CHAPTER 9 (Fool me twice, shame on us)
ROBERTO: I stared straight into his face. It resembled Ian’s but is was not him. The eyes were too green, the jaw to set, the look in his eyes, frightening. I know he will come for me, and I will wait.
IAN: Breno, give me the day with Eloa, and the dogs, after that you are free to go after Roberto, I won’t stop you.”
BRENO: “Deal.”
IAN: I placed the camera and the tapping devices under my seat, Breno will need it later. I drove to Eloa. Breno faded into the background, and I was me completely. The day was fantastic. The sun shone brighter, the breeze felt cooler, the hamper I had ordered was just right. I played with Jesse and Jordo until we dropped. I lay my head on Eloa’s lap, she dried my face. Not once did she comment on my clothes, or nag at me to roll up my sleeves. She accepted me for whom I was. Marisa never wiped the sweat off my brow, she would nag on hot days, that I need to change my suit, until I told her off. I said to her, would you wear a bikini to theatre? After that she never commented on my suits. I am a happy man.
Eloa poured me a glass of wine. I smelt it then sipped it. She frowned. “I have never drunk wine in my life, there are so many firsts with you. I have never been inside a mansion until I met you, I have never in my life played with a dog, never mind two, and I have never had a picnic in the park. I run here most mornings, but I have never just sat and listened to the river…..” I looked up at her, the tears glistened in her eyes. “Oh honey, don’t cry.” I wiped her tears away. We kissed, it was mind blowing perfection. I would never disrespect her. I held her face, and the kiss deepened, I could feel Breno pull further away, to give me this. She slid her hand into my shirt, I could feel my pulse throbbing, her hand gently roamed over my abdomen. She touched my scares, no one has ever touched my scares. Her fingers fluttered over them as she tried to take the pain away, new tears filled her eyes. A tear escaped from mine, she kissed it away, the sensuality in that kiss rocked my existence. “May I look?”
I swallowed. “Eloa, honey, I was married for almost twenty-one years, and my wife, never saw them, she never saw me naked, she never knew about these scares, I wouldn’t allow her to touch me.”
“Ian, I am not your wife. I am a stranger, a human being, a woman that is so attracted to you, I could lose myself in you and never come up for air. I am not her. Hi it’s me Eloa, I would really like to meet you Ian Alvesio. All of you.” For the first time in my life I gave in. “Do it, honey unbutton my shirt.”
Eloa’s touch was feather light, I became so aroused she giggled, it was the most alluring sound I have ever heard. When she reached the last button, I held my breath. My pulse was throbbing in my ears, I would not break eye contact. She pushed the one side open then the other. She placed both her hands on my torso, touching each muscle, each scare individually. My muscles contracted under her touch. Damn I have a six pack, not too bad old man. “You are gorgeous, sculpted by the hand of Deus.” She moved me so I could see her. She unbuttoned her shirt, I really was going to let loose, right there and then. Then I stopped. Her abdomen, was full of tiny cut marks, some ragged, others very fine. “Who did this to you?”
“My Dad, and you?”
“My Mama.” I poured us another glass of wine, and I purged, so did she, we mirrored each other’s lives. In her case her Dad was the monster, in my case my Mama. “What did you do when it got too much?”
“I was sixteen. I pushed him off the top storey, he was waiting for me on my balcony. His last words were, come here bitch, and suck my cock. I pushed him, and I watched as his head burst open when it hit the ground. I packed a bag, I told my Mãe, to clean up the mess she created. And I left, I met my husband a few years ago, but I couldn’t be intimate with him, one night he lost his temper, he beat me, and he raped me. I cut his brakes. He died in a burning car, I watched, I apologise for lying, when I said I was divorced.”
“Please don’t. My turn. I came home from Prom. Mama, was high and drunk, she told me to take my clothes off, it was dirty. I told her I would wash my own clothes, she called me bastard, since I can remember, she told me my Dad died, because he hated me, that his death and her suffering was my fault. I strangled her to death. Eloa, I can’t really recall doing it.” We spoke for another hour, the electricity growing between us, to a point of no return. “Grab the basket, get Jesse and Jordo, I will drive.” Eloa let the dogs to the back yard. I looked for Fuffy, and prayed she was too busy catching birds or mice or both. We went to her bedroom. I closed the door. Breno was nowhere in my head. She undressed me, and I undressed her. I became bashful and turned my back on her, she kissed every scare, right down to my buttocks. I did the same to her. Then we looked at each other. Really looked, she was not as badly scared as I am, but her body is covered. The love making, my word. I have never experienced anything like it, I was so sweaty, so was she, but I revelled in it, I revelled in her. I was in love. I asked her if she would marry me, next year? “Why wait? We can discover each other while we are married, why wait, I want you Ian, I need you, I want this, I need you to teach me, make me a woman.” I would echo each of her words. We made love again, without having a shower, and the meaning of being intimate became clear to me. I have found my soulmate. “I have found my Soulmate.” Eloa whispered in my ear. She lay naked in my arm, her fingers playing over my scares.
“Bitch.” I laughed, we both burst out laughing like it’s the most natural thing in the world. She drew us a bubble bath, and we made love again. This was a first for both of us. “Ian, please accept my words from where they come, I love you. You are sexy, gorgeous, dynamic, funny and brilliant, and gorgeous.” We laughed again. I didn’t want to leave, I wanted to stay in this wondrous world. Breno told me to stay. So I stayed. Eloa let the dogs in, for the first time, I walked around the house in only my boxers. She in her panties and my shirt. Jesse and Jordo jumped on me, the licked me, we played. “That is how I feel about you, Ian Alvesio, what I feel for you is unconditional, as the love those two monkeys has for you.” I tear ran down my face, Jesse licked it. “Eloa, I never want to leave.”
“Then don’t, I know a very proficient Real estate agent, whom will get your house sold in no time. Move in here, while we register to get married. Why wait, meu amor?” I agreed, she would put the house on the market the next day, and we would decide what we wanted to keep from my house, and get the movers on Saturday.
We lay on the bed, the dogs by our feet. I was rubbing Jordo’s belly with my foot, while Jesse used my leg as a pillow. “Eloa, there is something I need to tell you. No secrets. Before I marry you, you have the right to know me or to rebuke me.” I could feel Breno holding his breath in my head. “Go on honey, I have something I need to confess as well, so let’s get this nasty business out of the way.”
“There is another person that lives in my body, he is my protector, he is the one that killed Mama, his name is Breno, he popped into me when I was seventeen.” She lifted her head, her eyes sparkled with excitement. “Can I meet him?”
“I can ask him, he gives me privacy when I am with you, I can hardly feel him, I will ask.” Eloa instantly noticed the changes. She touched his face. “Your eyes are greener, your jaw so set, the look in your eyes, don’t fear me, Breno, I am a friend, and I want to protect Ian as much as you do. Look he has his shirt off, I am not his enemy.”
BRENO: “Eloa, don’t touch me like that, I am not Ian. He told you I am here to protect him, I will never impose on your relationship.” Ian assured me it’s okay. I am you, and you are me.
ELOA: “Ian can Breno kiss me?” I thought about that. I asked Breno if he wanted to kiss her, he said undoubtedly yes. “He says yes. Eloa.” “What do you say Ian?” “Hell he is who I am, kiss the man.”
BRENO: Eloa is beautiful, attractive, stunning. She has the most beautiful mouth. I leaned in to kiss her, I waited for Ian to protest, but he got very aroused. We kissed, it was different to Ian and her, I am the Alpha, and highly passionate. She wanted me, I asked Ian if it’s alright with him. He gave me the hypothetical thumbs up. “Teach me Breno.” Oh he taught us both. The dogs ran out of the room when Eloa screamed. This was in ecstasy. Breno did things with his tongue, that made me think the damn thing was a gymnast. It was good, it was amazing. I counted the times Eloa climaxed, fifteen times. Damn Breno. When they were spent, she held up the hand mirror for me. “Look at Breno, he is the opposite of you, yet he is you, I can’t explain it, look for yourself.” I did and I saw what she meant. He was dashing, the green in his eyes were magnetic. His self-confidence, made him alluring.
“Damn you hot Breno.” “You not too bad yourself Ian.” Even my voice changed. I liked the man in the mirror, he didn’t make me feel insecure, nor inferior. He made me a babe magnet. “I will step away, thank you, Ian for trusting me, and for sharing your love with me.”
ELOA: “I am so in love I feel dizzy. I see Breno stepped into the other room. We had a deal. After I killed meu Pia, I had to survive, no honey never sex, you know why, I became I thief, I stole to survive. I have not been caught, but I stole, and I became really good at it. I went to study computers, I became a IT-specialist, I can hack any computer, anytime and anywhere. I read about you in the papers, sorry honey. And I knew you were not guilty, so I hacked Roberto’s computer, and I changed the names. Breno called me, he knew about my double life, are you angry?”
IAN: “No, not at all, I am fascinated, I am pleased, and I am so happy I could burst. Our first meeting was it planned?”
ELOA: “No, not at all, I called for a driver, and I got you, I didn’t know that much about you, nor that Breno is a part of you, no honestly, I helped Breno, I would never have associated him, this closely with you. So who killed her?”
IAN: “Breno did, it was an accident. He really didn’t mean to.”
ELOA: “Tell me, tell me about the other’s.”
IAN: “I don’t know that much. Breno takes control. Why do you want to know?”
ELOA: “So I know how to protect you.”
BRENO: “I found a camera in the sala, just above the television, and Ian’s house phone was tapped, it’s Roberto, he has been after him since Marisa died, I will tell you about the others, but I warn you, Eloa, if you double cross Ian, you will be on the list.” Eloa assured me, that was not her intension. So I told her in detail about the murders. She listened, and gave me advice. We did it again. Years of being deprived, yeah, it was amazing she is amazing. I think Ian fell asleep. It was only her and I.
“We got him….” I jumped up. Fuffy jumped off my chest. “Honey, calma, you had a nightmare.”
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