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Charlie's Law
Date: 10/2/2014, Categories: Seduction, Author: henrygatewood, Rating: 14, Source: LushStories
to annoy anyone who was actually listening. No-one was. Then I saw her, and the rest of the room seemed to fade and darken out of all relevance. She was standing in the wide, grand doorway that led into the restaurant from the bar. She was tall, shapely, and wore a long black figure-hugging evening dress that reached almost to the floor. Her skin was the colour of coffee with a little too much cream; her auburn hair glowed in the candlelight like dry rust in the setting sun. Her eyes were dark and wide, and even from this distance they pulled at me like the gravity-well of some massive, distant star. She was standing there alone, and something about her stance suggested she was annoyed about something. A waiter went up to her and bowed so low that his mop of hair practically wiped the floor, then led her to a table set slightly apart from the rest, near to the tall windows which looked out onto the terrace and, beyond, to the glittering London skyline across the river. She was still, just, within my field of view. She ordered wine - red - and sat there taking small sips from a large glass. She looked right at me a couple of times, but I couldn’t read her expression. Each time I tried to hold her gaze I found my fingers drifting and had to turn back to the music. I made up my mind to walk as close as possible to her table when I made for the staff areas, and see if I could make more meaningful eye-contact. I don’t know why - her wedding ring was clearly visible. Sometimes I ...