The band was launching into a peculiar Latin-jazz rendition of "Free Bird" as Cesare the waiter refilled our glasses. I caught Deirdre's eye, where candlelight danced, and wrapped my wrist around hers for another champagne toast to her smile. She showed it to me, and we drank with our eyes locked.
We had a cushy booth to ourselves, a table for six that I'd secured by mentioning it was our anniversary and, of course, slipping the maitre'd a 50. We'd feasted, with all the trimmings, on
pate de foie gras
, lobster
bisque
, oyster shooters, pink prime rib as tender as a mother's love, and crepes Suzette, and Cesare had instructions to make sure our next bottle of Moet & Chandon was always on ice. I had given her the emerald bracelet that had caught her eye in Tiffany's window. She liked it.
We'd sat out most of the up-tempo dances; I'd never really seen the point of dancing apart. If I was going to dance with her, I wanted to hold her, touch her, feel soft skin through soft clothes, pull her close. I did it—them—the fast dances—usually, for her, because she loved to get out there and move, and she could
move
, I gotta admit. She didn't care that I looked like a spaz. When we danced, people around us thought it was so sweet of her to dance with the developmentally disabled guy. But tonight she seemed content to sit with me, and I was more than happy to just be there at her side. We'd held hands like kids, playing with each others' fingers, feeding each other, taking any excuse to touch.
Under the tablecloth her hand touched down on my knee. I had been yammering on about drowning in her eyes, and I sort of trailed off as her hand slid up my thigh. I saw that smile again, now with a tinge of wicked. We continued our small talk as I put my hand on her long, slender leg and played along.
I was stroking her upper thigh with two fingers under her skirts, and she had her hand well up my leg when "Free Bird" drew to a close and they began a nice slow number. We got up. I stayed close behind her as we moved to the dance floor so my semi-erection wasn't overly obvious. Hell, everyone was looking at her anyway. I'd told her that morning to make sure her little black dress was ready to be seen in public tonight.
Oh, it was. It was a sleeveless, backless number, secured behind her neck with a couple of snaps. The front was kind of gathered and billowy, with a slit that ran down from the base of her throat to her solar plexus. Well, I say 'billowy,' but it still managed to drape itself over against the top curves of her breasts, and a hint of high, proud nipple made its presence known just before the fabric dropped. A zipper at her lower back cinched it tight all around her waist, and it stayed tight from there on down and ended about eight and a half inches above her pretty knees. Rrruff.
We hit the floor and went into a clinch, cheek to cheek. She smelled great, and I buried my nose in her hair, all done up in swoops and ringlets and tendrils. The band was playing "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (reggae version) and I sang softly along in her ear, only occasionally off-key. She giggled.
We danced a little closer. Her hand, the one I wasn't holding, played with the back of my neck. I pulled her still closer with my hand at the small of her back, and she pressed every available inch of that sweet body against mine. But then the music called for me to spin her out, pull her back to me, and drop her into a dip. So I did, and wrapped both my arms around her when I pulled her back up. She gasped a little, and both hands went around my neck, and we danced our way to the edge of the crowd.
I noticed her breathing was a little more rapid. My suave and exotic dance moves, I supposed. All of a sudden she kissed me, on the cheek, featherlight, and whispered in my ear, "Ricky, you're a nice man. I like nice men." And then she pressed her hips against my crotch. I slid my hands a little farther down her back and kept her that close. She swung her hips to the music and rubbed against me. My erection rallied.
"Mmmm, SUCH a nice man,"she murmured, and nibbled at my earlobe. "So good to me. I want to be good to you, nice man,"
I replied with something urbane, like, "Oh, you do, huh?"
"Yes, my darling man," she said. "I would like to get you home..."
"Yeah?" Damn, what a master of
repartee
.
"...tear off your pretty tux..."
"Uh huh?"
"... and fuck your brains out."
I couldn't even come up with something stupid for a second there. Finally I said, "I like the way you think, lady."
"I thought you might." She laid her cheek on my shoulder and spoke into my collar, and whispered the most remarkable things:
"Yes, I plan to run you ragged, my dear. You'll get me naked too of course, and I want your hands all over me. I want you to take my ass in your big hands and squeeze, and I'll grind against your prick—like this—" and she demonstrated—"and I want you to fondle my breasts, and kiss them, and lick them, and suck them. Oo, I love when you suck my nipples. Do you love my breasts, baby? Do you like to squeeze my tight, firm little ass? Do you absolutely worship my body? Oh, I know, you've told me. It's all yours tonight.
"I want you to take me. I'm going to drive you crazy until you take me and fuck me like a nasty big animal. Oh, you can take me any way you like; I just want you inside me. You can have me on my back, and I'll put my knees over your shoulders, and you'll wrap your arms around my thighs and you can pound my pussy. D'you like to hear the slap against my booty as you pound yourself inside me?
"Or do you want to take me from behind? Mmm, let's do that too. I'll get down on all fours, and you can ram your cock into me like I was your little bitch in heat. Or I can get on top and slide my little wet pussy down your cock and ride you...up...and down...
"Oh, but first, I want to suck you. Mmm, yes, I want that—ungh, yes,
that
—in my mouth, so I can lick it and suck it and play with your balls. And then I'll lick you clean when you come.
"So you're going to have to get this dress off me. It's a flimsy little dress. You could probably just tear it off me. Would you like that? To just rip the clothes off my back? Mmm..."
The song ended. She broke away from me and spun around to applaud. "So. Whaddya think, Ricky? Should we get outta this dump?" she asked, over her shoulder.
I stood up close behind her and let her feel my hard-on against her heinie. She pushed back against it. I said in her ear, "Go to the ladies room and take your panties off. Bring them to me. Go."
She turned her head and gave me a dimply smile that would glaze a