Warm peony and toasted vanilla soaks swiftly into my cool, damp skin. It softens and scents to my pleasure. After slipping out of the soapy bath I wish we'd shared, jet lag aside, I feel as fresh as morning. Still in the hotel waiting for him to be through with the machine gun interviews. Hours before, though, he didn't seem to be stressing. Knew he'd handle them coolly. Legs crossed, hands gesticulating, expressive features fully animated. Pin straight suit and steady hand shake, firm as his blatant opinions. Smart, stubborn and oh, in that suit. My body already remembering the feel of him beneath it: thin charcoal layers, smooth, slippery almost as silk. Mmmmm. At any rate, if that company won't take him, I will.
My body still slick with lotion, I slide into a nightie he bought me for Valentine's one year. Sheer black and lace. Only for decoration, of course. Perky though they already are, it holds my two breasts taut, bringing them close into an ongoing kiss. I bought a set of stockings with garters to match and now, roll them up towards my pale, tender thighs. Like a real courtesan, at the service of one man only.
Skin aching under the material. It hugs me as lightly as his hands often will. Grazing me in long, soft lines, circling nipples, swimming about my belly.
Though blustery outside, over the lingerie, I plan to wear only my wooly pea coat, which ends abruptly at mid-thigh. Already see his face. Hear him: Impossible! How could I have known which hotel to come to? Gotten my ticket so speedily? I'll be a dream... replacing his sleep with adventure, his fatigue with arousal and hands with my mouth, my fevered skin and inner folds. Unable to wait. Never waiting, my love.
Any minute now, in the parking lot, he'll exit his father's old Mercedes and saunter tiredly toward the elevator in the dully lighted lobby, evening having quieted the day's flurry of incoming and outgoing guests. Can't decide whether I'll meet him just outside the front doors or stand invitingly outside his room. If only I had a copy of his key. Could simply lie sprawled atop his bed until he comes and act as though I'd always been there, as though he'd requested me, expected me, and meant to own me, now.
Pacing my room in three-inch pumps, black, sexy, close-toed, leather, ones he didn't know I had. Trying them out and deciding and wondering. Outside. Outside the hotel. Can't risk other guests spotting me in the hallway. Will see right through my coat and intentions. So check my gloss and cinch in my waist with my sash... to the elevator, I'm ready. He'll be arriving in minutes, or seconds.
German winds knock angrily at the sturdy, square windows I pass and immediately I know the kind of mood I must remedy.
Ding. I'm in and alone, thank God. Down one floor, two, heart bursting, three, at ground. A guy in a black suit, head down, slouching steps through the entrance and wearily treads in my direction. I hesitate to step out and realize that it's him. My eyes are stung. I lean onto the door frame, keeping it open. His eyes, lowered for a moment, notice my heels, the sheer, flimsy stockings. More alert now, his eyes trace my body, up to my dark, maroon lips and long, voluminous curls. Squinting, widening, squinting. I play the character and smirk, knowingly. Every cell of my body throbs, ready to pounce. But I'm solid.
His lips drop into an "O," his forehead scrunching and then softening, his eyes alight and greener by the second.
Step in, I want to say, sexily. But can only manage- in slightly subdued excitement- "hey," followed by a grin, cute and daring.
His mouth lifts into an open smile and laughs, his head continually shaking. The doors shut and I lose it almost at once, falling into fits of giggles, meekly biting my lip and feeling naughty. Hold it together for the last bit of our ride. I step closer in the cramped space, examining him thoroughly, hungrily.
--Honey? he says, Wh--
But I stop him, our magnetic lips inches apart.
--Later.
He still shakes his head, anxious to touch me, but unsure. Disbelieving. Perhaps he questions whether it's really me, his eyes cheating, unwilling to let his body.
Ding. Our floor. I scour the hall, narrow, blinding white. I step, but still, he doesn't move. I turn suddenly and plunge my fingers through his hair, fine, thin strands, nearly flipping at his neck, light, ash brown ends falling sporadically at his brows. I trail my fingers across the curve of his chin, just barely brushing his plump lower lip with the tip of my thumb. Drop it abruptly and stand, eyeballing. Though his suit, still looking freshly pressed maintains the look of a professional, his hair has clearly been aggressively rustled, the wind, a restless bully, already having done half the work.
Whether reflexively or from momentarily forgetting his shock, his arms spring out towards me. I cup them, hold and squeeze. Briefly. And bound down the hallway, him shortly at my heels. Already know his room. Pause at the door, anticipating him to grab for his keys. But... he'd have none of that.
In a flash, he scoops me round the waist, presses me urgently to the wall on the left of his door. Crushed together, our mouths lock at last, tongues dipping and shoveling the other's. Almost can't tell whose is whose, so furiously they tangle. His grunts initiate my own. I lose myself for a moment, our hands continually roaming, his, up my back and down, down, to the edge of the coat, fingering, lightly a bit of exposed thigh. Inhale! Exhale.... Smash myself a bit closer, if possible, longing to feel the ridges of his slim form. Sensing the bulk of my coat to be the problem, his hands sneak round the front, feeling for my sash.
Mind awakens by the sudden movement. Slide my own hands simultaneously into his pockets, cupping his steel hard cheeks. Clink clink. Bingo. Snatch the key with my left hand and set it quickly to the lock, careful not to release his lips. Click.
He swings it open and I nearly slam it as he hurries over to tug a chain on a small, shaded lamp on the night stand. We meet half way. Nimble fingers work at my coat until it falls limply at my feet.
Hm Hm Hmmm... a gurgled sort of laugh emits from his throat as he ogles the second part of my surprise. Pale in the low glow of the room, but creamy against stark black lingerie. Nipples peeking through lacy cups of gothic roses, lucent mesh squeezing my dainty ribs, hips and the start of my long, upper thighs.
--Geeez, honey...you're so crazy, he says, his German tongue slapping the back of his throat.
--Yes. Hn. Hnn, I giggle. But you're happy I am.
--I can't believe you.
--I know. Me neither.... I got lucky.
--What do you mean?
--With the tickets.... But shush. Not now.... Oh honey, I love you so much.
--Awwhahahaa...sweetheart, I love yooou. How do I have such a girlfriend?
I wait to tell him we've only one night, one night to accomplish a few weeks full of yearning. Less talk, for once. As he'd say... just enjoy.