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Charlie's Law
Date: 10/2/2014, Categories: Seduction, Author: henrygatewood, Rating: 14, Source: LushStories
size me up somehow. Her face was as beautiful as her figure. Her eyes, again, pulled me in. “Yes,” she said at last. “Thank you.” Her voice was precise and refined, very English but with the merest hint of something more exotic. She looked only a couple of years older than me - mid thirties, perhaps. I lit her cigarette, then pulled out my own pack and lit another one for myself. The woman’s eyes did not leave mine. We both inhaled for a moment in silence, looking at each other. “Charlotte Christchurch,” she said, holding out a hand. “You can call me Charlie.” “Delighted,” I said, taking the hand and kissing it softly. Her name seemed appropriate somehow, but for a time I was unable to place why. “Daniel Randall, but please call me Danny.” “Well Danny,” she said. “If I may be so bold, you don’t look like you’re having the time of your life up there at the piano.” “I’m not,” I said with a shrug. “But a gig’s a gig.” She nodded. We inhaled, exhaled. The smoke twisted around us, close in the cool, sharp air. “If I may reciprocate your boldness,” I said, “you don’t look like you’re having the best evening yourself.” Her face hardened, and I wondered if the apparent familiarity had only been in my head. Perhaps the camaraderie of cigarette smokers did not cross class boundaries after all. “No,” she said. “You’re quite right about that.” She took a few more drags on her cigarette, in a silence I wisely thought better of trying to fill. “My husband,” she almost spat, “is a ...