I saw Carla again, months later. We had met unexpectedly in Germany seven months ago and had a wild encounter. I always thought of her, her perfect figure, her intellect, her lovemaking. She was married, I was involved in a long-term something. We had this filthy wonderful, love-filled evening and returned to our respective lives. I sent her a secret card for her birthday but never knew if she got it. I received an email from her a month ago about a meeting she was attending in Florida. That was it. I couldn't make much of it, but interpreted it as an invitation to see her outside of her native Chicago. I made plans and flew down from New York.
I was sitting in a booth in the restaurant of the hotel she had mentioned, a table in the back, around 5 o'clock in the afternoon. I had a room in the hotel as well. I saw her enter the room by the maitre'd's station and a number of people surrounded her, kissed and hugged her and spoke with her for awhile. I had a bourbon in front of me. She came by the table and sat down in a very professional business-like manner.
"Hello Red," she said, looking at me.
Her eyes were as beautiful as I remember them, she was stunning.
"You look good. I just got off the plane and am frazzled. How are you?"
"I'm good. I got in at noon. What's your schedule?," I asked.
She looked at me with her soft warm eyes. I drank them in. "I got your birthday gift, I could never bring myself to calling you, I'm sorry. I loved it. I wanted so much to..."
I had learned of her birthday and sent a bouquet of roses to her restaurant. The card was a folded napkin from the Germany restaurant bar where we had our affair. She would remember.
"And the napkin had a dark smear in the middle, I knew at once, you nasty thing, how could you?" she stammered unbelievingly, "I ran to my office, locked the door, and sucked the flavor out until the paper began dissolving. I jammed a zucchini up my ass to remember the evening and wanked while the phone rang off the hook. I remember licking the vegetable clean afterward thinking it was you. The napkin is still in my desk. I couldn't call you, I'm sure you'd understand. After tasting that gold, I wanted to hop the first plane to find you."
"I was horribly embarrassed once I dropped it in the mail, I had to do it. It was from my deepest places, for you Carla," I looked at her.
"I've got to go to a dinner at 6. We'll meet later?"
"I've been dreaming of later, love. You haven't changed, how are you?"
"I have something for you, Red. Now, you know these are my professional culinary colleagues from across the country, so don't make anything obvious, just look at me business-like. I told Janet at the door you're an investor I was hoping to talk with..."
She reached under the table and passed me a piece of white tissue paper folded in fourths.
"I made this for you on the plane," she said, "I was inspired by your inventiveness."
I took a sip of my drink and popped a handful of crispy spicy almonds in my mouth. I took the packet. Our hands touched and it was electric. The moment passed as I looked deeply into her eyes. I never knew if I'd see her again after that amazing Germany experience. So luscious and nasty, and deeply, truly beautiful.
On my lap, under the table, to hide from prying eyes, sensitive to her request to keep our intimacy secret from her colleagues, I unfolded the tissue. In it was a small brown bullet, about the size of an olive. The paper was blotted and streaked with red and black. I looked at her again as I picked it up and gently placed it in my mouth.
"Oh Carla, shit!, is this what I think it is?," I asked.
"It's a special surprise I've been marinating for you, Red. I took it out on the plane, in the bathroom, and put it in my cunt," she whispered, "It's been soaking my juices all morning. I've been bleeding, my flow. Can you taste it? Don't you dare cum here you animal, I'll be waiting for you later!"
I tasted her divine brown gift. Flavored with the fishy aroma of her pussy. What a chemistry tease she was! How exotic, how spectacular.
She looked so pretty, so poetic in that light. I loved her at that moment, for that grateful moment she had given me.
"Red, I have to dine with these people. Come to my room at 10 p.m. 1616 on the top floor. Will you be there?"
"I wouldn't miss it. What will I do for the next six hours?" I pleaded while savoring the last remnants.
I wanted so much to grab her, to hold her, to kiss her.