He looked away when she caught his eye, but glanced back to her when she broke eye contact and leaned forward to step out of her skirt. His leaving the room was very serious and he was afraid she might order one of them to slam him again, but she wasn’t saying anything else yet. He watched her hang the skirt with great care from hooks on the horizontal bar of the coat hangar, his heart pounding with a mixture of fear and anticipation.
While the girls chattered on about their day, Charlotte took her earrings off one by one and laid them on top of the dresser. Then she did the same with her necklaces. After that, she listened to the girls absently as she unbuttoned her blouse.
He couldn’t look away as her hands moved downward. The tight fabric of the blouse loosened and then she flipped th
