Intro -
She straightened the seams on her stockings and gave her makeup a final glance before she entered the club. All in all, she quite approved. A petite 5' 6" tall, her figure was one a woman ten years younger would envy and a woman ten years her senior would spend thousands to replicate. Her shoulder length ebon hair, burnished to an almost metallic luster from her nightly ritual of 100 brush strokes, fairly glowed against her pale, milky skin. Indeed, at 36 she still cut a fine figure, even if she did say so herself.
She adored the dress she had chosen for tonight's adventure. It was a red number, with thin spaghetti straps that forbid the use of a bra and a scalloped hemline that dipped, loose and flowing, to fall only a few inches above her knees. She didn't really care for a lot of jewelry and so had chosen only a single rope of gold that hung to just below the hollow of her throat and a wrist watch, with a band in matching gold, clasped around her delicate wrist. She never used a scent; her own was enticing enough if the many compliments she received about it were in any way true. One could clearly see the Cuban heel of her coffee-colored, silk stockings contained within the fire-engine-red shoes she wore. Their narrow three inch heel and thin leather laces, looped around her slender ankles and tied in a loose bow in the back, completed the look.
The stockings were an indulgence, she knew. They had cost many times the price of the nylon pantyhose she usually wore but she had always thought them a bargain. The stockings and heels gave her legs the shape and tone of a ballroom dancer; you just couldn't get that with pantyhose or even nylon stockings. Not that she waltzed that often. She was more likely to be found in the strip aerobics class from which she got her trim figure than dancing a foxtrot. Still, if things worked out the way she hoped, she might be doing a different sort of tango later this evening. It was Saturday night and this was what she lived for...
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Chapter 1 -- Stairway to Heaven
A staid professional woman by day, her work week colleagues would not have recognized her the way she looked tonight. While she always dressed to impress, Monday through Friday her tastes ran more to tailored suits, silk blouses and flats. Her day-to-day demeanor was more mentor-like than that of a vixen. Her sexuality was muted by the needs of a modern workplace that demanded she repress any hint of her true self. She had not risen to the level of VP of Business Development at her company by emphasizing her femininity. But, in her head, the work-a-day world could not contain her.
She had heard, she was not sure where but she had heard it more than once, that men think about sex every seven seconds. If that were true then she was manlier than the most virile hunk at any gym. It seemed as though everything led back to sexual thoughts for her. It was one reason she worked as hard as she did: if she didn't have work to think about her mind seemed to fixate instead on the so called sins of the flesh. Take for example this morning. She had seen the FedEx man making an early AM delivery and immediately her fantasy life had assaulted her thoughts again.
She had pictured herself, outfitted in her Saturday best, in fact in the outfit she wore tonight, coyly glancing his way as she wandered past the reception desk. Her heels and the dress itself enhancing her gait, her fantasy self caught the delivery man consuming her with his gaze as she passed him. He was obviously a leg man. Their eyes met briefly and he quickly looked away embarrassed to have been found leering. As fast as he had glanced away his eyes returned to her body. She knew it from the heat rising at the nape of her neck, as though his laser-like gaze was focused through a magnifying glass. Obviously undone by her charms, he stammered his excuses about his busy delivery schedule to Nancy at the front desk and hurriedly made his way out of the office covering himself with his clipboard as he shouldered the heavy glass door open.
She saw her other-self leave the office by the hallway door just as he left the reception area. Catching his eye as he stepped into the hall, she threw him a smoldering look of her own. With a slight pause in her step and a subtle inclination of her head she silently invited him to join her as she stepped into the emergency stairwell. She did not wait long in her dream; she rarely did when she directed herself.
The latch had not yet clicked closed when his strong hand caught the heavy steel fire door and pushed it open to follow her. He caught her shoulder with his other hand and spun her around as the door clanked shut with the coffin-like finality you only hear from doors designed to keep out the bad stuff: fire doors, submarine airlock doors, the doors to prison cells. Caught off balance she stumbled into him stopping herself with a hand against his chest. Almost reluctantly she pushed herself away to stand on her own feet. The muscles of his chest, made hard by lifting boxes 350 days a year, felt like corded steel under her tapered fingers.
He moved his hand from her shoulder to the back of her neck, his fingers trailing lightly across her throat as he did, and she felt him draw her into his embrace. As their bodies met, she felt another piece of steel, a bar, thick and firm, against her leg. His lips, rough and chapped from his blue collar life, pressed themselves against hers and his tongue traced the seam of her lips. His tongue pressed forward invading her mouth and she tried to push him away. But, FedEx would have none of that.
He tugged her closer and crushed her mouth with his. It was as if he had been stranded in the desert for weeks with nothing to drink and her lips, her tongue, were an oasis; as though she were his last chance at life, a wellspring of water to heal his parched, dry throat. And he drank deeply. She melted with the need his kiss implied and met his kiss with equal abandon.