Can't Love You More Than This (Jonathan Toews) COMPLETED

Chapter 22

Hey babe, are you all right? He asked immediately getting concerned at the look of terror in my eyes.

Yeah I'm fine, but could I crash here tonight? I asked him.

Of course, he said letting me in.

We went to bed early today and I still didn't get much sleep freaking out about what Jett had said.

The alarm went off at 6:30 and I did my normal routine before heading down to the lobby with Jon and Pat.

We loaded on a bus to the arena and we had a very productive practice before the players went back to the hotel and I set to work on the jerseys and the skates.

We finished all of our work about an hour before like usual and I did my workout before going in and sitting down in Jon's locker and getting a drink.

I was getting a drink when another text message came through on my phone and I opened it without reading who it was from.

Looks like you had a nice little workout so you could stay in shape for volleyball season. Hope the game goes well tonight, I'll talk to you later. - Jett

I turned my phone off and just sat in Jon's cubby starting off into space so much that I didn't even noticed the staff members coming through looking at me funnily and continuing on their way.

Jon was the first one to arrive back at the arena and when he saw me sitting in his locker just starting off into space, he immediately came over to me.

Soph, what is going on? He asked me.

Oh nothing, I said and smiled at him.

I knew I hadn't convinced him but I got up so he could get ready for the game and walked over to the door.

They went out for warm ups and I quickly hung all of the game jerseys up before going out to the bench and watching the rest of warm ups.

The first period started and ended, very uneventfully. The second period was better for both teams unfortunately since we both scored one goal. The third period was also very uneventful so we went on to overtime, then to double overtime, and then to a shootout where unfortunately we lost.

We packed up the locker room and loaded it all onto the plane before Jon requested that I sit next to him on the way home.

I was walking into the plane when I got another text message from Jett.

Oh no, they lost. See you back in Chicago. - Jett

I walked back to where Jon was sitting with Sharpie and Kaner.

Hey babe, Jon said when I sat down next to him.

Hi, I replied quietly.

Jon came a little closer to me and started talking to me in a really quite voice.

What's been going on with you lately? And don't tell me you're ok because I know you aren't, he said.

Well remember when I got that phone call on the last night my friends were here? I asked him.

Yes, you excused yourself and then came back looking slightly terrified.

Well that call was from Jett, my ex-boyfriend from 4 years ago.

What did he want?

Well he got back into his old habits real quick, I said not really wanting to tell him the whole story.

And what habits were those?

I think it will just be easier to tell you the whole story, I said to him.

He nodded his head saying that I should go on, so I did.

Jett and I started dating my Sophomore year of high school, things were going great up until we had been dating for 2 and a half years. I noticed his mood had started to change and knew it probably wasn't a good thing, he started abusing me with words and physically. Everyday after school, he would drag me out to his truck and would verbally assault me. For awhile it was just word abuse but after a while, he started to hit me while he was yelling at me. It was early May when one day he took me out to his truck and the words came followed shortly by him hitting me, but I guess the words and the slapping wasn't enough that day because he pulled out a pocketknife and cut my shirt open before making cuts all the way along the bottom of my bra on my back, he decided he had had enough so he let me out of the car and then drove away. I had wanted to tell someone about him abusing me but never had proof until that day, but I didn't realize it until I walked back into the school. The cuts had hurt me a lot and I was crying very hard and I couldn't see the cuts so I went back into school and into the nurses office. The nurse was sitting at her desk when I walked in and when she turned around and saw me she immediately rushed over trying to calm me down before asking me why I came to the nurses office. I turned around and immediately heard her gasp.

Sophie, what happened? She asked me.

Someone cut me, I replied.

She had me lay down on my stomach and she put some antibacterial in the cuts before she rushed off and got the principal.

When my principal walked into the room he gasped and went and got the assistant principal who also gasped when he came into the room.

Sophie, who did this to you? My principal Mr. Haydock asked.

I can't tell, he'll come after me, I said starting to shake with fear.

They tried to get me to answer a few other questions but I didn't answer any of them.

They called the police in along with some paramedics so they could stitch up the cuts. My mom and dad were also called and arrived shortly after the police did.

Hello Miss Adams, I'm officer Neal, can you tell me who did this? A man said.

I shook my head no and he asked me why I said no.

He'll come after me if I tell anyone and I don't have any evidence against his abuse to turn him in safely.

Sophie, these cuts are enough evidence to send whoever this is to prison on threat and abuse charges.

They talked to me about how it was safe to turn whoever this person was in, so I told them.

It was Jett Henderson, I said before I started shaking uncontrollably and one of the police officers came over to comfort me.

So Jett was sentenced to 2 years for criminal harassment and 2 years for domestic violence. Now he's out and he's threatening me again through text and watching me all the time somehow, I said to Jon after I finished my story.

Oh baby, I'm so sorry, we'll go to the police station tomorrow, he said while putting his muscular arms around me.

He asked me to see the texts so I showed them to him and then we started a conversation with Kaner and Sharpie.

We got back to Chicago at midnight before the crew members unloaded everything and put it in the locker room, calling it a night after that.

Jon and I got home at 1 in the morning and we immediately crawled into bed.

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Hey guys!

Here's Chapter 22, sorry it took so long for me to update! Anyway, I hope you like it!

By the way thank you so much for over 900 reads, it means a lot to me!

-Nat