"Axel?" Charlotte called softly. She pushed in his bedroom door and was met with darkness. She looked for the light switch and finally found it. She turned the lights on, the room illuminated.

She gasped as she saw Axel sitting in the corner, his head in his hands. Dirt sprawled around his room and all over his shoes, anyone could guess from where he came from.

He hasn't been the same from the day, they buried Chloe. He looked and acted like the walking dead. He didn't talk much, he didn't eat much. He'd spend days and nights in the cemetery and only came home to take a shower or whenever he needed something.

Charlotte slowly approach him with a tray of food and sat down beside him on the floor. She placed the tray before him and waited for him to say anything.

After five whole minutes, she decided to speak. "Axel... You need to eat something, please"

"Leave me alone, Charlotte" He deadpanned

"No, I'm not going to leave my brother alone. You can push me away all you want, I'm not going anywhere!" She snapped

Axel looked up and their eyes met. His bloodshot eyes scared her but she didn't say anything. She got closer to him and wrapped her arms around her brother in a way to comfort him. She pulled away a second later and his gaze softened.

He picked up a file from beside him. "Do you know what this is?" He asked

"No" she shook her head.

"This is her case file," he told her. "Her wrist and legs were broken before she was brutally raped, then that guy shot her in the face six times... Six times, Charlotte"

Charlotte's eyes teared up, she bit her lips to stop the urge to cry. "T--that's horrible"

"Her face was so delicate... I still remember the first time I saw her. I was... I was lost for words. Her face was the first thing I noticed about her. So, beautiful and fragile... Six bullets... Her elegant face..."

"Axel..." Charlotte held his hand and squeezed it.

"She was raped! Some bastard raped her in an alley! What the fuck was she doing there?! Why was she there?! I can't stop thinking about how she must've felt. She was so shy... She never let a guy get this close to her... Do you have any idea what she must have felt like while that asshole raped her? She must be in so much pain... So much pain..."

"Axel, stop this! You are torturing yourself!"

"Do you think she called for me? While he was breaking her bones, while he was beating her, do you think she called my name? She must have screamed... She must have called me and I wasn't there... She must have cried so much."

"Axel..." Charlotte cried, she didn't know how to make him stop.

"I killed her..."

"Axel! STOP!"

Axel shook his head. "No, you don't understand, I killed her... I forced her to run away with me and then I left her there alone... And now she's dead. She's dead because I left her there! She's dead because I trusted dad to take care of her. She's dead because she loved me! She is dead because of me! Me! I killed her" he wiped his tears. "I killed Chloe Jones"

"Axel, please, stop... Please you need to eat something! You are killing yourself!"

"I should die! We did everything together but why she was the only one who paid for it?! I should die too!"

"Please, stop, please! She wouldn't want that for you. She loved you, she'd want you to live!"

"Why? Why would she want that? After everything, I did to her? Why?"

"Because she loved you!"

"WHO WOULD LOVE A COWARD LIKE ME?! I LEFT HER THE SECOND THINGS GOT HARDER! I FUCKING LEFT HER THERE TO DIE!" He shouted and broken down. "She asked for some time, I wished I stayed... She said that I'm all she had but I wasn't worth it!" He cried and slammed his head back into the wall aggressively. "I wasn't worth it!"

"AXEL, STOP THIS!" She tried to hold him.

"You wanna know the worst part?" He asked and the crazy look in his eyes scared her.

"What?"

"I never got a chance to say goodbye" he cried. "I NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE! I NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE!" He banged his head back into the wall again and again. "I NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE! I NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE!" He kept repeating like a maniac.

Charlotte's eyes widened as she saw a blot of blood on the wall as Axel repeatedly slammed the back of his head on it.

"Axel, please, stop!" She cried

"I NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE! I NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE!" He cried and the blood trailed down in his shirt from the back of his neck.

Charlotte screamed and ran outside of the room to call for their dad. Dominic and Vanessa came rushing in but Axel didn't stop. Dominic forcefully tried to restrain Axel but he continued to hit his head on the ground as well.

"Call the guards" he ordered

Due to the loss of blood, Axel slowly started to lose consciousness. "I never... Said... G-goodbye... I n-never said... Goodbye," he breathed out half dazed and half-awake as the guards carried him to the car.

Vanessa settled in the back seat and placed Axel's bleeding head in her lap. Her hands and her lap were covered in her son's blood. She cried and glared at Dominic as he sat in the driving seat.

"What did you do to my son, Dominic?! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?!" She shrieked

They reached the hospital and Axel was taken into the emergency room. Dominic and Vanessa waited outside.

He sat down beside his wife. "I did mean for her to die... I didn't mean for her to die, Vanessa"

"What did you do?" She asked

Dominic took a deep breath and told her everything that had happened. Everything he did and didn't do. Vanessa stared at him with disappointment.

"It wouldn't have made a dent in your bank account, if you had helped her, Dominic. How could you be so cruel?"

"Axel still doesn't know about that. He thinks that I took care of her after he left... And I'll make sure it stays this or else I'd lose him completely"

"But you did lose him... He is here physically but I can't seem to find my Axel"

"I---" the doctor's voice cut their conversation short.

"Mr. And Mrs. King, your son is fine now---"

"Can we see him?"

"Yes---"

Without hearing what the doctor had to say, they burst into his room. There he laid, looking like he was almost lifeless. His face was set in stone as he stared at the ceiling.

"Axel, what is the meaning of this?!" Vanessa snapped

"Axel, we know you are in pain but---"

"No! You don't!" He cut Dominic off. "Mr. Jones will be in pain if he heard about what we did to his daughter." Axel shook his head. "You were never going to bring her back, right? You just did all that for a show, you went there without me so you could kill her. So, she could never be a part of my life." He took a deep breath as he remembered something. "You warned me... You threatened me that if I asked about her... She won't be fine for long... You said accidents happen every day" his eyes burned with tears.

"Do you think I'm this cruel?" Dominic asked. "You think I'll murder someone?"

"I don't know... I'm the one you should've killed... Not her. I should be dead too!"

Dominic walked closer to him. "Axel, this needs to stop! If you hurt yourself like this ever again---"

Axel glanced at his father with utmost hate. "I'm gonna destroy you" he threatened in a low voice.

Dominic was taken aback by his words. "Axel..." He breathed out unbelievably.

Axel smirked through the tears. "I'm gonna destroy everything you ever cared for, just so, you'd know how it feels"

Dominic heartbrokenly nodded and said. "You do realize that includes you too"

Axel smiled. "I know..."

, Chloe and Alexa were finally discharged from the hospital.

Alexa was out of danger now and had gotten quite healthy. Her skin, internal organs, facial features, everything developed. She also gained a lot of baby fat.

In the past two months, she has been Chloe's entire world. She forgot about everything... Everyone... Even her father... Even the situation she was in...

Maxim was driving as Chloe sat in the back, holding Alexa close to her. She was whispering with her daughter. Maxim glanced at her a few times through rearview. He has never spent this much time with one of their performers before.

"Next time you're in the car with me, sit in the front seat. I'm not your fucking driver!" He said

Chloe frowned and glared at him. No one has ever annoyed her as much as he did and right now he was ruining her moment with her daughter.

"I don't wanna see your face!" Chloe replied

He turned back and glared at her. "I'm gonna ask Andrew to cut off your tongue"

"I'M GonNa aSK aNdrEw To cUT ofF yOUr toNguE" She mimicked him under her breath.

"What did you say?" He asked, he had an idea that she mimicked his words.

"Nothing" she feigned innocence.

"You have no idea what you're in for, right?" He asked, menacingly trying to scare her and it worked because Chloe's heart dropped in her stomach with fear.

"What do you mean?" She asked putting on a brave face. She held Alexa close to her tightly. She clenched her fists, her nails dug into her palms. She suddenly realized that from the day Alexa was born, she hadn't clenched her fists like that. She squeezed her eyes shut and glanced at her daughter's angelic face. Her presence helped her calm down.

"You'll see... Andrew will be here tomorrow and you're the first person he wants to see"

"Why?" She asked

"Playtime's over, Rose" saying that he parked the car and stepped out leaving Chloe and Alexa alone.