Jade's Arousing Wind

Part 21

If Jade had been completely lost at the beginning with Vincent, lost by his leading assurances, her female intuition was telling her that she was beginning to seduce that strange man. He was beginning to react differently, looking at her with more passion, with less irony now. She thought it was time to give him an appointment in two days, to let Zerline have enough time to make her usual enquiries about the not so strange Vincent.

"Please, Vincent, I have to go now, but I would be very happy to invite you to my home on Tuesday evening. What do you think of it?"

"Tuesday? Sorry, I can't. Why not this evening?" he asked.

"This evening? No... This is impossible, I..."

"Are you married? Engaged?"

"No, no, not at all but..."

"So, ok for this evening! Where do you want me to meet you?"

Jade was again unable to resist him. The way he acted was so natural. He managed everything but it was done so well that she could only say yes. Defeated by so much male and pleasant assurances, she gave him the address of the little street for that evening at ten. Before separating, he held Jade's hand delicately to his lips and, whilst lightly bowing down, kissed her hand softly. She was amazed by so much decorum from this man, able to dictate at the same time his own willingness towards her.

All the rest of the day, she was like a young girl having her first date. All the orders she was giving were contradicted a minute later. Atleast, upset, Zerline told Jade to stop it before all the girls became mad with her changing her orders. Jade smiled at her lady-in-waiting and confidante and admitted that she was completely lost because of Vincent coming that very evening.

"Just let me arrange it my way, as usual, Jade. Everything will be perfect, don't be anxious, go and walk in the park or take a swim but please relax or that poor guy will receive a 10,000 volts electrical discharge when you kiss him!"

Jade laughed and decide to walk in the park to try to calm herself down before the arrival of Vincent.

On time, Vincent was in front of the porte-cochere and was now facing Zerline:

"Where is Jade and who are you?"

"I am Zerline, Sir, the lady-in-waiting of Jade."

"The lady-in-waiting!" Vincent laughed. "Where are we going? Into a castle?"

Zerline smiled back at him and just asked him to follow her. As with Charles, Vincent followed Zerline through the secret passages and, arrived near the private area of Jade's place. Then she asked Vincent to accept being blindfolded.

"Certainly not, Miss. Either Jade trusts me, or you drive me back to the street." he demanded.

Zerline was completely lost. What could she do? This had never happened before. She asked Vincent to wait for her there until she asked Jade about it. Vincent began to draw the large white marble mantelpiece in the room where he was. Vincent always carried with him a drawing pad and he was sketching every interesting that he could see all day long. It could be things like the ornate mantelpiece, landscapes, figures or even animals. His interests had no limits.

A quarter of an hour later Zerline was back with Jade's answer. She told him that Jade accepted to let him follow her without a blindfold.

"Thanks, I am happy to be considered as a real guest, not somebody to be thrown away and to be seen as useless. But please let me finish drawing that mantelpiece, I like that shape, it's giving me inspiration for a future painting." Zerline waited patiently thinking to herself that Vincent was certainly a special guy..