Lovers By Force

Chapter 11

At least Tom didn't steal my first dance, but the way his touch awakens me. It feels like the first time. A first time for feeling a wave of guilty goosebumps on my skin. A first time for feeling heat inside my belly. Tom is all man and yet his touch is soft. The way he dances is elegant, he could easily get mixed up with a prince. He pulls my body closer as we spin during the waltz, forgetting everyone around us.

"Tell me something personal about you" I say to him. "What would you like to know moonlight."
I took the chance to ask... "why do you hate my father?" I knew my father owed him a lot of money but it seemed money wasn't the real reason. "I cannot tell you" he says in his icy tone. "Fine, why did you dress as a sinner for the ball" I asked him, it was a question out of mere curiosity. "I'm a sinner, of all the deadly sins that I offer" he replies, locking eyes with me. "You're not a good man" I tell him.

"I'm a business man, I know what people want and I offer it. In contradiction to your family, I do it in legality. We're men that rule over the world. In life, you can be the victim or the one in power, And let me tell you, the good guy is rarely in power. That's the place of the villain"

"You think you know it all, no one wants a villain" I replied, not breaking eye contact. "Good girls fall for villains, you know it. That's why you're afraid of me." We stop dancing. "You're right. I am afraid of you" I say sighing. "I'm not attracted to you, contrary of what you may think! Your touch repulses me, not knowing what type of man you are. Now I need to go.."

That's how I run away from the Monster of my fairy tale. While Cinderella left a shoe, I left my honesty. I lied. His touch awakens me. He does scare me, yes. Who wouldn't? And yet, what scares me most is this unwanted attraction.

Midnight. It's time for my first kiss with my true Prince.

I waited for Roman, my back turned away from the entrance. I didn't want to see my first kiss. I wanted to feel it. but as he doesn't arrive I'm starting to lose hope. But then I hear footsteps. "Roman?" I couldn't see him but I felt him walk towards me, his fingers trailing the length of my arms awakening my body. I was wrong, I was not attracted to Tom, Romans touch was giving me the same effect. "...you know who I am" 

The kiss who will deliver me. My freedom, my hope, my first. He spins me around before I could react.. our lips touch for the first time.