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Audrey
It was so damn easy to have conversations with Lei. Just like it always had been, like a stream of water flowing beside you. Quiet and pleasant.
Inwardly, I was still amused by how he reacted when I made it clear I was well aware he'd watched every single stream for the past few years. It had caught him off guard, but he had handled it well. Even if it had raised more questions, he had played it off.
I usually kept a low profile, but that had come to an abrupt end with this morning's developments. Why beat around the bush when there was another way? Especially after he had made me this outrageous offer and I had already known after a second that I would not miss to lick the color on his skin until I reached his underwear and finally got a picture of what was waiting underneath. A tattoo, and other surprises worth seeing.
It was possible this was also an act of rebellion. I had to prove something to myself. That not everyone would look at me with the same look in their eyes as Alexander did when they found out what it was that satisfied me.
Lei was the perfect choice.
"You've seen every single stream. Do you want to review them?" I asked, rather provocatively.
"I want to know what rules apply in the real world."
I should have guessed. "Something tells me you're not going to let me shut you up in the real world, and you're not going to be satisfied with just watching."
"Of course not. And instead of letting you worship your own body, I think the roles should be reversed."
"Do you want to grovel?"
I watched with interest as he leaned back before wrenching the glass from my fingers. There were countless on the shelf behind the bar. Yet he insisted on drinking from the same one as me.
"We both don't want to see me in this role, Audrey. I'd be willing to bet on that."
"What role do we want to see you in instead?" I felt my heart beat faster. Years ago, I had allowed myself one summer to imagine all the forbidden things Lei did in his spare time. After that, I had stopped sending my imagination on a journey and living in the world of an impossible movie in my head. Now that imagination flared up again, catching me cold, knowing that the saying still waters run deep...and dirtyapplied to the man before me better than anyone else.
My skin tingled, even though he was not even in my immediate vicinity.
"Don't get me wrong, I would get down on my knees for you. But I would much rather see you on your knees."
I shook my head even as he spoke. "I'm not good with orders, Lei. This is the one area of my life where no one tells me what to do and what not to do. Where nobody gives me rules that I have to follow strictly."
Contrary to what I expected, he just shrugged. "I can live with that, as long as you trust me."
"We're beyond that question, I think." For various reasons, but starting with the fact that I had let him see so many things, knowing he could have used it against me. The betrayal in that regard had ultimately come from the other side. I felt more comfortable now that he had brought it up on his own, naively believing that some of what he had seen had been uncalculated.
"Are we? What questions have we yet to answer?"
"That we'll have sex. And that I won't hold anything back anymore. You know my first passion, I'm sure you'll handle the rest just as well." Maybe my fuse had blown during the conversation with Alexander. I had already decided during my phone call to Lei that in the next twenty-four hours I would make up for all the things I had suppressed all this time.
"What about the rules?"
Mine? His? Apart from the fact that he would not tell me what to do, there would be no rules.
Motivated, I jumped up. "Anything goes," I announced right in front of his face, letting my tongue slide over the tip of his nose and then withdrawing to search for the music system.
Meanwhile, what I had seen in Lei's gaze was also on my mind. He seemed invested. In the situation. In me. In this airborne promise.
I cleverly ignored the stumbling blocks. He was not only my father's business partner, but also one of his best friends. It didn't matter. If we slept together once and then returned to the original order, it would cause no problems. I could also blissfully ignore that he was a few years older than me. Why focus on that when there were so many more interesting things about this man than some stupid number on a piece of paper?
As soon as I reached the stereo, I pulled out my phone and connected theSpotifyapp to it, to start my default streaming playlist. Could he have guessed that I took a pole dancing class once a week because I found it incredibly attractive and appealing when other women knew how to move their bodies? When they moved lasciviously, it implied something by twisting and turning their bodies, and finally lolling on the pole, feeling the entire focus of the room on them.
By kicking out all the guests, Lei had created the perfect stage for me. No one left to watch. Just him and me. This time with no screen separating us.
Even turning, I sought eye contact with him. Instead of a seamless continuation of the conversation, there was a certain expectation in the air. A crackling. The harbingers of what was to come. Without averting my eyes, I walked to the end of the long bar, resting my hands flat on it before lifting myself effortlessly onto the dark wood. A wedding dress might not be the most appropriate outfit for what I was about to do but he had said it was the charm.
From that moment on, I no longer thought of it as an annoying evil, but rather as a tool. Something that I could use to irritate him until he would give in and show me exactly what was going on in his head.
