her, I would have him fed to the wolves in a far away forest.
"I'm not sexually attracted to her," He scoffs. "Sure, she's an amazing person but I've never wanted to fuck her. I prefer other types of women."
I felt slight relief go through my body until I remember that I broke up with Bailey and she's not mine anymore. "Good for you."
"Now fucking tell me the real reason you broke up with Bailey."
"I don't have to tell you shit."
"Are you really going to let your ego talk?"
He was right. I was blocking my feelings with my ego and I was going to keep doing it. I don't have to tell him shit. I don't owe him shit.
"You want to know?" I growl out. "It's your fucking sister. She's fucking up my life."
"I knew it," He runs a hand through his hair, letting out an angry breath.
"Don't you dare tell Bailey about this," I warn. "Don't you fucking dare."
"She deserves to know."
I find myself impulsively grabbing his collar. "Don't tell her shit. You know more than anyone. Don't tell this to a fucking soul or I'll have your head."
"Why not?" He questions, not slightly fazed.
"I can't fucking tell you," I snarl. "What part of that doesn't go through your thick skull?"
"I'm going fucking find out anyway."
"Your spoiled ass needs to handle not getting what you want for once in your fucking life. Bailey's in danger, and if I tell you shit, I'll lose her."
I could easily get Bailey out of jail. I could threaten a judge, or shit like that, but doing that would put her entire fucking life on the line. I knew Ava was watching her, and there wasn't shit I could about it.
I kill Ava, one of Ava's little minions would kill Bailey. I didn't even know who those people were! I just needed a little time. I would protect Bailey and everyone I know from Ava until I could figure out how to end this.
I didn't care about Kaden though.
"She has a video of Bailey shooting someone. She wants me back, and me to break up with Bailey. I can't kill her because she has people working for her and I don't know who they are. If I kill her, someone will kill Bailey. If I find out who they are, I could buy them over with money or kill them. I need to keep Bailey safe until then."
"Then just increase security. Have people protecting her whenever she goes out."
"She's fucking stalking her. It's like she has someone watching her at all times."
"You dense fucker, you really didn't think this through did you?"
I have to admit, I didn't really think much when Ava threatened me. "You need to tell your second in commands, Blake and Anna. They're smarter than you, for sure. It'll probably take them a while but they'll find Ava's goons. Then we can take them out, and in the end, Ava out. It's that fucking simple. Until then, you just have to protect Bailey from that jealous witch."
"If Blake and Anna are looking around like that, won't she get suspicious?"
"You'll keep her distracted as much as possible."
"I don't like the sound of that."
"You already broke up with Bailey. This shouldn't hurt you anymore."
"Why am I listening to you?"
"Because I have better ideas."
"No you don't."
"I'm calling Blake and Anna over," Kaden shrugs, pulling out his phone and texting rapidly. "Wait till they hear about this. They'll fuck you up. I would too, but I don't have the right to after what I did to you back then."
"You also don't have the right to be talking to me after what you did," I point out. "Yet here you are." He nods agreeingly before swinging his arms towards my jaw. That's not what I had in mind.
I groan, rubbing my jaw before swinging a punch at Kaden. "Does that make us even?" He asks, rubbing his shoulder.
"We'll never be even."
"Yeah. I'm still friends with Bailey while you're not," He sneers before authoritatively walking into my house. I roll my eyes and clench my fists, sucking up my pride. "You should tell Bailey. About all this."
"No. I can't." I will once everything is over. I can't risk it. She's a hard headed person, she'll mess it up.
"Yeah, it'll probably put her in danger, but she's going through a lot of heartbreak right now. You should have seen her. It hurt."
My heart clenches at the thought of her crying. I'm coming, Bailey. I'll fix this mess. "Adrian fucking Black! You know how much I've been driving around today?! Too much to even think about! Now what is this you want?" Anna yells, strutting into the mansion, Blake right on her tail giving me a death glare.
Just for a second, I felt as if everything would be okay.
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a/n: ay my power couple! and okay, let me just explain why i did this. i think someone spotted a large ass loophole with Adrian not telling anyone or whatever honestly don't even know how to explain it. anyway, i also wanted kaden to talk sense into adrian and all.
but don't think that adrian broke up with bailey for no reason, although i feel bad for keeping her in the dark. bailey would be adamant on sticking with adrian and wouldn't want to run off to protect herself just bc ava's threatening them.
and adrian's worried that it will put her in danger bc ava's still on their tail. but i'm glad adrian told kaden and now blake and anna will know because they can track down all of ava's goons or whateva and like yehhh.
anyway, thank you for reading and if you see any more loopholes, please tell me, school has my brain short circuiting >>
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