But mooooom (closed to Nancy)

[longterm]

Cesare Borgia thought that Nancy and he were getting along well. In fact, he thought they were getting along very well indeed. They had shared drinks at this point, joked about the failures of their past lovers and even sassed about each other's prowess on occasion. Overall, things were going great.

So Cesare is....surprised when Nancy comes storming into his office with a look on her face that tells him nothing good is going to come of this.

"Please, Nancy. I'm in a meeting..." he says, sitting at his desk, gesturing at the young, beautiful woman opposite him. It's an excuse though. Quite frankly, he has no interest in the conversation that Nancy is about to throw at him, even if he has no idea just yet what it's actually going to be about.

(It's become gently NSFW in this thread btw with mentions of sex.)

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[longterm]

"Why not?" Cesare asks immediately. "You should. You're a kept woman now after all." At least that's how Cesare sees it.

"And if you don't like them then you shouldn't wear them. I hold no delusions that you're wearing those shoes for my benefit." She likes them. Otherwise why else does she have them on? That was part of what made their relationship work while it did: he lavished her with gifts and she coyly pretended they were too much but wore them anyway because she loved them. That was what was happening, right?

[stauncherhearted]

Nancy narrows her eyes. Apparently then by his definition she's almost always been a "kept woman".

"I don't like to. It's a simple as that." She smirks tightly. "And I do like all the gifts you've given me. If I didn't like them, I wouldn't wear them, I'd just fence 'em off."

[longterm]

"I know you like them," Cesare says easily. Of course she bloody does. "Not only do you wear them, you still wear them." If anything they've somewhat become wardrobe staples. Who says Cesare doesn't have taste?

"Don't act like it's such a damn hardship to receive gifts."

[stauncherhearted]

"It's not! Did I say it was? Because it's not!" But she never asked for them, was the thing. Cooper gifted her things as well, but she did ever ask for things. Of course, Cooper was incredibly rich and liked caring for her. He wanted to spend the money on her.

Nancy leans back. "It doesn't matter- point is, this thing with Lydia is going to be a complete and total disaster."

[longterm]

Oh no. The conversation has managed to get back round to him. He frowns. He doesn't like this one bit.

"You don't know that. You just think that because I have a past..." A past filled with a plethora of women (and a few men), whom he's all treated.....ok. Not great. But ok. Definitely not quite like the princess Lydia might be expecting.

"I understand that I need to treat this carefully." He's not an idiot ok.

[stauncherhearted]

Nancy gives him another arch look. She holds it for a moment, and then sighs.

"Fine. But don't say I never warned you."

She sits down, the moment the words leave her lips. "D'you have anything t'drink?"

[longterm]

Cesare rolls his eyes slightly but smiles. Good. They're getting back to their regular relationship. Now that Nancy is done judging him, they can actually enjoy themselves.

"Who do you think I am?" Nancy can call him a foolish cad all she likes but as soon as she implies he doesn't have wine, she has gone too far. It doesn't take long before he's already handing her a glass of scotch as he takes a sip of his own.

[stauncherhearted]

Nancy grins over at him and allows herself to relax a bit, laughing. "That's what I thought." She takes a drink of the top-shelf scotch.