I screamed in pain as Jazmyn watched horrified the blood dripping down my injured leg. Jason pulled me towards the top with no hesitation. In a fraction of second he strongly kicked the dog which released me from his bite and fell back down to the garden.

-"Are you ok?!"- Jazmyn questioned, her voice was shaky, shocked by the dog bite mark over my thigh and the blood flooding out of the wound.

-"Y-yeah I am"- I lied as best as I could possibly do. I didn't want my leg to be a burden specially when we still needed to find a vehicle.

Jason jumped to the other side of the wall landing perfectly on his feet. -"Quickly jump before these fuckers get their guns out"- Jason exclaimed to Jazmyn and me.

Jazmyn followed his instructions and jumped to Jason's arms. He caught her with no difficulty and placed her safely on the floor. He looked back at me and I dragged myself towards the edge of the wall before letting myself fall onto his arms. Just as he did with Jazmyn he got me with no difficulty, my face dug on his neck and just for a single second I felt he was truly hugging me.
Jason placed one hand under my legs and positioned me bridal style before sprinting alongside with Jazmyn towards the closest black car. He raised his hand turning it into a fist in the act and punched the glass of the drivers window breaking it into thousands of pieces.

Jazmyn and I watched astonished as he didn't complain about the collision the slightest. He unlocked the door from the inside and Jazmyn opened the backseat entering the car afterwards. Jason followed her releasing me on the backseat. He closed the door after making sure everything was in place and jumped into the driver seat.

-"Jason they are coming!"- Jazmyn warned us as she looked over her window. Several men were running towards our position with looks of complete anger.

Jason groaned as he looked for anything to use to start the engine. I tried helping looking at the compartments I could reach from my position. -"Here! I found a pair of keys!"- I enthusiastically exclaimed causing Jason's head to turn towards my direction.

Jason smiled softly and grabbed the keys off of my hands in a single movement. He placed them inside the lock of the engine and twisted them firmly. The car emitted a sound meaning it successfully worked. Jason placed his foot on the pedal with no hesitation and the car ejected forward at a dangerous speed. I joined Jazmyn and stared outside the window, the guards and the mansion became smaller and smaller as the car travelled far away from them.

-"We made it!"- Jazmyn cheered in the most happy tone as she let herself fall onto my arms. I giggled and hugged her back but as soon as our bodies touched I felt an intense pain rip through my thigh.

Jazmyn reincorporated herself back to her previous position after realising her touch triggered the nerves of my leg. -"Jason she keeps bleeding we need to do something"- Jazmyn explained as she eyed my leg and Jason's neck.

I started to hear Jason mumble something but my vision started to blurry due to the constant blood loss. I tried to grip on the rest of his seat so I wouldn't fall but my body was becoming more numb as the seconds passed. I tried to helplessly mouth something but my eyes slowly closed and my body fell to the side onto Jazmyn lap.

***

A pinching pain as if someone dropped corrosive acid on my open flesh consumed me. I opened my eyes widely scared. I looked around confused, I could see a nice golden chandelier hanging from the ceiling. I tried to face the other side of the room I was found and I noticed the room was decorated Pop-art style. Where was I?

I dropped my gaze to my leg as a soft piercing pain obtained my full attention. Jason was using his teeth to break the ends of a stitch. I looked at the dog bite which was now nicely stitched together and precisely cleaned.

-"You are awake!"- Jazmyn sang as she ran to my side kneeling down so we could be at the same level. -"You passed out in the car I was so scarred but Jason stopped by a pharmacy and he managed to fix your leg and he brought us to this hotel"- She added pointing to my thigh.

I looked back at Jason who stood without saying anything. He ran his finger through his golden hair sighing heavily in the act.

-"Thank you Jason..."- I whispered loud enough for him to hear me. Just as I expected he didn't say a single word.

Jazmyn helped me to sit, making sure my injured leg was placed at the same level. She mumbled into my ear she needed to use the shower. I nodded giving her a faint smile before she danced her way into a room close to the white bed.

Silence took over the atmosphere, neither Jason or me said a single word yet there was so many things I wanted to say. -"Thank you for helping me up the wall and to the car, and with this too"- I thanked him again even though his eyes never met my silhouette at all.

-"Don't think I'm going to say thank you to you, you are the reason why all of this happened in the first place"- He fought back turning around abruptly to face me. His eyes filled with anger.

I felt a burning rage building up inside of me. -"Honestly Jason, really? Shall I remember you that I was free to do whatever I wanted and I betrayed Shawn putting myself in danger just to save you and Jazmyn?"- I crossed my arms together up to my chest.

-"You are so naive, you think that the son of a bitch was your friend? Your future with them would have had the same destiny as mine, slut"- He venomously spat now our eyes locking into a powerful stare. His words sent a feeling of uncertainty down my spine, did he still have plans to kill me even after saving both his sister and him? Why did he help me back in the mansion and stitch me up if so?

-"You know whats funny here? The fact that you can't accept I did something good, and quit calling me the slut, save that for Emily"- I replied as I felt my blood boiling under his bitter comments.

I glimpsed his jaw clenching tightly. His hands turned into powerful fists making his veins pop, it seemed as if he was ready to break the hardest of the rocks. -"What the fuck did you say about Emily!"-

I realised he didn't acknowledge the truth about his supposed dead girlfriend, I doubted if to blew it all up to him after all the intense events of the current night. Jason walked towards me and gripped my neck tightly obstructing my airway. -"How fucking dare you say that when you murdered her, bitch"-

-"That's the thing-g she is not dead"- I tried to say as I lacked of fresh oxygen. Jason didn't believe a word I spoke and kept tightening the grip on my neck.
I quickly slid my phone out of my short's pocket and unlocked it as fast as I could. -"Look-k!"- I managed to scream as I placed the phone right in front of Jason's face.

His eyes concentrated fully on the device as I tapped play on the video and his grip loosened on my neck.

-"Why are you so impatient Emily? Aren't you having fun watching Jason getting tortured?"-

-"Don't get me wrong, I enjoy that very much but I want to be able to stop living over a false death and actually do something big"-

-"Are you still into getting into Hollywood? You wont quit that purpose, will you?"-

-"That was our deal, remember? I only had to take care of that Jason and you will get me to the acting academy"-

-"Your job is not done until my dad says so, remember we pay you a lot for your service, don't bite the hand that feeds you"-

-"You know better than anyone everything I have done for your business, If getting stuck with that trash of Jason pretending I liked him and jumping in front of that car didn't show my dedication and appreciation to your dad's business then I don't know what will"-

-"Don't make me laugh Emily, anyone would have done that knowing the amount of money we were paying you to keep Jason under control, and we had the car situation planned so nothing would happen to you"-
-"We just needed an innocent family so Jason wouldn't trace the plan to connect it to us"-

-"Is that the reason why you still have that slut here? In an intention to make it up for her suffering over the plan?"-

-"Jason did a lot of intense things to her thinking she killed you, he literally shattered her family over that, doesn't it make you feel slightly guilty"-

-"Don't try to blame me for Jason's actions, what he did to that girl and her family is his entire fault, people suffer everywhere, only the best adapted can survive, I call that co-lateral damage... Let alone say you and your dad were the ones who chose to use an innocent family even knowing what Jason was capable of"-

The video finished and once again the silence took over the room, Jason's eyes never leaving the bright screen. He perfectly knew that was her, fuck if he knew, even I knew it was her.

I dared to look over to Jason, his eyes were watery, something I never witnessed before. Suddenly he slapped the phone off of my hand making it land a couple of meters away from my position. I didn't dare to complain knowing what he was going through needed more attention.

-"She lied... she thinks I'm trash..."- Jason voice rolled out in breaks, he definitely reached rock bottom. Now this situation was something I never imagined witnessing.

Jason turned around and started to kick everything and anything he could find, breaking whatever was on his way. -"Jason! Relax... I understand you"- I stated standing up trying not to bug my thigh too much.

He was groaning madly as if he was suffering an anxiety attack. I dared to hug him from behind as tight as my body could possibly allow me. -"Jason she doesn't deserve you"- I tried to reassure him.

-"Don't fucking touch me!"- He screamed as he pushed me back making me trip over myself and fall down to the floor. I held my thigh with both hands as the burning feeling was returning.

Jason gave me one last look before opening the entrance door and slamming it as hard as he could after exiting the hotel room. I simply stared at the door clueless of what he was going to do or where he intended to go.

The sound of the bathroom door gently opening made me turn my head towards its direction. -"What happened?"- A confused yet scared Jazmyn spoke softly as she peaked her head out of the bathroom.

I hesitated if telling Jazmyn the story was an appropriate decision or not, however I decided to simply inform her about it. Her reaction could not be worse than Jason's anyways.

-"Wow... that's crazy... Everything Jason has believed for the past years has been a complete lie"- Jazmyn shocked commented after spending around twenty minutes explaining the whole story in detail.

-"It's completely insane, however I still cant link Shawn and Jason, I don't know what their connection is"- I stated rubbing my hands over my tired crystal eyes.

Jazmyn looked around as if she was trying to concentrate and provide some answers to my question. -"I'm not very sure, but I think Jason worked for them at some point"- She informed me as her delicate index finger tapped gently on her rounded chin.

-"I honestly don't know why Shawn and his father would make so much noise and dedicate so much time on fuck up Jason if they are as rich as they claim to be"- I shook my head shifting my body weight to my hand for support.

-"I'm sorry I can't be that helpful, Gabri, I was just too small and nobody ever told me anything"- Jazmyn sighed as she blew a current of air towards her loose bangs.

Three hours passed by and there was no sign of Jason. I started to worry about his location if anything happened to him. What if he did something stupid...

I brushed off those thoughts of my concerned mind. Jason would not do anything lethal, he wouldn't leave Jazmyn alone in this world by any chance. I suggested Jazmyn we should sleep as it was getting extremely late and we still didn't know what awaited for us for the next day so we needed all the rest we could get.
I dazed out as I watched the stars through the window, each of them sparkled with different intensities and colours. I lost the count on the minutes that passed by since we decided to sleep. I rolled a sigh out of my mouth as I switched my gaze to Jazmyn, who placidly slept in the bed next to mine. She was purely beautiful and incredibly adorable, I simply wanted to protect her at all cost. I could relate to Jason in that sense.

The sound of the entrance door opening brought me back to reality. I still flinched every time anything unknown occurred. I described Jason's figure walk in closing and locking the door behind him from the corner of my eyes.

I felt a pressure on the other side of my bed and I noticed Jason's breathing as he laid next to me. A couple of seconds passed by and I decided to have a look at him. I rolled myself gently over my side and Jason's tired face came into view.

I traced his defined and symmetrical features with my eyes wondering where he went and what he did there. A little stain of blood above the corner of his pink plumped lips caught my attention.
I directed my hand slowly towards the stain until my thumb made contact with his smooth skin. I gently dragged my thumb across his moustache-area cleaning the blood stain in the act.

His amber eyes gently opened finding my crystal ones in a fraction of second. He analysed me for a couple of short seconds before frowning and turning around to the other side of the bed carelessly.

I gently sighed shaking my head lightly. Why did he still act like that even after finding out everything he hated me for was just a lie? I wanted to be mad at him but I felt so much sympathy for him, which was driving me insane as the same boy I pitied tortured me in the most monstrous ways just a couple of weeks ago.

I dragged myself closer to him, enough to allow just some air between our tired bodies. I addressed my head towards him and placed my lips over the back of his shoulder leaving a delicate kiss on it. He tensed under my touch but surprisingly he didn't say a word or moved the slightest.

-"Goodnight Jason"- I whispered after rolling back to face the other side of the bed and closing my eyes in the act.