9.
~ "How long is it going to be?" The Point Man growled to the car attendant.
"The rain, it's harder to get to the cars right now." He explained. Cowering away from the angry man who was scowling at everything.
"It might be a while, Arthur." Ariadne said gently as they waited in the lobby of the restaurant with over a dozen other people, anxious to leave. The pretty lady running a hand over his shoulder as he shifted slightly.
He still wanted her. His hunger for her stilled only slightly. She looking impossibly beautiful in the lobby under the soft lighting of chandeliers and richly colored wall paper. He let out a deep, frustrated sigh.
"They need to get our car out." He said resting his large hands on her hips, pulling her body close to his. He didn't like the other men in the lobby seeing her. The ruby colored wrap sliding off her shoulders, showing too much skin. He kept his hands around her because he wanted to show that she belonged to him.
The seductress smiled up at him. She looked amazing in her own right, but compared to the frumpy women around them, she looked like some kind of dark goddess.
"You can't wait?" She whispered sweetly in his ear. Her hot breath tickling him and drawing his attention.
"Not really." He whispered back under the disguise of kissing her. Their words low and secretive among the other people who were talking loudly.
She smiled wickedly up at him.
"Oh, poor thing." She said running a hand discreetly down his pants. Her fingers dragging menacingly over the hardness he was keeping hidden. The Point Man stiffened worriedly and unfolded his jacket to conceal her evil hand.
"We are not starting that again." He growled looking at her with eyes that burned with warning.
The seductress smirked at him.
"I think we are." She said in a mocking voice. Her eyes teasing and her hand tormenting.
"Ariadne." He said sternly as her lips curled into a smile.
She leaned closer to him. Those lips tasting his.
"There's no place for us to go." He said softly. He could feel himself break a little. He wanted to take her, wanted desperately push her to a wall and impale her while they were both still standing. Making her legs tremble with the force of their coupling.
He wanted to be brutal with her. This women who was not his wife. He wanted to take her in ways that he would never take the woman who he had married, who he had made pregnant and who gave birth to his child. He found himself enjoying the idea of the seductress as "The Other Woman". Her heavy makeup, smooth hair and revealing dress made the illusion easy to believe.
"So much trouble when we get home." He said hoarsely as he grabbed her wrist and forced her hand away.
"Promises." The seductress teased pulling away from him. Her small, beautiful body sliding out of his grasp and into the crowd.
Arthur, uncomfortable and filled with a wanton rage was afraid to move after her. His current state would surely be revealed if he bumped into someone. The crowd was getting thicker and the complaints about the slow moving cars growing louder as the rain beat a steady, drum like rhythm, over the restaurant.
Arthur saw his lady vanish into the thickening crowd and, like Alice after that damned rabbit, he followed.
~ Ariadne felt alive. Her body feeling strangely energized and youthful as she slipped into a crowd of older women, knowing the Point Man was giving chase. She smothered a smile as she searched for a hiding place.
The coat check room would have been good, except that it was busy now with people retrieving their things. The bathrooms were likewise busy. She finally saw it, and smiled. A perfect hiding place.
~ Arthur had lost the seductress in the crowded lobby. It was a large, old fashioned lobby with a coat check room and bar for those who had to wait to be seated. Several people were waiting at the bar as the drivers were so slow tonight. All of them complaining loudly that this long wait was unacceptable.
'She must have gone to the bathroom.' Arthur thought bitterly. The seductress hiding from him. He was oddly disappointed. He had hoped this chase would lead him to a secretive place where he could be lost to her.
He sighed and rearranged his jacket to conceal himself.
A sudden flash of red and smoky eyes caught his attention. Arthur gasped to see the seductress peeking out of a small storage closet behind the bar, waving to him.
He looked around worriedly. Like projections in a dream, the other people ignored him as he carefully, carefully slipped into the shadows. Not catching anyone's attention as he vanished into a small hallway and in into the storage closet the seductress was hiding in.
~ "What are you doing?" Arthur whispered at her as she shut the door after him and he quickly moved a crate of Merlot in front of it.
"You wanted a place more privet." She said teasingly.
"I think we both know I was talking about home." He said pulling this brazen woman into his arms.
"That's boring." She said and tried to suppress a giggle as his lips were on her neck. She felt reckless and a little afraid as her husband's hands were wandering down her back and cupping her bottom.
"We should have just stayed home." He said pushing her up against a wall. The wine on the shelves making a clinking noise as her body hit them.
She bit her lip as she felt her husband's strong hand journey down her thigh and pick her leg up. Throwing it over his hip.
"I wanted to make love in our bed." He said in a heated whisper as her blood felt hot and reckless as she looked at Arthur's angry face.
He shook his head as his fingers started probing her wetness.
"But I would never make love to a woman like you." He whispered as his lips nipped her neck and went to her breasts. "I only make love to my wife." He added as his other hand pulled down her dress strap and exposed her breast.
She was still occasionally nursing their son and the contact of his mouth made her gasp at the sensitivity.
"Arthur!" She hissed as the solitary leg that kept her up trembled with his lips on her nipple and his finger's inside her.
His free hand went to her mouth then.
"I told you to be quite." He growled. His mouth temporarily leaving her nipple as she kept her leg wrapped around his waist.
She met his gaze unflinchingly as her husband penetrated her with his fingers and his other hand covered her mouth. She was suddenly seized by some kind of fearless animal. One who would bite back
~ Arthur jumped and pulled his hand away as the seductress was laughing at him. Her eyes alight with mischief.
"You bit me!" He hissed as he looked at his hand for bite marks. His heart racing at the shock of her teeth biting down on his unsuspecting flesh.
"Only a little." She said sweetly. Her eyes wide and innocent looking.
"You'll pay for that." He growled as his erection demanded attention. Her little bite had caused the blood to race hard in him. His need painful and so close to taking her.
He should have held her down. Instead, as he went to unzip his pants, she escaped. Her hands pulling up her dress, covering her errant breast and moving away from him.
"Come here." He growled feeling his need was heated and ready to take her.
"Arthur, surely they have brought the car around by now." She said sweetly as she moved the crate of wine aside with her foot and vanished through the little door.