Not talking to Rylee when she's all I can think about is so damn hard. I'm supposed to be waiting on Poppy to get off work and come over. She's an amazing girl, and she's working tonight but I don't want her to come home with me. She's been up my ass all day and I don't take that shit well at all. I didn't even want more than fucking and now that we're officially boyfriend and girlfriend it's like she's going crazy being near me. I don't like it.

It's eight now and she doesn't get off until eleven. I'm laying across the couch with bee beside me watching football on tv laying in my boxers. What makes it awesome is that I'm eating beef jerky for dinner. I'm doing what I want and I don't give a shit about anything right now.

That's until my damn phone rings and I see it's Poppy. Fucking hell. "Yes." I spit into the phone as she starts, "It won't be until one tonight when I'm off. The bartenders got the stomach bug and I'm covering for her so I'll probably just go back to my apartment so I won't wake you up that early and mess up your training." She tells me as I grin. Fuck yes, I can shit in the middle of the night like I want too.

"Are you sure?" I ask making her laugh. "Yeah I am. I'll see you later, I'll call tomorrow. Bye Jax." She tells me as I tell her back, "Bye Poppy".

"Looks like it's just you and me again Bee." I tell him rubbing his head as he snuggles into the side of the couch calm as he can be. I'm rubbing his back when my phone goes off again.

"Yes?" I ask again knowing it's Poppy without even looking at the caller ID. "Jax is that you?" I hear when my whole mood shifts. I know that voice.

"Ry what's going on?" I ask immediately slipping into my master and putting clothes on before shoes as she's quiet.

"I need you and I know I was supposed to cut you off but I can't." She tells me as I hear her crying on the other line. That fucktard has done something again, I fucking know it.

"Where are you?" I ask her while grabbing my keys. I feed Bee for tonight before locking the house.

"I'm at my apartment." She tells me as I get into the car and back out of the garage. I speed out of the gate that is getting fixed tomorrow come to think of it, and I speed towards her apartment.

"Rylee what number are you in?" I ask her as I hear her sniffles. "Three eleven." She whispers to me as I nod. I don't let her get off the phone with me for five minutes until I'm pulling into her apartment and buzz for her to let me up.

"I'm here. Let me up." I tell her as she lets me in and I take the elevator to her floor. I get off on the third floor and find her apartment door and I don't have time to knock before she's opening it and launching at me. She wraps her legs around my waist and arms around my neck as she sobs. I don't even get to see her face as she clutches me around her and I walk into the apartment.

I hold her in my arms and sit down on the couch as she wets my neck with her warm tears. All I can do is rub her back in one hand and head in the other as she cries harder and harder. When I think she's done fifteen minutes later I pull her head out of my neck and try to look at her face but she won't let me.

"What happened?" I ask trying to see her face as she turns her head away from me.

"He's been cheating on me. You were right." She whisper softly covering her eyes from me. "He wouldn't marry me because he's been sleeping around for five months. I broke up with him, we're done." She tells me as she continues covering her face.

She moves off my legs and sits next to me as she lays her head on my shoulder and I wrap her in my arms holding her. "I'm sorry Ry." I tell her rubbing her hair as she hugs my chest and neck.

"I just feel so used. I wasted so much time. He's jealous and he never treats me kindly when he wants something in return and it just exploded." She whispers crying into my neck as I rub her back. I lift the back of her tee and rest my palm across her back as I rub it softly.

"Please look at me." I whisper as she shakes her head no. "I can't." She tells me as I sigh.

"Yes you can." I whisper kissing her hair as she stills. And that's when my whole world crashes looking at her. Her eye is bleeding, along with bruised. Her cheek is swollen and I can't see anything but red.

"Did he do this to you?!" I shout as I stand up grabbing her face in both my hands as I look at her eye. She shakes her head no as I feel my veins running hot like I always do before beating the shit out of someone.

"Rylee if you don't tell me right now I will find him." I tell her as she shakes her head no and stands up grabbing my arms.

"I slapped him after he did." She tells me as I hold my fists together breathing. "Tell me what happened. Now." I demand down to her height.

"I kept telling him to leave and when he said something about me just going to fuck you I came back with a smart ass reply. He didn't like it so he backed me into the wall by my neck and held it until I couldn't breathe. So I slapped him off and he reached up and backhanded me. His class ring must have scrapped my eyebrow making it bleed." She tells me sitting back down in front of me.

"He bought an engagement ring Jax." She whispers as she reaches her hand out to hold mine and calm me down by rubbing her thumb across my knuckles.

"Then what is this about?" I ask squatting down to her height sitting as I rest my hand on her knee and rub it softly.

"It wasn't for me. It was from his ex-girlfriend years ago and he never even told me that. He always said he hated her, but he didn't. I wasn't good enough." She tells me as I rub her thigh softly.

"Rylee look at me right now. You are more than enough for any man, for anyone. He doesn't deserve you and deep down he probably knows you're way out of his league." I tell her grabbing her chin in my hand.

"Please stop crying over that fuck face." I whisper making her laugh as she wipes her tears. "Now go take a bubble bath and calm down. I'll be here when you get out." I tell her as she nods and hugs me into her chest. She has no idea what I'm about to do.

"Jax I love you so much. You're my only friend and the only one I can talk too." She tells me as my heart stops. I know what she means by love, she loves me like I'm her friend, not anything more.

"Rylee I love you too, now up you go." I tell her as I lift her up into my arms and take her into the bedroom with an open door and drawers thrown everywhere.

"I packed his bags and made him take everything." She tells me as I smile nodding at her. I take her to the bathroom and cut on the tub before leaving her alone and walking to the doorframe.

"I have to run and do something. I'll be back okay?" I ask as she nods wiping her face. "Jax?" She asks before I leave.

"Yeah?" I ask looking at her beautiful face that's been hurt by that idiot. "Thank you." She tells me as I nod and wave telling her I'll be back. When I close the bedroom door I find her phone sitting on the kitchen counter and unlock it with her birthday. She told me days ago when I was getting to know her so I can open it on my first guess. The first thing I do is find fuck faces name and location.

I pinpoint where he is and grab keys running down to my Camaro before speeding out of the garage and down streets to the apartments a few minutes over. I know he's in this damn building.

I walk to the front of the building and wait until a delivery guy is buzzed in before following him in and to the front desk. "Hi man, I'm so sorry but my best friend just came in with his bags. We're supposed to be having a big party for him moving in with his girl and I came to set up. He didn't tell us the number though can you do me a solid?" I ask convincingly.

"Sure, who's name is on the lease?" He asks as I think back to the nurse he was with. She checked in on my step grandfather once. Shit what was her name? Eliza? Shit, "it's Beth. Elizabeth" I tell him as he finds her.

"Two sixteen." He tells me as I give him a fist bump.

"Thanks man" I tell him walking off towards the elevator as I hop on. I close the doors before ridding it up and adjusting my arms through my shirt before my jeans. I'm about to kill this fucker.

When I make it to two sixteen I knock and hide to the side so that they can't see me through the peephole. "Delivery" I disguise my voice as the door opens. I turn and see Elizabeth before looking on her couch and seeing fuck face. Bingo.

"What-?" She goes to start as I push her out the way and go to her couch. He sees me as his face pales and I grip his collar before throwing him onto the glass coffee table breaking it in the process.

I reach down punching him until my rage continues hearing his little bitch squeal. "STOP!!!" She screams yelling for help as I grab his neck covered in blood from his busted forehead.

"If you ever hurt her again, I will kill you." I spit in his face before landing a final punch on his jaw and knocking him out cold. I clean my raw knuckles on his shirt before standing up and turning to see Beth, as she calls herself hiding in the corner.

I get to her door and reach into my back pocket before finding my wallet and laying her a hundred dollar bill across her side table. "For your coffee table. Piece of advice he's a piece of shit, don't you dare come near Rylee." I tell her as she nods and stays calm.

I look back at Jacob covered in blood moving around on the broken glass as I laugh. "Fucking dick." I tell him as I walk back to the elevator and get on. I ride it downstairs and thank the front desk man as he nods and I get to my car.

I speed off and out of the parking lot before he's running outside trying to find me with a phone in his hand. I speed back to my Ry and get to her apartment before using her keys to open the door. I close it behind me and wash my hands in the sink before walking toward the bathroom to see the light off with a single candle burning as she lays there with her eyes closed. The bubbles are covering me from seeing any part of her besides her head and she looks beautiful.

I don't mess with her as I watch her rest peacefully. And I know right then that I'm whipped for this girl, I'd do anything for her.