CAL’S STORY
CHAPTER FOUR
Cal could not believe his eyes.
The sketched picture he held in his hands was of his Rose, posing seductively
in the nude. Her eyes held a look of pure desire. But although they were
looking at him now, from the drawing, at the time they had been focused on the
artist, Jack Dawson. Cal was enraged. He set out to have Dawson removed from
Rose’s life, once and for all.
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Cal’s heart pounded when Rose
walked through the door on Dawson’s arm. On receipt of the nod from Lovejoy, he
made his accusation of theft against Dawson. The Master-at-Arms searched Dawson
and found the diamond which Lovejoy had surreptitiously placed in Dawson’s coat
pocket, on Cal’s orders. Cal felt a wave of relief as he saw Dawson taken away.
But again, although his overwhelming desire was simply to hold Rose close and
tell her how much she meant to him, he just couldn’t help himself; something
inside him just snapped. He struck his beloved young bride-to-be.
"It is a disgusting
little boy, isn’t it!" his father hissed at him as the young Cal cowered
on the floor, shielding himself from yet another blow to the head. He daren’t
cry, he daren’t cry. Daddy, please just love me…