“Oh.” My stomach was doing flips and I put my hands around his waist to stop myself from reaching down to grab his ass.
“Be ready.” He laughed and pulled my face towards him and gave me one deep, hard kiss before pulling back.
“Or what?”
“Or you’ll see.” He winked.
“You going to punish me?” I asked lightly, and he just laughed. I saw the others waiting for us in the field and so I started walking towards them. I wondered if they had seen us kissing and if they had, what were they thinking? I sure hoped Elizabeth didn’t think that she had anything serious with Aiden. I sure hoped that they didn’t have anything that would prevent me from working my magic. I also hoped that they hadn’t kissed or had sex. Though I didn’t want to ask. I didn’t want to know if they had, only if they hadn’t. And how did you ask that question knowing that one of the answers had the potential to break your heart?
“I can’t wait for tonight,” Aiden said from behind me and I jumped as I felt his hand lightly tapping my ass.
“Hey!” I turned around and glared at him. “What was that for?”
“I was just answering your question,” He said and ran ahead of me. My heart thudded as I realized that tonight might involve a lot more than just talking.
***
Seduction is like a dance. You have to move in time, at the right moment, and just let yourself go. I stared at my reflection in the mirror. I looked sexy. Or as sexy as I could look without having a professional stylist and makeup artist at my beck and call. No one can ever say I’m a quitter. Nope, not me. When Aiden asked me if I wanted to get dinner, I thought I was going to faint. And I mean that quite literally. My body felt weak and my heart was racing. I could hear the humming of birds in my ear and everything in my world was bright and wonderful. All because Aiden asked me to dinner. I know, I’m a bit of a sad case, but that’s what it’s like when a guy you like asks you out. It’s magical. Absolutely magical.
I grabbed my handbag as the clock on the wall turned to eight and then I stopped for a few seconds to make sure I was ready.
Red heels. Check.
Sexy underwear. Check.
Handcuffs. Check.
Aiden waiting for me naked in his large king-sized bed with nothing but a sexy smile on his face. I hoped that would be a check real soon. Like tonight soon. I was so excited I could barely contain myself. I checked my handbag to make sure I had my box of condoms (I wasn’t going to let protection be the one thing that prevented me from getting down and dirty tonight). I had my red lipstick that matched my heels perfectly. I had some strawberry lipgloss. I had a small bottle of Vera Wang’s Princess perfume because it made me smell divine. I was going to spray myself with it again once I got to the restaurant because the scent never seemed to last long. I had a pack of Altoids mints because I wanted to make sure I had fresh breath and I knew a good blowjob trick with Altoids in your mouth. I also had my cellphone. Forty dollars in cash. My driver’s license, in case I got carded when ordering my cocktails. And I also had a small teddy bear that I always carried around with me. It was a bear that Aiden had given me when I was a little kid and he had won it at a fair. He probably didn’t even remember that he’d given me that prize, so many years ago, but I made sure to carry it with me everywhere. It was one of my prized possessions. Sometimes when I was in bed, late at night and feeling lonely, I would grab that teddy bear and squeeze it and kiss it and hold it close and imagine that somehow it was making me close to Aiden. It was a juvenile thing to do, but it was something that always comforted me.
“He’s here, Alice!” Liv screamed down the corridor. “I saw his car pull up.”
“How do I look?” I hurried out of my room in my short black dress and Liv whistled.
“Uhm, hotter than the Sahara Desert.”
“Hotter, huh?” I grinned and twirled around in my dress. “I feel pretty hot.”
“You’re more than pretty hot, you’re super-hot.” She laughed and came over to me. She poked her finger into my arm and screeched.
“What’s wrong?” I asked her with a confused frown.
“You’re so hot you just burned me.” She grinned and we both burst out laughing.
“You’re a goof,” I said. “It’s a good thing you’re not a man. You’d never get laid with pickup lines like that.”
“I think I’d make a good man,” she said with a smile. “I’d know exactly what to say to get the girls.”
“Uh huh.” I grinned, and she looked me up and down slowly and licked her lips.