Fall For Me

Valerie’s Pov

My eyes opened slowly and I quickly sat upright, such a terrible dream I had.

It felt so real too, Thank goodness nothing of that sort happened.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

“Hey there little rabbit” It was Carson again. He was leaning on the door with his arms folded. Why is he always here when I open my eyes?

“My head hurts, and I had the most terrible dream” I held my head while I tried to recollect exactly what happened.

“What was the dream about?” Carson asked.

“We drove out and you shot someone” I tried to narrate how it was to him.

“You must have hit your head pretty hard when you fell,” Carson said, I hit my head? How? I thought to myself

“How did I get here again?” I asked, I had no memories of being brought back to this room, I mean why would I? I must have been unconscious.

“We had to drive back immediately you fell, try to remain on the bed for now okay?” Carson said.

“Drive back?, Hold on a minute, it…it wasn’t a dream?” I said with tears already forming in my eyes.

“It wasn’t,” He said with a blank expression on his face.

What sort of a devil is he? How could he just take a life without thinking twice, He made me witness such atrocity

That poor girl died because of me, He took her whole future away from her because of a silly mistake?

Her blood is on my hands, Is this how he shows love? I was disgusted, I kept crying and buried my face in my palms and he came closer to me and put his hands over my shoulder.

“It had to be done” I looked up at him and pushed his hand away from my shoulder.

“Do not touch me, you are a monster” I said in anger, I wanted to slap him so badly.

“She needed to be punished” Carson continued to justify the murder he had just committed.

“How could you just kill a person? Don’t you have any regard for human life” I questioned him, I couldn’t help but feel guilty of her death, I knew I was to be blamed.

“It wasn’t my intention for you to see what I did today, I never wanted you to follow me, You insisted,” Carson said

“I never knew you were going to kill her,” I said

“She had it coming, I will do anything to protect you,” He said while staring point blank into my eyes, He is insane, This is too much for me, I have only stayed here for a few days and it had been the worst days of my life, Out of all things this has to be the worst thing I’ve witnessed, I witnessed murder, To think she held my leg and pleaded for this not to happen. It ached my heart.

“Anything, including taking another person’s life?” I asked while cleaning my tears.

“Anything at all, I will never let any harm befall you” I am certain Carson is a crazy person.

“This did not make me fall in love with you, You are only pushing me away by doing things like this,” I said

“Sooner or later you will be running into my arms,” He said with a low voice. He makes me sick. If I had another escape route I would most definitely run away again.

“I hate you, you are just a terrible person,” I said

“Oh I am a terrible person but you don’t hate me, you are just upset,” Carson said, His eyes were captivating and scary at the same time.

“I do mean it” He let out a mischievous smile

“I will leave now, You have your dinner and freshen up and then Janet will bring you to me” Carson walked to the door before I stopped him

“What do you want to do with me?” I questioned, I didn’t want my fate to end up like that of Yemora, I did not know what he was capable of, and I had to be extra careful while dealing with this strange man.

“You will see” Carson left me with so many questions running through my mind, that I was skeptical about going to meet him but then again, I had no choice whatsoever.

I had my dinner and freshened up, I didn’t want to ask Janet any questions. She already went through so much because of me. If I was in her shoes I would have left already, or maybe she just didn’t have anywhere else to go.

We met up with Carson in front of the very same Art gallery where I had fainted, He dismissed Janet and once we were alone, He asked.

“Give me your hand and close your eyes little rabbit” He looked at me with a smile on his face, I didn’t trust him enough to close my eyes, I had just seen him murder someone today, and I was not about to take any risks with this man, What was he up to?

“No, I won’t close my eyes and I can walk just fine and I told you to stop calling me a little rabbit,” I said

“You will spoil the surprise,” Carson said.

“I won’t shut my eyes” I stood firm, my eyes were wide open

“Fine, If you insist” He went nearer to the door and pushed it open, and I was left speechless.

Carson had transformed the art gallery with glimmering lights and slow soothing music. It was a mesmerizing sight, unlike anything you had seen before. It had a snug and comforting ambiance, It created a magical atmosphere.

“What is this?” I remained impressed by the art gallery

“It is my way of apologizing,” Carson said, Of course, it wouldn’t make up for the life he took but it was truly a beautiful sight.

He went on to give me a private tour. He showed me amazing paintings. We got to a particular painting that caught my eyes instantly, I didn’t want to stop staring and when I turned to look at Carson I saw how deep he looked into the picture. It probably meant something to him.

“This was painted by my mother,” Carson said, I hadn’t heard him speaking about his mother before, I moved closer and saw the initials ‘RL’

“RL?” I asked

“Roseline, That was her name” Carson continued looking at the painting.

“Such a lovely name, where is she?” I asked

“Let’s move on now” He ignored my question but I insisted

“Carson I asked a question” I spoke up

“Don’t worry about that” He said trying to remain calm

“But you can just tell me-” I continued to push for an answer before I was cut off

“It shouldn’t concern you!” Carson yelled at me

“I was only asking a question” I reminded him

He started moving closer to me and I was moving back. He had an angry look on his face and I wanted to leave the art gallery as soon as possible, I kept moving back till my back hit the wall.