Christine Robertson said James 'Jimmy' Holland was "infatuated" with her but this was not mutual and he tricked her into meeting him after absconding from Castle Huntly open prison near Dundee.
The 45-year-old said he forced her to strip and lie in her bed but Holland entered her bedroom for the first time as police broke down her door following a tip-off he was in her flat.
However, her trial at Dundee Sheriff Court was shown a series of cards and text messages she sent to him, one of which read: "I want you too in a nice clean silky bed - only one thing missing is you."
One of the greeting cards, signed with the moniker Ginger, contained a message that read: "I really, really like you." Robertson admitted sending the messages but claimed this was only because he threatened her.
The trial had previously heard how officers burst into her flat in Monifieth, Angus and discovered the pair naked in bed. Holland then had to be blasted with a Taser stun gun to subdue him as he waved a knife.
Robertson, who denies aiding and abetting Holland in absconding and attempting to defeat the ends of justice, yesterday took the stand to give her version of events.
She told her trial she was in Monifieth on March 16 last year when she received a phone call from someone telling her a friend had been in a car accident in nearby Broughty Ferry.
But she said Holland appeared when she drove there and told her he was on leave from a bail hostel in Dundee. He asked for a lift there because he had no money.
She told the court her car had nearly run out of petrol so she returned to her flat to pick up her bank card or some cash.
But she said she left her front door unlocked and "the next thing I knew he was standing in my hallway."
Robertson said Holland picked up a knife from her kitchen, which he claimed to need for a trip to Glasgow. "I feared the worst - that he would stab me or rape me," she told the jury.
She said that she tried to reason for him with two hours, before he became angry and told her: "Go through to the bedroom and strip off."
After obeying him she said she lay in bed for more than six hours alone and naked while Holland made phone calls in the living room.
Robertson said Holland entered the bedroom for the first time just as police battered down her door. The warder claimed she did not tell the officers what happened because "they didn't ask".
But Douglas Wiseman, prosecuting, suggested she was "well aware that he had absconded and were party to him being present in your house and you didn't object to that at all."
Robertson denied this and has lodged a special defence of coercion. The trial before Sheriff Tom Hughes continues.
