The moans and wails coming through the front door of the apartment Alyssa shared with Rey around 4PM that Sunday might've given anyone but Alyssa herself the wrong idea had they been standing there. But as she switched her shopping bags to her other hand to pull out her keys, Alyssa knew exactly what she would see when she opened the door. She simply sighed and shook her head.
Men.
There in the living room was Rey, clothed head-to-toe in the pewter-and-red of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers—cap, jersey, gym shorts, and tube socks—sitting on the edge of the couch, eyes transfixed to the game playing out on the large wall-mounted LCD TV. His hands on his head, gripping the cap as though it might fly off in a phantom breeze, his mouth open and jaw slack. He looked the way he always looked when the Bucs were about to blow a big game, which was to say, he looked like he was going to have an aneurism at any moment.
"Game not going well, babes?" She already knew the answer, of course, but it was fun to poke at him in moments like these.
She was a Miami Dolphins fan.
"They blew a three touchdown lead in the last five minutes! To the fucking Bengals! What the fuck, the worst fucking team in the whole fucking league and they pick this fucking game to decide they want to fucking play? And we fucking decide to take a fucking dump on the field instead of finishing the fucking game? Fuck!"
Alyssa tried hard not to smile. One of things she truly loved about Rey was that he was very selective about the occasions on which he would punctuate his language with profanity. In fact, there were only two occasions when she could count on such colorful vocabulary punctuating his speech. Game days were one of them. Thinking about the other occasion, and seeing Rey sink back into the couch morosely, resigned himself to what was looking like an unavoidable loss, gave her a wicked idea.
"I'll be in the bedroom. Just want to put away what I picked up today." He didn't look over or answer as she walked past and into their room, so Alyssa was certain he didn't see the smile on her face.
She knew unless she did something drastic that Rey would be a cheerless, lifeless lump for the rest of the day after this kind of outcome. Considering what she'd bought that day and the mood it put her in, trying the items on, having her man be a lifeless lump was simply out of the question.
She quickly stripped out of the tank top and jeans she'd worn to the mall and shoving aside the other bags reached for the Frederick's of Hollywood bag. She pulled from it the black lacey boy-shorts and matching front-clasping bra. As she slipped each on, she felt her excitement building. They hugged her body as they were meant to, and felt soft and caressing against her warming skin. She paused for a moment while pulling from the closet her FMPs with the six-inch stiletto heels, feeling in that moment slightly silly about all the dress-up. And how long will I have the damn things on anyway?
But then the visual of what she'd had in mind came back to her, and she smiled again. Going this far, why not all the way ...
She looked at herself in the full-length mirror mounted on the door. The heels lengthened her already-long legs, forced her toned calves to flex and her glutes to tighten. The bra, black, with lace contoured and shaped into floral patterns, pushed her breasts up and together, forming cleavage that begged for a low-cut blouse and would draw countless stares were she heading out with Rey for the evening. But they weren't going anywhere that night, not if she could help it.
Finally, she went back into the closet for the final touch—one of Rey's Bucs jerseys, the red Derrick Brooks jersey with the black trim at the neck and sleeves. She took the hem of the jersey and tied up just below her breasts, above the midriff, and admired the effect in the mirror once again.
She almost laughed out loud at how outrageous the outfit was, and thanked the powers that be that she and Rey didn't own a digital camera. But her wicked side reveled in the look of it, and for the first time she noticed that she was already wet.
Oh yes, she thought, this is going to be fun ...
"Babes?"
"Yeah?" The sound was mournful, as though he'd just buried a pet.
"Can you come in here and help with something? And bring a chair from the dining room, please?"
When he walked in with the chair, she was drawing the bedroom shades, her back to him. When she turned, the look on his face almost made her laugh out loud again.
It was similar to the slaw-jawed expression he'd worn earlier, watching the game, but his eyes were brighter, and there was no trace whatsoever of disappointment.
"Put the chair over there, please," she said, gesturing with a nod of her head to the spacious area beside their bed, between it and the walk-in closet. "And sit down."
She could feel his gaze on her as she moved to the CD player and hit "play". She sauntered towards him as the electronic sounds of Enigma pumped and thrummed into the room.
When she reached him, she bent low to whisper in his ear, her long hair brushing his face. "Hands stay behind your back. Hold the legs of the chair until I tell you not to." She brushed her lips over his ear, his cheek, and his closed eyelids before pulling back far enough to see his face. "Or else."
His mouth was still slightly open, but the look on his face was one of wonder. "Fuck, I don't deserve you," was all he could say. The curse made her smile. Yup, I've got his attention.
As the singer began her breathy whisper, detailing the principles of lust, she stepped back from the chair. She turned her back and walked a few away, swaying her hips with each step. She turned again and focused her eyes on his as her hands swept up from the tops of her thighs, along her midriff to the knot holding the jersey tight across her chest. With deft fingers she slowly began to do undo the knot, never taking her eyes from his face, the hunger she could now see in his eyes stoking her own fire. When the knot came free, she let the hem of the jersey fall free to just below her waist.
She took a step towards him, moving to the songs pulsing rhythm, then another, and another until she stood right before his chair. She tossed her head back, long hair falling past her shoulders, arching back and cocking her hips. Her hands dropped low once again, fingers flexed and apart, pushing the material along her tanned skin, upwards until they were up near her breasts, her belly bare and a foot from Rey's face. She opened her eyes and looked down at him, saw him biting his lip, saw his shoulders tense and his hands gripping the chair legs tightly already.
She turned away from him again, bent her knees and moved her ass in a slow sway as she pulled the jersey up and over her head. Tossing it aside, she moved her head from side to side, her hair cascading across her shoulders and down her spine. She turned and walked to him again, bending low, whispering into his other ear, "You like what I picked up today?" she said, kissing the corner of his jaw, drawing his earlobe between her lips. She heard and felt him breath deeply, and though she couldn't see it, she could tell from his voice that he was smiling.
"Oh, hell yeah, I do."