Page 52 (1/1)

I tried towas nor had taken root in the pit ofwith ht

Awake or asleep, I couldn’t escape the fact that ht up turned on ony, to be constantly throbbing froht to life

He arrived, got one look at me, and became very formal, almost stiff

I was taken aback, because without even so much as a kiss on the cheek, he asked to be shown soraphs in the current featured collection, as though he’d done research on it His interest in the art seeing this torturous ht thismore than a charade, not for one second had I even considered it

I was not a good sport about being so mistaken And the state onized the h when it was contained within, slowly, insidiously, was spreading One look at hi my same air, and that flimsy container broke

I tried to ith him as I would have worked with anyone who had scheduled a private showing like this, setting up the photos that caught his interest in e called the black roo to best show off the range of colors in this particular photographers crystal imbedded paper

I set up one particular red canyon piece, doing a quickwould look like He sat on the long couch at the back of the roohts, illustrating how even the fading color tones could be brilliant

But that feeling, that throbbing, had hs, my brsts, , and so out loud Within a fewto fold, once again, just for another brief taste of relief It beca hiracefully, and hopefully, to save my pride, to make it seem like his idea

But he hadn’t even coerced me No seduction whatsoever this tied that some perverse part of me just had to know that he felt it too I’d worn a dress open practically to ht, and he’d barely looked at me Somehow, that was the fastest seduction of all

His indifference feigned or otherwise, undid me co to sit beside hiht in the rooht, then faded it to near dark, then repeated the process, showing how vibrant it could still look without full lighting

I sat too close to hie that I was desperate just then

He grunted Grunted, like a caveman It was bizarre, and I had no idea how to respond

"I’ll try another I know you liked the red in this series I have another with a beaht in it that really plays with the color"

I stood,past him toward the door He stopped rippinghard, but struggling not to show it I was panting like I’d run a mile

It was insanity

He didn’t look up at h that I could just h to hear if he was breathing like I was, butso loudly that I couldn’t ht back on," he told rab the rehts back to bright

"Cohly

Some sarcastic remark tried to make its way out of myas folding in on the hi me close to straddle hiht skirt up tome on top to straddle hiry touches that took a bit of everything, his ravenous eyes taking so hly "How do you keep talking, keeparound like you don’t feel it, too?"

I shookthe at his silky hair

He ainst his erection Through ainst ive you relief Aded out of the sleeves ofme bare from the ribs up I arched They were slightly fuller than they’d been all those years ago, and I wondered if he’d noticed I was still in good shape, but I’d filled out a bit I wasn’t dancer skinny anymore, and my brsts now overflowed a C cup The curve of my waist was just as small as it had been, ht curve to them now that wasn’t all hipbone