We take our places, I in my chair, she in the practiced pose: feet neatly tucked under her bum, hands on top of each thigh. Such delightful elegance in the curve of her upright back, the graceful arch from her bare shoulder, interrupted only by the strap of her lacy bra, along her neck up to the jewel dangling from her ear lobe. Her chest rises and falls softly and I find my own breath falling into rhythm with hers as I watch. Her admirer, her guide, her lover.
The silence in the room is intimacy itself. It speaks of how well we know each other by now. Both of us shift imperceptibly, her lingerie and my crisp shirt and pants rustle softly. The jewels dangling from her ear lobes jingle soft music. There is time and space to enjoy each other, to savour the scent and aura of our connection.
We have both waited for this all day. Amid the rush of work, just prior to lunch, a text arrived. "I have a surprise for you tonight when you get home x". My attempts across the afternoon to learn anything more were defiantly batted away without words, a "you'll see", a winking kiss emoji; the shushing finger to lips signalled how determined she was about this.
Back in the present quiet of the room, her wistful eyes look up at me, my dark ones questioning. In the stillness she does not need to ask permission this time. This is her show. Coyly her gaze turns downward, between her legs. A hand moves, grazing up her thigh, across the suppleness of her belly, then down again with a soft swish, a flat palm, feminine fingers snaking across the front of lacy black panties and resting there. She waits, fingers poised. She's teasing me as much as herself.
Her eyes look up again. I know implicitly what they say: "Daddy, I have something to show you".