Casanova: Marriage of convenience, or is it?
Three months had past since the insistent in the library. Giacomo was aware Rocco and Henriette along with Grimani had heard him and Astra. He was relieved that only Rocco had seen what was happening and not the others.
Astra did not know that the others had heard then and Rocco had seen, and she never would, he knew she would be horrified, so he decided to spare her the embarrassment.
Plus he knew Astra had been feeling ill over the last couple of weeks, he was worried about her and had even confronted her telling her so. Astra had insisted he did not need to worry, that she would call for a Doctor to come and see her.
Henriette who was now five months pregnant and clearly showing; had been acting rather coolly around Giacomo since the library insistent as Rocco had dubbed it.
Giacomo was getting sick of the frosty reception from Henriette. It all came to a head when Giacomo had been looking for Astra in the library wanting to know how it had gone with the Doctor, as she had insisted on seeing the Doctor on her own.
But instead he found Henriette instead of his wife. Henriette had snapped when Giacomo had asked if she had seen Astra any where as he was worried about her and wanted to know how things had gone with the Doctor that morning.
"Why don't you find her your self?" she added coolly "after all how should I know, you're her husband, I'm just the sister in law."
Giacomo glared and snapped back "that's it, I've had. I'm sick and tiered of your attitude. Tell me what is with the frosty reception you are insisting upon throwing in my face for the last few months?"
Henriette glared at him. Giacomo returned the glared and added "I realise your emotions must be all over the place due to your pregnancy, but the way you've been towards to me lately is due to more then just your hormones play havoc, admit it."
Henriette spat "here of all places you had to be caught having your dirty way with her. Honestly Giacomo a library. Couldn't you have cooled your over sexual apatite?"
Giacomo gave Henriette a withering glare and replied coldly "oh and finally jealousy rears it ugly head. Well hello, it took you long enough. Well, excuse me and join the club darlin."
He added with disgust "Well, how hell do you think I felt having Grimani that conniving bastard rubbing your pregnancy in my face at every chance he gets damn it?"
He ranted "and you just sit there and let him bloody well do it. I'm by no means asking you to go against your husband, heavens forbid" he sniped sarcastically. "Though a little compassion always went along way darlin, don't you think?"
Henriette snarled "what about you and Astra going at it in the library where anyone could hear or walk in on you? Where someone did hear and did walk in on the both of you going at it like some sex obsessed pig having a quick fumble in an ally way after paying your whore her fee."
"HOW DARE YOU?" Giacomo bellowed. He snarled "how bloody dare you refer to my wife as a whore? It is not as if I and Astra deliberately decided to do normal husband and wife activities, just to get back at you."
Giacomo hissed "for your information that was the first time Astra and I had been intimate since our wedding night. I screwed up by bloody having you on my mind whilst I was supposed to be doing my husbandly duties."
He added sarcastically "but no I had you on my mind and ended up calling out your name after I shot my load inside of her. It was her wedding night, but worst of all it was her first time."
He finished sadly "damn it Henriette it was her first time, her first time was made a mockery of all because I could not bloody get you off my blasted mind."
He concluded "I bet Grimani never called out another woman's name whilst in the wedding bed did he? So no you can't possibly know how used and inferior she must feel compared to you."
Giacomo finally commented before exiting the library "so don't you bloody dare have ago at me and get all jealous. If anyone here has the right to be feeling jealous and angry, then it is Astra."
Giacomo left Henriette sitting in the library in tears. She had not realised how selfish she had been. She was horrified when Giacomo revealed it was her name he had called out when he had taken Astra's virginity on their wedding night.
The poor woman, she felt terrible. She could never begin to imagine how agonizing and humiliating that must have been. Worse of all it had been her first time and her wedding night on top of that.
Even though she had spent her wedding night with a man she did not love, at least he had not called out another woman's name. She supposed she should be thankful for that at least.