Sitting comfortably in his chair, Steven watched as Suzanne entered the crowded bookstore. She had a walk like no other woman, even at times like this. Every time he watched her walk, he thought of softness, curves and inside places. His primal brain disentangled itself from his civilized brain and made no apologies for the direction of its thoughts. Dark haired, dark eyed, dark shadows, dusky thighs. No amount of designer fabric could keep him from seeing her splayed and dew covered.
He saw her searching the store for him, using her peripheral vision, so as to not disobey the letter of his instruction. Saw her walk directly to the help desk, and knew exactly what she would be saying to the young man there:
Can you take me to the erotica section please?
The reaction on the part of the young employee was priceless. A gorgeous woman, a true force of nature, some small, but important, number of years older than he, had just looked him right in the eye and had asked him to take her to the "porno section." In his dreams he could not have concocted a more potent scenario. Steven watched as the young man stammered a meaningless reply and walked robotically toward the section of books that was directly in front of the chair in which he was sitting. A small placard on the end of the row read Self-Help/Sexuality.
Suzanne, eyes lowered so as not to acknowledge his presence, approached the aisle, and dismissed the flustered salesperson with a soft word. Then she sat down, back to Steven, on the two-person bench in front of the rows of books.
He resumed his frank admiration of God's good works. Long straight back, elegant shoulders leading to dancer's neck...or should he look down, to where flanks met bench, to the seat of her power, the place his fingers already needed to play. Either way, it never mattered where he looked, what angle or what line of sight: she was volcanic and he became molten. And she was his.
Just as he knew what Suzanne would ask the salesperson, he knew what she would do next.
The Velvet Glove, by Naomi Silver. Open to Chapter 7. Read through to the end of Chapter 9 without stopping. Unless instructed otherwise, do not look up from the book until you are through with your reading assignment.
Steven watched as Suzanne scanned the titles, and then, finding it at last, pulled it from the shelf. The cover photo was a stylish photograph of a leather clad nymph straddling a straight backed wooden chair. She had obscene red lips, the rest of her face mostly obscured by long jet black hair. Suzanne stared at the photo for a long minute before opening the book and leafing forward. A piece of parchment fell from between the pages, onto her lap.
Take out Small One, put it inside.
After a long, breathless moment, with shaking hands, Suzanne reached for her purse. Her long dark hair fell from her shoulders as she worked inside it. Steven heard sounds of plastic snapping, and the unmistakable soft sounds of thick liquid being squeezed from a tube.
Looking neither to her left nor her right, Suzanne removed a glistening-tipped plug from her purse. Carefully she began to bunch the light material of her skirt up higher on her taut thighs, until it was but a band of black. Then she lifted up a scant six inches from the bench, moved her hand underneath, and began setting Small One to its only home.
A flash in the corner of his eye, Steven saw a man idling his way down the aisle toward them. The man was making a show of studying the placards on the ends of passing bookshelves, but Steven saw that his gaze repeatedly came to rest on the erotica aisle. Looking quickly back to Suzanne, Steven noted that she was making tiny downward pressing movements. Just as the man stopped abreast of Self Help/Sexuality, Suzanne urged herself the last inch downward, smoothing her skirt out over her legs as she did, Velvet Glove once more in her hands.
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Heart hammering, Suzanne was conscious of the man as he stood just a few feet away from her bench. Just as she was aware of Steven, watching her every move. She kept her eyes down, bringing them to focus on the pages of the book in her lap. Willing her pulse to slow, willing her mind to concentrate, she began to read.
Chapter 7. In Which Susannah Is Opened
Susannah heard the velvet gloves being removed. Though her cheeks were tracked with salty tears and her bottom on fire, she attempted to be still for him. The same stillness was not true of the insides of her still-pulsing center. She was awash in her own thick syrup, knew that it covered her inner thighs. In her head she replayed the sound of his mouth cleaning her there. The wanderer stood to her side, his large hands coating themselves with salve. Bending to his task, he softly stroked his slick palms over her cheeks, the sting abating immediately. The contrast between the rough-palmed spankings and the tender, almost reverent ministrations with which he now calmed her angry skin, was breathtaking. Susannah closed her eyes, lowered her face to the sheets, and gave herself over to his gently working fingers.