Chapter 14: Anton's Pv; the truce

I watch her speak and I realize that I was wrong about her. She suffered a lot more than I imagined. She really needs protection, protection that I will be very happy to give her. Never, even if death takes me, will I let a Cabral near her. Like Sergei and Dimitri, Manuel a bad father. I imagine the suffering of this poor woman.

It's my turn to comfort her. I caress her face through the tears. We lie down as I hold her tight against my chest. I stroke her hair. I want her to stop suffering.

- You don't have to worry, my Flower. I made sure you didn't run into that man.

Nora: Anton, can I ask you a favor?

- Yes princess everything you want except the impossible.

Nora: Do you still see that Nicole Griffin?

- This is not a service, but a question. I thought you were the intellectual of both of us. To answer your question, yes we see each other a few times.

Nora: Could you stop seeing her?

- Why?

Nora: Because I don't want to fuck the same man as my mother's rival or better the one who fucked my father. I'm not stopping you from doing what you want after all I don't mean anything to you, but her, I don't want to hear about her.

Damn, this girl has a knack for kicking people's balls. After this moment we just shared, she dares to tell me that she doesn't care what other girl is climbing into my bed as long as it's not Griffin. She has the audacity to tell me that she means nothing to me? Shit, I need a drink or I might hurt him.

I get up to go get myself a glass of vodka. She raises herself on one elbow to look at me. She looks down every time our eyes try to meet. Maybe she's scared and regrets giving me the green light to sleep with whoever I want.

Nora: I'm sorry, I should never have tried to control who you put in your bed. If it makes you happy to have it then I will no longer oppose it.

I spoke too soon.

- Damn, are you going to shut up? You suck at the end.

I put my glass down and approach her. I see her recoiling in fear on the bed. I don't like when she's afraid of me, when she looks at me like a monster, no. I want her to smile at me, to take initiative, to caress me, to treat me like her prince charming, to look at me with her eyes full of love.

My gaze shifts from her beautiful frightened eyes to her beautiful full lips. I start to undo the belt of my pants and she pulls back even more. Surely the images of our first night come to mind. When I get my member out of his prison that was my boxer, Nora did not know where to go, blocked by the wall.

His reaction amused me. All women are the same. They will talk, scream and jump all over the house like tigresses, but try to scare them a little and they become like scared kittens. I wave to her and she approaches. I help him sit down in front of me, I raise his head and introduce him to my mini me.

- Let's see if you can do something else with that beautiful mouth instead of breaking my balls.

She opens her eyes wide understanding what I was referring to and I smile at her reaction. I guide her in her work. She learns very quickly, too quickly even for my taste. She was a few fingers to finish me before I had time to better enjoy it. I refused to end up apart from her. I push her onto the bed and spread her legs. Her shiny crotch makes me realize that she wants it as much as I do. I let my fingers do their job in this part of her body just to punish her a little. She twists in all directions, panting. When I feel her breathing quicken, I stop to capture her lips. She undulates from the pelvis, moves and moans against my mouth. But what I want above all is to hear him beg me. My wait is short-lived as I hear him moaning my name and I believe it's the most beautiful melody my ears have heard yet.

Nora: Please Anton...

- Tell me baby.

Nora: I want...

- What? Say it baby, I wanna hear it.

Nora: I want you... Take me, because I can't take it anymore.

- I thought you would never ask me. Your wishes are orders...

We are lying breathless by this frenzied session of legs in the air. She has her head resting on my chest.

- Nora, I'm your man just like you're my wife. I mean it when I say I'm going to kill whoever has the balls to look at you with lust. It's my way of showing you that I care about you. I'm not mad because you're asking me not to fuck that Griffin anymore but I see you pushing me into the arms of other women am I to understand that I'm nothing in your eyes?

Nora: I told you, I feel inexplicable things for you. I want to hate you for separating me from my uncle, but I can't. You forced yourself to have a place in my life and I can't get rid of you. Whereas you, I don't know what I mean to you. I know what you feel for me is not love. Maybe carnal desire or the desire for protection or something else, but not love. You said yourself at the beginning that I should only carry out your orders without opposing them. Which means I have no say in your lovers. So how did you want me to react when I saw you get angry after my request?

- I can't promise you anything, but I won't blame you if you hit or chase the women around me. Defend what is yours, I won't do it for you.

We stay like that for a while before the alarm clock goes off. It's five o'clock in the morning. I get up for a shower. I return to find Nora sleepy. I take a suit-tie-shoes set that I put on. I approach my beauty and kiss her on the cheek. She opens her eyes and looks at me in surprise.

Nora: Have you changed? Where are you going at this time of night?

- I'll find Dan and the others. We have a few details to check before shipping a package. Rest here, I'll pick you up when we're done. There are new toothbrushes and towels in the shower cabinet drawer. As for your clothes, you will have to put those of yesterday. I will ask Olga to prepare your effects to put them here.

Nora: Alright, be careful.

I kiss her before leaving, taking care to close both doors. I'm happier today because it's the first time she's shown me that she's afraid for me. I hope we will continue this momentum.