As they left the restaurant and walked along the smooth path to the car park, Amanda tried to remember why she trusted the man by her side so completely. She had never met Robin before this evening, but thought it might be the air of subdued confidence he seemed to fill the space around himself with, that and the wine they had consumed over dinner.
Whatever it was, as she stepped into the back of the blacked out Mercedes, she knew he had nothing but good things planned for the evening ahead. He leant into the drivers window and whispered something to him and joined her in the back, smiling secretively, and for a moment her instinct was to run, but then she saw the look in his eyes and decided that for once her instinct was wrong.
As they turned into the driveway of the house he produced a black silk scarf from his jacket pocket. Her heart started to race in panic, but his whispered "trust me" in her ear turned it into excitement. And as he began to place it on her as a blindfold her breathing quickened.
The driver brought the car to a halt and she heard him get out to open the doors for them. Robin stepped onto the path, carefully guided her out of the car and placed his arm round her waist. He helped her up some steps to the door (4, she counted), then opened it. The smell of exotic oils drifting past her made Amanda's head spin as she was led inside and along a hallway.
When he stopped to open a door, her senses had heightened to the point she could hear the excitement in his breathing too. Now he stood close behind her, guiding her into the room and closing the door behind them. He reached up to the blindfold and slowly untied it, letting it fall to the floor.
She had to blink a few times to make sure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her as she looked round. The room was completely lit by what seemed to be hundreds of candles, obviously the source of the scents she had been smelling since Robin had opened the main door earlier as they were even stronger here.
He took her hand and she followed him to a semi-circular bed at the far wall, noticing several decorative, but obviously functional, hooks around the base as he slowly removed her dress. As it slipped to the floor Robin kissed her on the neck, the touch of his lips like feathers on her skin.
Amanda felt the kisses move to her shoulders as he removed her bra, then his mouth kissed a trail down her spine and he slid her panties off her too. His kisses on the base of her spine setting off charges through her entire body and setting off lights in her head.
Still kneeling, Robin turned her around and placed his feather-like kisses on her clean-shaven mound. His delicate touching had put every nerve ending on maximum, and the sensation of his latest kisses turned her legs to jelly. She felt herself falling back, Robin somehow managing to catch her as she went and laying her gently down in the centre of the bed.
He moved onto the bed and ran his hands slowly from her feet up to her face, tracing the contours of her body, savouring the sheen of perspiration he could feel under his fingers. Amanda sought his mouth with hers and kissed him with a passion she had never felt before, her hands loosening his clothes with what seemed like a will of their own. When he moved to help her, her pulse quickened again. The sight of his naked body taking her breath away.