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Chapter 45: Selvam’s Dilemma
Selvam and Vanitha lay naked on their bed on a lazy Saturday morning, they had just woken up cuddled together, but didn’t want to get up just yet.
She lay on her side, knees roped over Selvam’s thigh, her breasts pressed to his chest in that lazy, half-present way of people who have nothing at all to do but be together. The bedsheet was somewhere on the floor.
Selvam’s breath tickled the flyaway hairs at her temple as he drifted between light dozes and wakefulness, his palm splayed wide on her hip, fingers moving in her curves and arcs.
“Mama,” she murmured, “don’t sleep. I need to talk.”
“What is it, ma?”
She hesitated, chewing her lower lip, her gaze fixed past his shoulder to a strip of ceiling. “It’s about Yazhini.”
Vanitha pressed her face to his collarbone, voice muffled. “She’s not going to let this go,” she said. “She’s going to make it happen. Or let it happen. She’s not a little girl, and we shouldn’t insult her by acting like she is.” There was a note of pride in her voice, but also a gravity that made Selvam’s jaw tighten.
Vanitha brushed his chest hair with her fingernails, slow circles that were half-comfort, half-movement. “I want her to be ready, if… if things move in that direction.”
Selvam turns to face her, concern clouding his features “Vanitha,” he begins quietly, “why are you encouraging Yazhini to behave so boldly with me these days?”
Vanitha’s eyelids drooped, feline and sly. “She wants to be wanted by the man who raised her standards. That’s all.” She stretched, arching in a sensuous ripple that pressed her nipples to his ribs. “I think you underestimate the impact you have, sometimes. On women. On girls becoming women.”
Selvam searched her face for signs of mischief, of exaggeration, but found only a composure that was, if anything, more unnerving than her usual playfulness. “You say that like it’s a virtue, ma.”
“It is,” said Vanitha. Her fingers combed idly through the graying hairs at his sternum. “Girls are always told to hide what they want. We learn to swallow our cravings before we even know what hunger is. But that’s not what I want for Yazhini. Or for myself.”
She propped herself up on an elbow, breasts swaying, and regarded him with a frankness that made him feel, for a moment, like a boy caught gazing through the cracks in the changing room at the local pool. “I told you, didn’t I? When I first saw you, all those years ago, I wanted to know how a man like you lives. How he loves. The first time I saw you bare-chested, I thought, ‘That’s the kind of man who ruins women for other men.’ I was right, wasn’t I?”
Selvam felt a flush rise in his chest. He tried to laugh it off, but Vanitha’s hand caught his chin, steered his gaze back to hers.
“I’m not joking, mama. I want her to feel that kind of power. I want her to have the choice. Not just to be chosen.”
“Because I believe every woman should pursue what she desires, without shame or apology, mama,”
Selvam and Vanitha lay naked on their bed on a lazy Saturday morning, they had just woken up cuddled together, but didn’t want to get up just yet.
She lay on her side, knees roped over Selvam’s thigh, her breasts pressed to his chest in that lazy, half-present way of people who have nothing at all to do but be together. The bedsheet was somewhere on the floor.
Selvam’s breath tickled the flyaway hairs at her temple as he drifted between light dozes and wakefulness, his palm splayed wide on her hip, fingers moving in her curves and arcs.
“Mama,” she murmured, “don’t sleep. I need to talk.”
“What is it, ma?”
She hesitated, chewing her lower lip, her gaze fixed past his shoulder to a strip of ceiling. “It’s about Yazhini.”
Vanitha pressed her face to his collarbone, voice muffled. “She’s not going to let this go,” she said. “She’s going to make it happen. Or let it happen. She’s not a little girl, and we shouldn’t insult her by acting like she is.” There was a note of pride in her voice, but also a gravity that made Selvam’s jaw tighten.
Vanitha brushed his chest hair with her fingernails, slow circles that were half-comfort, half-movement. “I want her to be ready, if… if things move in that direction.”
Selvam turns to face her, concern clouding his features “Vanitha,” he begins quietly, “why are you encouraging Yazhini to behave so boldly with me these days?”
Vanitha’s eyelids drooped, feline and sly. “She wants to be wanted by the man who raised her standards. That’s all.” She stretched, arching in a sensuous ripple that pressed her nipples to his ribs. “I think you underestimate the impact you have, sometimes. On women. On girls becoming women.”
Selvam searched her face for signs of mischief, of exaggeration, but found only a composure that was, if anything, more unnerving than her usual playfulness. “You say that like it’s a virtue, ma.”
“It is,” said Vanitha. Her fingers combed idly through the graying hairs at his sternum. “Girls are always told to hide what they want. We learn to swallow our cravings before we even know what hunger is. But that’s not what I want for Yazhini. Or for myself.”
She propped herself up on an elbow, breasts swaying, and regarded him with a frankness that made him feel, for a moment, like a boy caught gazing through the cracks in the changing room at the local pool. “I told you, didn’t I? When I first saw you, all those years ago, I wanted to know how a man like you lives. How he loves. The first time I saw you bare-chested, I thought, ‘That’s the kind of man who ruins women for other men.’ I was right, wasn’t I?”
Selvam felt a flush rise in his chest. He tried to laugh it off, but Vanitha’s hand caught his chin, steered his gaze back to hers.
“I’m not joking, mama. I want her to feel that kind of power. I want her to have the choice. Not just to be chosen.”
“Because I believe every woman should pursue what she desires, without shame or apology, mama,”
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