VILLANELLE
Villanelle put the bottle of perfume back to its box and returns it to Eve's drawer. She smiles at the thought that the woman keeps her gifts regardless of what happens between them. They have been chasing each other for a year and it has been amusing since. Wanting to get a glimpse of one another for a few winks. It is addictive to know someone is pursuing you. The attention is drowning, it can keep you alive or kill you. And they both almost died. Eve stabs her. She shoots Eve. They are both lucky to be standing alive and she does not want to keep it happening.
So this is love?
She knows the difference now between love and obsession. The selfish urge to keep Eve for herself and hold the woman by her side shifts to needing to set the woman aside to protect her. The path she is going to take will put both their lives in peril. She is willing to whisk away all the lingering feelings for the woman than to allow Eve to be in danger.
