Something Before You Go
Steve Harvey's journey into darkness began with the simplest of looks. Only soon, alone with the certainty, would he understand the irony of remembering it as an
Spotless glance.
Just before have lunch he decided to take a march. It had been a pointless morning. He was on the most important floor of Bergdorf's, one of his favorite routes during rotten erode, when something trapped his eye. Something, someone, descending the escalator. An acute darkness. Designer material, probably from Milan. The skirt hugged her legs and descended to mean calf, the jacket was neat and accessorized with fragile gold chains and matching buttons. The jacket collar was crooked high with large attitude. Tasteful black excessive heels, not reasonably spikes, accented her calves and a matching gold ankle shackle balanced the movie. Soft looking black gloves, one on, one off and carried in the same offer that held the fastening of her bag.
A sensation washed over him, a blatant and familiar material awareness that was part adrenaline, part testosterone. The hurry, the familiar telephone call. It was accompanied by an older anxiety, wondering what to do with the flash. Simple appreciation struggled for awareness share with hopeless temptation.
It was an all consuming mind-fuck, one he had learned…like an addict who learns to friendship the sting of the needle…to just appreciate for what it was: a moment of fantasy, the dark poetry of yearn for, with roots too greatly imbedded to be implicit.
All of this registered in a heartbeat or two, lingering enough for the escalator to deposit her into the gangway in front of a blusher counter. She looked not here from him as if he wasn't there at all.
He stirred to a sit behind a mast and watched. A clerk was staring at him, ahead of you. He could march away, find another sit, and continue the dance. But nowhere else would he be this go out of business, and in this plucky proximity was everything. This was unquestionably a rich man's lady.
His breath was short, his skin sensitized with a tickly clamminess. While this was perhaps the best and most thrilling visualization of his fantasy that he'd ever seen in the flesh, he's seen others and knew this was a short-lived high. The drug habitually came in freeze-frames and flashes; this had been an full short feature.
He turned and began to hike away and at that second, the Dark Woman stepped into his way.
This could be no industrial accident. Her hands were meager, with long French-manicured nails and several luxurious gold rings.
'You've been surveillance me.' Her pronounce was low, breathy, almost challenging to hear. An fitting smirk acknowledged the discomfiture of the split second.
This was to exact. The nearness of the lady only confirmed his perceptions…there were no flaws, no compromises. Her eyes were close to ablaze with obscurity secrets. She was made up of every dark thought he'd ever allowed himself, packaged within the boundaries of stylishness and taste. Sharply leaning cheekbones and an ever-so-slightly domed nose gave her a royal air, a peek of majesty that was ridiculous not to poster. She was too gorgeous to be over forty and too grown-up to be younger, creating an mystery that was as inexplicable as it was fascinating. Somehow she knew everything. And this, in an time made her all the more risky.' The beam was deepening now, the eyes full of something beyond intelligence, something almost nerve-racking. She was on to him. And from the peek of it, if nothing else, it laughing her.
The energy of the second forced his eyes gone, and there was nowhere to go with them other than a full examine of her profile.
She was having a baby him to remain. Testing his next move. There were volumes and existence of comprehension in the line of attack she looked at him. Or maybe she was merely sticking it in his countenance, this moment of acknowledging the certainty.
'I was just…I mean I was admiring…' He grinned, an intuitive self-deprecation that he knew disarmed any apparatus or perceived ego. He noticed that his tenseness seemed to please her, to replace her smile to one of satisfaction. He took a breath as if to indicate that he was preliminary over.'
The grin faded as she brushed by him, her coat barely touching his appendage, her perfume rising to thwart his senses. What had been so cute, this toying with his deepest desire, now hung in skepticism. She had dangled a second of fantasy before him, and as his protect began to decline she snatched it gone, all for the pleasure of study the confusion in his eyes.
She had won. And yet, she had gone him with something.
This was a lady with the assurance of a very palpable and unmanageable danger. A woman with a curtain. An evil lady in a manner that men found irrestible. A female who dressed and acted the part, perhaps because it was the paint of her kind, perhaps to appeal the attention of her kill.
Except, perhaps, this
Dark Lady herself. He followed her out of the store to a petite café around the curve. This was a gloomy and quiet slab, filled with a few couples behind you for their suggest, the usual ladies 'who have lunch and a few stag suits tossing down their first tranquilizers of the daylight hours.
She was sitting in a confront, her eyes dejected, enveloped in a thoughtful mood. She looked up at him and smiled, the look of which produced a diametrically converse impression from the wicked female he'd just been with in Bergdorf's. Her smirk revealed impossibly ashen teeth framed by pouting lips, painted the affect of a delicate Merlot.
She existing her right furnish up to him with an brazenly royal air. Her skin was startlingly warm and fragranced, and he found himself in basic terms holding her employee instead of inveterate her handshake. Cool was always the wiser defaulting posture, especially this first in the dance. She wore a gold brew ring that was stylishly surrounded with tiny brilliant diamonds; not so brassy but definitely chic. Her long fingernails were a locked away and dangerous claret matching the fruitfulness of her lips.