Island Captive_A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

Author:Jane Henry [Henry, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Adrian

Something changed when Nadine and I talked. It was the first time I ever felt free to tell her what happened the night Lori died. In my gut, I know that if I’d told her any sooner, she wouldn’t have believed me anyway. She had to believe I was the monster she hunted, or she never would have been able to do what she did.

It’s not like I’m an innocent. I was the one who left Lori alone. If I’d been in the room, she wouldn’t have been murdered. If I hadn’t left her in a vulnerable state of subspace, she might’ve been able to scream. If I hadn’t been the one they were after… the one they wanted to punish… none of this would have happened.

And I know that a part of me is a monster. The part that gets hard hurting innocent, vulnerable women. Hell, there’s a part of me that wishes Nadine would mouth off to me, so I can overpower her and strap her ass again. I want to hurt her. Mark her.

Only now it’s not because of retribution but simply because I fucking crave it.

She’s begun marking our stay here. At first, she did it covertly, but when I told her there was nothing wrong with noting the passage of time, we began to do it together. We’ve now been here together one full month.

Something’s troubling me this morning. I’m not sure what.

I walk to the beach and by the time I’m there I hit the beach at a full run. I need to master this monster inside me, tame it by beating it down. At home, I would lift weights until my muscles hit failure. It was the one thing in prison that kept me sane, the ability to shackle my monster with heavy, adrenaline-boosting lifting. To push my body to the extreme. To punish myself.

I have to admit, I love running on the island. There’s something tranquil about running alone in the early morning. Here, it’s even better. The occasional bird squawks in the air, though they keep their distance as if they know I’m ready to make them into breakfast. Waves pound on the shore and recede, the rhythmic crash and pull of the undertow better than the music I used to play on earbuds. I run before the sun fully rises, because once it does, the heat is wicked. Practically unbearable. It isn’t humid here but hot as fucking hell.

Today, after I’ve run until my legs give way, I fall to the soft, sandy beach. This was where we landed, here on this beach. Where the others met their fate and I earned my freedom. Ironic, in a way. I turn and look up at the sky. I frown when I eye large, dark storm clouds rolling in. We haven’t had more than a brief summer storm since we got here. No real storms to speak of. And there’s no telling exactly what this storm will bring.

I push myself up from the beach and brush the sand off my sweaty body, then run toward the water for a quick dip.

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