*****
Once again, I find myself in the company of this delectable man in a lovely restaurant. He is quiet though. He seems to concentrate on his food, but whenever I look up at him, he is watching me, then he looks away as he sees me notice.
“Is something wrong?”
He hesitates. “I’m not sure.”
“Are you upset with me about something?”
“No, not at all, but I don’t want you to be upset with me either.”
“I’m sorry, but I’m not following you.”
He puts down his knife and fork, resting his chin on steepled fingers. He starts to speak, stops, starts again, and finally….
“I wanted to pass something by you, but if you don’t like it, then that’s fine. I want you to ignore it.”
“Alright…. But what are we talking about?”
He swallows hard. “I realise that we barely know each other, but the thing is, I would like to know you better….”
Where’s this going?
“And I know that you said at the start, very clearly, that you didn’t want to be ‘tied at the hip’…. And that’s what I wanted too.… then…. The thing is…. that although my work involves a lot of travelling and my er.… base is out west, it doesn’t need to be. My apartment is only rented and so long as I have good road access and an internet connection, it really doesn’t matter where I live….”
“So…?”
“So, I could get an apartment here, in the City and we could see each other more regularly, and for me, more easily. How…. would you feel about that?”
stretches out, worry takes over. “Forget I said it,” he says. “I don’t mean
I think I’d like to get to know
I thought I might scare you off entirely.” He picks up
at all. In fact….” And
hovers, his fork
Is this my turn to say too
on. I said my piece.
I think
Leaning across the table, he kisses
Finish my meal?
I lick you out. And you’re going to gush into my mouth while
I to chew my steak, I try to ignore the heat of
*****
he unlocks the door then pushes me through with a hand between my shoulder blades. Following me in, he kicks back
he takes me, wraps his arms around me and
that, without asking, and without even trying to unbutton it, he pulls my blouse up and over my
about to be
bed, shoving me hard enough on the chest to simply drop me backwards. I flop down, my legs dangling awkwardly over the edge of the mattress. Lying
he says. “I’m glad to get out of those. That
standing high against his tight stomach, nestled against a bed of black
down at me. “You have no idea how much I want to simply fuck you hard, but I’m not going to.” He drops to his
see how well I
sopping. Despite finishing our meal quickly, I have had a good thirty minutes to think
going to take
with fingers, holding me open, he examines me, brow furrowed in concentration.
I’ve touched you….”
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