I was picking up my briefcase to get ready to leave my office when the phone started ringing.
An implosive hollowness was enunciated inside me when I heard Melina's voice on the other end of the line, who was inviting me to a dinner, she was very specific when she said that it was a matter of strict etiquette and emphasized that she expected absolute punctuality from me to meet her at her house at 10 pm.
I had a couple of hours left to get ready, go home to get my tuxedo and then go to Melina, with whom I had only gone out on two occasions, and this took place in very crowded social events and it was impossible for me to deny the immense attraction that this beautiful architect exerted on me.
It was during a charity event in which a mutual friend made the introductions, the elegance and sophistication of that beautiful brunette, added to her gifts of great conversationalist and her sensual manners produced a deep and fantastic dreamlike state, which went from fascination to rapture and back.
A minute before 10 p.m. I was at the door of Melina's beautiful house that she herself designed with elements of the Bauhaus school and some evocations of Frank Lloyd Wright's style where the construction merges in an organic way to the landscape integrating the unity of those elements with the human being.
Melina personally greeted me at the entrance, she emanated the iridescent essence of the golden age of Hollywood, seeing her in that black dress that exposed the beauty of her shoulders, smiling radiant and looking at me with those expressive eyes, it was inevitable for me to think of Greta Garbo, beautiful, sophisticated and at times unattainable. She smilingly invited me in, I felt like a privileged mortal entering the Olympus.
She poured me a drink and gave me a tour of that beautiful house where everything kept a respectful relationship with its surroundings, balancing the organic and the manifest beauty expressed by human creativity.
"To dwell means; Docility to the gods." -Said Melina while she held in her hand a glass with scotch on the rocks and her face induced me to the feminine charm of the adjacent enigma in the grammar of her spirit.
My eyes were recreated in the contemplation of Melina, in the voluptuous harmony immersed in that environment that meekly adorned the beauty of this interesting woman, who for some reason privileged me with her choice to keep her company in an intimate and elegant evening that would take place precisely in the Olympus of her personal creation.
Melina got up from the soft leather sofa to answer the phone that began to ring, she kept her calm elegance unchanged while she spoke and gave directions, she walked around the room sounding with her heeled footsteps on that fine wooden stave, my eyes did not stop escorting her in the cadenced movement that pivoted in the lightness that outlined her waist over the resolute femininity of her hips, in that point where the border between her elegant and tight dress was traced, with that dream enunciated in the softness of the skin of her back.
At the end of her call, I could feel her so close to me as she whispered in my ear;
-The telephone can be so inopportune at times! It doesn't respect how intimate the moment between two spirits recognizing each other can be. It just randomly chooses its advent to barge into your moments. It's almost violent the way it comes to break an atmosphere." -Melina said as the distance between our faces was delimited by the scent of her perfume, immediately her right arm stretched haughtily across the room wielding a small device, Insensatez would begin to play in Astrud Gilberto's voice.
Melina sighed with her eyes closed, as if the music were the waves moved by the tide of time and she somehow could rule them at will as she flowed through that dance of fleeting reality.
"One moment we are, we love, we lose ourselves after we belong.
We scatter like stardust, contemplating an instant in the infinity, of the wilted silence in your eyes and from here, I watch as you enter the brightness of mine."
Melina finished pronouncing those caresses, while I surrendered to the sway of the enchantment of her eyes. She was leaning over me, close enough to confess a secret. She immediately stood up at the sound of the door and headed in that direction to greet a smiling presence, whose spontaneous arrival and irrepressible gaze would light up the evening.
"Honey, I hope you don't mind giving me a few minutes to settle a matter of my work with Marlene, I promise to make it up to you!" -Melina said in a kind tone to which I couldn't refuse.
My eyes met those big brown eyes of stunning brilliance framing the face of the beautiful newcomer. An electrifying sensation vibrated in the atmosphere indicating something that could be defined as; Lust at first sight.
Melina was introducing me to Marlene, a talented architect recently graduated from the Technische Universität Münich, whose virtues and skills were matched by her beauty. Her wavy brown hair flashed in an updo and a brooch, her big eyes in complicity with her luminous smile seemed to have no intention of letting go of me.
There was a great energetic vibration in that room as I watched from the sofa as Melina pointed out some things to Marlene on the plan she was presenting to her. Silently I noticed the way in which both women, for an instant, seemed to separate their gaze on the plans that occupied them to direct to me each one separately, smiling, a luminous glance, Marlene's at times could feel incisive and even penetrating, as if she had the firm desire to find the foundations of the architecture of my mind with the intention of analyzing them. Melina's gaze opened up different readings that my silence could not fully interpret.
I continued to recreate my gaze on those two women leaning over the table analyzing some blueprints, for an instant I seemed to hear the rubbing of the nylon of Marlene's stockings, under the table I could appreciate the subtle movement of her thighs coming together, echoing in her legs, at the rhythm in which she was biting her lower lip when she looked at me.
You could be dazzled by the glittering sparkle of the diamond choker that hung around Melina's neck, a fraction of the enigma housed in her cleavage revealed itself, we exchanged smiles and her eyes suggested a hefty reward for my patience before the necessary pause to our evening, I felt the way she hinted with her expression how unforgettable it could be for us.
-"Honey, could you get Marlene and me a glass of wine?" -Melina said and then stood up to point me in the direction of a nearby small wine cellar located down a corridor, she asked me for a bottle of Spanish wine; a 1982 vintage Marques De Riscal. I went to comply with his request, it would take me a few minutes to find a couple of bottles that matched the request. I was so focused on the wine that it was impossible for me to hear anything beyond my thoughts, until I felt the soft caress of Melina's hand on my arm and heard her voice whisper in my ear:
-"Do you mind if Marlene joins us for dinner? She is a very sweet girl as well as an excellent conversationalist."
I couldn't refuse, I just felt Melina's body very close to me, her velvety hands caressing my arm and the delicate touch of her breasts on my back while her lips left their imprint on my cheek.
- "Thank you sweetheart! We're almost done, I'll go set another place in the dining room." -Said Melina As my eyes followed her gliding in the partial darkness of that corridor in the direction of the room, the way her sensuality was manifest in her gait, I could get nervous just glimpsing her feminine silhouette. I sighed and set out to continue with my errand.
In the same way I could easily find some glasses, I went back to the room where after opening the bottle, I got ready to pour the wine, and I could feel Marlene's gaze on me, as I approached with the glasses, the sparkle in her eyes intensified and at the same time I could perceive a certain nervousness in her who began to blush as Melina smiling approached me, and extended her hand to receive the glasses.