The alcohol couldn't be affecting her so quickly, could it? Even before she'd reached the half way mark of the Pinot, she could feel that warm, comforting embrace fall over her. It was ever so much like a favorite blanket being draped over her shoulders. He'd said she'd like Vail and here she was, indeed, liking it. The mountain had been great and skiing hard all day had made her muscles more than a little sore. God, I wish we had mountains like this in Dallas, she thought.
Josh had gone to get his boots refitted and suggested she get a glass of wine and relax a little. Now, here she was, alone at a bar full of good looking skiers and feeling pretty damn good about herself. Looking around the bar, she started to think about Josh and his tanned body. How hard it was to remember that they'd only been married two months. It seemed like forever sometimes, even though she could still remember vividly how different it'd felt on their wedding night than before, the sex now just didn't have that air of mystery it had when they were dating. It felt like married sex.
Ashton heard his accent from behind her. How cute Australians are, she thought. Or is he British? It's so hard to tell. She turned around and was surprised to see man that looked amazingly like Josh and yet very different at the same time. This Australian was blond and tall, but his face looked ever so much like Josh's. As if by instinct, her eyes drank in his body and, as she did this, he noticed her.
"G'day." he said, almost as if he knew he was both an ambassador and a cliche. "My name's Nathan, what's yours?", he asked. She stuttered slightly, knowing he'd seen her eyeing his body. "Ashton", she replied and then quickly added "Uh...sorry." Nathan laughed and said "Sorry for what love? No harm in having a look, eh? You're married, not dead." he added, looking pointedly at her wedding band. "Oh, yeah. He's not here." Ashton added quickly.
"Well then, I suppose he won't mind me chatting up his wife then either." Nathan said as he pulled out the stool adjacent to her's and sat down. "So, do you always go about checking out random blokes in bars Ashton?" asked Nathan. Blushing, Ashton replied that, no, that wasn't something she was in the habit of doing, but that he'd arrived just as a particular thought was passing through her head. As she said this, Nathan placed his hand lightly on the denim covering the top of her thigh. His touch was electrifying, as if there was, quite literally, electricity passing from his hand into her leg. Almost instinctively, she placed her hand atop his and the feeling intensified.
Nathan laughed again and pulled back. "I was only having a laugh." he said. "I couldn't make a genuine pass at a married lady if my life depended on it." he added. Ashton though, driven by the electric sensation and emboldened by the wine, grabbed for Nathan's hand. "I was the one making the pass." she said boldly. Leaning forward and cupping her hand around Nathan's ear, she whispered "Now let's get the hell out of this bar and up to my room so you can fuck the shit out of me before my husband's boot fitting is done."