It was certainly not the best night to hold a formal summer ball. The temperature had been at its all-year high during the day and it had not cooled much as the sun declined. In fact, the air on the dance floor was even hotter than it had been at midday and was heavy with the moisture from a hundred or more gyrating bodies. Two of those bodies were those of Paula, my wife's sister, and myself. We had finished an energetic number and were now dancing slowly to a love song, perspiring gently as we held each other close.
My wife and I met Paula and her husband frequently as he had been a work colleague of mine at one time and we had been together on a night out when we first met Paula and her younger sister. In the course of time, I had married one and my colleague - now my friend, had married the other - Paula.
Although I loved my wife dearly, her sister was a sexy minx and I must confess to fantasising about her often. I also had a sneaking suspicion that Paula felt the same about me but, because of the complexity of our relationships, I had never done anything about it...until tonight.
Her dark head rested on my chest and her body scalded mine with its heat. I didn't mind the suffering however, because I was looking down to a wonderful view - the pale pink cleft between two full breasts in her low cut party dress.
She looked up and whispered, "Do you know, I have been sweating so much that I am absolutely soaking," then added naughtily," I had to go to the ladies and take my panties off - they were dripping."
She flashed a teasing, provocative look at me.
I replied suggestively," You mean that beneath that pretty ball gown you are completely naked? " My manhood twitched imperceptibly, but I know she detected it because she gave me another wicked glance.
Lowering my head to bring my mouth next to her ear, I whispered conspiratorially, "You know Paula, telling a red blooded man that your panties were so wet that you have had to take them off could be taken in a completely different way."
She laughed and we exchanged more knowingly glances but, as we did, I noticed my wife making her way through the other dancers and stand next to us. She put her mouth close to my ear to make herself heard above the music,
"John, Jeff has just realised that he hasn't taken his tablets and since everybody apart from me has had too much to drink to drive back to the house, I will have to take him home, do you mind?"
"Of course not, but can't it wait until we get home?"
"Apparently not, he should have taken them this morning."
"Yes, that's right. It's a course of drugs and he shouldn't miss any," added Paula, looking a little concerned.
"Ok, then I'll see you when I see you - it will take close to an hour to drive home and back, you know."
I gave her a peck on the cheek and she left.
When she had gone Paula took my hand and said, "It's too hot here, shall we sit down?"
We returned to the corner of the dance floor where our table now looked liked a little oasis of gloom, having the only candle still alight amongst the tables around us.
Paula and I sat on each side of the table corner with me on her right. We sipped our drinks, stealing embarrassed glances at each other and wondering who would speak first.
After a while she looked away, as if she was trying to make her voice appear to come from nowhere and whispered," You know that I have always fancied you, don't you, John?."
I could sense her anxiety at saying as much out loud and replied, "I somehow guessed you did." I looked down through the liquid in the glass I was toying with and continued, "and I have to tell you that you have played a big part in a lot of my fantasies."
"Oh, yes?"
"Yes."
"And what did I do in your fantasies?" I felt her hand on my thigh beneath the table.
Turning towards her, I smiled and answered, "If you must know, you were really, really naughty."
She laughed again, a cheeky, fun filled laugh. "What did we do that was so naughty?" She playfully punched my arm with her free hand and squeezed my thigh with the other one.
"I can't tell you that, but it was more than putting a hand on my thigh."
Her eyebrows went up and so did her hand until it brushed against my growing erection. She watched for my reaction.
"Oh! You were much naughtier than that."