Day 3. Love was always dangerous...

I was lying on my bed when it first happened. My head got dizzy and I felt as if I was never going to breathe again. My heart was about to jump out of my chest and I had a thirst that would drain the Thames. I looked around my large room, but my eyes began to dim. My breaths were coming out as short bursts, and I couldn’t scream. I scratched at my throat and knocked over a candelabrum in my disquiet. I saw a water pitcher to the side of the and rushed towards it, before I could get off my knees, though, my legs broke from under me and I was lying on the floor.
Suddenly I heard the door break open and I looked into my captor’s eyes. Rather than the cold detachment in his eyes he looked quite alarmed and caring. For a while I thought I even thought I say pain, but it was gone before I acknowledge it. Then again – I don’t think I could acknowledge anything when my body felt as if I was burning up.
My body was shaking and I knew I was pale. Abruptly he lifted me off the floor and held me to his hard chest and tried to comfort me – which was funny I’d been living with the man for a whole year, and two days in a row he was holding me. I had the sudden feeling of contentment; as if I was made to be in his arms. He smelled of mint; and I knew I would never forget the scent. I looked into his eyes as my body began to cool down and saw concern. “What happened- are you OK?” He carried me up to the bed as if I weighed nothing and said, “Stay right there, I’ll be right back,”
As if I was any condition to move – all of a sudden I felt as if I was coming out of my body. I was looking at my captor come back into the room, to see me fall off the four-poster bed. He shouted out and rushed towards me. Looking closer, I saw that he had a cup of something in his hands. When he poured the liquid into my - her? – mouth. I was startled when I felt as if fire was running down my throat. I seemed to smile at him, and I saw my head raise towards his. He looked taken back when I started shaking. My out-of-body experience was cut back short when I realised he was shaking me. I looked into his eyes for a long time and finally breathed out,
“Arthur?” The man’s eyes looked up in shock, before my lips rose to his..