The hospital.

April POV

The police arrived not long after daddy and Ronald left. I was too shaken up to tell them much.

It took everything I had to explain where mother and Adam were.

After I finally got the words out, "boat house."

The head injury that Ronald gave me when he savagely beat me took over and I passed out.

When I next woke up, mother was holding me on her lap, stroking my hair.

" Oh baby, you were so brave. Look what he did to your hair baby." she stroked my hair over and over.

I could tell she was in shock.

She herself had a black eye and swollen lips. Not to mention the s****l abuse she had endured.

I glanced over at Adam.

I could only open one of my eyes to look at him, the other was swollen shut.

Adam was holding his head. He was severely dehydrated. The medics were placing an IV in his arm. I heard him shouting in annoyance.

" Get me my f*****g phone, now!"

The police were immune to demands of people who thought they were so entitled to boss them around as Adam was trying to do.

My mother reached into her purse and tossed Adam her own phone. Baby!

Adam nodded, his eyes squinting as he tried to focus on the dial pad.

Ronald Parsons number popped up on the screen it simply read, Ronny.

He glared at that number and without a second thought, dialed it.

It rang and rang, finally after 8 rings, Ronald picked up.

Adam began to call him all sorts of names. He cussed him out and began to threaten to cut off his genitals.

Surprising Adam, Ronald simply responded, "burn it, burn it to the ground."

Adam yelled at him again.

"You c**ksucker! You lost your f*****g mind! What the hell are you talking about?"

Then Ronald said cryptically,

" Hold up, call me tomorrow we'll decide what to do then."

With that he hung up on Adam.

Adam stared at the phone squeezing it in his large hand angrily.

The police officer frowned.

" Who was that?" he asked him.

Adam sneered at my mother.

" Ask his f*****g mistress, she was his accomplice in kidnapping me." he said, as he snarled at her now, remembering her part in all of this.

" Me? You were attacking Ronald in the hotel room when I arrived. I swear it was self defense!" she shot out.

I covered my ears. I couldn't listen to these two going at it, my head was pounding. January was in real trouble now.

"I think daddy took Calvin to get January." I said softly to no one in particular.

" What do you know?" An officer called Brooks asked me.

He started to write down what I said in a little black notebook.

I told him that January was at a place called Hope Island and I was sure daddy was taking Parsons to pick up my sister now.

My heart dropped thinking about January.

She didn't have a chance. Ronald would eat her alive he was so insane, we never knew what Jan had gone through.

We never treated her with the sympathy she deserved.

We all fell silent now. My father was greedy, he loved Jan, but he loved himself more. Surly he would sell Janny out. My stomach lurched.

Adam spoke now. "How did she get to that island in the first place April?"

"Daddy kidnapped her from you. He put her on his boat and sent her away so you couldn't hurt her." I said, telling him all that I knew.

"I would never...hurt her." Adam said, but we all knew that was untrue.

Hadn't he hurt her with his dominating behaviors, getting her basically kicked out of school, f*****g me when she wouldn't do it?

"I guess January still loves you then?" I said sarcastically, thinking about my sister and realizing that Adam was in deep denial.

January had moved on though, she told me as much.

Oh daddy please don't take him to her...please daddy!

When the police interview was over, were all taken by different ambulances to the hospital.

I was given a sedative and my head was stitched up.

Mother had lacerations to her privates, she was screaming as the doctor stitched her up.

Ronald had held nothing back from defiling her. I heard Adam giving his statement about what he had witnessed.

I cried deeply thinking about the hell Adam had unleashed on us all.

Mother told me that Adam had gotten Ronald released as a threat to keep January in line.

He's the one who unleashed that maniac on us all. I felt sick to my stomach.

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The police were looking for daddy's boat and contacted the coast guard.

I stayed to myself not sure how to process that Calvin wasn't my real father.

I felt dirty and scared that maybe I was going to be like Ronald somehow.

I scratched my skin raw just thinking about his DNA broiling in the depth of my being.

I couldn't stand the thought of this. I was having panic attacks every day.

The doctor said he would send me to a psychiatrist, the same woman that January went to for so many years.

Dr. Amira Rayland. She was the one who was able to get January to leave our family home.

Jan had agoraphobia for years. She was so afraid people were looking at her, knowing what was done to her.

She couldn't stand to be out in public, especially after the trial.

Mother thought she just wanted attention. So, I believed it too.

I believed that my sister exaggerated the abuse. I believed she was weak and useless. I hated her.

My skin crawled as I scratched my thighs and calves raw.

Now I believed that January was incredibly strong, she overcame all of this trauma basically alone. Without her family.

Daddy avoided us all, mother neglected Jan by spending all her attention on me, and I resented her for being the center of dad's attention when he did come home.

What a f****d up family.

I continued to scratch myself raw.

Adam came to see me before he was discharged from the hospital.

" I'm sticking around for a while. I need to see her when she returns. I don't know why she felt the need to flee from me.

We made love the night before she left. It was quite beautiful finally having her in my bed.

Damn, she is gorgeous. I wanted you to know...I'm not letting her get away, I don't care what that monster did to her.

I'm always going to take care of her. I guess you'd never understand a love like that would you?

You always hated your sister. Throwing yourself at me shamelessly. Infact, I blame you for our break up.

You were just waiting for your chance to seduce me, weren't you?"

I stared at this man that was the love of my life.

" Adam, no...I love you. I didn't try to seduce you, I honestly thought we deserved to be together.

I...I could see that you had passions to equal my own. We were good together." I started to pull out my long blond hair as he just shook his head and sneered.

" Always the schemer April. I pity you. You just don't know when someone is just not that into you, do you?" he shook his head as he threw a stack of papers on my bed.

" See that your mother and father get these papers. I'm suing them both for damages and reparations.

I haven't named you...yet. But you'll do good to leave January and I alone, understand?"

My eyes clouded with tears.

" Please Adam don't do this to me!" I cried.