Damien felt the anger rage in him. His folded his fists. He wished he could see the Robert boy, though he must be a man now but it did little to reduce his anger.
He had been silent while she narrated her experience with Robert fearing that she could go off if he interrupted her or that she would break down. He felt she needed to let it all out.
He could imagine how a young girl of fifteen must have felt experiencing all that and hearing such rude things said about her.
He understood now why she had felt that she was reliving her nightmare because that was what it was - a nightmare.
He looked at her now and drew her closer.
'It's okay. Robert is not here now but I am and no one is ever going to hurt you anymore. I shall make sure of that', he vowed to her.
She looked at him and smiled gratefully but sadly. 'Life is full of uncertainties', she said, 'One never knows what life would throw at them. You cannot always be with me to watch me, Damien'.
'I fulfill my promises and if it means being with you always to fulfill it, then I shall'.
Violet did not want to argue the point, she was just content being with him. She laid her head on his chest. She felt very safe with him. Maybe he could protect her from the world - this wicked world. Her father had done a great work so far but maybe, Damien would continue from here on.
Damien felt very protective towards her. He could not understand his feelings but he knew that he cared deeply for her.
He had felt bereft when he had travelled. It was his strong will and dedication to his duty that helped him with the assignment he went for. He had gone for an underground mission but his joy was that it had been successful. He had been able to burst a gang of drug traffickers.
Violet placed her hands on his arm and the action stirred him and he could barely control himself, and he placed his fore finger under her jaw and tilted her face upwards and bent to kiss her.
The kiss was even hotter than the previous and they were both so fired that they could not stop kissing. They kept going at it and coming up for air only to get back together.
His hands were not idle either. They trailed her bare arms causing her to tremble with undisguised desire that she could barely hold in check.
He unzipped her gown and kissed her throat and her neck down to her shoulders and then further down to her breasts and she whimpered. It was exquisite.
'Please Damien, ohhh...'
'What? Should I stop?'
She did not want him to stop and neither did she think it was a good idea either to continue. But it felt so right.
'I... ohhh'.
Damien had continued caressing her thighs with his hand while kneading her nipple with the other and his breath was hot on her face and was unleasing unimaginable pleasure in her. She did not know if she had the will power to stop him pleasuring her this way.
Since the incident about fourteen years ago, she had shut herself and her sensuality down within her and had not felt attracted to any man and even when she had allowed a kind of contact between her and some boys in college, she had felt nothing and had justified her remaining untouched and without a boyfriend to herself though her father had insisted. She had considered herself frigid and had felt that either she was born that way or the near rape had affected her more than she realised but it had not bothered her, she hadn't liked the boys anyway. She became known in college as the Ice - Maiden.
But she was feeling fire flare and rage in her blood and it was driving her crazy with want.
Her nipples had hardened painfully and his hand on them was chasing away from her any coherent thought.
'You were saying?' Damien drawled, teasingly, as he continued the assault on her senses.
'I am not a cheap girl', she blurted. She did not know where that came from, she had just thought fleetingly that he might think that and that had stopped her cold and before she could lose herself again to his kisses, she said the first thing that came to her head.
It stopped Damien cold as well, she noticed because he stiffened. He had been on the verge of capturing her mouth with his when she said that.
'What do you mean?'
'I do not do this with everyone I meet', she said not sure now if she had made the right decision, she was feeling bereft now that he had let go off her.
They had gone away from the rock and we're lying on the grasses nearby. She felt cold, deprived of the heat of his body on her.
'I never thought that. And what gave you that impression?' he asked puzzled, 'I definitely didn't'.
She hesitated not knowing how to answer the question. She could not tell him that she did not know if he also secretly thought that she was responsible for Robert's behaviour - that she had led him on, teased him till he lost control like a lot of people had thought and she did not want him to have that impression about her.
But she recalled that he had always spoken against love and marriage. And decided to bring it up as an excuse.
'I do not know what we are doing. I am not one to go into a relationship without commitments', she said looking him straight in the eye. 'I have heard you say you do not believe in love and marriage. It made me wonder what we are doing and where this is leading'.
Damien looked at her thoughtfully. He had not really given a thought to all that except that he wanted her desperately - needed her, infact and he cared deeply about her but the events of his past, no, he could not use that as an excuse anymore. He could feel it in his bones that he could trust Violet. She was different, Not like the others. And he had noticed that she was not materialistic as well.
'I said that because of my past experiences'.
'Were you in love with them then?'
'Them?' he asked bemused.
'You said ' past experiences', signifying that it was more than a single experience'.
'Well, one surely stand out. My elder brother and my fiancee, got married, leaving me waiting at the alter with our guests on the day of our wedding's, he said and went ahead to tell her all that happened, 'she wanted the social position that marrying the heir apparent would bring her than getting married to me', he concluded.
By the time he was through, she was sobbing, imagining how painful such a betrayal could have been for him. She lifted her hands and caressed his cheek consolingly.
'Where are they now?'
'They are still together and I heard that they now have two children - a boy and a girl. They have their happily ever after'.
'But you are still hurting!' Violet said with certainty. 'Could you not forgive them and move on with your life? They have moved on with theirs'.
'I could never forgive them, especially my brother. I had loved him very much, he had been my role model, my hero, my confidant, my friend and my brother. We were so close, we shared everything but our women together', he said his voice devoid of all emotion, 'He knew that I was engaged to marry Carole, and he even participated actively in the wedding arrangements but married her for himself. Who does that to their younger brother? The younger brother they claim to love?'
'What I'd done is done. You will just have to forgive him, you might not totally forget about the incident but forgive and move on with your life', Violet said pleadingly. 'You have caged yourself for too long. You will be happier if you could just let go. At least for the sake of both your niece and nephew. They did you no wrong, they are innocent and should not be made to suffer for the sins of their parents'
Damien thought that she was right and because of the pleading look on her face and the note in her voice that tore at his heart, he conceded.
'Okay, I will try and forgive them but I could never forget and I do not think I could trust either of them ever again', he said, 'But it has nothing to do with those innocent children. So it will be as though nothing happened but I shall be on my guard around my brother and his wife'.
Violet felt that that was a start and smiled her thanks at him as she hugged him.
'Now, wipe your tears and give me a kiss. I care deeply about you', he said. 'I do not know where this is leading' but we have a special thing between us, the least we can do is to give it a chance and see where it leads us'. He did not want scare her with any serious words for now. Let them see how it went first and get to know each other better.
'Come, let's go home, it is quite late', he said looking at his Rolex gold wrist watch.
Violet looked at her watch as well and could not believe how late it was. They had not been aware of the passing of the time. It was true indeed that time flies when you are having fun.
Reluctantly, they got up and walked hand in hand to where Damien's car was.