Had the weather been warmer, Kay would have happily settled herself on the sun lounger on the back terrace and whiled away the time watching Dave as he worked his way across the building, his muscles pumping as he stretched to reach all four corners of every window. Once, as she had pretended to sleep behind Jackie O style sunglasses, she caught him looking at her slender frame through the reflection in the glass, a look that lingered just that second too long. That time she'd turned over onto her back to break the gaze, but today, though hot and humid, with rain clouds looming she contented herself with a glance backwards as she unlocked the vestibule door and made her way down the hallway.
The flat gave its usual quiet welcome, as Kay kicked off her shoes, opened up the French windows and lowered herself down onto the couch, curling up under the soft, faux fur throw. In not time at all she closed her eyes and let sleep come over her, her chest rising and falling as her breathing became deeper and more regular.
Stirring, Kay felt an unusual but very welcome sensation in her feet. It was as though the aches and strains of walking up and down hospital wards for ten hours were being drawn out of her body. She opened one eye to find Dave sat at the foot of her couch, stroking her left foot from heel to toes, slowly and deliberately. He smiled at her and continued to stroke up and down her soft soles, drawing circular movements with his thumbs as they travelled from heel to foot and then stroking with all four fingers of his right hand as it moved back down, his left hand cradling the ankle and stroking the Achilles tendon. After several cycles of moving up and down he gently placed Kay's foot on the soft fur and changed to perform the same magic on her right foot.
"Would you like me to stop?" he asked. Kay shook her head and lowered it back into the pillow, closing her eyes and willing Dave to make his next move.
She didn't have to wait long, but the shock made her gasp all the same. A freezing sensation ran up her whole foot as Dave traced her sole with and ice cube, expertly following the water with his hot tongue. The first time he performed it he moved the ice cube quickly up the soles of her feet before slowly, deliberately licking up all the liquid with his hard tongue before sucking first on her left big toe, and then on the right. As he suckled her toes he traced the ice cube across the back of them, causing Kay's feet to splay and giving Dave's fingers easy access to the inbetween of each toe. As his suckling became more ragged he stroked his fingers in and out of the inside of her toes, stretching to the balls of her feet before plunging back in.
Moving his face further along the top of Kay's feet, Dave dropped feather-light kisses all over her silky skin, tracing words with his fingers across her ankles.
I want you, she read. And smiled.
I love your feet, he wrote.