Chapter 12

Maddie got shocked now. Was she dreaming right now? Or is it the reality? Maddie knows that a moment ago she cried on his shoulder because of how worried she was about him and at the current moment he's kissing her.

For the first time in her life, she felt like someone was kissing her with love and care. Maddie froze in his arms because a lot of terrible memories were coming to her from the times she spend with John and with the way he treated her.

Maddie pushed James with a bit of a force and felt those tears coming down her cheeks. She didn't want him to see her like that ether. Maddie looked at James and ran out of his room. She felt like she had to run away from there.

"MADDIE, wait…" she heard him from behind her as she ran. As she was running down the stairs, he got to her and stopped her. "What's wrong Maddie? Why did you run away from me? If you didn't want me to kiss you, you should have told me from the beginning. I wouldn't have made a fool out of myself."

Maddie looked at him with her tears fogging her vision and said, "It's not that James, I was happy when you kissed me. It's just…"

"It's just what Maddie? Let's go down to the living room and sit down."

Maddie and James went down the stairs and went to the living room. I guess it's my time to tell him about my deep secret. Maddie sighed at the thought because he told her about his secret, and she hadn't yet. It was time to tell him her story.

When Maddie sat on the couch, she watched as James went to the kitchen to bring them something to drink. In a few moments, he returned with two glasses of water and sat beside her.

"If you want to tell me something, I'm here for you, like you were there for me when I told you about my nightmares."

Maddie smiled at him, "I hope that, after I'll tell you my secret, you won't hate me."

"I'll never hate you Maddie, I can't hate you. I really like you a lot. So, whatever it is, I'm here for you."

Maddie sighed and prepared herself for the next words that came out of her own lips. "Almost two years ago, I escaped from an abusive boyfriend that I had in Houston, Texas, where I was born and raised. When I met John, he was looking for a secretary. He's a CEO of his own company 'Brown Corp', he's father gave him the company when he retired. Anyway, after working for 5 months for him, I fell in love with him."

"I've heard of this company. My group was the one that found a died body of a woman in a forest close to Houston."

Maddie looked at him with a shock, "Oh GOD, when was it?"

"It was 5 years ago. There was a cop that was related to the investigation because the woman that got killed was his sister."

"I can't believe it; I'll explain to you soon way." Maddie saw James nodding his head, and she continued, "any way, after I fell in love with him at first, he treated me nice for one month and then suddenly he personality has changed drastically and at first he just slapped me, but then it became worst every day. I told me to stop working for him and move to his house. I didn't want to stop working, but he threatened me with killing me if I didn't do what he told me."

"Where were your parents in all this?"

"My parents abandon me at the orphanage when I was just a newborn. They didn't want me because they were too young to raise a baby. At the orphanage no one liked me anyway so, I was alone all my life. Never had friends that wanted me."

"I'm sorry to hear that, Maddie. Now you have me, Dekota and my parents for everything you need. Plus, my son adores you a lot." Maddie smiled at him and gave him a hug.

"Thank you, James, I appreciate it." Maddie sighed again, because the next words were more painful to her than the other ones.

"After I moved to his house, he locked me inside every time he went to work and when he came back from work, he was always in a bad mood. That night, he came home when I finished preparing dinner for us and he just slapped me in the face, I got shocked and asked him 'why did you slapped me' and because of that question he hit me more to a point where… that…" Maddie couldn't continue with the next words because they were painful to her memory until today.

"Did he do something to you?"

Maddie nodded her head, "he… just… raped me that night for the first time. I was a virgin that day, and he abused me to a point where I was terrified of him." Maddie watched as James got up from the couch angrily and went to the wall to punch the wall. Maddie got up from the couch fast and stopped him from continuing punching the wall.

"Stop, James, you're hurting your hand. Why are you so angry?"

"WHY? THAT BUSTARD JUST WANT TO KILL HIM FOR WHAT HE DID TO YOU!" Maddie hugged him so he won't punch the wall anymore.

"Please James, stop." She felt him hugging her back.

"I'm sorry, Maddie. For not be able to save you from that bustard. How did you escape from him?"

"It's OK, James. Well, that day I've got pregnant from him, and I told him that night during our dinner, he was so angry about that. He grabbed me by my hair and dragged me upstairs…" Maddie had to stop to drink some water, "he wanted me to abort the baby, I didn't want so he just… just pushed me off the stairs until I aborted my baby. That night he also hits me for all night and abused me to a point that I told myself that if I don't leave right now, he'll just kill me. At dawn, I got dressed and just took my car and left Houston."

After telling him her story, Maddie didn't have the courage to look him in the eyes. Will he hate me now? Well, he was angry when I told him what he did to me. Maddie felt his hands lifting her head to meet his eyes.

"I'm sorry that you had to go through all these things and didn't have any help, but don't avoid my eyes because no matter what."

"Thanks James. A month ago, Dekota and I drove to Houston because I was looking for evidence against John, and I found out that there were other women that were killed a few years before I met him. We also met the mother of one of them and she gave me a document that has all the research she did on him. I don't know if I ever be able to find evidence to put him behind bars."

"I can ask my commander to find that cop that I told you about. Maybe he could help you somehow and this time, I'm going to be there with you!"

Maddie hugged him from happiness. "Thank you, James, but I want nothing to happen to you. You have a son to raise and I…"

"And you have me to help you with everything. Don't forget who I am. I'm a Marine Corps!" Maddie laughed at his state, "keep laughing like that Maddie, I don't want to see a single tear in these beautiful eyes of yours. I like you a lot."

"I like you too, James. Is that why you kissed me in your bedroom?"

"I kissed you, because I always wanted to do it. You are the most amazing person who I have ever met in my life. If I tell you that truth… You'll probably run away."

"Why do you say that? I'll never run away from you."

Maddie watched as James took a few steps forward and looked her in the eyes, "because the only thing I want to do now is to cure you soul by making love to you, like it should be. Like you should be treated correctly." James took her head between his hand and lowered his head toward her lips, but before he kissed her again, she could see that he waited for her permission, and she did the only thing that she always wanted. She closed the gap between them by kissing him back.

Tonight, she's going to give him permission to make love to her and to cure her forever because she has him by her side.

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As they were kissing in the living room, James couldn't believe that Maddie was the one that closed the gap between them and returned the kiss. After she told him her entire story, about how she suffered at the hands of that bustard, the only thing he wanted to do was to make love to her in a very slow motion for all night long.

They felt they needed an air, after kissing for so long. She looked into his eyes, and she could see the pride that he had for her and the passion that her felt toward her.

She smiled at him, "James… Can we go to you room please?"

"I'm not just going to take you to my room, but I'm also going to take to the moon and back. That's how much I'm going to make love to you." James lifted Maddie as a bridal style and took her upstairs to his room. While they were going upstairs James kept kissing Maddie in the lips, her nose and her neckline. He can't wait to make love to her, for him, she was the most delicate person he has ever met in his life.

Upon arriving to his room, he closed the door with his leg and put her down on her feet. "Maddie? Tell me right now, are you sure?"

Maddie looked at him, she loved him so much, but she was afraid to tell him, but there is one thing she could tell him, "Please make love to me, James. I want to feel loved by you."

For James it was the only answer that he wanted to hear from her. He put his hand on her hips and pulled her to him. He kissed her with so much love and with so much passion and he felt he would not last. For Maddie, he wanted to be special for her. He wanted to go slow for her.

As they were kissing each other, they stated to walk toward his bed, as they reached there, he lowered her on the soft bed while still kissing her. James continued to kiss her from her lips to her cheek, to her earlobe and descended toward her long neck where he took his sweet time by leaving there his mark. From her neck, he moved back to her lips to devour her completely, their hands were moving over the bodies of each other. The clothes were an obstacle for them, so James stopped kissing her and looked at her eyes looking for her permission, there it was. James lifted her shirt up, and she lifted her hands to help him remove her shirt.

When she got left with her bra and pants on, she covered her body with her hand because of the ugly scars that covered her body. James removed slowly her hands from her body, "Don't cover yourself Maddie, you're beautiful just the way you are."

Maddie looked at him and slowly released her hands from her body, he kissed her skin above her breast and kept kissing her down toward her belly. She felt her back curved up by his every kiss.

Maddie lifted her hands toward his shirt and tried to lift it off his body, so James helped her by removing his shirt off his body. Maddie couldn't stop staring at her sculpture body, it was a perfect body of a Marine that has been working for so many years.

As they kissed each other, the clothes also disappeared from their bodies to where there was nothing else kept removing, only the heat that they felt for each other. Maddie saw James was taking something out from his nightstand drawer, a small package and she knew what it was. She really wanted him inside her, to put this fire out but she knew, that this fire will never die for him.

"If I'm hurting you, just tell me and I'll just stop." Maddie nodded her head, and after he putted the condom, he entered her slowly and steady, knowing that even if she wasn't a virgin anymore, for him she was still pure.

Maddie felt herself being spread as he entered her, so she took a big breath, "Are you OK, Maddie? Am I hurting you?"

Maddie shook her head, "It's OK, James. The pain is over. Please make me yours for this night and let's not think about anything else." James smiled at her and moved inside her.

Maddie tried to keep up with his rhythm, she loved the way he made her feel right there and right now. They kissed each other as they were feeling each other for all night long.

James would wake her up in the night just to make love to her one more time, she knows that in the morning she won't be able to walk. But it didn't scare her, because she had James by her side to take care of her.