To The Cafe Love!

Chapter Two

As we taxied out to the runway the co-pilot closed the cock-pit door leaving us alone. Then Viktor said: "Glory, I know that I would like to start spending time with you, but I can't expect you to just open your life up to a stranger. If you don't mind, I would like to tell you a little about myself, and maybe learn a little about you while we are in the air." I answered: "Viktor, I would love to know more about you. It seems every time I turn around you keep coming up with another surprise! I will do my best to answer any questions you may have about me."

Shortly we were in the air and headed west, then Viktor said: "Well Glory, I might as well get started. As you know, I am in the jewelry business. I have eight stores along the west coast from Los Angeles to Spokane. I have houses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Spokane and one in New York City to stay in when I have to go there to buy jewelry. Since I will be spending quite a bit of time in Sacramento, I want to buy a house there too. Will you help me pick one out?" I did not expect Viktor to ask me something like this and said: "Viktor, I don't think I will be able to help much. I have never owned a house, I have always rented apartments!"

Viktor leaned forward and said quietly: "Glory, I know more than enough for both of us when it comes to buying and selling. I am asking you to help me buy a home, not just another house to stay in. I want you to help me find a house that a Lady would like to call her home! I am planning on making Sacramento my permanent residence, but I am not sure whether I should buy a place in the city or out in the country. I am tired of running all over the west coast without any place to call 'Home'." I got up and sat down beside Viktor and said: "You sound very sad and lonely Viktor, it is hard for me to believe that a rich Gentleman like yourself would need my help in buying a house that any woman would love to live in! Tell me what this is really about, even a Gentleman does not treat a Lady the way you have been treating me, just because he wants to take her to dinner!"

Viktor sat next to me and didn't say a word, at first I thought I had made him mad. Then he said: "You are right Glory, I am a sad and lonely man, and I did not ask you out tonight because I needed your help buying a house. I have spent all of my adult life making money and buying toys like this jet. I have never been married and I have no children. I have not even had many girlfriends, all I have is my money and toys!" "I have everything a man could want, except for what is really important, someone to share everything I have worked for with. It is time I began to make some big changes in my life, or everything I have worked so hard for will have been for nothing!" Then Viktor was silent again for a few moments, and I began to wonder what kind of man I had let myself get mixed up with. It was beginning to look like Viktor had walked into my cafe and decided I was going to be his wife! Whatever was going on in his head, this was not 'Love-At-First-Sight' on my part, and I was about to tell him when he began to talk again.

"Glory, I know I must sound like a rich man who thinks he can buy anything with his money. I am not like that, although I could buy any car, boat or plane that I want. My money cannot buy true friends, and when I am ready, my money cannot buy a Lady's love! I have been telling this to you, because for some reason when I saw you in 'Cafe Love', I knew we were meant to be true friends, we were meant to share each other's joys and sorrows. Glory, do you think there is a chance you would like to share my life with me? Could you use a close friend, a friend who will always be there for you when you need him?" I sat there next to Viktor and looked at him, not knowing what to say.

After a moment I slowly said: "Viktor, I have dreamed of, and longed for a handsome man like yourself ever since I was a girl. When you walked into my cafe, I wondered if my dreams had just come true. At first I thought you were just another rich man who thought he could buy me with his money; it looks like I was wrong. You make it very hard to say: 'No!'. Viktor, I really do need a man in my life. I accept your friendship Viktor, and who knows, maybe we were meant to share our lives." For some reason, I felt that I could trust Viktor. there was something very different about him, he was not like the other men that I had known. My eyes began to fill with tears and I softly said: "Viktor, will you hold me?"

Viktor gently took me in his arms and asked: "What is wrong Glory?" I laid my head on his chest and continued to softly cry for a while, it felt so good to have a man like Viktor hold me. Then in between sniffing and wiping my eyes I said: "Viktor, I was badly hurt when I was a girl. Although I have always had male friends, I have not let a man touch me since then; until you kissed me tonight. I don't know why Viktor, but there is something inside me that keeps saying you are not like the other Guys, that I can trust you. I haven't even known you for one day, but I feel like you have been my best friend for years!" Viktor didn't say anything, instead he reached into his breast pocket and handed me his handkerchief, and just held me for a while.

Then he finally spoke: "Glory, I will never hurt you! I hope you will let me prove this to you. I know there are a lot of mean Guys who go around abusing women, but I am not one of them. As I said, there have not been many ladies in my life, but I do my best to treat a Lady like the Gentlewoman that she is! If you will give me a chance Glory, I will show you what it is like to have a man for your closest and dearest friend. I am sure you have heard the same thing from a hundred other Guys, a beautiful woman like yourself always does. Glory, will you trust me? Will you believe that I will never hurt you or abuse you in any way?"

Although I had stopped crying, it was still hard to talk. I took a deep breath and wiped my eyes, then said: "I do trust you, and believe you Viktor. I don't understand it Viktor, but there is something about you that makes me want to be with you, to be held by you, and even touched by you. No other man has been able to do this to me. I don't know what it is about you Viktor that makes me feel this way, but I hope it never stops!" Viktor turned me a little so that I was looking at him and said: "Glory, I am glad that you feel this way. No woman has been able to make me want her the way that I want you. You are so beautiful, and I know that I am already falling in love with you!"

Then he began to kiss me again, and I found myself wanting him more than I had ever wanted a man in my life. After a while, I pulled away from him and said: "Viktor, I love it when you kiss me that way, but you are making me want you so bad that if you don't stop now, I am going to start doing things I shouldn't." Viktor smiled and said : "I want you too Glory, I don't think there is a man on Earth who could resist you. If you still feel this way later, we can go as far as you want. Now we should get ready because we will be landing in San Francisco soon." In a few minutes we began to loose altitude. Sam poked his head through the cock-pit door and said: "Sir, we have clearance to land, and there is a limo waiting for you at the terminal." Before Viktor could answer the pilot called out: "Hey Boss, are we returning to Sacramento tonight?" Viktor turned to me and asked: "Can you stay for the weekend Glory?" I said: "No Viktor, if I call Susan she will take my place tomorrow morning. I will have to be back at the cafe before five tomorrow evening though." Viktor smiled and said: "Well that will have to be good enough then. Mark, Sam; get her in the hanger and then you can use your cards and go have a good night. Be ready to leave by noon tomorrow!"