The Crazy Horse looked like a nice place despite it's odd name, Alexa saw when she got out of her Uber. It was a modern, trendy bar with a large area out front, with a bunch of tables that were occupied by people enjoying the warm summer evening. There was much laughter and conversation going on.
Someone wolf whistled. Alexa guessed it was at her. It was annoying, but all she took from it was that she looked hot in her silver dress with diamond trim. She was showing plenty of leg and cleavage. Hopefully Raquel was going to like what she saw.
There was no sign of Dakota, but Alexa noticed that she caught the eye of several semi-drunken men in the busy area outside the bar. She was out of their price range, she thought with some amusement as she walked in through the open doors.
The bar was less busy inside than out, thankfully. Alexa had the feeling that if the weather hadn't dragged so many outside, this would have been one of those places where it was hard to hear what people were saying when you talked to them. It wouldn't have been a good choice for the meet up if that had been the case, so Dakota had gotten a bit lucky.
And there she was, sitting at the bar. The pink hair could hardly be missed. Alexa stopped for a second when she took in the appearance of the woman who had to be Raquel. Dakota had said she was a big girl. Alexa had pictured someone overweight, but no, that wasn't the big that Dakota had meant. Raquel was very tall. The black sleeveless dress that she was wearing showed off big, powerful arms. Her gym membership was clearly good value for money. Even seeing her from behind, Alexa liked what she saw. Raquel might be someone to contend with in the bedroom, and Alexa enjoyed that kind of thing, especially since she always got the best of it. Some of the items in the handbag she had brought with her might prove to be useful for that endeavour.
Walking straight over to Dakota and Raquel obviously wasn't the way to play things, so Alexa went and sat at the bar herself, a few stools down from Raquel. Now the trick was to wait for the right time, while avoiding being chatted up in the process.
A female bartender came over to serve Alexa, and she ordered a cocktail. It was possible that she wouldn't end up finishing it, but that hardly mattered considering the amount of money she was going to make for her next twelve hours of work.
Pleasingly, and somewhat surprisingly, no one bothered her while she sat and sipped her drink, studying Raquel discreetly without it being noticeable that she was doing so. There was a lot of laughter between Dakota and Raquel. A couple of times, Raquel happened to look in Alexa's direction. She was pretty, Alexa saw. How someone who looked like that was lost in the world of love was quite remarkable. Maybe this night would help her to come to terms with her sexuality, and set her on the right path? If so, the night of hot sex wouldn't be the only value Dakota got out of the gift she had purchased for her friend.
Alexa waited about ten minutes before deciding to make her move. By then, she was sure that Dakota was aware of her presence, and would be prepared to make her quick exit as per her earlier instructions. Raquel's cocktail was almost empty, giving Alexa the chance to offer to replace it, which was what Dakota had wanted her to do to get things started.
Taking her handbag and her half-drunk cocktail with her, Alexa got off her stool and walked confidently over to Raquel, who was currently turned the opposite way, talking to Dakota.
"Hi. Excuse me. I was wondering if I could buy you a drink?" Alexa asked, smiling sweetly and alluringly as Raquel turned to look at her. She could tell right away that her client for the evening liked what she saw. The look in her eyes gave her away.
"Me? I mean, yes. Yeah, you can buy me a drink."
"Great," Alexa said happily, getting up onto the stool next to Raquel. "I'm Lexi. I hope I'm not interrupting anything? I just had to come over."
"You're not interrupting anything," Dakota said. She quickly finished her beer and put the empty bottle down on the bar. "In fact, I'll leave you two ladies to it."
"Are you sure? You don't have to go," Raquel said to her friend.
"I think it's best if I do." Dakota used her expression to hint that maybe three might be a crowd. The message seemed to get through to Raquel.
"Oh, right, yeah. Okay, I'll message you or something."
"Have a good night," Dakota said, giving her friend an encouraging smile before turning and heading for the exit.
With perfect timing, the bartender came over and asked if Raquel would like another drink. Seeming a bit flustered by how quickly things were happening, Raquel stumbled over ordering another cocktail.
"I'll get that," Alexa told the bartender, putting a ten dollar bill on the bar.
"Thank you. I, uh, this is unexpected," Raquel said. Being approached by a woman was clearly totally out of left field for her. Alexa realised she was going to have to calm her down a bit before dropping the 'I'm your birthday gift' line.
"You're welcome. The cocktails are really nice here, aren't they? Do you come here often?"
"Quite often, yeah. Dakota, my friend who just left, and I like it here. I like sitting out front, but tonight she wanted to sit at the bar. I'm glad she did now."
Back to plan A, Alexa thought. That was too good of a set up for her to reveal the truth about why she was there. "There's a reason she did that, and left us so quickly. I'm actually here because of Dakota. I'm her birthday gift to you." She made the idea sound as appetising as possible.
"You're... you're what? A birthday gift?"
"That's right. For the next twelve hours, I'm all yours."
Raquel narrowed her eyes for a moment. "Let me get this right. You're a hooker, and Dakota hired you to spend the night with me because she knows I've wanted to spend a night with a hot woman."
"That's pretty much it. Although I'm an escort. An expensive, high class escort, not a hooker."
"Sorry, I didn't mean any offense. I didn't know the right word to use. So, the idea is that we go back to my place, and..." Raquel's voice trailed off.
Alexa wondered if the night was about to fall at the first hurdle. This was why she wouldn't have recommended Dakota's idea of telling Raquel the truth about everything. But what the client wanted, the client got. That was how A Moment of Bliss worked. "We go back to your apartment, and I show you how good being with a woman can be."
For a few seconds, Raquel seemed to consider it, doing so over a long drink from her new cocktail. When she looked back at Alexa, her mind had been made up. "Then we'd better get a ride. I can't believe this is actually happening, you know. I'm sorry I called you a hooker. Like I said, I didn't know another word to use."
Alexa took her hand and looked into her eyes, doing her best to put her under a spell that she wouldn't get out of for twelve hours. "It's fine. And as far as believing this is happening, well, it is happening, Raquel. Tonight, you're going to experience a moment of Bliss."
"This is my apartment building," Raquel said once they had gotten out of their Uber ride.
I figured, Alexa thought, considering they had dropped off right outside of it. "Lived here long?" she asked as they went in, for the sake of making conversation.
"About a year. I saved for years to buy it. It's so nice to have something to show for your hard work, you know?"
"Absolutely," Alexa said. She and Clementine were already in that position, and had recently talked about buying a second home somewhere overseas.
Alexa and Raquel rode together in an elevator up to the third floor. There was still some awkwardness about the atmosphere between them. It wasn't an unusual thing for Alexa to encounter. An escort as a gift wasn't something that most people had never even contemplated, so it was only natural for them to be uncertain about it. It wouldn't take her long to help Raquel past that once they were in the apartment.
"Here we go," Raquel said, walking over to a door with 12 on it. She unlocked it, and led the way in. "It's not the tidiest it's ever been. Obviously I wasn't expecting to come back with anyone."
"Don't worry about it. It's a nice place you've got here." It was true, too. The decoration and furniture wasn't overly expensive in taste, but it was nicely done, and the place was clean. The only fault Alexa could have found, if she had cared to, was some general untidiness. But she didn't care about that. There was work to do.
"So how does this work?" Raquel asked nervously, standing in the living area.
"We can have something to drink first, if you'd like. Or you can show me where your bedroom is." As she finished speaking, Alexa stepped up to Raquel and pressed her body against her and looked up into her eyes in the most suggestive way possible. Without being too forward, which wasn't the way to go with a nervous client, it was hard to do much more with a woman who had to be at least a full foot taller than her when they were both standing.
"Oh my," Raquel breathed, quickly falling under the spell of the master seductress. "I'll, ugh, let you decide. Do whatever you want with me."
Alexa smiled broadly. "I hoped you'd say that."
A/N: Yes, I really did leave it there. Feel free to hate me. Next time, Raquel gets her desires satisfied by Alexa. What do you think she'll want her to do?