Ich Liebe Dich.

Chapter eighteen

That is Achim by the way. So You know what he looks like.

Anne's Pov.

Month and a half have I sit here. I am not tied to a chair, I am just locked into a room, I first found myself in. No one has even tried to find me. Seems like Tilo really doesn't love me. When he told me about his past, he mentioned that at one point he loved Achim. He loved that monster. He has hit me, but not raped or strangled. Two hits or slaps a day, never more. Maybe he has some sort of humanity in him. But other than this, I can't see anything lovable in him. How could Tilo feel something for him? You just can't love someone who hurts you. You just can't love them. As I think that Achim enters the room. He sits down against the door, head in his hands. Low sigh escapes him. I have never seen him like this before.

"How do you love someone? How do you show your love to them?"

Oh wait a minute, where did that come from?

"With small things. Random soft kisses, hair petting, holding, hugging. Things like that. I love you's of course."

Why would someone ask something like that? Does he want to change?

"Just tell me, where did I go wrong with Meinhard. What did I do wrong?"

"You just can't hit someone and think that they will love you after it also."

"But.."

"but what?"

"I loved my father, I loved him. He hit me since I was three, starved me since I was two, raped me since I was eleven. He loved me."

Oh god, how can someone do something so sick to a child.

"Why you think that he loved you?"

"I was five, when a woman at the park told me, man hits when he loves, that love is supposed to hurt. I believed her. Only now I have start to think that maybe it was wrong, that maybe pain is not the right way. I just don't know what is the right way."

"Achim, you never hurt the one you love. Never, doesn't matter how much they piss you off. You never hurt the one you care about. You just take care of them."

He stands up from the floor.

"Come."

He leads me to the car he probably brought me here with.

"Sit in"

I shot him a Why look.

"I'll take you back where you belong."

"Achim, when you saw Tilo that day, why did you try to strangle him?"

"The marriage ring upset me. I felt only pain, like I was betrayed. I have no idea what that feeling was, but it was there."

"Achim, it was jealousy and heartbreak. Did you have feelings for him?"

He opens his mouth to answer me.

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