The Baron's Arrogant Redemption

KATE "Sleep, dear Kate," the Baron said soothingly as he gathered me up in his arms, as though I were a baby. I must have slept, for when I awoke it was morning. My head had cleared, and I sat up in bed and looked around. I was alone. I realized that I was naked. When I saw the bars across the windows, the monstrous happenings of the previous night came flooding back to me. I had undergone a change. I felt bruised and unclean. I had to face the truth. He had brought me up here, taken off my clothes, put me into this bed, and committed r**e. I put my hands over my face as the hot flush spread there. Nothing would ever be the same again. Since I had come to France, everything had changed. The cozy world of Farringdon was slipping away from me, and I had been plugged into intrigue and rape... The sort of thing that had happened centuries ago. And there was one man who is responsible for this. I could not get his face out of my mind. I had to be calm. I had to consider the position in which I found myself, I think I had already know that he had desired me. There was something in the way he had looked at me right from the beginning. I should have been warned. I had to get out of there quickly. My hatred was so intense that I was shaking, I must get out of here . I had been betrayed. I had been r***d. My attacker had been the one man in the world who I hated most. How long will he keep me here ? Would he come again? I would refuse to drink more wine for I have been drugged. There was a movement behind me, and it was him the Baron , smiling at me . He came towards me. I turned sharply away , but he caught me firmly and tried to kiss me . For a second or so I eluded him , then he released me but caught me again, taking my face with his two hands, finding my mouth and holding me in a hideous embrace. He looked so terrifying. One look at Richard de Baron and i could tell he wasn't a man to be terrified with. He is an overpowering man, very tall and broad, he was dressed in dark riding clothes which accentuated the blondenss of his hair, his eyes were steely grey, his nose was rather prominence but straight. He released me smiling. "I trust the day has not been too monotonous without me." He said . "I hate you! I hate you!!" I shouted. "Ungracious still! I had hoped that you, being a reasonable woman, would come to terms with the incescapable," "If you ever think I would come to terms with you, you are mistaken." I boldly replied. I know that the Baron had always wants me, but why did he have to drug me, why did he wants to end my career? He had promised to give me a better life. "You hate me as a person? Is that so? You despise everything I do. I have a certain power which allows me to get what a want now and then. That you hate. I understand it. But forget it Kate. Think of me only as your lover," his voice so deep. "Never!" ~~~ Kate and her father had worked constantly together in perfect harmony in the studio on those days, she now regarded herself as a fully fledged painter. She had even accompanied her father to one or two houses where restoration work was needed. her father always explained her presence "my daughter helps me in my work." She was proud of her work as a painter and more and more he was allowing her to take over, but unfortunately her father Mr. Kendal Collison had an eye cataract which is now affecting his sight. He can't paint miniatures any longer, and Kate has been the one hustling for the family. It was a strange feeling for Kate travelling through the Kentish countryside. .. People would surely notice. She could not be the same. One thing she know and that was that she could never bear to talk of the shameful thing that had happened to her. It seemed that everyday her hatred for the Baron grew more intense . If he barbarian that he was, had greatly desired her, although she could not have forgiven him, perhaps she might, beneath her resentment have felt a little flattered. But it had not been like that, the Baron had merely wanted his revenge on Bertrand, Kate's boyfriend and he had used her for that purpose. "Well he should not score this time. The Baron had ruined her life and Bertrand's too perhaps, but he's not going to get the result he was looking for. His plot is going to fail." she thought. But she had to stop thinking of him. The Baron was over as far as she was concerned. She hoped never to see him again. Kate took the station fly and very soon she was getting out at the familiar house. There was a cry from within . "She's here. It's Kate ." And they were running out . There were happiness and blushing in Mr. Kendal Collison's face. "Kate" he cried. "Dear Kate." As he held her to his arms, he held her away from him and studied her. But gave no sign of anything but utmost joy and pride- that more than anything. "My dearest child!" He said . "It was a great success beyond my dreams." His eyes are not strong enough to notice any different on me! Kate thought. Clare who has been helping her dad at home, standing shyly in the background, smiling as she came forward and took Kate's hand tentatively, and kissed her. "You look well," she said. "We were all so happy to hear that the portrait you made for the Baron was a success." ~~ "You're pregnant!" The doctor confirmed as he hands over the result to Kate. "The Baron had ruined my future, how will I tell my father about what had happened? Am now a disappointment to the Collison's but it's not my fault. I was r***d by him. I must not abort this baby and the Baron must not know that am pregnant. But how will that be possible? I have to travel immediately. " she cried.