Guest Blogger Moxie on a distinction worth talking about.
It had been a long time since I felt that pull. You know the kind I’m talking about. That feeling you get when you are inexplicably drawn to someone combined with that primal urge to wrap your legs around his waist and beg him to take you on the spot.
Jeremy wasn’t…bad. He just had an edge. Something I couldn’t pin point. He unsettled me. I think it had to do with his eyes. They were ice blue and deep set. When he spoke to me, I felt like he could see right through me. I didn’t like that. It made me feel too vulnerable.
We met at a bar, of course, where all sweaty, intense sexual relationships begin. He wore a tan suit with a royal blue button down shirt that brought out his eyes. At first glance he looked rather ordinary as he stood there against the bar surrounded by men dressed similarly. But then I saw a flash from his right hand as he reached for his beer. It was a silver ring he wore on his middle finger. Not a wedding band. It looked like a tiny silver crown of thorns. Definitely not something you see on the hand of a banker or lawyer, aka the guys I never date.
When you do as much work in bars as I do, you get exposed to a lot of different men. It has it’s upside as well as it downs. Tonight’s outcome was undetermined. I walked up to the bar to chat with my friend who was tending that night. That’s when I saw it. It was a tattoo, or the top of one, peeking out over his collar.
He must have seen as he started to rub his neck. “What…is there a spider on me?” he asked.
I walked over to him, somehow, filled ot the brim with a confidence I don’t usually have. I think "brazen" is the word I’d use to describe how I felt in that moment.
I pointed to his neck and told him I was trying to figure out what kind of tattoo he had.
“Did you get that in prison?” I asked as I approached him. Normally I’d have left several inches of breathing room between us. But something told me I didn’t need to, that if he wanted me to back up he’d just tell me.
“It’s funny you should say that..” he said. My stomache sank. An ex-con? A serial killer? Some white collar criminal on parole?
No. He was a cop. A detective, actually. And an ex Marine which explained his closely cropped light brown hair.
Ah. That’s it. Discipline. That’s what it was about him that so appealed to me.
We talked for a bit, he bought me a couple glasses of wine. Then he made his move. Read the rest of this entry »