“Yeah. I took a bath and then I tried to take a walk around the grounds hoping the fresh air would help. I’m hungry now, so I’m hoping dinner will do the trick,” I explained.
Savio kissed my forehead sweetly. “Me too.”
After spending another hour catching up, everyone started to load into the dining room for dinner. Marcello was late, running in breathless after Romeo and Lucia arrived, but fortunately, he made it before my father. We all sat down and I had to wait for the perfect opportunity to ask my dad for some leeway.
About halfway through the meal, Lucia reached over and touched Romeo’s hand. Romeo looked over, and through their gaze, I could tell they were communicating a silent message, but I wasn’t sure what. Eventually, Romeo nodded, and Lucia stood up from the table, nodded, and then walked away from the table.
“Is she okay?” Savio asked.
Romeo didn’t even look in his direction. “She’s fine.”
“Um,” I started. “Since we’re on the subject of… talking.” Everyone’s gazes shifted to me. “I was wondering if I could take my car out for a little bit tonight? I think that’s maybe why I don’t feel so well because I have a little bit of cabin fever.”
“No,” my father replied immediately and I deflated. “Not tonight. You’ll be going out tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?” I said. “Why?”
“We have Romeo and Lucia’s wedding to prepare for and its all hands on deck, you included.”
“Me… included?”
“You know flowers thanks to grandma,” Savio said. “A guard is going to take you out to pick some out for the wedding. After that, Romeo and Lucia’s wedding planner will run your options by Lucia.”
“Okay,” I said. “I’d love to.”
It wasn’t exactly the quick reaction to the slip-up Giorgio and I had made that I was hoping for, but it would have to do. There was typically a 48-hour reaction time with the morning after pill, so hopefully, a tomorrow afternoon trip would suffice.
Exactly as I had been told, a guard came to fetch me early afternoon to go out and assess the flower selection. Fortunately, for me, it was one of the more bumbling guards, so I knew he wouldn’t be difficult to ditch for a little bit. I selected a flower shop I knew wasn’t far from a drug store and then when the guard and I got inside, I dismissed myself for the bathroom on claims that I still felt sick. Once his gaze left me, I quickly snuck out the door and across the street to the store. I figured I had about ten minutes before the guard came looking, so I rushed in and moved with vigor, directly down to contraceptives.
I grabbed a set of the morning after pills and then blew back by the condoms to pick up a box of them. I smiled, imagining sleeping with Giorgio again, then just to be safe, I grabbed a few pregnancy tests and brought them all to the front register.
The cashier laughed. “Hoping for one outcome, planning for the other, huh?”
I forced out an awkward chuckle. “Heh, yeah.”
“Well, good luck.” She ran my items over the scanner and I paid, then I shoved the bag into my purse, a bigger one I’d worn to accommodate my needs, and rushed back over to the flower shop before the guard even knew I was gone.
I did duck into the bathroom briefly just to take the pill. I checked the box to confirm that 48-hours was the effectiveness period, and was disappointed at the 24-48 hour window presented instead. With a shake of my head, I pushed all fears from my mind. I did what I had to do, got the pill and some other materials just in case, and I had to believe that everything would be just fine.
14
Giorgio
Ihadn’t heard from Natalia in a couple of days, which was making me a little nervous. We’d been very clear about the fact that we were both in favor of what happened with us, and in favor of it happening again, but she didn’t return that night, and I hadn’t seen her yet that day either. Her beautiful face and lithe body squirming in my hands were all I could think about. The noises she made, how good she felt wrapped around me.
That was easily why I lost my sense of judgment and slipped up so badly when it came to protection. Obviously, she and I were innocircumstance whatsoever to end up pregnant. As I laid in bed thinking about her, my lower region started to give. It remembered her heat and wanted more.
Hopefully, she’d come back soon.
Not five minutes after the thought crossed my mind, there was a knock at my door. My heart leaped a little bit, and I knew I was going to have to take some time to deal with therestof my feelings for Natalia. She wasn’t just sex to me, that was for sure.
“Come in,” I gruffed out.
I sat up in bed and ran a hand through my hair, trying to look as put together as I could in the situation we'd found ourselves in. I wasn'tasscratched up now that I wasn't actively being tortured, and I was able to keep myself clean with the attached bathroom.
How difficult would it be for Natalia to sneak in some cologne?
The door finally opened, but it was not my beautiful new lover as hoped it would be, in fact, it was the exact opposite.
