I pulled the card out of the lock and gently opened the door. As I stepped into the room I leant my head around the edge, looking at the double bed in the centre of the room. There she was, just where I left her, kneeling on the bed, ankles tied, blindfolded, and wrists tied loosely behind her back. Her hair hung freely below the blindfold and her lips were slightly parted. This was such an amazing day.
***
(that morning)
I stepped off the train at Birmingham New Street with my heart in my mouth to be honest. I took a deep breath, slung my bag over my shoulder, and stepped off through the crowds of people on the platform. There was a row of taxis outside the station, and I jumped into the next one.
It turned out to be quite a short ride to the hotel, which was set a little away from any of the main roads and had an impressively swish lobby, one of those ones with black marble and plant pots. The woman at the check-in desk was dark-haired and quite pretty, but with a business-like pony-tail.
'I'd like to check in please, I have a room booked in the name of G --.' I smiled and produced my driving license and the print out of my reservation.
'Of course sir,' the receptionist responded, followed a few seconds later by. 'That's all been paid for. The room is 406, here is your key. Take the lift to the fourth floor, and turn left. Enjoy your stay!'
'I'm sure I will,' I answered cheerfully, and walked over to the lift.
The room was tidily presented, like all rooms in new hotels - crisp white sheets, floor-to-ceiling windows on part of one wall, and some inexplicable but not entirely unattractive paintings adorning the others. It smelt fresh, and it was light and airy. A quick check revealed the bathroom did indeed have the expected shower and jacuzzi bath tub.
I unpacked a few items from my bag, and checked the time on my phone. It was 11.30 already, and K-- was arriving at 12.10. Throwing my jacket back on, I left the room, and took the lift down to the ground floor. The taxi route had been fairly direct, and easily remembered, and I arrived back at the same station by 12.05, less than an hour after I had arrived myself.
I waited in the middle of the dingy platform as the train pulled in, close to the bottom of the escalator that ran up to the main hall. From there I could see and be seen. The train squealed to a halt and a few seconds later the doors unlocked. Hurried business travellers were on the platform even before the old-style manual handled doors had swung fully open. I looked up and down the length of the train as the flow of humanity subsided, saw her as she stepped out of a door two carriages away. She was as pretty as I remembered, red hair hanging lazily in the air behind her, moving slightly in the wind, warm pink lips pursed as she took in her surroundings. K-- was slim and petite, but lacking nothing in feminine curves, and the tight black trousers she had chosen to wear today were doing their best to remind the world of that.
She saw me when I was still a few paces away, and looked thoughtfully at me over her narrow glasses. 'Hello,' she purred in a voice that made the base of my spine tingle. 'It's been a long time.'
It had. It had been a couple of years since we'd last seen each other, both in other relationships, both in different cities, countries even.
'Too long,' I agreed and stepped closer, my hands just above the small of her back as I pulled her into a hug. The top of her head brushed my nose and I felt her hands climb my back to pull my shoulders towards her. 'You look gorgeous as ever,' I continued, honestly, but reasoning that flattery will get you everywhere, eventually. The warm scent of apple incense crept into my senses.
'You too.' K-- smiled at me, pulling back half a step, but resting one hand lightly on my chest. 'You look really good. The new job suits you, I think.'
'I guess fresh air and exercise never did anyone any harm,' I smiled back. 'Let me take that bag. Are you hungry?'
K-- was peckish, so we stopped at Starbucks in the station and I looked at her over my cup as she nibbled at a panini. We caught up, reminisced, and talked loudly about topics that can only have puzzled the other customers eavesdropping on our chat, in which bison featured prominently.
Afterwards, we drifted back towards the hotel hand in hand. In a stroke of perfect timing K-- broached the subject just as we reached the front of the hotel's grounds. 'So, tell me, what's the plan. We've got the whole day'.
I stopped in front of her, took her other hand, and looked pointedly at the hotel. 'I was hoping we had longer than that.'
'I bet you were.' K-- almost growled, freed one hand, and batted my wrist. For the first time since she had arrived, we held each other's gazes as we stepped closer. I cupped the side of her face with one hand, brushing away her red hair, and with a delicious slowness, our lips met. Her kiss was warm, and close, and I responded without thinking, pushing back. Her lips parted, and our tongues met, her fingertips meeting behind my shoulder blades and pulling me in, my right hand slipped down to her hips, squeezing us together. Finally we came up for breath, but stayed close, foreheads together.
'I missed you,' we sighed at the same moment.
In the hotel room, the door had hardly closed behind us when we locked together again, snatching breaths between deep kisses. My hands ran up her loose white shirt, her figure so slim that I my fingertips met as I held her waist. She sighed contentedly at my touch, and I kissed her deeply one more time before lifting the shirt over her head. Her long red hair came through the collar like a waterfall, settling around her soft shoulders. She looked up at me with a smoulder in her eyes, and leapt on me like a cat.
I swear I have no idea how many hands she had for those brief seconds - tearing my shirt off, wrapped around my neck, shoulders, and back, nails tracing my chest, and pushing me firmly onto the bed. We kissed there again, her lying on top of me, both of us enjoying the feel of skin on skin. Her bra was overlain with a lacy pattern, and I could feel it roughly on my chest as we kissed, her tongue running along the side of mine.
When K-- started kissing my neck I was able to focus long enough to reach down for her trousers, and undo the button at the top. When she felt the pressure at her waist released, she looked up at me, mouth slightly open, hair hanging over the right side of her face. We were like that for a moment, before I threw my weight over, pushing her down onto the bed, and pulling her trousers and panties down to the ankle. They caught for a second before I slipped the legs over her feet, and dropped them on the floor. By the time I focussed on K-- again, she had sat up, now dressed only in black bra, her hands at my belt, then my trousers as she loosened them and pulled them down. My cock was rock hard in my boxers, and she slipped a hand down my waistband, her fingers wrapping around my shaft as she looked up at me with a salacious grin. She let go of my for long enough that I could kick off my trousers and pull my boxers off completely. I was now completely naked, and as K-- reached back and unhooked her bra, so was she. We looked each other up and down for a second, savouring the view, and then enfolded each other in an embrace. I pushed her back into the pillows, and came to rest between her legs, her arms wrapped around my neck. We kissed ferociously, my cock pressed against her navel. I could feel the warmth radiating out from between her legs, and as the base of my cock moved against her she moaned softly into my mouth.
Breaking the kiss, I nuzzled her head to the side, and began to kiss her neck, in strong slow movements. I could feel K--'s back arch as she ground herself against me, and her hands ran across my shoulders, first in caresses, then firm fingertips and finally nails raking against my skin. I slipped down her chest to kiss her nipple, standing proud, then the other, rolling my tongue around it as her fingers ran through my hair.
A playful nibble drew a short gasp, more surprise than pain, and I kissed my way down her tight stomach until I felt her trimmed bush beneath my chin. She knew what was coming and smiled down the bed at me, legs parting. I locked eyes with her for a moment, broad smile, then leant down, my lips brushing first one thigh, then the other, then I planted a kiss firmly at the top of her pussy.