Carla helped Annabel up and they headed toward the bar to look for water. Amira had now sunk back against her chair with her eyes closed and Loren's head gripped between her powerful thighs. Loren was using thumb and tongue to try to coax an orgasm out of her lover as Amira muttered, "Jesus... motherfuck..." and then trailed off into a series of incoherent moans and groans.
Finally Amira opened her legs and released Loren, who sat up with a crooked smile on her face. She looked over somewhat sheepishly at Kim, who gazed back with a bemused expression. Clearly Loren knew exactly how to push Amira's buttons. Loren wiped the back of a hand across her mouth and took a deep breath; she had been working hard. Carla offered her water, which she gratefully accepted.
Moving slowly and unhurriedly, Carla and Annabel began to get dressed, and Loren and Amira soon followed. After exchanging phone numbers they hugged and kissed and bid each other goodnight. Loren and Amira stayed behind to close up as Carla and Annabel followed Kim to her car.
They drove back to Carla's house mostly without talking, listening to dub reggae on a college radio station. After dropping Carla and Annabel off, Kim blew them a kiss and headed home.
They both needed badly to pee, so Annabel went into the downstairs bathroom while Carla headed upstairs. Carla took her time, scrolling through text messages that had arrived while she was in the club. One of them was from Dylan, who had been home alone, feeling restless. Carla briefly considered writing back, but the message was several hours old, and it was too late to open a whole new can of worms.
When Carla finally stepped out of the bathroom Annabel was standing there, naked except for her collar. She was holding Carla's favorite strap-on in front of her, a pleading and supplicant look on her face. Thinking back over all they'd done that day, Carla decided that Annabel had been extremely well-behaved and deserved to be indulged. She took the strap-on from her stepmother and harnessed up.
What followed was like choreography, with every move seemingly plotted out in advance. Annabel turned and started walking down the hall; Carla followed a few feet behind. Watching the exaggerated sway of Annabel's hips as she moved, Carla imagined herself a nervous teenager having her first experience with an older woman. This was far from the case, of course, but through the power of imagination she was able to momentarily feel some of that sense of excitement.
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Carla's actual first experience with an older woman had been with an employee of her father's, a Frenchwoman named Martine. They'd met at a cocktail party Carla's father had hosted at the house, just a few days after Carla graduated from high school, and just a couple weeks after her 18th birthday.
Carla didn't particularly enjoy attending her father's business functions, but she didn't feel like leaving the house that day either, and knew that there would be good food and drink. She dressed appropriately for the occasion, in a flirty but not slutty black cocktail dress.
As she drifted around the edge of the party, sipping expensive Bordeaux and nibbling on canapΓ©s, Carla found herself drawn to a particular voice. It was melodious and feminine, with a lilting French accent, but also intelligent and authoritative. The voice's owner was facing in the opposite direction; from her angle all Carla could see was dark brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, a dark gray suit jacket, and a cluster of eager-looking businessmen hanging on every word.