Monday, February 13, 2012

Chapter 20 begins

     Bright and early the next day Xation had made it down to the breakfast table feeling much better, not as sore, the swelling in his face had come down, but the left side of his face was still all the colors of a deep bruise. Leah, Lexa, Charles and Serena all greeted one another cheerfully as they sat sharing another meal together and all were well rested and in fine spirits. However, Bengiman and Felina were notably absent, the former stayed up drinking the rest of the bottle of claret on his balcony, hidden by the blossoming desert willow trees as he spied down on Lexa and Charles who were cavorting, naked, at the edge of the pool in a slippery embrace. As for the latter, Felina had gone to bed with two full bottles of red wine and when she awoke in the morning they were, of course, empty and her head felt as though it were stuffed with cotton.
     "Shall we wait a little longer before we start?" Xation asked.
     "No, Xation. Bengiman is still sleeping and Felina is in one of her moods again." Serena informed her brother who only shook his head.
     "Well, you all go ahead and I will go and check on my sister." Xation sighed knowing full and well of his sister's jealous attitude towards his female friends. So he went up to her side of the house entering her room; which was dark and cool, all the drapes drawn tightly closed against the bright morning light of the sun. "Felina?" Xation said as he went and sat next to his sister who lay there pretending to be asleep. It was only when Xation began to playfully tickle her stomach that she came to life, pushing his hand away from her body as she lay under her silk sheets.
     "Go away." she muttered rolling over turning her back to him.
     "Felina, you need to come down stairs and have something to eat." Xation tried to persuade her to no avail.
    "I am not feeling well." she said knowing the distress she was was feeling was due to the somber mood of her dark, little heart.
     "Well, my darling sister, that is probably because you did not eat dinner last night and will have no breakfast this morning.., and two bottles of wine for supper does not a supper make." Xation laughed as he looked over at the night table.
     "Leave me alone.., little brother, now be a good dog and go away! I do not feel well, as I have said." Felina snapped at Xation, who only smiled not giving into her foul mood.
     "Very well sister, then I shall send Charles up here to check on you." he said knowing she would not like this.
     Here Felina sat up in her bed with a defiant, mischievous look in her wild eyes she said "Yes! By all means Xation, send the good doctor up to my room!"
     Xation did not like the way she acted, and reacted to his suggestion but he dutifully went back down stairs and instructed Charles to go and have a look at Felina after he finished his breakfast, but Charles got up from the table at once and went up straight away to tend to Felina and see what was ailing her.
     Now Felina, in a rush, hurried to brush her teeth, and comb out her long black hair, spraying on a bit of french perfume, before slipping naked back into her bed in anticipation. When Charles knocked upon her bedroom door she told him to come in and when he stepped into the room Felina gave Charles a sultry look and said "Lock the door."
     Charles froze for just a moment not understanding her request, so she told him to lock the door one more time, and then Charles obeyed as a strange feeling rose up in his heart and mind. Charles walked slowly across the room as he gazed at the lovely woman's naked silhouette under the pale-blue silk sheets, her long raven tresses flowing down her supple shoulders as she sat back pulling the soft sheet down a little, exposing her firm naked breast. "Felina, I thought you were not feeling well?" Charles let out a sigh as the memories of her naked flesh and sweat and those lips and the penetrating warmth from within her body. Charles stood at the foot of her bed, not daring to come any closer.
     "Come to me Charles." she said sliding the covers all the way off her body.
     "No." Charles whispered in a voice as tense as wire.
     "Then I will come to you." Felina said as she faced him going down on all fours crawling over to the end of the bed on her hands and knees.
     As she moved closer Charles closed his eyes so he could not bare witness to her soft naked skin and her round firm bottom, that he desperately wanted to spank for she was being a very naughty girl! "Felina, no! Your brother would have me killed."
     "Oh don't be so dramatic!" Felina smiled as she rose up on her knees in front of him as she put her arms around his neck and gave him a slow, deep, wet, passionate kiss, and Charles let Felina kiss him and he kissed her back with equal measure of force and pleasure.
     But his reason outweighed his amorous intentions with Xation's sister and so he stopped and took his hands pushing her gently off  saying "No Felina..," he gave a sad smile telling her "I am sorry, but we can not go back to where we were before, that door has closed. Because I have too much Unity, Loyalty, Respect and Honor for this family to give into your little whim." Charles took one step back away from the bed and he said to her as she sat down on her knees casting her gaze away from him "I know the only reason you want me now after.., a year, is because of that woman downstairs. You just can not stand to see me with someone I actually may love!" Charles said without thinking and when he realized what he had said, and the statement he was proclaiming, Charles actually felt dizzy and faint of heart, it was if he suddenly had tunnel vision, he felt like he was going blind or having a partial stroke, one of the two.
     "You.., Love her?" Felina stammered in shock, for truly in her heart she only ever thought that she would always be the one Charles truly loved in his heart of hearts, but now Felina knew, and understood, she had deceived herself with this lie and now knowing this fact she only wanted to die.
     Charles stood there, his face was as pale as a bottle of milk and he looked like someone had just told him he had an inoperable tumor. Charles could not fathom loving only one woman but the idea had begun to grow in his heart like a cancer which had quickly spread to his brain. Just for a moment Charles stood there in silence, shocked by the foul and evil Love of which he spoke. Then he knew this moment was crucial so he regained his composure and he said to Felina "Yes, I just may very well have fallen in love with Lexa, and why wouldn't I Felina? She speaks to me as if I am the only man in her world, and she fills me with kind words of adulation and adoration, she makes me feel like I am the most powerful, and precious man in the world to her. In her eyes I am a god!" Charles confessed the truth of his heart openly and honestly. Serena did not know what to say and she was envious of this Lexa, for Felina lacked this special talent when caring for a man. To make a man feel so wonderful about himself and fill his heart with such loving devotion was a rare talent indeed. A talent the majority of women are sorely lacking in these days. Charles watched as a few tears began to well up in Felina's eyes and he knew this was the moment to strike out at her heart in a cruel and vindictive manner, but he only did so, so that he could make sure to get his point across. "Oh, and one more thing, Felina. Your brother Xation has fallen head over heels in Love with Leah, I was a witness to their unfolding love affair." Charles paused to let this information soak in to the buds of her mind. "So, if you are able, I, and your brother, would greatly appreciate if you can call up from your blood the noble and regal traits of your ansestors and demonstrate all the happiness and graciousness you can find to welcome these women into our lives." Charles watched and waited for Felina's reply but no words were forth coming so he said, before he turned to leave "I will take your silence as my answer. But I can not understand why it so fucking impossible for you to be happy for anyone else, but yourself." With that Charles exited the room as he slammed the door behind him, leaving Felina feeling shell-shocked, like a bomb just went off in her room.
    
    

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