The large flat screen's digital clock had said '8:16' in bright green-lit digits, and it was tuned to an Asian-based English-speaking news channel when she turned it on. She fidgeted as she brought the tea cup to her lips, squirming on the sofa, her legs folded under her in the living room. She bit her lip as she eyed the clock under the screen again, not seeing, hearing or caring what the falsely smiling anchors on it were saying, trying to ignore the confused jumble of emotions poised at the edge of her consciousness, the all-too-familiar mix of nervousness, anticipation, excitement, anxiety, uncertainty and apprehension churning through her as she obediently waited for him.
And much as she tried to deny it, she knew it was the same collage of emotions experienced by a woman before a first date.
Except that unlike every other first date she had ever been on, she knew this one was definitely ending with sex, which only added to the excitement. As instructed, and it disturbed her that she couldn't bring herself to rebel, she was nude, legs freshly shaven, gloss on her lips, the combined scents of jasmine and sandalwood rising from carefully moisturized skin. She furled her lip up to her nose as she took another sip of her tea, feeling her nipples tighten on her breasts as they moved freely on her chest, the ever present heat stirring between her legs ... it was likely going to start with sex. She didn't need to touch herself to know that she was still wet and becoming more so, her pussy churning out lubrication as the clock counted down the minutes.
Her emotions disturbed her, and she forcefully reminded herself that she would be getting on a plane and on her way back to her real life - what was left of it - within the next twenty-four hours, both Thailand and Marquin Haydn consigned to memory. She knew it was dangerous to feel the way she was feeling—this dinner, this 'whatever-it-was', was no date, no beginning of a new relationship; he was just a fling ... a business arrangement, a rebound ... revenge, nothing more.
Except that it didn't feel like revenge, not any more. It had stopped feeling like revenge some time in the last twenty four hours, she realized. That did bother her. She found the absence of pain when she thought of her fiancee profoundly disturbing, especially since she realized she'd barely thought of him since ... since Marq 'renegotiated' their arrangement in the shower. And now she felt nothing, even when she deliberately brought up the image of him and Jillian on the dance floor, even when she imagined them in bed together, bodies entwined, secure in the ignorance of their significant others thousands of miles away on the other side of the world as they joyfully fucked each other to exhaustion.
The warmth between her legs went up several notches as she imagined her fiancee and his married lover, naked bodies joined and heaving in lust, copulating over and over again ... and then the woman's brown hair was suddenly curly and black, her figure smaller yet fuller and rounder, the slim lined and light haired man melting and expanding into a broad shouldered male form, hair cut low and dark. The two figures clutched and clawed at each other, united in mindless need. The man was rough, squeezing the woman's heavy breasts, grasping the copious mass of her butt as he drove his hardness into her vagina, growling in pleasure as he held her open. The woman's mouth was open, crying out in ecstasy as her lover repeatedly entered her body, her own hands squeezing and caressing, her body responding with answering movements of her own ...
She squirmed, goosebumps rising on her skin, her pussy warm with heat as she eyed the clock again; '8:19'. Just over ten minutes and she would learn what Marq Haydn meant by 'dinner.' She was lifting the tea cup to her lips again when she heard the lock turn and the slight creak of the door opening. She turned, breath only slightly catching in her throat when he came into view and their eyes met.
He said nothing for a long moment and she grew more self-conscious as he looked at her, eyes going over her nakedness.
Then he walked over to her. Wordlessly, knowingly, she placed her hand in his when he extended it to her and stood up. She went on her tip-toes, putting her arms around his neck as he bent his head down to kiss her parting lips. She grunted as his hand closed on a swollen breast, teasing the hardening nipple in his fingers, writhing against him as his other hand made its way behind and underneath her, gasping as his fingers easily penetrated her wetness, her readiness for him plain as the heat between her legs exploded into a raging inferno.
She gasped against his lips when she broke the kiss, reaching between them, tugging and loosening, her hands feverishly working to free his erection. His molesting of her breasts had become less gentle as he roughly pulled her up against him and growled at the back of his throat, the friction of his hand on her nipples making her quiver and cry out.
His pants were bunched up around his knees when he abruptly picked her up and spun to carry her over to the nearest wall. He easily lifted her up, bracing her against it, her legs spread around him, her thighs over his arms as she wrapped her arms around his neck tighter, bracing herself as his hardness touched her entrance, parting her nether lips.
She let out a squeal, stiffening as he lowered her down on his erection, so stimulated she was coming before he was fully inside her body.
The small part of her mind still capable of thought realized that they'd not exchanged a single word, that less than a minute had passed between his entering the suite and his entry into her body.
At that moment, Honor knew she wouldn't care if he did parade her naked through Bangkok.
He didn't wait for her to catch her breath before he started sliding in and out of her pussy. Not that she expected him to - he wasn't particularly considerate in that way, she'd learned. So she simply held on and buried her face in his neck, her sharp intakes of breath as he thrusted into her body loud amidst his own quiet grunting. She came again, within the minute, throwing her head back, banging it against the wall and gasping as her body shook and she clasped herself around him, her breasts squeezed against his shirt covered chest. Her cunt rippled around his cock as he continued to stroke into her shaking body, and suddenly he growled and stiffened, going still, pressing her hard against the wall. Honor clutched him to her, knowing he was about to come and getting ready to accept his load into her body.
And then he came, his entire body stiffening as he cried out. Her entire body flushed, alive with heat as she closed her eyes, feeling that strange joyous pride in his eruption, his loss of control, savoring the warmth of his cum as he came inside her.
Finally, spent, he gently, slowly, withdrew from inside her, lifting her off his cock. She cried out, in equal parts protest and pleasure as his shaft slid against her walls, suddenly feeling intensely bereft at his exit. Her feet felt numb as they met the carpeted floor, her legs rubbery, knees weak, and she might have fallen if her arms were not still around his neck and she wasn't still pressed against the wall by his bulk, feeling his manhood, wet from being inside her, against her belly as he hungrily captured her lips.
She returned the kiss, pressing herself against him as his hands roamed her body, once again teasing her breasts, stroking the soft skin of her belly, kneading the heavy mounds of her butt, feeling the heated wetness between her thighs, before he finally broke the kiss, leaving her panting excitedly, moaning in the back of her throat.
"Hello," she said, at last, for lack of anything else to say.
He grinned, still wearing his glasses. "Hi."
She giggled and pressed herself against him again, his cock, still wet from her liquid, pressing distractingly against her belly.
A bell rang and she froze, startled; someone was at the suite door.
"Ahh ... right on time," he said, certainly not missing the look of apprehension on her face, and it certainly didn't help that the next thing he said was; "Ready for dinner?"
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As it turned out, Marq apparently had not made any plans to take her out for dinner, with or without clothes - the bell ringer had been a member of the hotel's wait staff arriving with a large serving cart.
Which was a relief, as dinner was indeed a clothes-free affair - at least for her. She'd protested at the unfairness of it at first, but gave up when she realized he would not be moved, especially after the thoroughly disconcerting and arousing episode of molestation that she'd brought upon herself for pouting about it.
Completely nude and still somewhat breathless from the ordeal, she knew enough psychology to know that forcing her to remain naked while he remained clothed was a clear demonstration of power - his over her. And as she meekly sat across the dinner table from him, she realized that somewhere inside her, probably around the time he'd so effortlessly 'renegotiated' their arrangement, she had accepted the simple fact of it; he was in control, and much as sensible disciplined Honor Banet would deny it, she was enjoying it. A lot.
Her nipples were hard and pointing, a wet pulsing warmth alive and raging between her legs as she watched him smoothly set the table and light the five thin candles on the candelabra in the middle. He used the room control unit to lower the lights and change the channel away from 'Ramya' and her princely lover, who, night of passion over, were making their way back from the oasis, riding hard to reach the palace before dawn. The 'Pausing' sign appeared before the screen went dark and music started playing - playful and low.
Then he was at her side, taking her hand and lifting her to her bare feet. He kissed her, destroying what was left of her resistance as his fingers penetrated her pussy again, making her gasp in pleasure at the invasion as she kissed him back, clawing at him.
"Wait here," he ordered when he was finally done, leaving her breathing hard again, breasts heaving on her chest and staring wildly at him.
Silent, she watched him walk into the hallway leading to the bedrooms, sinking back to her seat, body quivering and goosepimpled. She was suddenly afraid, afraid of how deeply and profoundly he affected her, how completely he was dominating her ... and the fact that she found herself so completely aroused by it. Furtively, she spread her legs and touched herself, squirming in her seat, not surprised to find her clit at full attention, her questing fingers coming away wet and gleaming in the candlelight.
Sensible, disciplined, and decent Honor Banet was suddenly grateful that she was leaving the next day - the same thought made the new Honor Banet - the Honor Banet that was naked and waiting at a beautifully set dinner table in a Bangkok five star hotel suite for a stranger - feel as if there was an anvil in her chest.
When he came back, he was in a sleeveless T-shirt and cotton pyjama bottoms. He lifted her to her feet and kissed her again, hungrily, although this time his roaming fingers did not go exploring between her legs. Then he sat her down again, whatever was left of her self-consciousness that she was nude at a dinner table with a man she'd only met days before, and whatever was left of sensible and decent Honor Banet abruptly too far away to matter.
It helped that the food was excellent. As Marq would let her know as he quite competently served them both, plating the food with some panache, the chef's eclectic mix of Thai, Mediterranean and French cuisine had already won the Grand Imperial's Teakwood restaurant two Michelin stars. First came the coconut and calamari soup appetizer, then the main course of a green risotto of chicken and Thai basil leaf, garlic, ginger, and paprika.
The wine, to her surprise, was non-alcoholic.
They talked, mostly about her day at the Wat Phra Kaew and the Wat Pho and what she thought of Bangkok, surface - safe - topics, and despite her nudity, Honor found herself opening up, exclaiming over the beauty of what she had seen and enjoying his own stories of his first visits to the Far East.
He made no effort to hide that he was looking at her body, her breasts most especially, and enjoying it immensely, yet his eyes never strayed from hers when she was talking, a strange combination of extreme sexual objectification and respect that both flattered and embarrassed her.
She found him intriguing, she admitted to herself, before she savagely tamped down the curiosity that came with it. 'This' - 'he' - was not real. Real life was waiting for her thousands of miles and a turn of the day away. Once she got on her plane tomorrow, 'this' would end, and 'he' would be a never-to-be-revisited chapter in her life.
"You should not leave Bangkok without seeing the Wat Arun," Marq said.
She sighed, smiling. "I wish I could see it."
"That can be arranged."
She regarded him, frowning slightly. "My flight is in the morning tomorrow, remember?"
"There are other flights," he noted, "there's one the day after tomorrow, and the day after that."
She blinked, eyes narrowing as she understood just what he was saying. "I'm leaving tomorrow," she said, brutally suppressing the sudden urge to accept the implicit offer.
"Maybe."
Sensible, disciplined Honor Banet had risen to the fore, "You have to promise you'll let me go tomorrow."
He said nothing.
"No more ..." she felt herself flush, "'renegotiations.'"
He grinned evilly. "I have found that such promises are never wise."
She frowned. "I need you to promise me that you're letting me go tomorrow."
"What if 'you' change your mind?"
The slutty, whorish Honor Banet having dinner naked with a strange man she'd really only just met could, she realized. "I won't." Sensible, disciplined Honor Banet said, firmly.
Silence.
"Please ..." Honor reached across the table and grabbed his hand. "I need you to promise you'll let me go."
He was silent for a long moment, then he nodded. "Okay."
"I need you to say it," Honor said.
"I promise I'll let you go," he said easily.
Impasse over, and brutally suppressing the sudden flash of what suspiciously felt like disappointment, she let go of his hand, and after a moment, continued eating her risotto. She watched him for any sign of deceit, but instead she only saw the familiar predatory glint as his eyes roved over her nakedness.
"You should still see the Wat Arun."
She looked at him evenly. "Next time I'm in Bangkok, I promise I'll do just that."
He smiled, conceding, then he abruptly changed the subject, and language. "Where did you learn French?"
She quirked her lips, for a moment, asking herself whether answering revealed too much, before answering him, in French. "In France, Bordeaux."
"That's where you trained."
"Yes."
"L'Ecole Des Arts Culinaires is in Bordeaux - you must be very talented."
She paused, eyebrows rising at his accuracy but finding herself not really surprised that he knew of The Academy of Culinary Arts in France's sixth largest city. But it made her nervous.
She was given a reprieve from responding by the music changing to something very familiar.
She didn't need to look at the television to know the name of the artist and the song, but she did, and she found herself smiling, and dancing in her seat, moving her shoulders in a familiar rhythm. She caught his look and she felt herself flush. "I love this song," Honor said, uselessly, as if he couldn't see it for himself.
Tuesday evenings were for yoga at the gym, while Thursday evenings had, even if not quite as regularly, been for tango class, with Sarah. Ironically, even though Sarah had dragged her into the class for the sole purpose of Sarah getting her number into the hands of the tango instructor, she'd ended up being the far more enthusiastic student, finding a substitute for the ballet she'd been forced to give up in her teens when her breasts arrived in all their D-cup sized glory. Unfortunately for Sarah ... and not a few other women in the class, Massimo, the tango instructor, turned out to be married to the woman who ran the aerobics class.
Honor stopped dancing, suddenly aware of how every sway of her shoulders shook her bare breasts. "It's Fernando Marqelo," she continued, wanting to break the tension, discomfited by the silence and the way he was looking at her.
"Ah ..." he smiled. "He is supposed to be the new Carlos Gardel."
Honor nodded in agreement, enthusiastic despite herself. "You know tango music?"
"Honestly," he said, grinning, "I read it in a newspaper in Buenos Aires a few months ago."
Honor took her glass to her lips as she stared at him. She'd never been to South America. "It's one of my dream places to visit ... I envy you," she said honestly.
"Unfortunately, I didn't have time to learn much of the dance."
"You didn't spend long?"
"No. It was a business trip."
"That's sad."
His eyebrows rose. "Why?" he asked.
She shook her head. "I think it's sad that you get travel all over the world and hardly ever get to enjoy where you are."
There was a long silence.
"Well," he said, his eyes beginning their familiar tour of her naked body, the single word suddenly lewd, "I'm enjoying Bangkok very much right now." The predatory glint was back in his eyes as he smiled at her.
She was suddenly hot, despite her nakedness, her nudity suddenly something she was very aware of as her nipples tightened and swole even more on her breasts. She would never think of Bangkok, Thailand, or, she suspected, even just order Thai food, without remembering him carrying her to the balcony and showing her the Bangkok skyline as he encircled her naked body in his arms, his member swelling and hardening against her bare skin behind her. And she would certainly never forget how he had felt inside her as he rode her right there, in the rain, until he came inside her ...
Then there was the garage ...
She could see that he had easily noticed her nipples' open advertisement of what was playing on her mind, and she also noticed the sudden deepening of his breathing, showing her that he was not quite as in control as he pretended.
She smiled back at him, suddenly proud and very comfortable with her nakedness, tell-tale nipples and all. She licked her lips, heat rising through her body, wondering if he could see how much she wanted him to spread her on the table and open her legs for his cock until that final forceful release of his cum inside her body. "I am enjoying Bangkok very much too."
Ferdinand Marqelo stopped singing, song over, only for him to start singing another, a slower tempo reworking of a Carlos Gardel classic, one she was very familiar with. This time, Honor was conscious of her body as it followed the song.
She leaned forward and took his hand, watching his eyes and delighting as they went to her breasts. "Would you like to dance with me, Mr. Haydn?"