This is my first attempt at writing prose in 20 years and my first attempt at erotic fiction.
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Morgan was sitting in her favorite chair watching a show on serial killers when it sounded like there was a knock on the door. She ignored it at first since there was no way someone was standing outside right now. The wind howled through the neighborhood causing the house to shake. They were in the middle of a polar vortex with below freezing temperatures and snow falling for the past 12 hours.
Morgan had just turned her attention back to the show to see what they were saying about Jeffrey Dahlmer when she heard the knock again. Fenris, their chihuahua heard the knock this time and decided it was the perfect time to freak out.
"Well who the hell could that be?" Morgann said to herself as she set the can of pepsi on the coffee table near the chair.
"Is someone here?" Nathan called from the upstairs office. Nathan was her husband of over 20 years.
"I have no idea. We're probably getting a delivery."
Once again the knock at the door this time was a little more aggressive, a little more frantic it seemed.
Morgan tried to shove her annoyance to the side as she stepped up to the window. She could see that there was no car in the driveway and no van in the street.
"Hello," Came the muffled voice from the other side of the door? "Is anybody home?"
"Just a minute," Morgan said as she tried to nudge the dog out of the way of the door.
She opened it just a crack and peaked out and there was a man standing there. The stranger wore a long black peacoat covered in snow and frost covered hair framed his face, topped with an old style bowler hat. He had on wire rimmed John Lennon glasses that were completely fogged up.
"Can I help you?" Morgan said, with the door opened only a few inches. This man is definitely a hipster, she thought.
"May I come in," The stranger asked as as he blew into his cupped hands and stomped his feet. He was hunched over against the blasting cold wind.
While balancing on one foot, Morgan did her best to keep Fenris inside. Even though, as with every stranger, he seemed to want to kill him and eat his soul.
"I'm not sure that's a good idea," Morgan said to the stranger. "Do you need to use my phone? Were you in an accident?"
She didn't think that was the case. Despite the storm raging behind him, the stranger appeared quite put together. The only thing marring his clothes was the snow that was falling.
"No accident. But... look, it's freezing out here. Can I please come in?"
Despite a slowly rising sense of unease about this situation, Morgan lost to her good nature and stepped back, picking Fenris up to get him out the way. As the door swung open, the stranger seemed hesitant to enter.
"Please, come in before the snow drifts get into the house." Morgan said to him. Quietly laughing to herself about how silly this all seemed.
The stranger stomped his feet and brushed off his jacket before stepping into the home. "Thank you, ma'am. I'm not sure how much longer I would have lasted out there in that madness."
Morgan set Fenris back on the ground and he immediately rushed to the stranger's feet. Sniffing them with fierce abandon, softly growling. She laughed and looked back up at the stranger standing in her living room, dripping snow. He seemed taller than she first thought when she saw him out in the snow. Once again, the sense of quiet unease started bubbling up within her as she looked back at the man.
"I'm not sure what's wrong with me. Let me get your coat and hat." Morgan said, taking the items from him. "Can I get you some water? Maybe some coffee?"
"I would love some coffee," she heard him say as she hung the coat and hat in the mud room.
When she headed back into the room with the coffee, he had taken off his glasses to wipe them free of frost and condensation and she could see his eyes. She had never seen eyes like his, They were a pale gray. For some reason that she couldn't figure out, she felt a slight heat toward this stranger. In that instant, he looked up and met her gaze and she almost dropped the coffee. She heard a little squeak that must have escaped her lips because the stranger smiled a little as she handed him the coffee.
"Was it a delivery?" Nathan said as he came downstairs. "Oh. Sorry about that. Didn't hear you talking."
"Is everything all right?" Nathan asked Morgan, still looking at the stranger with curiosity.
"Yes. Thank you. Much better now that I'm here." the stranger said as he looked over to Morgan again. "If you don't mind me hanging around a bit to get warmed up, I'll be on my way."
"Do you need our phone? Do you have someone to call?" Nathan asked.
"I don't have a phone. I can't stand those blasted things." The stranger said. "I'm pretty sure they're causing the downfall of Western Civilization."
"I couldn't agree more," Nathan laughed. "Well, if you need it, I get off work in an hour and I can bring you where you need to go if it's close. If you need anything, just let us know."
"That's very kind of you," Said the stranger, stealing another glance at Morgan.
"Not a problem at all," Nathan said as he mounted the stairs back to the office. "Oh, what did you say your name was again?"
"I didn't," the stranger said, the statement hanging in the air as Nathan turned and went back upstairs.
"Thank you very much for this coffee," The stranger said, breaking the silence and looking at Morgan with those incredibly weird but amazing gray eyes.
They were the strangest shade. Gray, but not in a boring black and white way. More like a far off storm cloud that is gray, there was a depth to them that she was falling into. The gray swirling down into the blackness. Into the void she fell, the darkness stabbed through with cold starlight.
Morgan jerked herself back to awareness and the stranger had that knowing smile on his face. That persistent heat that she felt looking at the stranger seemed to spread. She cleared her throat and broke eye contact and turned back to the kitchen.
"Go ahead and have a seat. You might as well get comfortable until Nate gets done with his work."