I had struck a deal with a cosmetic doctor and her associate-slash-partner, whose business turned out to be procuring professional male company for rich plastic-surgery clients. In return for a paper trail explaining why the portraits on my replacement driver's license and passport would look so wildly different from my original ones, I had provided my services as an in-kind trade, and took ten mature ladies around the world, honing my craft and exercising my skills.*
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Genie's Wish Ch. 01
That commitment was over now and I would have my new IDs soon, mission accomplished, knock on wood. I made a mental note to ensure Tris wouldn't have occasion to ask to see, or look for herself, at the driver's license in my wallet, with some fat old guy's picture. I mean, I really hadn't been
that
unattractive at fifty, but I was quite sure it wasn't what Tris was signing up for, if she even were to believe that I had shed thirty years somehow.
Thinking about her freckles, curves, hazel eyes and double French braids made a bolus of testosterone or something charge my blood up. I thought it was just about time to go knock, and meet "Pigtails." I took a deep inhale and exhale to smooth out the butterflies, and gave a silent thanks to my other new fuckbuddy (not to count chickens, here, but I guess I was) who had just provided me with a pressure release.
When Livia had surprised me with sex at her work just hours earlier, the challenge to restrain my barely-adult body's hair-trigger tendencies had been ramped up exponentially. The enormous age differences, the unnaturally altered appearances, the total absence of uncertainty regarding the outcome, and my own sheer professionalism had bestowed ample powers of control on me during those gigolo dates. By contrast, my encounter with Livia was long anticipated, spontaneous, raw, and thrilling on a purely organic level. She was extremely enticing and my inhibitions had been unfettered. She had thrown herself at me and was beyond generous sexually, and I had at last completely let myself go in a way I hadn't since before my marriage, decades earlier.
What I was interested in next - tonight - was to work on seeing how far I could go with my powers of seduction. I already had extreme confidence in my ability to score. In general, but particularly with Tris. She had made the moves on me. I already knew I could go whatever distance any lady needed or cared to. And attentively, sensitively show her an extremely good time all along the way. I was sure I could steer clear of various complications and pitfalls, enhancing the carefree approach and easy manner which I find puts women's inhibitions at ease and allows their desires to blossom.
Just how much, exactly? I wondered about that, and planned to practice finding out. Of course there's no single answer, I'm not ignorant. Everybody's different. But everyone has the potential to cross lines, to dare to explore certain uncharted kinks, to take a chance at a novel shared experience, overcoming apprehension and a certain level of taboo. I sensed that enticing women to act on these dares would be a valuable skill for me to develop.
I wanted to find Tris's tentative, imagined boundaries and take her beyond them.
I got out of the car. Nobody would be pulling in, wanting the staff parking space, so I walked away from it and knocked at the front of the building. It was eight twenty two, and Tris opened up immediately. We stood there, eyeing and smiling at each other through the doorway. I waited to see what she would do, and she didn't come out. She asked me to come in "real quick" instead.
She closed the door behind me as I stepped in to the lobby. I faced her so I could see if she needed to finish some last thing up, or what, and she just stood in front of me, diminutive but curvy, cheerful and curious. "You showed up!" she chirped.
My dark eyes crinkled, and I promised, "Wouldn't miss it for anything, Tris!" Her eyelashes lowered, fluttering over her hazel eyes, half a performance, half genuinely pleased. Knowing she was doing it half-on-purpose for my sake, I watched, like she was a superstar whose tickets I had paid big money for to hear her sing my favorite songs.
The attention actually made her crack up slightly. "You're a pushover, you silly!"
I grinned good-naturedly and let my own eyes twinkle. I pitched my voice low, and breathed, "You're just cuu-uute. I love your hair, by the way."
It was a really well-done color job. Fresh, too, as there were no roots discernable beneath the deep-crimson gloss. She hadn't had the eyebrows done to match, though, and they betrayed a not-too-dark, rich brown natural color. I expected the carpet, if any, to match, and my eyes drifted down as if I could x-ray-vision a peek at it.
Of course I couldn't. Nor could I conceal my look.
"Down, boy!" Tris giggled, but she stepped forward and stood close to me. She put her hands up on the front of my shoulders, a decent reach for her below-average stature, as my own is on the tall side.
I joked, "Hey, you're blockin' the view!" But looked into her eyes.
I shouldn't call it a trick, but there's a thing I've learned to do, to help women feel seen and appreciated. I pushed everything out of my mind except for the mindful present. What was happening right here, right now. The unfiltered senses filled my awareness and I made myself with-her. I'm pretty sure my eyes were dilating as I was looking into hers, and I know that warm blood was flowing to my shoulders where I felt the soft pressure of her hands. She would feel it, subliminally or otherwise.
My breath was beginning to mirror hers after a couple of moments. I was sure I wasn't imagining it, and I knew our ribs were moving at the same time. I felt her presence and attention as she responded, consciously or unconsciously, I don't even know.
Once I knew I had it, it was time to diffuse the intensity, keeping the situation light. I didn't know what she had in mind, getting me into the studio instead of coming outside with me, so I asked, "Can I look around?"
I cupped her elbows in my palms and stayed standing before her, enjoying her hands on my chest and shoulders, while I turned my head to check out the difference between how the lobby looked now, after hours, compared to when I had been here in daylight during business.
Almost all the lights were off. Through the doorway at the back of the lobby, the practice room's brick walls and hardwood floor were softly illuminated by an LED string in the timber rafter-beams, and a single low-wattage spotlight shone diffusely on the obligatory altar table with a modest terra-cotta figure on it of some Hindu god or goddess, with the head of an elephant.
The lobby itself was only lit by the dusk coming in the front windows and a desk lamp illuminating the area by the retail terminal. There was plenty of light to see by, but the low level begged for either a prompt departure to let the studio rest for the night, or else the immediate commencement of carnal activity, oh yeah. I would let Tris direct the show in that regard.
"I'd rather just get going," she replied, petting my chest casually. "It's just that I don't want to turn the lights back on, people might see it from outside and think we're open."
I reassured her, "Hey, no trouble, then. I can look for a carry bag for my new yoga mat next time I'm at class. Doesn't have to be now! I know you wouldn't ring it up right now anyway."
She looked thoughtfully into the practice room, and teased, "Have you seen all the blankets, gym mats and bolsters we have? It's quite a collection!"
I could picture what she was suggesting. "Not really! Just the blankets!"
"We can't go in there anyway," Tris shrugged. "After the last class, the teachers clean it up so it's saaa-creeed or some shit, and they'd get pissed if we harshed the karma in there." She sighed dismissively, apparently not thinking much of this protocol, or of the teachers' anality over it.
"Who taught the last class today?" I casually asked. I wondered if it was Madison.