Part 6
I pull the lace cup down off her breast a little further. Now I can just barely see the outline of her areole. It’s flushed rosy pink from heat and excitement.
“Or maybe I’ll spare you that indignity for the moment,” I go on, purposely ignoring the look of visible relief in her eyes. “Come to think of it, your panties were feeling pretty hot there for a while. Maybe I’ll just take a closer look there.” With that, I flip around 180 degrees, so now I’m facing her legs, with my ass hanging over her face. Her arms, still tangled hopelessly in her dress, struggle fruitlessly.
Suddenly there’s a sound of knocking on the door. “Hey, everything all right in there?” calls a voice. “People need to use the bathroom here!”
“Sorry,” I answer. “Be a minute.” I motion to Michael and he unlocks the door.
Women, urgently needing to use the facilities, flock in. Michael ducks behind the door, out of sight, just in time. Most of them head straight to the stalls. A couple of them, however, catch sight of Kelly and me, on the floor.
Eyes widen in shock. “What are you doing?” One woman demands. Someone grabs my arm and hauls me to me feet. Beneath me, Kelly struggles to sit up, frantically trying to refasten the zip in the back of her dress. Getting to her feet, she makes a break and runs out the bathroom door.
I shrug to the other women, wash my hands, and saunter out of the bathroom. Michel is waiting for me outside, having slipped out during the rush. Out of the corner of my eye I see Kelly at the bar, downing what looks like a double shot of whisky.
“I think it’s time we left,” I say.
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In the coatroom I pause for a minute and rest my forehead against the cool, oak-paneled wall.
My breath comes in pants. I can barely contain the pounding of my heart, or the sudden, inexplicable wetness between my legs. My nipples, swollen and sensitive, chafe against my lace bra. All I know is, if I don’t find release soon, I’ll explode.
Suddenly something grabs my necklace, and jerking me backwards and cutting off my air. I land hard on my tailbone, and the grip loosens on my necklace and latches on to my hair. Gulping for air, I manage turn around just enough to catch a glimpse of blonde hair and red dress.
“You weren’t leaving already?” says Kelly, pulling me to my feet. Her breath smells of whisky.
“I think we’ve got some unfinished business,” she adds, half-leading, half-dragging me by the hair back into the party room. I’m too busy trying to get my breath back to resist. People start looking up in curiosity.
“Well, look what’s happened,” she continues. Her voice takes on a smooth, silky drawl. “Not so controlling now, are we?” She yanks my hair, just to make her point. “I’m going to make you go through everything you did to me – only out here in front of everyone!”
Part 7
Through tears of pain I look around the room, assessing my options. There are none.
“Now, where were we?” Kelly’s voice has taken on an alcoholic slur. “Oh yes, you were going to give everybody a show, aren’t you?” Standing there half-strangled by my necklace and gripped by my hair, I’m painfully aware the tables have turned. I can’t anticipate her now that she’s drunk, and that’s dangerous.
Her fingertips caress the top of my shoulder. My skin prickles.
People are starting to turn around. Emboldened, Kelly raises her voice a notch. “How does it feel now?” She slides the open v-neck of my dress a little wider, exposing the bra strap on my shoulder. “Oh yes, quite the little exhibitionist aren’t you?” Her manicured fingernail traces small circles on my bare skin.
Her finger leaves my shoulder and I feel the back zip of my dress loosen slightly. The V across my shoulders widens.
God help me, my nipples are hard.
I scan the crowd, searching for Michael and spot him off to the side, frozen in a stare. His mouth is open slightly, and I see a familiar bulge at the crotch of his pants.
Great. Bloody useless. Whoever it was that said women were fickle has never fully appreciated the vagaries of the male anatomy.
More heads are turning. Another yank on my hair and necklace brings fresh tears to my eyes. The neckline of my dress opens further, exposing the tops of my bra straps.
“Well?” Kelly purrs in my ear. “How do we feel now, dearie? Tell you what, if you beg me real hard – I mean, really, really hard – I just might let you off with some of your self-respect intact.” The dress slips a little further off my shoulders.
“Fuck you,” I manage to cough out with as much dignity as I can muster given my situation.
“Fair enough,” she drawls. “Only you won’t be so defiant once you’re naked in front of the whole room.”
Suddenly there’s a ripple through the crowd. “Hey, I know you!” Heads turn toward the sound of the voice, and a short, rather unattractive woman in an ill-fitting silk sheath breaks through the assembled people. She points directly at Kelly.
“I’ve definitely seen you before!” the ugly woman continues, “you were flirting with my husband earlier!”
“And mine!” adds another woman. Kelly looks around her, beginning to sense the change in the dynamic.
I grab the moment. “Well,” I say to Kelly, still half-strangled, “looks as if you’ve been making quite a reputation for yourself at this party.”
“Shut up!” she hisses, yanking on my hair again, only this time with less conviction.
Ignoring the pain this time I press on. “How many women have you pissed off tonight?”
“Shut up!” she says again. Her voice has started taking on a desperate edge as she senses her control slipping away. “I swear I’ll rip your dress right off!”
“And then what?” I ask. “These ladies here will tear you apart. So you’d better watch your back.”
Her attention shifts slightly and the grip on my hair and necklace loosens for an instant, which is all I need to act. Quickly I twist my body, shifting my weight against hers. Kelly overbalances on her high heel shoes and grabs at my dress for support, ripping it, then crashes heavily into a side table holding the cold appetizers. The table collapses, spilling shrimp cocktail and celery sticks onto the floor around her.
Dazed, Kelly gets up onto her hands and knees and smooths her skirt down over her thighs. One of her shoes has fallen off her feet and she gropes around, looking for it.
I glance down at the front of my black cocktail dress. It’s ripped open all the way down to the waist. “Right, you’re going to pay for that,” I tell her. “That dress was a Versace.”
Part 8
Without further preamble I grab her arm and haul the protesting blonde to her feet, sending her other shoe skittering off in the process. She sways a little standing up, and I wonder if she’s just starting to feel the full effects of the alcohol. Her bra has come disarrayed inside her dress, one creamy beige strap sliding halfway off her shoulder. She makes a halfhearted attempt to pull it back up, then stands there with her arms crossed, unable to meet my eye. It’s obvious the fight’s gone out of her.
“Well now Kelly, it looks as if you’ve alienated quite a few of the ladies,” I comment. “So, you have a choice. Either I turn you over to the ladies – and I guarantee they will rip you to shreds – or you play it my way, and maybe you can come out of this unscathed.”
She says nothing, just stands there, arms clenched across her chest, staring down at her bare feet. They look oddly vulnerable on the cold tile floor.
I sidle up behind her and run my fingertips lightly up her arms, to her shoulders. “How many men?” I ask. “Did you promise them something you didn’t intend to deliver?” She shakes her head, still staring down at the floor.
“Well, you did promise everybody a show, didn’t you?” I purr in her ear, slowly loosening the back zip of her dress. “But this is what you wanted for me, wasn’t it?” The zipper ends just past the small of her back, just barely exposing a small V of lace on the top of her panties where it covers the swell of her ass.
She makes an unintelligible noise. “It’s strange,” I go on, coaxing the top of the dress off her shoulders, “how things never turn out quite the way you expect.” The dress slides down her arms, baring her shoulders and back. She clutches her arms tighter around herself, holding the dress from slipping any lower. “But then again, that’s what makes life interesting, isn’t it?”