The cement grey cityscape shimmered off the telescope lens as it shifted to ground level. His eye on the view finder, he sharpened his focus, and found the shadowy fold between her legs. Outside Starbucks, she startled. Magenta first-date lips curled, and flirty creases formed around her eyes. Were her Lululemons too tight?
Her I-phone flashed his profile photo for an audio-call. "Hello." It was the first time he'd heard her voice. He apologized for the last-minute switch-up, but he was expecting a package and couldn't join her for the coffee date. "Can't the concierge take it?" she asked.
"It's important. The pass-over must be in person."
The freshness of her lip-cover wearied as she bit her lower lip. Her head and shoulders sank, and for a beat he let the silence become heavy and dense. "Why don't you join me chez condo? We'll hang out here and get our drink later." She hesitated. "We both know you made the time." He texted his address.
She squinted up at the mirror-silver high-rise, and crossed the concrete plaza to the polished granite entrance. He stroked the steel handcuffs hanging open from his belt. His dick hardened.
She appeared as pixels on the intercom. "Can you come down to meet me?"
"No, it's unit 25B. You come to me." He buzzed her up.
Spying her inches away through the peep hole, he watched her knock. Silence. She knocked again. Another pause. A nervous reflex triggered a shiver. She turned to leave, and in that instant he yanked the door open, gripped her mouth, and dragged her in. The door slammed shut, and the springlock clicked. Pressing her cheek against the door, he brushed his lips against her ear. "All the time we messaged, I knew I would have you."
She was flushed and breathless, but she didn't call
Red
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He handcuffed her and turned her to face him.
"I'm going to undress you, understand?" She nodded.
Squatting, he reached to pull off her boot but it held tight. He wedged his thumbs in to stretch the leather. Bracing from his haunches and tugging with both hands, he teetered. She giggled. His bulging eyes shot her a warning look. "You stupid Slut! Everyone knows Blundstones are supposed to be worn loose!" At that, her foot slackened, the boot flew off, and he fell backwards onto his ass.
Bowing, he sucked in a breath and mindfully exhaled, concentrating on his floorboards, mahogany planks, salvaged from Lake Bayano in Panama. Robert the Roomba cruised this light-filled, minimally-furnished, soaring executive suite daily and yesterday's cleaners had buffed the floor to a pristine finish . . . but . . .
What the fucking hell!
A spider crawled by. Folding into himself, he trembled and heaved, gasped and snorted, and then exploded into peals of laughter. OK . . . she could laugh too. He smiled and winked, tore off a sock, twirled it, and tossed it over his shoulder. But only for a moment.
Ceremoniously lifting her sweater, as though it were a veil, he drew it over her head, down her back, and left it hanging from the handcuffs. He noticed her eyes were hazel with flecks of green and when she blinked long black eyelashes flicked her bangs. Her breasts ballooned over her black lace bra, barely concealing her nipples and the outline of her areolae. When he unhooked it, her breasts, pendulous but still ample, relaxed. His cheeks tingled as he imagined burying his face into them.