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The next morning, Davina finds Raoul on his back porch, overlooking the ocean. He's reading a newspaper, snacking on strawberries.
"Well, good morning, sleepyhead," he says. "I'll be having lunch soon, in case you'd like to join me."
"What was last night all about?"
She's determined to confront him. She'd cried herself to sleep, angry and confused. He might be the most perfect man she'd ever seen, but she would not let him treat her like that.
"What do you mean?"
"You did all that just to bother me."
Raoul shrugs. "Charlie's just noisy."
"Actually, I didn't mind that."
"I know."
"But then you wanted me to..."
"What?"
"Rub your..."
"What?"
"Your..."
"My semen?"
"Yes."
"On your tits."
"Yes."
Wait, she thinks. Had he said anything about her tits last night? Her ungovernable heart leaps at the idea that he was thinking of her tits. Of course he was, she knew he was, but to hear it from him excites her anyway.
"No. I thought
you
might want to do that yourself."
"Oh." What the hell?
"I was just trying to be nice. But then I realized that maybe David wouldn't like it. So, too bad."
He pops a strawberry in his mouth.
She needs time to think of her response, to re-plan her campaign, so she sits in a chair a few steps away from the table.
"Of course I
would
really like to rub my cum on your tits sometime," he adds when he's swallowed his strawberry. "With some fresh cum, of course, not from a condom." He takes a drink of coffee. "But we can't do anything like that until David feels better."
He looks back at the paper, already chewing another strawberry.
She can't look at him. She has to try to keep her thoughts straight.
"I thought you were..."
"What?"
"No, it doesn't make sense."
He just goes on reading, so when she finds her words, she continues.
"Like, trying to torture me or something."
"Torture?"
She feels him looking at her.
"Never mind."
"If you don't want me to do it, I won't do it."
"It's not that."
"So you don't mind? Because I can think of several ways..."
"No, it's not that either. Wait β several ways?"
"Yes."
She blinks at him for a moment.
It's a mistake. As soon as she feels the warmth of his attention on her, she's helpless again. She has to look away.
"I just don't understand what's happening," she whines.
"It's like this is," he explains in a very businesslike matter. "You're hot. Sizzling, smoking, hot. Pretty face, nice figure. Incredible breasts. Incredible. So I like you. In fact, I even want to fuck you. In at least two ways, maybe more. And what's more, you've made it clear that you like me and would like to fuck me too. So I would very much like to seduce you and give you the good, hard, very naughty fucking that you deserve."
"Wow." Davina, seeming to feel every emotion all at once, can't think of anything else to say before he continues:
"Yeah. But unfortunately, as you know, it's not possible," he shrugs. "So, lunch?"
"Wait, what?"
"Would you like to join me for lunch?"
"No. Not that."
"Would dinner be better for you?"
"No, goddamn it. Shut up. That other part, about you like me, you want to..."
"To fuck you?"
"Yeah. And... but you can't? What?"
"That's right. I can't."
"Why
not
?"
"Your husband, David, is my friend. I can't do that to him. I've explained that several times now."
"But we're barely even... He kicked me out of his house last night. He told me he's divorcing me. We're
pra
ctically divorced."
"Even if you were completely and officially divorced, I will not be able to fuck you until David says it's okay."
"So David gets to tell you who you can and cannot fuck?"
"In your case, yes."
"Well, why won't he let you fuck me?"
"Because he's in love with you, of course."
"Yeah but... No, he's not in love with me. What?"
"He is very madly in love with you and hurt very badly by the fact that you have cheated on him."
"But he cheated on me first! And with one of my best friends!"
"Are you still friends with her?"
"What difference does
that
make?"
"Do you suppose David could be as friendly with your lovers as you are with his?"
"What's your point?"
"He cares. You don't. He loves you, and you don't love him, and that hurts him."
Davina can only shake her head. She looks away, hoping that she'll be able to think more clearly, to argue more effectively, if she doesn't actually see how fucking beautiful he is.
"Well then why did he practically give me to you last night then."
"He didn't. He specifically asked me
not
to sleep with you. Again, that's our whole problem."
She puts her hand on her forehead and closes her eyes.
"Yes, but he had to know..."
"He trusts me," Raoul cuts her off. "And I don't intend to betray him. "Anyway, did you mean to say that you're not available for lunch? I think there's still time for you to change."
"What?"
"I'm still trying to find out whether you will have lunch with me."
"Oh. Yes. I don't know. Change what?"
"Your clothes."
"For lunch?"
He nods.
"Are we going out?"
"No, it'll just be you and me, here. But," he looked her over, "You can't wear that."
"This? Why not?"