She was quiet. The man stood in front of her and stared up. He rubbed his hand against her legs.
"Give Jeff an answer Amberly, Langston said walking up to her. He had the crop in his hand and hit the wall with it. Amberly jumped.
"If you don’t answer Jeff you will have a punishment like no other. ANSWER HIM OR I SWEAR YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO SIT FOR A WEEK!"
I could hear her crying again.
"Take the blindfold off of her. I want her to look at me and and tell me her answer."
Langston stood up on the side of Amberly and climbed four stairs. He removed the blindfold. Amberly moved her head and her eyes opened slowly.
"Focus on me," Jeff said. "Follow my voice and look at me."
Amberly moved her head in his direction.
"I am going to repeat the question. If I feel like you are lying, you will remain up there and I am leaving. I will let Langston deliver your punishment. If you tell me the truth then you and I will leave together and we will commence with our evening. You betta be honest or we are through Amberly. Do you understand?"
She nodded.
"I can’t hear you," he said.
"Yesss," she said with her voice choked.
"Do I not give you everything you want and desire? I’m waiting Amberly."
She moved her head down and looked at Jeff. The few tears she had that were coming down were now three and four at a time. Her mascara ran down her face. Her lips were moving but no sound was coming out. She looked from Jeff to Langston and back to Jeff. Her lips tremble.
"No you don’t," she said just above a whisper.
"Why do you say that? I would give you everything. Tell me what I don’t give you?"
She stared at him and blinked. She moved her head up from the ceiling back down to his face.
"I don’t have you in a way that a man is suppose to give himself to a woman. I crave you. Every night I dream about us. The way you touch me, the way you whisper things in my ear makes me want you more. We fit like two missing puzzle pieces. The one thing you won’t give me is you."
"I do give myself to you and everything else. I don’t understand."
"It’s not the business deals or the mind blowing sex. It’s you that I want and no one else. I don’t want to see you with anyone else just me. I love you Jeff." She cried harder as the tears dripped from her face to the floor.
"I do the things I do, so you will give me the attention. Every time we are together I feel complete. I don’t want to be with anyone else. I would quit this and give up everything just for you. To be with you is like the air I need to breath." she paused.
"When I saw you with that other woman in Mexico I was hurt. My world felt like it had turned upside down. Emotions I didn’t know I had came flooding through me. I became jealous because I have been with you so long that I felt used by you and then thrown away every time we were together. But every time you came back, you took a small piece of my freedom until now. Jeff you completely own my body, my heart and my soul, you have all of me and you give nothing of yourself."
"That’s not true," he said looking up at her.
"It is Jeff. Either I get you like you have me or we are over. I’m tired of watching you with other women parading them around in front of me. You wanted to make me jealous you did."
I could see her face turning red. She was trying to move her wrists and ankles.
"You never told me Amber. Why didn’t you just say something? You said nothing could ever become between us. We were just fun. Those were your words not mine. If you would have told me this months or years ago we would not be here."
"Would you have listened? You are rich and powerful and you could have any woman you want. At the snap of your fingers they come running and you enjoy it. I didn’t want to be one of those women. I wanted you to see me for who I really was not as your one night stands."
He stared up at her and rubbed his hands through his hair.
"I love you Jeff. You have all of me, but are you willing to give yourself to me?" She locked eyes with him as he did with her.
"Jeff, she’s had enough," Langston said.
Amberly looked deflated and emotionally drained. She was independent, beautiful, intelligent, owned a huge architectural firm and here she was laying her heart out to a man she loved. He asked her for the truth and with the deepest sincerity one can have she gave it to him.
Would it take me chained up to confess my love to soneone? My face was wet as my heart wept for Amberly. I watched as Amberly was being lowered. In mere seconds she was standing in front of Jeff as he unbounded her wrists and ankles. He pulled her into him and he whispered in her ear. She cried harder as he lifted her in his arms and kissed her.
Langston walked over to a dresser and pulled out a long sheet and covered Amberly. Jeff sat in the chair and held Amberly rocking her back in forth.
"From now on tell me how you feel. You try to be to strong. Let me be strong for the both of us. I love you too sweetheart." He kissed her on the forehead and moved her hair back. He bent down and kissed her softly on the lips.
I watched them feeling unsure of my feelings. I was actually weak. I actually had a man to profess his love to me and I took it and stomped it away. Then there was Paul. How would I react if I saw him? Why couldn’t I just give my heart to Evan completely and move on? Why was Paul still even in the picture? It had been over six months and now I was feening to feel, taste and see Paul.
"Is there something I can help you with," I heard Langston’s voice say.
I swallowed and turned slowly.
"That is called the confession cross. We use it from time to time. There is something about the feel of the wood and having your body upon it makes you confess. Some say the wood is enchanted by Chthonia or better known as Hecate, the Greek Goddess of witchcraft. She brought the wood from the underworld. Hecate is associated with crossroads and fire as she resided in the underworld. She is still celebrated today."
I looked at him. Langston was never one to mix his words. He was a teacher and every chance he got that’s what he did, teach.
"The wood is touched. It can break one by taking away all inhabitions as it’s sacrifice but gives you what you desire the most," he said looking down at me.
"Do you have something to confess, Ms. Cadence Montgomery?"
A shiver ran through my body as I turned around and saw that Jeff and Amberly had disappeared. I looked around and there was nothing but black walls, that cross and Langston.
"Where did they go, Jeff and Amberly," I said looking confused.
"No one was here Cadence."
"Yes they were. I saw them and heard them. I know I’m not going crazy, Langston. They were here. I looked around spinning around.
"Cadence sometimes there is power that is unexplainable. There is power coursing through this room. You say you saw Amberly and Mr. Scott in this very room then I believe you."
"I swear they were here. Amberly was above on that cross, while Jeff sat in that chair," I said pointing at the cross trying to convince myself and Langston.
"Are you sure it wasn’t you reflecting yourself upon that cross. Maybe there are things you need to confess in order to keep your yourself from falling into the pit." He walked up to me and caressed my face. Somehow I leaned into it.
"Maybe one day, you will let it all out. Stop hiding from behind what it is that keeps you trap." He looked at the cross and then back at me.
"Whenever you are ready, I will be here." He moved in and kissed my lips. I felt powerless as my eyes closed and the blackness took over.
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