Warning: Mention of physical abuse.

"Where have you been?" Trey's voice echoes through my apartment. How'd he get in here?

"Out with Amyra and Ruby," I tell him, resting my bags on the kitchen counter and walking over to the couch.

"And Ruby's brother wasn't there?" he asks through gritted teeth.

"Well-"

"Well you're fucking lying to me, that's not what good girlfriends do." he says unbuckling his belt. I take a step backwards, maybe if it gets out of control I'll run out the door, to Axton.

Wait why to Axton?

"You fucked him!" the rough belt meets the surface of the counter, missing my skin by mere inches.

"No- Trey I didn't I swear!" I yell back hoping he'll just give it up.

"Look at your hair!"

"Your jeans definitely look like they been on the floor!" What? Before I can even gather words, the belt hits my skin. It leaves a fire that burns deeper than that, it burns in my heart because I really love this boy.

"Trey stop!" I cried, louder and louder, but his blows only continued. My hands fell to my stomach, preventing it from any hit. Why am I protecting my stomach?

"Stop!"

"Stop it!"

"Trey stop it!"

"Stop!" My eyes shoot open as I get up from the bed.

"Hey, hey calm down. It's okay, I'm here." Axton tells me, pulling me into his arms as I recover from what was a nightmare. I steady my breathing, constantly reminding myself that it's Axton who's holding me, not him.

After a few moments of silence, Axton spoke.

"I thought those stopped baby," he mumbles, still holding me.

"I thought so too," I say with a frown.

"What's the time?" I ask him and he stretches over to the nightstand to get his phone.

"It's half five." he says and I sigh.

"I'm sorry for waking y-" I'm cut off as his lips press onto mine.

"Shut up." he mutters, moving from my lips, to my cheek, to my nose, to my forehead and back to my lips.

"You're adorable." he pecks my lips again and I chuckle, pulling the covers over us.

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"No! Nothing about acting today! Today is about my little girl." Eleanor's voice can be heard loud and clear, from the entrance of McKay mansion, well her mansion. Axton's eyebrow raises as her voice gets louder.

"That's how you sound when you yell at people in the office." I whisper to him, dodging a clash with all the busy employees up and round the house.

"God knows when Axton will get here! He's always late, I'm sure Soph is probably yelling at him this very moment." Eleanor mumbles, her back obviously turned to us.

"Only one yelling here is you, mother." Axton mumbles and she quickly turns around, with Amelia on her hip.

"Sophia!" Amelia yells as Eleanor walks up to me.

"Yeah, Axton's here too, now come here." he takes Amelia from Eleanor's arms.

"Happy birthday princess!" I chuckle kissing Amelia's cheeks.

"Thank you," she says.

"What was it you two wanted to discuss?" Eleanor walks up to us. I look at Axton but he has a blank expression on his face, Sophia don't you dare slap him. At least not in front of Ameila.

"Uh, we have a gift for you!" I break out my thoughts and hand her the gift bag.

"It's Amelia's birthday, not mines." she chuckles and Axton gives her a unimpressed look.

"Well, thank you Soph," she says, open it, woman!

"It's from both of us, and open it now." Axton tells her and she does so.

Her brows form a confused expression as she holds up the onesie in the air.

"See you soon," She moves her glasses,

"Grandma." she finishes and lets out a gasp.

"Sophia is preganat!?" she yells and I chuckle, nodding.

"Oh my God, this is great news! Oh my God, I'm getting old! You're having a kid, oh my God! My kid is having a kid!" she yells and I laugh as Axton looks at her like 'seriously mom?'

"Congratulations!" she hugs me kissing my cheek, then walks over to her son and hugging him. Even though he doesn't hug back, she breaks away smiling.

"That's why Kimberly wouldn't talk about you two!" she says and I laugh, my mom probably had a hard time keeping it from her best friend.

"Soph, we got to go." Axton says and I nod.

"But you're coming back for Amelia's party right?" Eleanor asks.

"Of course, we're not missing our baby's birthday party!" I tell her.

"Great, we'll see you later." Eleanor smiles at us as we walk away.

"She looked so happy!" I squeal as we walk out the doors and into the driveway.

"Yeah yeah, can we go home now?" he whines and I roll my eyes.

"I have a development meeting, I can't skip." I tell him, sitting in the car as he closes the door and walks over to his side.

"Please baby!" he whines like a kid, it's cute.

"I'm sorry Axton, but I'll get home early, we can order pizza, read and watch movies." I kiss his cheeks.

"Don't you have work today?" I ask him.

"I'm Axton McKay, I work when I want to." I roll my eyes at him.

"Well, don't you want to work?" I ask him as he pulls reverses out the driveway. Doing the one hand on the wheel shit. Fuck.

Sophia look away, look away. But my eyes are glued to his veiny hands, sir can you wrap those around my neck while you pound-

"Soph!" I snap back to reality and look at him.

"What?" I mumble.

"I said, my dad, wants me to go fix some screwed-up shit he did, in Russia." No.

"Nope," I mumble as he interlocks our fingers and rests our intertwined hands on my lap.

"I have to, it risks the company." he sighs and I frown. He's leaving me! Still, can't keep him back from his work, I never had when we were best friends, and now that we're engaged I don't plan on starting.

"When do you leave?" I ask him.

"Well, twenty minutes." he says and my eyes widen.

"Axton.."

"It'll be fine baby." I sigh, holding his hand tighter as my office comes into view.

"Be safe okay? I love you." I turn to him when he stops the car in front of my office.

"I promise baby, I love you too." he pecks my lips, pulling back he rests his forehead on mine.

" I don't like Russia anymore." I pout and his lips tug with a small smile.

"I don't like anything that doesn't include you." he says and I smile.

"Be safe," I tell him and he nods, as I get out of the car and walk to my building. A few reporters run up to me, but I quickly walk into the office, the cool air hitting my skin.

"Sophia!"

"Boss, we have a problem, the orders have ben mixed up."

"Sophia, development meeting!"

"Customers want a instgram live!"

"We need to update the cover page for the website!"

I take in a breath.

"Development meeting starts in five, graphics after, come on people let's go!" I usher them, grabbing my hair tie and pulling my hair into a ponytail.

It's gonna be a day.