Chapter 7: Chapter 7
After giving her testimony at the police station, she was escorted back by Layla and her brother.
- Violet, whether you like it or not, I'm going to let you live with Cameron.
- And my opinion on all this?
- Layla, go ahead, you can go home, I'll handle it.
She left, winking at her friend before driving off in her car.
- Cameron, there's no point wasting your time on me, I can go home.
Cameron grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his car with him before driving off.
- Cameron, did you even hear what I just said?
- Yes, but you know me well enough to know that when it comes to your safety, I tend not to listen to you. You're asking me to take you home when an hour ago, you were there with a psychopath at your door who only wanted one thing, to sexually assault you. So, I think you know my answer.
- Cameron...
- It took my sister explaining everything that happened to me and you giving a statement to the police to learn what happened to you when I wasn't there. Why didn't you tell me before?
- You didn't ask either.
Before she even realized it, they were already in front of her house.
- Wait, is this your house?
- Yes.
- You live in this gigantic house? All alone?
- Yes, why? Did you think I lived there with a conquest?
- You're not going to deny that you had some? Even Layla confirmed it to me.
- Glad to see that you prefer to ask my sister for information about me instead of asking me directly. Oh yes, that's true, you can't do it since you avoid me. He finished, looking her straight in the eye.
He opened the front door and let her go before him while scrutinizing her different reactions.
- What are you talking about? I... I'm not avoiding you. Why would I?
She brushed the large glass table in the dining room with her fingertips and felt him very close behind her. Her breath caught when she felt his breath on her ear.
- Because you know deep down that you won't always be able to resist me even if you try as best you can.
- Yet I've been doing very well up until now.
He moved a little closer to her and knew that at this precise moment, she was troubled.
- You know that it's not because I'm now living with you for an indefinite period that you can believe that you now have every chance of winning me back.
- I don't need that to be sure that I can make you come back to my side, my darling. I know very well that I will succeed.
He came so close that she sat on the edge of the table without even realizing it.
- If you say you're that resistant, then you can surely refuse to let me kiss you.
- Don't do that, Cameron.
- And why not? Do you know how long I've been dreaming of tasting your lips again? I missed your mouth terribly. And before you ask, yes it is different and unique from my conquests, especially since I didn't kiss them.
- Did you go straight to the act?
- Yes, it must be said that all they were interested in was sex and nothing else.
- Married women?
He looked at her with a murderous look.
- Of course not. Who do you take me for?
- And what were you interested in... that?
- I wanted to find an occupation that could make me forget that I had abandoned the love of my life before leaving. But no matter what I did I couldn't.
- I guess that's good to know.
She jumped down from the table and continued on her way as if nothing had just happened. For someone who wanted to resist her first and only, she now realizes that it won't be an easy task especially if she lives with him.
- I guess you're already a connoisseur of the place.
- Yes I remember everything since it was your apartment when you were at university. I even think you had the biggest apartment of all the students. Which room was it in that your friend James and his girlfriend had their first time?
- First floor, room at the end of the corridor. This same girlfriend who became his wife.
- How time flies. By the way, how is he?
- He's doing very well and he has a wonderful family now. He plans to come and spend two days here to spend some time with us.
- With "us"?
- I tell James everything, so he knows about the psychopath who's hanging around you.
- Wait, don't tell me that everyone knows anyway. Like...
- My whole family, that is to say, Trevor, Layla and my two parents, including your family of course. By the way, how is your mother?
- Oh no, that's not true, I didn't want to worry so many people. She's doing very well thank you but I doubt that's the case right now especially if we tell her that a lunatic who attacked her daughter three months ago is still roaming around her.
- If you thought I wasn't going to tell her anything, you don't know me well. But in three months, you never told her that?
- No, simply because I thought he would go to prison before knowing that he was only interned for three months.
- So if I understand correctly, he attacked you twice but he was only interned. Who was the sheriff who took care of him at that time? He didn't do his job properly I must say.
- Well, actually I was the one who told him not to increase his sentence because I thought he was crazy and not in control of his actions.
Cameron stared at her as if he were hallucinating before shaking his head in exasperation.
- Violet, this man attacks you twice and you still think he is not in control of his actions?! Twice? Especially with a knife? Mi bellissima, you are really too kind. Well, by now I think you know that he is the master of his emotions.
- Oh yes, I know that only too well.