Attachment (Unedited Rough Draft)

Chapter 19

Since I was the one who called 911 the officer mostly wanted to just follow up on what I had seen and asked if I wanted to press charges for things hitting my vehicle at all. I told him I wasn't worried about that as there was no damage. I was surprised that Cupid just laid on the couch during the conversation, she normally wanted to check out new people, but he also wasn't in the apartment.

"Give us a call if you do need anything." The officer said before he turned around and walked to where his car was parked.

I shut the door and looked at Cupid on the couch her head on the arm looking at me.

"Didn't feel like saying hi?" I asked her.

She wagged her tail at me but made no move to get off the couch. I shook my head at her and headed back to the bedroom. I wanted to finish the chapter I was on and go to bed. As I got myself situated again, I could hear Cupid's paws on the wood floor of the hallway coming to join me.

She was carrying one of her bones as she came through the doorway and jumped onto the bed. She circled a few times before plopping down and chewing away happily at the bone. I laughed a little at her and picked my book back up to finish the few pages I had left in the chapter.

By the time I turned off the light and rolled over to sleep Cupid was already snoring and had moved so her body was against mine.

"You're late." He said.

"You weren't even in here when I got here." I said back, I hated when he was like this, She must have done something again.

"Why are you mad? Did she do something again?" I asked.

"God damnit, Nadine leave her out of this. You fucked up." He growled.

I was playing with the pendant I wore when he came back up to me and grabbed the chain, snapping it as he pulled it. I barely caught the pendant and put it on the window sill so I wouldn't lose it. He was mad at me and was fuming pacing back and forth. I was so tired of meeting in secret, he had been telling me that he was going to break up with his girlfriend because all they did was fight.

"I told you to give me time." He said.

"I have given you time but it's been two months." I said.

"Nadine, I told you I have to be careful how I do this." He said, "She is crazy and she may try to kill me."

"You keep saying that, but if she's really crazy why would you keep putting off getting away from her?" I asked, "The sooner you do that the sooner we can leave like we are planning."

"There's things that need to be done before I can just leave." He screamed at me pacing up to me so I backed into the wall.

He grabbed my hands and pulled them over my head, pinning them with his left hand. He had his face an inch away from mine, his brown eyes glaring into mine. He was almost growling, his left hand was squeezing my hands together hard enough that I knew I would have bruises later, his right hand was on my hip.

"You are hurting me." I said.

"What do you think you do to me every time you start to fight with me?" He said.

He didn't loosen his grip. His right hand was tracing circles on my hip and the exposed skin from my t-shirt riding up. He was watching me as I slightly struggled against his hold. He licked his lips as he watched me.