Manami thought about it.
“Perhaps you’re right. But that’s only now. Because I’m so happy.”
“So in your case, like with me, happiness causes physical excitement,” Pascal said.
He left one hand on her breast, and for the first time, he gently lowered his other hand down her stomach.
“Don’t you…”
“Dare,” Pascal ended her usual command. “I know that and I’m getting tired of it.”
Manami kissed him.
“Hey, darling, slowly,” Pascal laughed. “I’m afraid.”
“What are you afraid of? Don’t play around with me any more, Pascal,” Manami laughed too.
“I’m afraid that your tongue might get free,” Pascal teased her and sighed deeply. He was running his hands over her thighs and buttock for the first time.
“Well, that’s not right!” Manami shouted and got up from his lap. “That’s very inappropriate, Pascal, taking advantage of my moment of happiness! I’m angry! I’m very angry! You won’t get even two minutes any more! Remember what I said!” Manami shouted.
Pascal got up and tried to hug her. Manami moved away and held her hands on his chest.
“Don’t you dare touch me again, Pascal!”
“My love, why are you angry? You know that I’d never do anything you didn’t want me to.”
“You wouldn’t? And what were you doing just now?”
“Only what you wanted.”
“Well I don’t want it! Not now! I made it clear to you! When I am…”
“What you want so much, my darling! You’re very excited!”
“I’m not excited!” Manami pushed him away.
Pascal stepped forward, towards her.
“Actually I am! I never expected to be able to fool such an expert!”
“Don’t start with that again. I told you…”
“I’m excited! I am! Very much so! Unbearable!” Manami was jumping up and down and stomping her feet on the floor.
“And what do you propose, ma’am? What should we do?” Pascal smiled at her.
“That’s only temporary bodily excitement,” she tried to calm herself. “It just happened… this situation. You’re so cheeky!” she shouted suddenly. “You created it! You planned everything! That’s why you started telling me how much you love my children. So that I would relax, be happy and carefree, and for you to jump me and take advantage of me! We’ll that’s not going to happen, sir! I’ve seen right through you! Your tactic has failed, sir!”
“I didn’t plan it, my love, I didn’t. I just wanted to ask you, to beg you to have our baby. I was afraid that you wouldn’t want to. And now I’m so overjoyed!”
“I am too. But it doesn’t help.”
“I love you too much, Manami, to allow you to be so excited, and…”
“I am a woman of flesh and blood, Pascal!”
“Yes, you are, my love. The most beautiful, most wonderful woman. A real woman!”
“Don’t say such nice things, Pascal. I can’t take this anymore.”
“I love you so much, Manami! So much! I won’t do anything if you don’t want me to. So you tell me, how do we get out of this situation. This has to end somehow. You have to be calm and satisfied, my joy,” Pascal said seriously, watching upon his beloved being struggling with herself.
“I don’t know,” Manami whispered in heat.
“Well, think about it. Because the excitement will not just go away. On the contrary, it will only grow.”
“I know.”
“Here, I’m selflessly offering to help you,” Pascal smiled.
“I don’t doubt that. I want it, I want…” Manami paused for a moment, then continue. “Here, this is what we’ll do. We’ll go to your room now. And we’ll lock the door. There will be four doors between us and the children. They won’t hear us.”
“They won’t hear me for sure, and on the other hand, I never thought that you were that loud, Manami, that you need four doors to stifle your…”
“How dare you?!” Manami shouted.
“…sighs,” Pascal finished his sentence.
“You can’t talk to me like that, Pascal! I won’t let you!”
“You’ll let me, you’ll let me. And you want me to. I’m just trying to enhance your excitement, my love.”
“There’s no need to try. It can’t get any greater. I’m going mad, Pascal!”
“Well, alright… so we lock ourselves behind four doors, and what then?”
“Don’t fantasize too much, Pascal!” said Manami, going toward the door to Pascal’s quarters. “You won’t get anything out of it! When I tell Julius how much I love you and that I want a divorce, when I am free, that is when I will give myself to you. And nothing before then! That’s how I was raised! I’m the only daughter of an Inspectorate general, sir! A long-standing head of the Inspectorate Academy! The only daughter of the famous general…”
“I understand, selfish ma’am. Who cares about me? But what will we do about you? We have to find a solution,” Pascal approached her.
They stood in front of his closed door.
“You will… We won’t even lie on any bed. Don’t you dare think of pushing me on the bed… or anything similar.”
“You mean - pick you up in my arms, and gently place you on the bed?”
“Stop already! Don’t you say another word!”
“Alright, I won’t. I’m silent. I’m just looking at you. Do you see how I’m looking at you?”
“You’re impossible! Impossible!”
“Alright. We won’t lay down. So we’ll sit down. Probably on one of the chairs.”
“Don’t provoke me! We’ll stand.”
“Stand?”
“Yes, stand! And you won’t hug me or kiss me. Do you understand?”
“Yes, of course. The two of us standing, without hugging, without kissing, and all that until we drop out of exhaustion.”
“Well that does it! No one has ever mocked me like that! I’m going to bed. Good night, Pascal.”
“Good night, my love.”
Manami didn’t move. Pascal only grinned and consumed her with his eyes.
“Good night, my love,” he repeated, already laughing out loud.
“You’ll pay for this!” Manami screamed.
“But not now?”
“Take me to your room already!”
“I can’t, Manami, until you tell me what we will do. Because if you don’t define that clearly, then I will decide. And if I decide…”
“Shut up! I’m going to go insane! Well, like this… and don’t interrupt me any more.”
“I won’t.”
“You will stand away from me…”
“Away?”
“No, not away… you won’t hold me. Just with your hand stretched out… and I will lean against the wall… in that place… You understand?”
“No.”
“What do you mean ‘no’? With one hand, stretched out, you’ll touch that place. Are we clear? Don’t pretend…”
“It’s clear to me what you want, but what’s not clear…”
“What?”
“Well… you can do that on your own. What do you need me for?”
“On my own?! How dare you think of me like that?!”
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Pascal laughed.
“But only that place. So only outside, not inside… Clear?”
“Clear, clear. I didn’t think…”
“You didn’t think?… Who am I trusting? Who am I giving myself to? Manami, Manami, why are you doing this?”
“You need it? A lot?”
“A lot!”
“And what will I do with my other hand?”
“On the side, Pascal. I mean, at your side.”
“And what will you do with your hands?”
“Also at the side.”