Chapter 4 - Longing For Her

Miguel woke up in the morning, around seven o'clock. It was Saturday, the weekend and no work, and he was usually sleeping until 12 o'clock then, but today just couldn't sleep anymore and wasn't able to get up either. Miguel felt so exhausted as if he wasn't sleeping at all, or someone had literally sucked the energy out of him. He lied down on the bed for an hour, lost in thought. Pain, suffering and despair that he felt just yesterday now have vanished as if they had been sucked out with energy. All Miguel had before his eyes was the face of this mysterious stranger who had visited him during the night. Or was it a dream? But it felt so real... He was sure that could feel the silk of her skin, every fiery kiss, breath, remembered the rose scent of that fluffy hair cascading down her bare back and shoulders... And most of all, Miguel felt as she took his hard cock in her mouth, sucking persistently and making him come quickly, despite all his efforts to prolong this delightful moment. No, it couldn't just be a dream.

Miguel lied down there for another hour, until nine, when suddenly heard the doorbell. He got out of bed with a slight difficulty, because was still weak. As Miguel somehow made his way to the hall, he heard Juan's familiar voice from outside the door.

- I told you, Mari, he's asleep at this time. We'll be back around twelve, okay?- his friend said pleadingly.

- But I can't take it anymore. I need to know about how is he. You didn't even see the look on his face yesterday when you talked about our engagement. I'm really worried about him.- Maria Rosa's answered with a worried voice.

She is here. Wonderful, just what he needed right now. However, the pain he felt at hearing her voice was much less than before.

-"Maybe it won't be that bad..."- thought Miguel, walking slowly to the door and lazily opening it.

- Finally! You're alive!- Maria rushed toward him, hugging him lightly.

Juan cleared his throat slightly. Maria pulled away and only now noticed that Miguel was in a barely tied robe, showing a naked torso and shorts. She became a bit confused and looked at Juan, who in turn turned to Miguel.

- You know, Mari told me that our message clearly broke you. We wanted to check out how you feel and maybe cheer you up somehow.- he explained the reason for their sudden visit. There was concern in Juan's eyes as well.

- Exactly. How are you feeling?- Maria Rosa looked at him with sympathetic eyes. So she really felt guilty about his despair... But he really didn't want to make her unhappy, especially if Maria was about to marry a man she loved.

- I'm fine.- Miguel replied and somehow today these words came to him with remarkable ease, because that was what he really felt, even smiled broadly at the end.

Maria Rosa and Juan looked at him with a slight shock on their faces showing that his smile must have looked as sincere as ever.

- Really?- Juan choked out first, giving him an incredulous look.

- Yes, really. Anything else?- Miguel asked with an extraordinary ease, which he himself was amazed at.

- So that means you'll be at our wedding?- Maria asked shyly, handing him a nicely decorated invitation with a date, time and place.

- Sure.- Miguel took the invitation from her hands, smiling like never before. At one point, he saw in his mind this woman who had visited him last night, and to his great surprise, it even occurred to him that Maria Rosa could not compare with her in any detail.

- So we will be pleased to see you at our wedding. We'll go now, we've got a lot to do.- Juan said, dragging Maria with him.

- See you later.- they both said as a goodbye.

- Bye.- Miguel answered them and closed the door. He placed the invitation on the table and then returned to the bed. There he only thought about the mysterious stranger, hoping that would meet her again. And, as absurd as it sounded, Miguel was a strange feeling that he would see her more than once.

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Later, Maria Rosa and Juan filled out invitations and addressed envelopes to guests who they could not hand them in personally.

- You think your father is coming? When we visited him and you introduced me as future fiance and wife, he was not happy.- Maria spoke up, addressing the envelope to the future father-in-law.

- He won't do it to me.- replied Juan shortly.- Maybe you don't meet his standards, because you were born into a poor family, but he owes me that after divorcing my mother, he was not interested in my fate throughout my childhood and only showed up when I was supposed to go to high school... My father has to come.- he added, frowning slightly. Still, Juan was worried because he couldn't be sure. Maybe his father will stop contacting him again? With this man, any scenario was possible and that at times it annoyed Juan, because he always felt like being on an emotional roller coaster. His father was generally a weird man and it was hard to tell if he cared about you or not. Juan always received conflicting signals at each meeting with him.

- I hope it will be as you say.- Maria said softly, seeing his expression. Perhaps she had met his father only once, but immediately realized what kind of man he was, and besides, Juan had warned her about what he was like. She wanted to make some sort of understanding with Juan's father, but it seemed impossible, at least for the time being. Maria did not like this situation because she usually got along easily with people, even the difficult ones. Juan's father, however, was the only exception to this rule so far.

Maria sighed slightly and then went back to addressing the envelopes, so there was a longer silence between them as they both focused on their task.

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Miguel finally got out of bed later in the afternoon, unable to bear the persistent thoughts of that mysterious woman. He did not knew why felt such a great sadness... suffered... Like after the departure of Maria Rosa, or maybe even more, but it didn't make sense. After all, Miguel didn't know this woman at all, anything about her, he spent only one night with her (but what a night!), so why so much suffering? Everything made no sense to him, including his life. Even after Maria Rosa left, Miguel did not have such a strong sense of nonsense and suicidal thoughts. How was it possible that such a short time with someone made him obsessed with this mysterious stranger?

However, Miguel quickly realized that he would never find her, because didn't even know where to look. The happiness that filled him since this morning suddenly vanished somewhere. Miguel left the meal he had hardly prepared for himself on the table, got dressed, left the apartment, ran downstairs and finally found himself in front of the tenement in which he lived, then got into the car and started driving immediately.

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Nadir was sitting motionless on the couch in her cave. She had no idea what to do and was constantly thinking about that man and couldn't stop. Nadir had definitely made a huge mistake - seeing her prey awake, she should have disappeared, evaporated like camphor. How could she let him see her after waking up? Nadir lost both of them by her irresponsible behavior. If Lilith found out about it (if she wanted to browse Nadir's mind), she would surely kill him, because that was the only way to cure a succubus of this idiotic addiction, as her "mother" called it. For Lilith, it was a defect that had occurred in the creation of succubus, and she couldn't get rid of it, even though tried many times. Therefore, she repeatedly told each succubus to remember the rules and not let their victim see themselves while him being awake. Lilith also had any such incidents reported to her immediately so that she could, as soon as possible, get rid of the man who saw one of the succubus after waking up.

Nadir was never in such a situation, for she was the most cautious of all succubus and always felt very proud of it. She knew Lilith would be more than usual disappointed to hear that she was the one who had let herself be carried away by the lust and forgot to be careful. Her, Nadir, the most careful succubus in the Underworld! This very thought effectively kept her from reporting what had happened. Besides, Nadir had the strange feeling that she didn't want this man dead. Something was clearly wrong with her, if she cared about the fate of some miserable human being.

Unable to bear it, Nadir got up and left her cave. She wanted to go to the surface as soon as possible to find this man and decided that there was no point in fighting this "addiction", because mind and body gave her no choice anyway.

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After half an hour of silence, Maria couldn't stand it. She was concerned about Miguel's behavior, though couldn't explain why. However, Maria always trusted intuition, which never failed her.

- Juan, I'm really worried.- she began shyly.

- About what again?- her fiance asked her fondly.

- This morning Miguel was acting weird. He was suddenly so... happy.- Maria replied.

- I guess that's a good thing, we should be happy.- Juan smiled.

- But he was completely broken until yesterday evening.- Maria said, raising her tone a little.

- Maybe something happened that made him so happy? Maybe he fell in love?- Juan said, pleasantly surprised at his discovery, which would perfectly explain his friend's sudden change in behavior.

- You really think so?- Maria asked, slowly analyzing the option.

- Yes. Don't worry about him, Miguel will probably introduce his new girlfriend to us soon.- Juan replied, smiling broadly.

Maria also smiled. She believed that Miguel was simply in love. Maria wanted to believe it so much, that thought made sense and made her very happy, because he fully deserved happiness after suffering so much because of her.