Lustfully Ever After by Kristina Wright

Author:Kristina Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2012-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Alex served a fine dinner, too: grilled salmon, a salad of baby lettuces, a cabernet from a boutique winery owned by a friend, another ex-lawyer who’d followed his dreams. Slightly tipsy, I joined him on the sofa for dessert. Talk came easily to us. He told me about his growing photography business—mostly weddings and portraits, but a few personal projects that were less profitable but he hoped would find a gallery some day. We inched closer as dusk fell.

Then Alex hit me with the bombshell. “To me you look exactly as an artist should, a unique beauty who creates beauty. I hope you’ll let me do a photo session with you while you’re here.”

I almost choked on my Grand Marnier. To my guilty mind, he’d just asked me to put on skanky lingerie and masturbate for his camera.

“Are you all right? I know you didn’t sleep well last night.”

He put a hand on my shoulder.

My flesh seemed to melt into his fingers.

I’m not sure why I confessed my transgression so easily. I’d always felt a special connection between us, even by email, and now his touch seemed to draw the truth from me as if I’d been enchanted. Besides, I was an idealist. Lies and secrets pained me physically, like rusty shards of metal pricking my heart.

“Ah, so you know all about Laura now.” To my surprise, he didn’t seem angry, only sad. “You probably found those pictures disturbing. I suppose any woman would.”

“To be perfectly honest, I felt them before I saw them. I mean—and I hope you don’t think I’m crazy—I dreamed about those pictures last night before I had any idea there was something under the bed. The first album wasn’t disturbing at all. It was beautiful, very erotic. But the second, well, it must have been difficult, but that’s what a real artist must do. Capture the Truth, no matter how painful.”

Alex turned to me and looked deep into my eyes. “I have something to confess to you, too. I put that box under your bed on purpose. Now you might think I’m crazy, but we had so much in common, I was starting to like you even before we met in person. I suppose that box was a kind of test or a way to exorcise my own demons through your innocence. I never thought you’d be affected by it. For that I am sorry.”

I laughed wryly. “I understand these things. I’m a sensitive artist, too.”

“That you are. I have plenty of proof.” He smiled. And leaned toward me.

It was, officially, our first kiss, and yet I know he felt it, too. This was only the next step in our journey together, taking the bitter along with the sweet.

When he finally pulled away, every inch of my body was humming, awake. He took my hand. We rose and walked upstairs together to that magical bed.

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