April.

""Have you heard from Austin yet?" Jayson asked, looping his hand around mine as he caught up with me in the hallway.

What was he thinking?

"Yeah, he's safe. He did manage to escape." Relief was lacing my voice as I spoke. "He didn't tell me where he was, though."

"That's weird." Jayson commented.

"Maybe he is just being safe. You know how people are out looking for us now." I shuddered at the thought.

"Yeah. Thanks to that bastard Christian." 

"Jayson, why can't you just stop being like this? It's not his fault. I was the one who wanted to save him. I was the one who asked for your help in this. If you want to be mad just be mad at me." I snapped at him when I didn't want to. I kind of felt in his debt as he had helped a lot in this escape plan. Also as I still love him as a friend. He was still one of my best friends. It felt wrong to lash out on him like this.

"You saw that guy's reaction when he saw Christian right? He's bad news April. I've been telling you this over and over again, but you are so blind I-"

"Jayson, I've enough. I already had a fight over this with Leah. You know how exhausting it is for me? Why can't you understand? Is it because you are jealous because you love..." I lost my words realising where I had taken this conversation.

I haven't thought about it for a long time now but I could clearly see now how complicated things were between us. Jayson loved me and still claimed to love Leah, and I could only see him as a close friend.

Jayson suddenly grabbed my waist and pulled me to his chest.

"What are you doing?" I panicked. Christian was here, and I didn't want to upset him even more.

"I'm glad that you still remember, but you really shouldn't try to hurt my feelings like that Ap." His breath fanned my front bangs, and I gulped.

"Jayson let me go." I tried to squirm out his grip but he was holding me tighter than usual. What has gotten him Today?

"So is this what you wanted to talk about?"

Christian's voice cut through the air and I take a sharp breath. Oh God no.

"Jayson seriously let me go!" I pushed him and this time his grip had loosened.

Before I could react I saw Jayson lying on the floor clutching his stomach.

"Wait. Christian." My words came out as whispers. I held my breath because I had never seen Christian so immensely mad that it was stopping me from talking to him.

I could see the muscles tightened around his arm and the way his chest was rising and falling at a speed which was not considered healthy. The murderous look in his eyes actually made me worry about Jayson's life.

"Let me tell you something as well you little piece of shit." Christian yelled after kicking Jayson one more time.

"So this is how you repay? Do you even know what we had to do to save you?!" Jayson growled.

Christian grabbed him threw him on the wall. "Shut up. That doesn't give you the right to touch her!"

"She's mine. Grill those words in your brain you fucking leech." Christian spat while he grabbed Jayson's jaw and punched it making it turn a little blue.

"Don't you dare touch her like that!" Christian continued smashing Jayson's face and it was obvious that soon he was completely going to change how Jayson looked.

"Christian!" I jumped between them and all hugged him. "Please."

His stiffened body slowly relaxed and he stopped but was silent. I could hear his rough breathing as well as the increased beats of his heart.

I peeked up at him, and he was already looking at me.

"You idiot." He leaned down to kiss me. "What if I'd hurt you. Don't jump in like that again."

"Okay." I planted a quick kiss on his lips, and his eyes widened.

"Jayson, you need to clear your head. I don't want to talk to you until you do." I gave Jayson a glare. What was he thinking? If he helps me out, I will fall in love with him? His feelings were messed up. He needed to sort them out for everyone's good.

Jayson said nothing but stared at me silently. I sighed breaking the hug and took Christian's hand in mine. "I'll ask someone to treat you. Come."

We reached the living room where I saw some of Mr. Stone's men and asked one of them if they could treat Jayson. They agreed quickly and took Jayson with them, and we returned to our room.

"I'm sorry about him. He's...I don't know what is he thinking." I sighed as I sat down on the bed beside Christian.

"He's thinking of stealing you." He gravely said. "From me."

"What?"

"Yeah he openly talked about taking you away from me if I hurt you one more time. Said it would be easy for him then." He said shutting his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"What the hell? I can't believe him." I was exhausted with him. It was true that he was a dear friend and he was there when I felt like I was all alone. It didn't give him the right to jeopardize my relationship with Christian.

"Chris." I cupped his face. "look at me baby, listen, no one can take me away from you okay? You don't need to pay attention to what Jayson is saying."

"I can't do that." His jaw was clenched, and he wasn't meeting his eyes with me.

"Why?"

He was about to answer when his phone buzzed.

"Hey." He got up from bed.

"You what? Wow, that was fast. Anyway what's going on at Grey's?" He shot me a look before he continued listening.

It was no wonder that his men were keeping a track or at least trying to keep track of whatever that was happening with our family in that building. That was how these Mafia worked. It was weird that I was so used to it now.

"That's not good." His face turned sour as he turned to face me again. He walked up to me and started caressing my hair as if trying to make me relax. Panic must be written all over my face.

"Fine, come inside for now and hide the car." He stuffed his phone inside his pockets. "Ryan and Sam are here."

"What? How did they find this place?" I got up, alarmed. Was this place that easy to track down?

"Don't panic sweetie. This place is safe. They're just too good at tracking." He gave me a smile, and I literally melted. I hadn't seen him smile in a while, and it caught me off guard.

"Let's go meet them we need to talk about things." He took my hand.

"Okay." I smiled at him hoping whatever that's happening between my dad and uncle George was not as horrible as I was imagining it.

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