Chapter 8 Pineapple delight!

8. Pineapple delight!

David had spent his hours between massages, yoga, meditation, and other activities that were part of his spa stay package. When Nina returned, he made a point of going down to the reception desk to take her luggage up to her room.

Nina looked very beautiful. According to her, made up and produced by Kara from head to toe. She wore a black jumpsuit interlaced in the back, and her hair was tied up in a bun.

They went up to the bedroom together. Once there, they told each other the details of their respective days, while Nina, who did not like much make-up, nor high-heeled shoes, "disassembled" herself from it all. David followed her around the hotel room, trying to keep up with the dialogue since she wouldn't sit still.

- I'm going to cancel all my appointments," David said. - There are too many schedules and obligations. What I really need is some time to relax and do nothing. A vacation from everything but the morning workout at the gym.

- No, David. Don't do this," said Nina. - It will do you a lot of good. Today is Friday, we have until Thursday to get organized. All these things are very good to help you psychologically and physically. Even if these hours are not mandatory, don't interrupt your treatment. You only had these 14 days of vacation from everything. It is very little for what you have been going through.

- Exactly because of this. In two weeks I will already have a thousand appointments. Now I just want to rest. Or else... come with me!

Nina joked that he needed to be alone for a while so that he wouldn't get sick of her these past six days. Besides, she didn't want to abandon her friends even more during the trip.

David really wanted to go together with Nina and her friends, to go on these trips that the three of them had planned, but he could not. He was very responsible for his public image. He had both feet on the ground. And Kara's plans included a farewell to the luau, taking pictures in specific super-busy places, and some superstitions about throwing coins into a fountain or leaving a padlock on a bridge.

Nina and David spent the rest of that day together.

The next day she participated in all his programming. David tried to teach her how to swim, and in the pool, they experienced a kind of torture by being so close, wet, almost naked, but unable to touch each other. In fact, they wanted to possess each other right there again, but, although he had his member rigid and she had her intimate contractions... they had to restrain themselves.

Between giggles and lots of water swallowing, Nina noticed the catatonic looks the spa staff directed at David, but he didn't even mind.

After the pool, they moved on to yoga, where between stretches and sensual positions they both had to, once again, hold back their carnal desires. David wanted to possess Nina right there on the mat.

Nina hadn't failed to notice that the yoga teacher was staring at David when he kept his eyes closed, she was mentally fucking him while narrating the mantra of expiration and inspiration. Clear! As Freud said, "thoughts are the rehearsals of actions".

With each new program, things were getting worse for Nina. She could not and had no right to be jealous of David, because she would have to be jealous of the whole world. Her fight would already be lost before the battle, yet she was a little intimidated by all the harassment. The women at the spa were professionals, and even though they acted with respect and formality, they couldn't help the desire in their eyes, the different way they looked at David.

After yoga, they decided to go to the massage sessions together. When they arrived at the room, Nina was greeted normally by the employees. David, on the other hand, was practically worshipped by them.

The next thing Nina knew, she was being led away from David by the masseuses. David protested, telling the girls politely that he wanted to enjoy the service together with Nina, as a couple's program. So they put Nina lying on a massage bed with her face to the floor, and David lying on a bed beside her.

Nina closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on what the therapist was doing to her, not to David. But when they changed her position on the bed, she inevitably looked over to see him half-naked with a towel wrapped around his waist, and those women dousing him with aromatic oil and enjoying his perfect body. They giggled while exchanging mischievous looks with each other as if they mentally shared the image of a threesome...

Even the girl who was massaging Nina was facing David's bed, watching him (Nina suspected that she was also taking part in the group sex).

Nina swallowed dryly as the two women around David followed every detail of his defined muscles, feeling him with their hands in a concentration so deep that they exposed their blushes and gasping breaths.

After the pool, yoga, and massage session, Nina was convinced that she no longer wanted to accompany David on his spa "errands." He agreed that it was an intense schedule that took up an entire day, and promised Nina that in the next few days they would take time off from the spa. He said he would have all the time in the world to devote to therapies after she left.

David and Nina went to a vegan restaurant, an open establishment with direct access to the sidewalk, which faced a glass tent with tables and chairs.

They thought that they could have a normal dinner there since there was hardly anyone there. They were both dressed in very simple clothes, as Nina wished: sweatshirts and hoodies.

The conversation came and went, and some people around them began to show a certain interest in the couple. Nina couldn't even finish a sentence without noticing the commotion forming. Some people from the small restaurant down the street were already pointing at their table. Before the commotion could even form, David and Nina had already left the restaurant. Nina shouted:

- But we didn't pay the bill!

- It was already paid," David answered.

Minutes later, David's security guards had already driven them back to the hotel.

- It's Saturday night. Let's have our dinner in peace here in the room. This way we can continue our conversation," David said. - The food is already rising. Is this good?

- Perfect," Nina answered.

It was already the third "perfect" that she had answered after David had asked three times if everything was all right. And she smiled as sweetly as she could to say that yes, everything was perfect.

- Everything is wonderful, perfect even. It is the dream of millions of people to be here with you! How could I not be fine, right? Impossible.

David had already learned some of Nina's characteristics. When she spoke in that way, for example, squeezing finger by finger, giving an answer to her own question, as if justifying herself...it was a sign that later she was going to tell him what was wrong. It was just him confronting her.

- If everything is so perfect, then what is it? - David asked. - Are you upset that we ran out of the restaurant?

- It's nothing at all. Boy, are you getting paranoid!

- I'm going to have to pick a fight with you to get you to let go of what's going on in your little head? - David kissed her on the back of the neck while grabbing her from behind.

- If all our fights are like this, yes. I want you to fight more! - She always managed to get a smile out of him at the end.

- Then let's have dinner. Everything will be fine, Nina.

- I know," she said. - It's just that I was with my friends all day, it was so, so... so free. So simple! With you, I can't do anything. I'm tired of being locked in a room during my vacation, even if it's with Dave Nichols.

- What do you mean you can't do anything? We have already done so much in just one week! I canceled everything to have more time together. Tomorrow I only have one therapy session.

Nina took this moment to tell him that she no longer wanted to accompany him in his obligations and that she would like even less to be present at his therapy session. She even forbade him to quote her to his therapist. David asked her why this was, and she replied that she simply did not trust that such information could not leak to the press. He responded by saying that he didn't want it to leak either, but Nina's concern about this matter bothered him greatly.

- Yes, Dave. I know that you are trying your hardest and that most women fight with their partners for the lack of this attention you are giving me. I know, but I want to go to the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the Pantheon, the Galleria Borghese, the Spanish Steps, the Sistine Chapel, and so on.

- But haven't you go with your friends on the second day of your trip?

- Not to these places. I arrived on Friday night at the opening party, and only had Saturday and half of Sunday with my friends. From then on I only saw the walls of this room.

- Yes," agreed David.

- What I mean is that I don't want to spend my vacation locked up in a spa. I came here with my friends to enjoy Rome. And that's fine. You act as if I'm trying to do something horrible.

- And what else? - David inquired.

- And that I was too hasty when I went to get my bags. I already have a hotel paid for. We could meet here and there during these five days we have left, but I don't want to be at anyone's disposal as if I were a...

- A what? - David intoned his voice. - Go ahead.

- An escort," Nina finished. - You see, I meet a man on a dating app the first day I arrive here, or rather, in a nightclub, and then I go for a day with my friends and come to his hotel. Then a few days later I pick up my luggage and move here. And all we do is have sex!

- Doesn't that sound like a dream? - said David in a very serious voice. - So what are you going to do about it?

- I'm going back to my hotel," Nina decided. - Actually, I wasn't going to come, but my friends convinced me. I won't be comfortable here. I don't even know if I can unpack my bags. Where will I put my things? Men don't like it when women invade their space and start changing everything... It's not the same. I can't afford to be in your hotel and it's getting too weird.

- I agree, it is very strange indeed. Okay, just tell me when you want to go and I'll send someone to take you.

Hearing him talk like that, Nina realized that he might be running out of patience. She sat quietly around the table and began to eat what he had told them to prepare.

The atmosphere weighed heavy during dinner in that hotel room. The two of them were silent and completely lost interest in all the things they had to tell each other. It was evident on David's face how upset he was. He didn't like indecision. Nina was impulsive! Yet he continued to treat her very well. He even asked if she wanted dessert.

- I ordered her favorite dessert: "Pineapple delight" and condensed milk.

Nina looked at him with eyes as melted as that dessert in her mouth. Amidst the silence, she thought about the conversation she had had with Kara at her last meeting with her friends. Nina had said that she would refuse David's offer for her to live with him in the hotel, out of pride, because she could not afford a 14-day stay with him at a million-dollar resort. She also said that she didn't want to risk getting attached, since it would all be over any day now. Kara had replied:

- Friend, you are very boring! I am also in favor of female empowerment, I also want to fight against all injustices in the world, and I also want a world where women are treated equally, but for this, we must think that to have equal rights we don't have to diminish men, or attack them, or take away their rights. Equality is not a competition...

...We should not confuse our personal insecurities as a way to show empowerment. I don't know your lover up close, but so far all you have told us is that he is a decent man, very patient by the way and that he really wants to get to know you better, or he would have told you to fuck off long ago!

- But that's exactly what she wants: a walk, dear! - said Lyon, causing the three of them to immediately return to laughing and joking mood.

Then, in the middle of a silent meal, David interrupted Nina's thoughts:

- Did you like the food? The dessert?

- Yes, everything was wonderful. Thank you for that," Nina thanked him.

Nina got up, walked over to David on the other side of the round table, and sat down on the edge of the table facing him, with a narrow space between them. She put a spoonful of dessert into David's mouth, letting a little drip from his lips, then kissed him gently. He didn't return the kiss, although he felt goosebumps from head to toe.

They stared at each other with an air of seriousness. They didn't blink. Nina unbuttoned his black microfiber shirt, soiled his hairy chest with the candy on the spoon, and then sucked back. He clenched his teeth and continued to ignore her with his gaze. She sat up a little higher at the table and began to rub the creamy, consistent dessert into her panties, spread-legged, her heels resting on the edge of the chair. David didn't even blink!

Nina leaned forward and tried to kiss him. David turned away. She came down from the table and sat on his lap with her legs spread, nose to nose, held him by the chin, forcing him to look at her, and tried to kiss him one more time. He denied her again, and he denied her every time in a row when Nina tried desperately to kiss him. Then she quickly got up from his lap and in a frustrated voice said:

- What did I do this time?

- You said that sex doesn't solve everything. Your words," David answered.

- You must be joking! Are you going to use this to punish me? Was it because I didn't want to kiss you before, or because I was insecure about moving in here? I wasn't playing games. I don't really like kissing, never have. And when I finally want to try, you just turn your face away?

- You've turned away before! - he replied, getting up too. - And I told you: you are not a prisoner. Unless a man is forcing you to stay, with a gun or using violence, I don't know, you always have the choice to go!

- If you tell me to leave one more time, David Nichols, I will! And I won't come back!

- I'm just saying that you have a choice. Do you want to go? Then go! - finished David, taking a step towards her, now showing great indignation in the tone of his voice and pointing his finger towards the door!

After a few seconds, Nina came out, slamming the bedroom door. She hurried down the hall to the elevator. When she reached the first floor of the building, she saw the emergency exit from the stairs and went in there. She didn't want to run and cry past the reception desk. She took off her high heels and ran as far as she could until she reached the top of the building to hide. She was angry, embarrassed that she had been turned down when she tried to seduce him with dessert, she was confused. She didn't know if this was the end. A thousand things were going through her mind at that moment. She called her friends Kara and Lyon, and then they came to get her.

David had continued in his quarters. He had been standing in front of the mirror in his room, staring at himself from the moment she had run out. He had decided not to insist anymore, he was also angry with her.

David started to get ready. He changed his clothes because Nina had soiled the one he was wearing. Before he went outside to have some fun, he texted her:

"Don't worry, Nina. I won't bother you anymore. You have my word."

Nina read that message seconds before she got out of the cab and entered the long-awaited "city luau" that her friend Kara had not stopped talking about during the whole trip.