No matter what he did, she had an innate dignity, a self-possession he couldn’t break through, and that drove him crazy as well. She continued to serve him professionally, she seemed to respond to him personally, she acted the submissive role as well as he could have wished, but there was a level on which he didn’t reach her at all.
Sometimes he would try to see others. He’d take a date to a public event and sometimes back to his apartment, and even when he seduced them, he saw her, he felt her, he wanted her. Alcina. She had an effect on him far greater than any woman he’d known.
Then he gave up the pretense and took her whenever he needed her, which was often, sometimes several times a day. He couldn’t get enough of her.
He thought about talking to Daviel about the situation, but deci
