Mark Is Utterly... Magnificently Transformed...!

Now that Laura... had the Go Ahead... from her Heavenly Father... although deep inside... she really knew... that she didn't... sitting in the motel room... impatiently waiting for Mark... to finish his Latihan... fingering Philip Philbin's precious business card... Laura... tossing her flaming auburn head... in rebellion... decided... to tell him... that she was going to leave him... to go to England... this time... now anxious... more than ever... to leave as soon as possible...!

She had always regarded England... as her real home... and understood why... when her mother shocked her... to the depths of her soul... one day... during her momentous reunion with her... in Germany... after thirteen aching long years... of being separated from her...

By telling her darling Tzi-Tzi... that Papa Rau... who had raised her... from babyhood... as his own... was not her real father... but that she was actually the daughter... of one Arthur Cannon... an Englishman... for she could see how much she resembled him... now at her age of nineteen...!

Laura had no interest... to go back to America... with Mark... having experienced... some hair-raising episodes... some very dangerous... during her three months stay there... first in Los Angeles... and then in New York... when she was almost twelve... en route to Zurich Switzerland... her family having escaped from Japan... just before Pearl Harbor... (All written about in her first book... "From The Shadow... Of The Rising Sun...")

Laura hoped fervently... that this time... Mark would let her go... not like the last time... five nights ago when... after a romantic... tender night of dinner and dancing... in his warm embrace... out in the open... under the canopy... of millions of bright stars... getting into a heated argument... with him angrily accusing her... of flirting... this time with the chatty... young Barbadoan taxi driver... who had been so eager... to proudly answer... her many questions... about the history... of his beloved island...!

And when... after being dropped off at the motel... by the blissful taxi driver... she had angrily started throwing her clothes... into her suitcase... telling Mark... that she was leaving him... he had yanked it out of her hand... and roughly shoving her back onto the bed... vehemently shouted...:

"You are not going anywhere... you belong here with me...!"

And finally getting a genuine reaction... of his showing... his true feelings of love for her... had thrilled her... down to her toes... and she longed for him to possess her... right then and there... on the bed...

But becoming ashamed... and suddenly unable to face her... he had stormed off... to the bathroom... leaving her feeling bewildered... lying sprawled... dumped on the bed... with him... no doubt... being unpleasantly reminded... of how often... he had recently... roughly raped her... in anger... every single night... for those three weeks... on Saint Lucia... and not having touched her once... sexually... these past two weeks... of their honeymoon... in Bridgetown...!

When Mark finally emerged... from the bathroom... at long last... Laura immediately noticed... that he was utterly Transformed... looking magnificently noble... and ten feet tall...! And for the first time... in a long... long while... Laura saw his Awesome... Quiet State...!

And the most amazing thing... was that he was no longer... wearing his sunglasses...!

Walking quietly over... to where Laura was sitting... on the roomy... soft couch... he sat down next to her... and with his whole body... Being Filled... with the Power of God... he gave her a Jolting Shock... when he gently put his hands... on her shoulders...!

And looking deeply... into her eyes... for the very first time... since she had come back to him... his beautiful grey eyes... infinite pools of calm... in a very quiet voice... he sincerely said... uttering her name... for the very first time... as well...:-

"Laura... my Dream Girl... let's wipe out the past... and really start our marriage... from this moment on...!"

Laura was so taken aback... at this sudden... enormous change in him... that she became utterly confused... and flustered...

In all the Nightmare... of the past five weeks... three in Saint Lucia.. and now two in Barbados... he had never once... called her by her name... nor his Dream Girl...!

Still looking searchingly... and directly into her eyes... Mark waited quietly... for her answer...

Laura had become so used... to his petulant arrogance... rudeness... and childish... pouting sulks... and long bouts... of deep dark depression... very seldom seeing him acting... in a mature... masculine manner... towards her... that for the life of her... she could not suddenly respond to him... joyously... with a genuine feeling... of truly meeting him half way...

It seemed as if... at that moment... some powerful nafsu... inside her... refused to accept... that what she had longed for... for such a long... long time... had finally happened...!

Hating the all too familiar sensation... of feeling more and more "off balance"... and "foolish"... the longer she didn't respond... she counter-acted the horrible feeling... by fiercely reminding herself... of all the myriad times... short of hitting her... that he had hurt... embarrassed... and humiliated her...

Besides... he had still not asked her... to forgive him...!

And her powerful nafsu flared up... inside her... once again... and she became arrogant... and disdainful... like she used to be with him... desperately needing... to be in control... of herself... and this new... totally unexpected situation... she was finding herself in...

Drawing herself up... to her full height... of six foot two... looking him straight in the eye... she haughtily pronounced... with clipped words...:

"It's too late...!"

Mark did not react angrily... to his Dream Girl Laura's arrogant words... but sat there very quietly... never taking his eyes off her face...

His unwavering... steady grey gaze... unsettled her... and she started to stammer...:

"Be-besides... I've m-met someone else... and... and I've fallen madly in love with him...!"

This of course... was not in the least true... But she knew... that her words would hurt him...

But still in that Awesome Quiet State... Given to him by his Bon Dieu... Mark asked her... who the man was... and what he did for a living...

So... warming to the subject... of a new man in her life... Laura greatly romanticized... her meeting with Philip Philbin... the English businessman... on the plane...

Although... noticing that Mark... was believing her... and suddenly becoming afraid... fearing that she had gone too far... she did say... that he was a scientist... an astro physicist... now half hoping... that Mark would realize... that she could never really fall in love... with such a scientific type of man...

Nevertheless... just finally able to hurt Mark... gave her a wonderful sense of satisfaction... glad that she was the one... for a change... who was finally getting back at him... and had the upper hand...

Mark finally believed... that Laura was serious... about leaving him... and accepted her decision... sighing... with a heavy heart... claiming that there was nothing he could do... to change her mind... if she had really fallen in love... with another man...! Adding sincerely... that he would not stand in the way of her happiness...

...read more in Chapter 11

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