LIQUID BALANCE

to be continued...

"I didn't have time to notice your absence. Because the changes were fast and very important."

"You are sincere, as always."

They knocked, it was the Port of Sines, arrived by the hand of the silent and reserved waiter.

"Please taste."

He took a shot glass from my hands, careful to barely brush against me, and brought it to his lips.

"Sweet but tart. I like it."

"I wish I had the privilege of giving you a taste of many new things."

"I can't say as much. I have nothing to offer you."

"Are you in awe of the gifts? Are there too many of them? You've mentioned this a few times. I believe you deserve far more, but for a reason I can't understand, you have convinced yourself that you deserve the ordinary."

"I'm not convinced of anything." He raised his voice a tone.

"I just want to get to know you a little better...I'm conversing. You're going to be the mother of my child."

"Hans, what do you want?"

"In the immediate term, you."

"I'm right here. If you want I'm wearing some of the underwear you gave me."

Was she serious?

"Yes, then yes, thank you. I like the black negligees. La Perla, please, in lace.

I know for a fact that the boutique put one back in the drawer because I specifically asked them to."

He sighed.

"All right. Five minutes."

"You would be willing to make yourself available to me at my command, even immediately, rather than talk about yourself."

"Yes."

"I could pretend to be one of those men who enjoy getting to know their partner and to whom talking sharpens the senses and tempts the palate. But it doesn't. I will follow you around to watch you. And you can remain silent while you undress."

I had won this one, too.

He couldn't beat me. Nobody could beat me.

In fact, he looked at me between astonished and resigned, taking the blow with great elegance.

"Well Herzog Hammerschild, of course you'll have to make do, I'm not a professional."

"You're a beautiful woman, I'm amazed that you're not aware of it and that you don't use your beauty to gain benefits. You treat it as something taken for granted, almost cumbersome that you don't know where to store or how to handle."

"Actually now that you mention it, it's gotten me a number of sticky clients, some vulgar fools and a cheating ex-partner."

"All to be verified, that's your interpretation."

"I'll allow you to interpret the vulgar and the tacky, but the traitor who in the case is the father of the girls, that to me is an uninterpretable certainty."

"What did he do to you?" I remembered that he wanted parental rights to the girls and got serious.

"It's my business. You can fuck me all you want but nowhere does it say you have to mind my business."

"Here you come out! My beautiful lioness. to do what you did with two daughters, alone for years, you must have quite a temper! You never gave it to me with all the yes thanks, no thanks!" I grinned at her...now I was really starting to enjoy myself.

Scratching.

And the adrenaline began to rush through my body, I don't think she would have stripped herself.

I could feel a principle of excitement becoming more overpowering.

"I know everything about you. I know things you don't know about yourself, about your relationships with people or banks. I read all the reports before I chose you. The psychological, personality reports, I know about your lonely condition as well as your credit and banking difficulties."

"What taste did you have? What taste can you have in dominating people? To be the strongest? Do you really need to beat people up that hard?"

"I had to choose. I needed a suitable person. I evaluated several profiles. Yours was perfect."

"Perfect? Because I was poor with two daughters to support?"

"Yes also."

"Then why?"

"Because you had no ties."

"Please continue, in fact I think I'll have another glass of Port."

She was annoyed, terribly annoyed. I regretted it very slightly.

"Because you were beautiful and elegant. Elegant in an innate way, not dependent on your clothing."

"You make me feel like a deformed alien being observed for a complex experiment. I'm more naked now than if I wore that stupid negligee of yours. I saw it in the drawer. I immediately thought it was kinky underwear."

Hit.

"The perversion will be watching you wear it, to take it off."

"Let's continue, I'm learning a lot about you."

"I chose you because your psychological profile emphasized reliability, honesty, moral correctness. A certain amount of goodness and loving-kindness. So I figured you would be inclined to forgive my perverted excesses."

"I am inclined to forgive those who truly deserve it. It won't be gifts that will make you forgive with your heart."

"And what am I supposed to do? My mom sent me to boarding school when I was five. The Austrian priests were really very bad there." I moved closer, now really feeling the need to touch her.

He retreated two steps. But he knew he couldn't retreat a third.

I took her arms. She braced herself with her fists against my chest.

"You deserved it, I can tell, God save those poor priests.... "

"I'm a bad guy, I know.... "

A real smile at last.

I squeezed her from the back.

"It's all the same if I feel suffocated.... "

"Yes." And I reached for his mouth. Wonderful sweet mouth.

I searched her dress zipper with my fingertips.

Mansueta, opened up. I pushed her against the desk. It went crashing, causing the lamp to wobble.

I lifted her skirt.

"We are dressed... "

"You not so much."

I found her thin thong.

I took her by the buttocks and laid her on the desk.

to be continued...