Sam and Kim
In the Beginning
Sam's a gigolo. Can Kim's love,
transcend the barriers?
Mille Dynamite
© Copyright 2024 by Millie Dynamite
NOTE:
This work contains material not suitable for anyone under eighteen (18) or those of a delicate nature. This is a story and contains descriptive scenes of a graphic, sexual nature. This tale is a work of pure fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously—any resemblance to actual persons, whether living, deceased, real events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.
Chapter One:
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Colorado, 1977
The soft glow of the candles between them flickered across the linen tablecloth. Casting a ballet of light and shadow. The music in the background seemed to beat with Sam Butler's steady heartbeat. His pale blue eyes, usually bright with a confident spark, held a quiet intensity as he watched Kimberly Skye Martindale fiddle with the corner of her napkin. The air in the restaurant hummed with hushed conversations and the clinking of fine China.
And yet their table felt like a secluded world where time slowed.
"Sam, I love you," Kim said, her voice tinged with the soft twang of her Southern upbringing, a delicate strain against the backdrop of murmured dialogue.
He'd been waiting for those words, though they still managed to send a jolt through him like grabbing a life electric wire. Leaning forward, his gaze never wavered from her beautiful face. Sam replied softly with words that were less than perfect.
"Me too, baby doll."
His deep voice resonated with a sincerity that vibrated in her ears. It was more than she'd expected to hear, yet her heart ached for something deeper, something unequivocal.
With her nerves on end, Kim chewed on her lower lip, unsure what to say, as she gazed into Sam's unreadable expression. Her hair cascaded in loose waves of chestnut to her shoulders. She forced a smile, but it didn't quite reach her eyes, filled with longing and a hidden question. She sought solace in Sam's gaze, even as she struggled with conflicting emotions, needing something more from him than a short copout,
'Me too.'
"Rita says you're a gigolo," she blurted out, the words slipping past her guard and tumbling into the space between them.
Sam didn't flinch, bat an eye, or move a muscle. He simply nodded once, the movement slow and deliberate. His face, always so open and readable, closed off as if he had drawn a curtain over his thoughts.
"Is that how you can afford the Trans Am?" Her inquiry pierced the silence, which settled around them, a silence heavy with implications.
Another nod, nothing more. No smile, no cocky quip, no touch. Just the truth laid bare between the newish couple, stark and unembellished.
Kim lowered her gaze to her plate, her appetite lost amidst the swirl of emotions. They continued their meal, each bite tasting of confusion and unspoken questions, an unsatisfying flavor. Their connection, once felt as easy as breathing, now seemed strained—a ponderous tension neither could navigate.
As the minutes dragged on, Kim mechanically went through the motions of dining without conversation. In her mind, she played back the events of the evening. Sam's nonchalant confession was a presence refusing to be ignored. She grappled with the reality of Sam, who he was, and what he did for a living. And how deeply she loved and wanted him wanted to marry him.
The revelation didn't change feelings, didn't change her love; they solidified them with determination. She decided no matter what, she wouldn't let Sam push her away for any reason, least of all this one.
They ate, surrounded by the whispers of other diners. A bland whirlwind of normalcy around their bubble of complexity—until only their uncomfortable silence remained.
Sam feared he'd lost Kim, the only person, the only woman he'd ever loved.
The low hum of conversation outside the restaurant faded away as Sam opened the door to his sleek Trans Am, a silent invitation for what was to come. Anticipation between them crackled. Each step they took away from the public eye drew them nearer to the cliff of their relationship.
"What do you wanna do now?"
Sam's voice, deep and sensuous, rose above a whisper but only just. Yet it commanded her full attention.
"Go to your apartment and get to know each other extremely well," Kim said, her drawl thick with lechery. And the words tumbled out, coated in a boldness that conflicted her innocence.
Unfastening her seatbelt with a deliberate click, she leaned across the console, her lips brushing his cheek in a tender kiss, which promised so much more. Her whispers were like velvet against his ear, intimate confessions of readiness to cross the threshold into womanhood.
Sam's eyes searched hers for an answer. He searched for confirmation of what she wanted. His concern was genuine, contrasting to the man who had nodded so coolly to the truth of his profession only moments before.
"You sure about this, Kim?"
Her response came laced with a tease, a challenge to the truth of his double life.
"Do you ask all your clients that?"