As he was finishing binding the scarf around my head, I grabbed his hands.
" Now let me unmask you. Guide my hands."
He placed my hands on the strings at his temples and jaw line. I felt my way along the ribbons through his silky soft hair to the tiny bows at the back of his head. Fumbling a bit I finally had the knots undone. Just letting my hands luxuriate in the soft curls they were embedded in, I slowly worked my way back to his temples.
" Is there any spot that causes pain?" I asked.
" My cheeks" he said as he guided my hands.
I kissed each cheek softly and delicately, feeling tears coursing over our hands as he guided mine, I kissed his entire face. His tears were salty, the soft tang of them on my tongue and lips delicious.
" No one has ever dared even touch my face, let alone do that before. Leave, please. After all of the horrible things I have done, I don't deserve to have someone who is willing to overlook my deformity and treat me as a lover. Go, just go!"
" I will not. I will not let you make me lie again. I'm not that kind of girl and you know it!"
" Please, just go before I do something I know I will regret. I don't want to inflict anything more upon you, and certainly not what my body is telling me to! I am quickly losing control of myself and I would rather you were safely out of reach than victimized."
Whipping off the blindfold I replied: " Do you really think I am wearing this ring as a trinket?" Firing a mean left hook, "That I had no idea what it entailed? I put this ring on before reading the note knowing damn well what it meant and what I was saying by wearing it." Well the punch knocked him down hard into the settle and I was 'towering' over his reclining frame glaring at his astonished face.
"It would serve you right if I locked myself in my chambers, but I won't because my father told me: ' Never go to sleep over an argument, it will only bite you in the morning.' I'm going to stay here until you get it into your thick skull that I am choosing you, emotional problems, violent tendencies, and all. I will not rest before this or any other argument is resolved, AND THAT'S FINAL!"