"E-Enough, Kafka!...Stop talking about all this nonsense and tell me how to fix the vending machine already before everyone starts to come out!"
Nina suddenly said and sat up straight on my lap when she realised that she was getting way too caught up in my tricks and sweet words.
She didn't even seem to mind the thought of me stripping all her clothes off and gently caressing her body all over as long as she got to sit in my comforting embrace, which terrified her to the extreme when she thought about it and made her look back at me with nervous eyes, like she was looking at a bomb that she accidentally set off and had no way of extinguishing.
But when she did look back at me and found me smiling at her in return, she couldn't help but blush and look away like a coy little girl who was seeing her crush at school, which embarrassed her to the extreme and made her wonder where all the pride and dignity that she had built up all these years had gone.
"K-Kafka, be honest..." Nina looked back and asked with cheeks that were tinted a light red. "...Did you offer to teach me to fix the vending machine just for the sake of helping me out, or did you have other intentions in mind as well?"
"What if I said that I did have certain intentions, Nina?" I said as my hand slowly slid around her slender waist, which made her body tremble. "Would you stop me from helping you out, or would you let me continue to do whatever I want?"
Nina felt my hand that was holding onto her waist and felt the sensation of me slowly massaging it in between my palm, like her supple body was a piece of meat that I was tenderizing. She let out a little groan when she felt my fingers dig into her flesh, but she didn't throw my hand away like she would've done before.
Instead, she let me play with her body as much as I wanted while at the same time enduring the tantalising feeling that came from her abdomen every time my fingers dragged against her skin. And while biting her lips to control her soft voice that was leaking out, she looked back at me with limpid eyes that looked so pityful at the moment and said,
"I-I don't know Kafka...B-Because at the end of the day, no matter what I answer, I give you, or no matter what I tell, I know that I'm simply going to be playing in the palm of your hands."
"If I had known that you were such a dangerous boy who somehow always knows how to stir up the heart of an old hag like me who's already married, I would've begged you to not enter this hotspring back then." Nina had a stern look on her face, like she regretted not doing that from the start.
But her face immediately softened when she looked at me, as she said, "But at the same time, the thought of not meeting you today would also make me unable to sleep and would probably even make my life even more miserable, so I don't really know what to say."
Nina indirectly revealed to me that she was starting to feel certain feelings towards me that she denied the plausibility of happening before.
She also didn't seem to care that I heard her true thoughts, as she was fed up with hiding them and just wanted to speak to someone about them, even if it cost her dignity as a mature adult who actually felt sparks in her heart because of a kid.
She then continued while her beautiful green eyes gazed at me in an amusing manner, "So, Mr 'Harbinger of Happiness', you say that just staying by your side is more than enough to bring someone to new peaks of happiness...But do you actually have any evidence to back your bold statements?"
"...Do you have anyone by your side who is completely smitten with you and wouldn't leave your side over their life?" Nina nudged my back with her head, and she poked my cheek with her fingers to make me answer her question, thinking that I was simply saying a few bluffs to impress her.
But to her surprise, I simply said, while having a thoughtful look on my face,
"Hmm?....Someone who's fallen so much that they wouldn't even leave my side even if their life was on the line?...I don't exactly know...I'd probably have to ask Camila herself if she would be willing to risk her life for me to give you a proper answer."
"W-Wait?...Camila? Why are you bringing her up here?"
Nina immediately identified the strange innuendo in my sentence and sat up straight as a pole to ask me what was going on with heavily suspicious eyes, not liking the way things were going and hoping that I was simply joking.
But I simply shrugged my shoulders with a casual look on my face, like even I didn't know if what I said was true, which made her grit her teeth and make her look at me like she wanted to choke me out for being so irritating in such a critical moment.
"K-Kafka...You...Don't tell me you made a move on Camila as well, just like you did on me?" Nina asked as she turned herself around to look me right in the eye with a sharp gaze, patiently waiting for me to answer.
She looked quite composed right now, but I could see that there was a hidden fierceness in her eyes, like a tiger that was waiting for its prey in the bushes, which I didn't really expect since I only mentioned Camila as a joke.
But it made sense since Camila was a married woman who had a family of her own and she was also Nina's best friend, so she wouldn't want a boy that popped out of nowhere to ruin her best friend's harmonious life, showing just how much she actually cared for Camila, whom she acted like she wanted to fight with at all times.
"Wait! Who am I kidding?!...There's no way a brat like you can take down that icy fortress named Camila, who has her guard up at all times, especially when it comes to wily men like you." Before I could answer, Nina loosened up and answered her own question with a chuckle, like she found it hilarious that she believed my words for a moment.
"She'd probably send you off flying the moment you try to put even the slightest move on her with no hesitation at all, unlike me, who was stupid enough to entertain your whims...So there's really no chance in hell that what you said could happen."
Nina shook her head like she thought that she was the only one that was dumb enough to fall for my cheap tricks, and there couldn't possibly be any other married woman out there who was in the same predicament as her because of me.
This only made me wonder how she was going to react when she joins the family soon and how she was going to treat Camila, who was also 'dumb' enough to fall for me. Stay connected with m-v l|e'-novelhall.net