Through Pain We Survive

Chapter 67

***TRIGGER WARNING- Violence mentions***

Damien threw his coffee cup away and started walking to his car. What a happy surprise that Gwen happened to be talking with another woman across the street where he got coffee. He knew he had unnerved Gwen. She stared right at him. He smiled to himself.

He was glad he was a free man again. He knew what all he wanted to do— mainly get back at Cat and that friend of hers who knocked him out. He also wanted to intimidate Gwen again. She was fun to play with.

Getting into his car, he drove to Sara's house.

As he opened the door, he greeted Sara. "I'm back!"

Sara came running to him and kissed him passionately. "Oh my gosh, are you okay? I am so sorry, I got all my assets together as fast as I could once I knew you were in jail!" She had put makeup on again to hide the fading bruise on her cheek.

"I'm fine, my Darling. You got everything ready for me?"

She nodded. "Just like you asked."

"Good, good." He smiled at her. "Now, you be a good girl and go on upstairs. Go record another video or something. I need to work down here."

He sat at the desk and put on the headphones. It was time to get to work.

He sat down and put the headphones on. Getting the surveillance program on the computer up, he pushed 'play' and listened intently.

While listening to dull conversations, he thought back to when he first saw Gwen.

~~ Ten months ago ~~

Damien had been at Sara's house for the morning. Sitting at his laptop, he had been watching YouTube. He was trying to do some research for Sara to help get their channel off the ground.

Finding a video titled "Let Me Go," he saw a beautiful woman and a guy dressed up as an old woman on the thumbnail. He clicked on it and it started.

Watching in awe, he marveled at the woman's voice. It was so mesmerizing. She was gorgeous. Looking into the channel, he saw it was ran by three people— two guys and the woman. She's beautiful. He looked to see where they were located. Not too far from here. Actually, only the next town over.

He started watching all the musicals she was in, just to see and hear her. He figured out her name was Gwen. He became infatuated with her. He started formulating a plan. He would go grocery shopping at Walmart in their town- he noticed some items in musicals were Walmart items- and he would tell her about his class and invite her to it. He needed to know her better. He could even talk to Sara and possibly have her date one of the guys- she was pretty enough, either one would go for her. He would be able to get closer to her that way.

Hearing Sara come through the door, he closed his laptop and stood up.

She came in the office. "There you are. I called out and you didn't respond."

"I didn't hear you. I was trying to do research for our page." He leaned in and kissed her. "How was your day?"

"It was fine." She looked at him quizzically. He normally didn't ask about her day.

"I have a project for you. I found a YouTube channel that is similar to what we do. They don't live too far. I want to infiltrate them and learn how they work. Maybe if we're good enough, I can steal— I mean, we can gain interest from their viewers."

"What's the project?" Sara asked.

"Get close to them. Befriend them. Date one of the guys to get close to them. Make them trust you."