I don’t know why I went with her, but I did. Was it her eyes? Her smile? Her body? She intrigued me. No needless chatter. No unnecessary games. Just a smile and a look. When she scanned my body, I felt a sudden spasm in my stomach. It dropped down below my belly. I hadn’t felt this in several months. When she held out her hand, said Come home with me and motioned me to join her, I clasped her hand and we walked away from the bar.
Her apartment wasn’t far up the river walk.
As we entered, she turned on a dim lamp near the couch and tossed the mail she’d gotten from the box in the lobby onto a table near the door. The complex had only been finished a year or two, so everything was still new. She’d furnished the apartment sparsely but with class. The couch and chair were a chocolate brown a
