Page 28 of Their Courtesan
He smiled back at her. He didn’t have a large smile, but there was something… soft, about it. Warm. Inviting.He doesn’t smile for many people, I bet.Judith was feeling more special by the minute. “I don’t think there’s enough room to fit it in. You are the focus of this drawing.”
She fingered her cleavage under the guise of pulling locks of hair out of it. “I’m disappointed you don’t want me naked.”
He looked up again, this time without the smile. No… no smile… but something else. A glint in his amber eyes. “Who said I didn’t want you naked? I want to capture your essence, Judith. You’re the first woman I’ve met in a long time who seems so genuine that she’s begging to be captured on canvas. Let alone my canvas.”
When words like that hit her ear? Judith was already halfway to unzipping her dress.I get paid the same either way, but I’m down for being naked. Maybe he’ll get hard.
“Hold on.” Seth held up his pencil. “Not so fast. Do it slowly.”
Judith finished unzipping, but didn’t hurry to rip it down her torso like she wanted. “Why’s that? If you want a striptease, it will cost you extra.”
“I don’t want a tease. I want sensuality. Not a frenzy, if you would.”
“I see. Like this?” Judith eased one strap of her dress down. Then the other. She glanced up to find Seth watching her from above the canvas. Those amber eyes did more than glint now. They werealive.Yeah, he was enjoying this.
“Like that.”
“You want me totally nude?”
“If you don’t mind. Then recline. I’ve sketched your outline, but I need to fill in the middle.”
“You mean these…” Judith slowly pulled down the front of her dress. Delight filled her senses as she watched Seth’s reaction. His breath caught in his flaring nostrils. His cheek twitched. His eyes tried to politely look away, to only look at her with a discerning, artistic eye, but Judith knew that gaze.
He wanted her.
“You like?” She tossed her hair behind her shoulders. Now her breasts were so prominent that he had no choice but to stare at her nipples again.He stared at them last time too.“If you think those are pink, you haven’t seen my pussy.”
“I’ve seen my fair share of ‘pussy’ in my day, Miss Judith.”
“That’s right.” She wiggled out of her dress until she kicked it onto the ground, legs spreading open. Her thong still covered her – barely – but that man was looking. Fantasizing about her? He wasn’t opening his pocketbook last time, but he had already spent five-hundred bucks on her. That sort of thing was charged to his credit card the moment he walked through the door. “You’re a doctor. Should I make a joke about you giving me an exam?”
“Exams are no joking matter, Miss Judith. You better be getting yours regularly.”
They’re compulsory if you live here.“Dunno. Maybe they did a shitty job.” Her toes curled over the edge of the bed. “I might need you to come check things out down there.”
“I’m trying to work, Miss Judith.”
“So am I.”
His smile briefly disappeared from his countenance.Struck a nerve, did I?Some men didn’t like being reminded that she was a paid woman.
“So we’re clear…” Judith hooked her thumbs in her thong and pulled it down, exposing the last of her body for him to discover. “There’s an open invitation for you to fuck me whenever you want. In fact, you’re torturing me, Mr. Seth. Twice now you’ve come to me, acknowledging how sexual I am while only giving me a taste of you.”
He put his pencil away and selected another implement that Judith didn’t recognize. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
Cheapskate.That had to be the only reason he wasn’t balls deep in her right now. The more he rejected her, the more she wanted him to use her for the same reason other men sought her out.What a twist of fate.
Seth was both intrigued and detached. A man, but a controlled man. He was a man of scienceandartistry after all. How did that work? Was he constantly dueling in his head? In his other head?I wonder if he’s hard.Judith tried to steal a look at those trousers, but the easel and canvas obscured his cock.I know what it felt like in my mouth…How would it feel where it really counted?
“No, turn this way. No, the other way.” Finally, Seth hopped off his seat and came to the bed… but not to manhandle her. Not likethat,the tease. Instead, he lightly touched her shoulders, her arms, her damned ankles as he posed her. “I have to make sure I catch the light right. As soon as I get the details of your body, you can put your clothes back on. I’ll do your face last.”
Normally such a phrase had a completely different meaning around those parts…
He didn’t touch her breasts. He definitely did not touch her thighs. The man was living torture… because Judith? Her loins were hot and her breasts ached to be touched. Byhim.
Seth Christens played a cruel game, and he didn’t even know it.
The artist went back to his station, sleeves rolled up and glasses affixed to his face. The way he stared at her so intently, drinking in the sight of her body, though?He’s getting turned on. He hides it well, but he’s aroused by me.Judith couldn’t help but smirk.
