Her logical brain had officially gone on vacation. She couldnt quite work out how she had got from stressing over the meeting, to being pressed up against a hotel door, but here she was. One hand in his hair, the other pulling at his tie, while he pushed both his hands up her skirt. Everything was all a lusty haze of tongues and teeth and lips and she almost couldnt breathe. His lips were on her neck, just below her ear, and she was vaguely conscious of the fact that anyone could come down the hallway at any minute and that he had somehow removed her black lace knickers and was holding them in his hand like a prize.
She could smell her own arousal and knew she was soaked, aching for him in a way she had never ached for anyone else. Hazel eyes met his steely gaze and for a moment neither said a word, just stared at the other, lost in their own desire.
His smile was genuine, perhaps the first genuine smile she had ever witnessed on his face and momentary tenderness caused her to cup his cheek with her hand. He briefly closed his eyes, accepting the gesture, before reaching into his jacket pocket, removing the card key and deftly opening the door.
They stumbled into the room, discarding clothes, inhibitions, pride, prejudice and dignity all at the door, his hand went to her sex, his fingers inside her in one fluid motion, her own hand reaching for his erection. A mess of limbs and nothing but want, they fell against the nearest of the two plush sofas that sat in the middle of the seating area to his luxury room, overlooking St Mark's Square, Venice.
Suddenly they heard a cough, and they both stopped, looking at each other in confusion, before turning almost in slow sync in the direction of the noise that had broken their reverie.
Stood in the open double doorway to the bedroom was a naked Blaise Zabini, a startled and equally naked blonde woman lay in Draco's bed, clutching the crisp white sheets to her body, a bewildered, almost frightened look on her face.
Raising his coffee cup in greeting, a smirk on his lips, he winked as Hermione's gaze drifted to what was in his other hand
"Biscotti anyone?"