We strolled back to the car, me laden with parcels, her practising her 'fuck-me' walk. I noticed that she had the top two buttons of her dress undone and also the bottom two as well.
'Well, tell me then?'
'Tell you what?'
'What took you so long to get dressed and say good-bye to Terence?'
She went quiet. 'Nothing.'
'You are a truly dreadful liar. No wonder Alan trusts you to tell him what you get up to.'
Now she did go pale. 'Oh I never thought about telling Alan.'
'Oh, so you did let him fuck you then?'
Truth to tell, I was a bit pissed if they had. I hadn't had her yet, although I did feel it was only a matter of time.
'N..n..noo. I just gave him a little kiss, which turned out to be quite a long kiss. And well I touched his... well you know... only though his trousers, of course. But then when he touched me back, my dress wasn't completely done up down the front, in fact it wasn't done up at all so he put his hands all over me and I ... well.. I ...'
'Yes.'
'I came. He put his fingers in me and I came all over them. I am so embarrassed.'
I felt it was time for me to move up a gear so I put my hand in her lap, parted her legs and felt her sopping slit. She was telling the truth. There was no sign of semen.
She seemed to accept it as my right to check. I wondered whether Alan checked her out from time to time.
'Did you enjoy it?'
'Well, yes. I came didn't I? I don't often do that while making love even.'
'Then that's all right then. We had an enjoyable morning shopping. Did Terence come?'
'No. I did sort of offer to help him, but he said he was frightened in case he could not get hard again when Sophie came back.'
She laughed her good humour now re-established. 'And I don't blame him. She is a scary one isn't she? But fun though.'
I concurred. I did not think it was the time to tell her of my appointment next week.
'Right, next mall for two more shops and lunch. More underwear. This one is a bit further away.'
We travelled another twenty minutes before pulling into an up-market mall with a Victoria's Secrets.
'Come on, lunch first,' I said, turning into a nice Spanish wine bar. It has long been a particular favourite of mine, partly for the tapas which are excellent, but also they have a table top and stools set against the window with no modesty rail.
I collected a menu and a bottle of white Rioja and guided her over to the window stools. The senorita came over for the tapas order and while waiting we sipped our wine. The white Rioja has a characteristically nutty flavour which goes particularly well with the Iberican ham. I have been told that is because the pigs grow up eating a lot of acorns but that is probably just Spanish marketing bull.
Anyway the wine and the lovely tapas were enough to make Rosie forget that she did not have a modesty bar in front of her legs. While she was a lady and was never going to spread her legs to give the sort of view that recommended me to this place, she was showing a fair amount of thigh.
We were halfway through the bottle when I felt that the time was right to proceed. She was either beginning to read my mind or more likely I took a deep breath, or gave some other sort of 'tell' before putting into action my next plan.
'So what is it now? We can never just relax and enjoy our time together without you putting me under a bit more pressure.'
'How well you know me,' I said.
I leaned over and undid another button, this one just below her bust. She held her breath. She had no underwear on of course but you could now see that she had not even got a support bra on. The areolae were just about still hidden as the top folded itself back.
She began to breathe again. 'I cannot believe I am doing this. I am sitting here exposing my body to the world. What have you done to me? I would never have done this, even a week ago. You must know that you frighten me. If you can do this to me in a week what could you do in a year?'
That had never occurred to me. I know I had been keeping the pressure on her, but I had never forced her. Well, maybe once or twice at the beginning.
'The thing is, this is you. I am only releasing what is inside. I am making you realise that your last six or seven years, in fact ever since puberty, have been wasted. You could have been enjoying this all earlier and still have done well at Uni. Swivel to face me.'
She did and I leaned forward and undid the third button from the bottom. This one was the challenge. The next button up was right on her pudenda, which meant that everything below that was now open. You would be able to see her compressed lips and dripping slit if she opened her legs.
'Christ Tom.' Now I knew she was suffering. This was the first time I had heard her blaspheme.
'Christ Tom, that's me showing everything, I can't walk around the mall like this.'
'I'll tell you what. I will be fair. Stay like this for now and when we leave I will go a moment or two before you. You follow me out and walk towards me and if I can see any flesh down there I will tell you and you can do up that last button again. I know you are showing a lot now, or at least you would be if your legs were open, but by the time you stand up and the dress settles I reckon the done-up button will be at least one inch below your crotch.'
She nodded and swigged back her glass of wine expecting a refill.
I topped her glass up.
'Where's the toilet?' she asked.
'Up the stairs to the left of the bar.' I laughed.
Her lips pursed. 'Those steep straight steps under the low ceiling which covers your upper body after only three or four paces?'
'I nodded. 'Those very selfsame steps, oh look there is someone coming down them now. See how they hide your upper body until almost the bottom four stairs. Do you see how everyone looks to see what the body is like that accompanies the legs? Can you imagine what will be happening if the button is not an inch below your crotch? Can you feel the wind now on your lips as your dress separates above your crotch.? Can you see your lips shine, dewy wet, and open as you walk down the stairs?'
'I don't think I can go.'
'I think I will order another bottle then and we can wait until you do want to go.'
'Bastard,' she smiled. The unspoken dare was on. She climbed the steps. Hardly anybody looked. Even though she was attractive the dress fell almost to the back of her knees.
Now I held my breath to see whether she chickened and did that third button up before descending.
I had to breathe. If I had not I would have been dead twice over before I saw her shoes appear below the low ceiling line.
Another step and ankles and calves appeared. There was no way she was hurrying. I expected her to have done up that last button. But no. The button was still undone.
She was taking it slowly, the advantage being that the wind caused by her very movement was less, but she was so slow that it gave the entire wine bar the opportunity to turn around.
I could not tell you whether I saw flesh or not. If i did, and I think I did, it was no more than a fleeting glance. She had made the bar go quiet. Certainly every man in the establishment, including the manager and the two barmen were looking. One of the barmen raised a glass to her in acknowledgement.
She rejoined me at the table and I heard her exhale.
'Wow, that was a rush. I am so horny. I need Alan right now. I am so wet I am sure I felt something trickling down my thighs. I just don't like to look. I mopped myself up once before I came down. You must think I am dreadful telling you all this. I have never felt like this.
I laughed at her. 'You need Alan you said? Would Terence do?'
She gave me a dirty look. 'Don't be disgusting. You know as well I do that of course he would do. I would just rather it was Alan. For fuck's sake even you would nearly do.'
'Only nearly?'
'Yes, I would rather cut my nose off to spite my face than give you any pleasure. You are the bastard that got me into this state.'
I called the waitress for the bill and yet again presented Rosie's credit card.
'Now I am going to buy you a present. Let's go. Do you want me to check out the hemline as I said I would.'
'No, let us just go. Nobody raped me on the way down the stairs. I will know by the expression on the passer-bye's faces what they can see. So what is this present you are going to buy me?'
'Well we are going to Victoria's Secrets, so it will come as no surprise that it is underwear. Here we are now, you go off and see if there is anything else you want here while I buy it. You can try it on for me later.'
I picked up my purchase, and put it in my pocket. It did not take up a lot of space. I had a quick look around but could not see her. The store was busy so I did not feel I could call into the changing rooms until I found her, so I just sat and waited.
I must have waited nearly half an hour, by which time there was only one cubicle that I had been unable to identify as not her. She came out with a small armful of beautiful lingerie. She had simple strings another basque, a tiny corset with a matching set of panties, bra and suspenders, and two camisoles with suspenders attached to the hem. I realised that we now did not need to visit Ann Summers, which was to have been my last port of call for the camisoles with suspenders. I knew we also could have got them there but this would save me the journey to yet another mall. While I wanted to visit a sex shop of some sort with her in the near future I thought that I might leave it until tomorrow when Emily was with us again.
Alan's card took another drubbing, which did give me some satisfaction, particularly as he was away and unable to benefit from the purchases.
'I think it is home time,' I said. 'It will be five before we are home. Not that I am in a particular rush if you have anywhere else you want to go. We could just have one small diversion. You need shoes. I was going to do that tomorrow with Emily, but we can probably do a different shop while we are here.'
There was an up-market shop that I knew sold some Manolo Blahnik's, Dior and Kurt Geiger at improbably expensive prices but they did have a good selection, if only to look at.
As we walked through the door to the shop she whispered in my ear, 'I have no underwear on, can I do the button up please?'
I surprised her by saying, 'If you really need to.'