Chloe turned around, facing Robert as she looked at him with glossy eyes and a broken facade. She ran the pads of her thumbs over his cheeks, their breathing equally quiet with the silenced room.
"How much do you love me?" She whispered, her voice hoarse and scratchy with each word as she began to realize what this relationship really was.
"More than you'll ever know." Robert kissed her mouth, pulling away to reveal a sad smile upon Chloe's face.
"I'm so stressed, help me get rid of the stress, baby?" He asked.
And as Robert led Chloe's hand down to his straining length in his boxers, she let out a soft sigh. His inconsideration showed her that she was only there for his pleasure, not because he truly loved her like he said he did. And what was Chloe going to do about it? She was already broken and tore apart, there wasn't much more to it. She was going to do nothing about it, absolutely nothing.
Chapter 18
Chloe stuffed her hands in her pockets, getting out of her Volkswagen as she as she walked up to the porch of her house.
She had just came back from the long weekend at the hotel with Robert. Her weekend was filled with screaming, fighting, and sex. And the whole thing was eating her alive. She could wince just thinking about it all.
Bruises portrayed themselves along her skin, some being from Robert fucking and gripping her too hard, and others ghosting along the sides of her face because Robert simply needed to take his anger out on someone or something or someone.
She stood on the porch, her hand reaching for the door knob until the door had already opened by Abbie who stood on the inside, her eyes burning with this certain look in them that Couldn't be described.
"How was your weekend with Ethan?" Abbie spoke, staring Chloe down intently.
"Very uneventful. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go-"
"So you were with Ethan?" Abbie cut her off, blocking her from coming into the house. Chloe stared at her with confusion.
"Yeah, I just said I was, didn't I?" Chloe grumbled under her breath. She just wanted to go inside and take a hot bath and go to sleep in her own loathing misery, and now Abbie was making her feel even worse.
"Really, well that's interesting because Ethan called this weekend and asked if you wanted to hang out." Chloe's eyes got wide from hearing Abbie's voice. She was so focused on spending the weekend with Robert that she hadn't thought her lie through good enough.
"Why did you lie to me about being with Ethan this weekend?" Abbie pouted like a clueless woman. Too bad clueless didn't fit her system at all.
Once Ethan had phoned Chloe's mobile, Abbie heard the ringing coming from Chloe's room and answered it, putting down the basket of laundry to pick the cell phone.
When she saw that Ethan was calling, she thought that he must've been trying to help Chloe find her misplaced phone, so when she answered, she was confused that he was calling to hang out with rosemary when clearly he was supposed to be with her already on the weekend.
Once Abbie figured that Chloe had lied about being with Ethan, she dismissed Ethan's call and began searching through Chloe's phone. She looked through her calls, looking through her photos and looked through her text messages.
She did find a certain message conversation from Daniel particularly interesting- horrifying if anything. She found the video of Mr. Payne, Chloe, and Robert-her therapist.
She seen through the video, her face paling as she felt bile rising up her throat. She couldn't believe what she had saw. She knew that Chloe had gotten into trouble by making a video with a boy, but what she didn't know was that it was with her headmaster and her therapist whom was supposed to be helping her.
And with that, Abbie had called Laura up and told her about the video, resulting in Laura pursuing the perfect time to fire Robert and catch him in the act. Laura was going to wait until Tuesday came around the corner, so that both Chloe and Robert were there to understand what was happening. "Fine, I lied about being with Ethan, so what," Chloe shrugged although her nerves were eating her because she simply couldn't make up another lie was that was believable enough for the sake of Abbie. "So where were you then?" Abbie asked, allowing rosemary to finally come into the house. She wanted Chloe to admit about being with Robert, to be honest and tell her all the truth because Abbie knew for a fact that it was hurting Chloe on the inside to be sleeping with her therapist who was supposed to be mending her mind back together not screwing her over. "I was with Daniel, happy now?" It hurt to say that she had been with Daniel whom she terribly missed as well as hated with all her guts. Just hearing his name come out of her mouth gave her some bitter thoughts and a whole lot of heart break deep in that porcelain skin of hers. Chloe could roll her eyes at the thought of being interrogated by Abbie, it was pointless to even ask all these questions when she wasn't going to get anything out of it, so might as well not ask at all. "Look, If you're going to keep pretending that you care where I was or who I was with, I'm leaving. I'll be at Ethan's house where I know I won't get
