Chapter 321: Peaks Of Happiness
"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 looked completely confused with all the emotions she was experiencing right now and didn't know how to express them, as all the thoughts that were going through her head were completely new to her. She was so perplexed with her situation and about what to do from here on forth that she actually ended up looking at me like she was asking for my opinion in the matter, out of desperation.
Honestly, Nina looked a little too pitiful right now, as she wasn't someone who was used to dealing with complicated situations like this, which even made Camila feel like her head was spinning.
She looked like a distressed little girl who was told to write an exam that she didn't study for, which determined the rest of her life, and was silently panicking and looking out for any help she could get.
I knew that unlike Camila, who quickly got her feelings in order when faced with the same situation of whether she had feelings towards me and finally came to a conclusion on her own, Nina needed a lot more time to come to terms with her own feelings.
Hence, I didn't pester her with any more complicated topics that played with her emotions and diverted the conversation to something else, so that she could slowly take her time to understand the thoughts that were going through her mind.
"It's okay, Nina...You don't need to explain anything to me now." I softly said and slowly wrapped both my hands around her waist and pulled her in to give a deep hug, which seemed to have an immediate effect as I could see her slowly calming down in my embrace when she looked so tense before.
I then continued saying, "I know that you're going through a lot right now and probably have a million thoughts going through your head that you simply can't sort right now...And honestly, you don't need to, as I don't want to force an answer about how you feel just for the sake of it."
"I believe that there will come a time where you yourself will realise what you feel, and you'll come to terms with your feelings on your own, without any help from anyone else...And when that time comes, I also know that you won't hesitate to express those feelings to me since you obviously are not someone who likes to keep your thoughts to yourself."
"So until then, I think it's better if you don't complicate your thoughts, as slowly but surely your feelings will be unravelled on their own, and you'll finally realise just what path leads to happiness in your life." I said, as Nina looked up and carefully listened to me as if every word I spoke had some effect on her to calm her drumming heart.
"Happiness?....Why are you talking as if abandoning my husband and following you is the only way to be happy?" Nina asked after she relaxed her nerves from lying on top of me, as if the warmth from my body gave her some kind of energy that made her brush away all the distracting thoughts and focus only on the present like she always did.
She then asked with a sarcastic smile on her face, "Do you think that I'm not happy with my current life?...Do you think that I need a little brat like you to save me from this mundane life I live?"
"Who knows?...Maybe you're living a satisfied life. Maybe you're not...Only you would know the answer to that, since I can't really read minds." I said while rocking Nina side to side, which made her look at me angrily for treating her like a baby, even though she was actually enjoying the soothing sensation.
"But what I can promise you is that I can make your life so much more happier than it already was if you were to hold my hand and follow me."
"That's quite the arrogant statement to make, isn't it, Kafka, especially coming from someone who still relies on his parents for his livelihood?" Nina chuckled, as if she found it quite funny that I could say such bold words so confidentially.
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'-NovelBin.net