“This is perfect, thanks.” Del smiled, holding Raelin’s chair out for her before taking her own seat. She waited as the young man gave them both a menu. “May I start you off with something to drink?”
“I would like to try the Spice Tea.” Raelin looked at the menu.
“I’ll have the same and a glass of water as well if you don’t mind,” Del added as she looked over the menu.
“Great, I’ll give you a few minutes to look over the menu and I’ll be back with your drinks. Your waiter for the evening should be with you shortly. You’ve come at a great time; our daily stage show should be starting shortly. I hope you enjoy,” he said warmly, bustling off to greet more guests.
“Wow, this place is something else huh,” Del said, still looking around.
“Yeah, I wonder what kind of show they have.” Raelin continued to look at the menu while her hand covered Delaney’s.
Turning her hand so her palm was facing up, Delaney tickled Raelin’s palm before playing with her fingers. “Whatever it is, I’m sure it will be just as extravagant as the setting.” Del grinned. “So, do you know what any of this actually is?” She asked with a chuckle.
“No, but we can have fun finding out. I have an idea about the shish kabob, but the rest is unknown. If you want to go to someplace else, we can?” Raelin wanted Delaney to have a good time.
“Nope, this is just perfect. So, what should we try out?” Del asked, sliding her foot out of the elegant heels she’d managed to walk around in and keeping her face casual, found Raelin’s calf under the table.
Without changing her facial expression, the witch gave her wife the mental picture of herself underneath the table with her head between the blonde’s legs. “I was thinking that the dinner for two looks interesting. It has a bit of everything to try.”
Sucking in a breath, Del tried to control herself. Slowly she let out a breath and nodded to Raelin. “Yeah, I’d say that’s a safe bet,” she replied, her toes inching up higher under the hem of Raelin’s dress.
Leaning forward, the witch let a finger glide along the blonde’s jaw. “Since when do you like to play it safe?” She scooted forward enough to let Delaney’s toe discover what she wasn’t wearing.
Del’s eyes went wide at the teasing of her witch and her toe came into contact with slick heat. “You are bad,” Del breathed. “You keep this up and we aren’t going to make it through this meal.”
Sighing Raelin moved back as the waiter came up to take their order. Pointing to the first combo, she stated that they would take that, and that they would like for it to be medium spicy.
Watching as the waiter nodded and hurried off Del wrapped her fingers around Raelin’s, smiling at the warmth where Raelin’s palm pressed against her own. “So did I tell you about my ride today?” Del asked with a wide grin.
Smiling at her lovely wife, the witch couldn’t help but smile back. “No you didn’t. Tell me, how was it?”
“Amazing, for a big heavy engine it runs nice and smooth. Transmission is soft as silk and the low end, the torque is unreal, and not to mention when you open it up on long stretches. The handling… Unreal. Corners like a dream,” Del rambled, drifting back to how it had felt to be back on a bike. “Thank you.”
“So I take it that you don’t want to send it back?” Raelin teased.
“What? No! I love it. I didn’t realize how much I missed being on a bike until I was on one again. Will you ever ride with me?” she asked. Just the thought of Raelin pressed against her back, holding tightly to her waist as they zipped through the back roads of Louisiana made her pulse race.
“Of course, but it will be very hard for me to keep my hands to myself,” she admitted. “No, I would be good. I wouldn’t do anything that would cause you to be hurt.”
“Yeah, I’d rather not run us off the road because of your insatiable libido.” Del thought to her wife with a grin as she took a sip of her water.
Chuckling softly, Raelin leaned forward. “My insatiable libido...at least my teasing is mental...for the moment.”
“Would you rather I tormented you with images of what I’m going to do to you tonight?” she thought, also leaning forward.
Raelin was saved from answering as a three musicians and two belly dancers came out onto the floor and set up. There was a table brochure that explained each instrument: One was a Dumbek, which was a tall goblet shaped drum, another was a Rababa, and it’s was a pear shaped string instrument and finally a Kawala, which is a flute, made of reeds.
Once the musicians were set up, they began to play a sultry tune and the dancers began to move in time with the music. They moved, slowly at first, long slow sweeping movement with their arms, then quick snaps of their hips, as if to tease the businessmen with what was to come. The elaborate costumes jingled and flashed as they moved, reflecting light across the now demi dark restaurant. The music picked up and so did the pace of the dancers, hips now matching the beat as they moved gracefully across the stage.
“They’re pretty good,” Del commented to Raelin.
“And you would know this how?”
Del looked across the table at Raelin. “Well, I guess I wouldn’t. I know I would never be able to do that.” She chuckled tickling Raelin’s palm.
After a few moments, one of the dancers went over to one of the tables that had a few businessmen to ask one if he wanted to try. Encouraged by his dinner partners, he got up and clumsily made a valiant effort to try much to the enjoyment of his friends.
After he sat down, the other dancer came over to Raelin and Delaney’s table and held her hand out to the witch.
“I don’t know if I should,” she murmured.
“If you want to go for it, I wouldn’t mind seeing it.” Del grinned, her eyes dark.
Reluctantly agreeing the brunette took the dancer’s hand and followed her out onto the floor. After a few moments of whispered instructions and one of the dancers giving a brief demonstration the musicians began to play once again, and Raelin began to dance.
Del watched wide eyed as Raelin started moving. Her movements weren’t as polished as the other dancers, but it seemed her girl was a natural nonetheless. Delaney was entranced as Raelin’s hips moved and her shoulders and arms followed fluidly. She felt heat flood her as her wife danced, and it settled low in her abdomen. The want and need from the last few days combined with the tension that had been brewing between them since last night combined to settle into an insistent ache between her thighs and it took everything she had to let her wife finish and not rip her clothes off to take her in the middle of the stage.
Raelin felt Delaney’s want, and caught a flash of what she was thinking about doing, and it spurred her on a little. Taking a step closer to the table she put on a performance for her wife, not paying any attention to the whistles or catcalls from the businessmen. Rolling her hips in time with the music and with her arms raised over her head, she danced for her lover only.
Feeling her breath catch in her chest, Del watched as Raelin danced for her squeezing her thighs together to try to ease the ache. She let Raelin go for a little while longer until the need became too much. “We need to get out of here.” She thought to her wife, knowing she’d never be able to get the words out otherwise.
Lowering her arms, and stopping all movement, Raelin gasped at the need. Turning she thanked the dancers and the musicians and rejoined the blonde at their table. Reaching for Delaney’s water, she drained it while staring at the blonde.
“I wonder if we can get the food to go.”
“I’m sure we can,” Del breathed, getting the attention of a nearby waiter. “Hi, we just realized we have somewhere we need to be. Is it possible to get our order to go?” she asked, not taking her eyes off Raelin.
“Of course, ma’am, let me go arrange it for you. It will be just a moment,” he smiled politely and scurried off to the kitchen.
Keeping her eyes on Delaney, Raelin reached for her purse and brought out her credit card to
hand to the waiter once he returned. “I wonder where the closest hotel would be.”
Del was too distracted to try to argue with Raelin about who was going to pay and simply tried to get her addled brain to come up with a hotel. “I don’t know. We are downtown, so there has to be something nearby.”
Mentally, Raelin figured out where they were and realized how close they were to the casino. “I know where we can go...the casino is about three blocks away.”
“Okay, that’s great. You sure you’ll be okay with that. Considering how the last visit went?” Del asked as she thanked the waiter and took the bags of food as Raelin gave him her card.
“I don’t know, but it is the closest place. Is it alright with you?” The brunette hadn’t even thought about the earlier visit.
“It’s fine with me. I’m pretty much good with any place as long as it’s got a bed.” She grinned once again, letting her toes wander along Raelin’s skin.
Signing the credit card receipt the waiter brought Raelin left a large tip and asked him to share it with the dancers and the musicians before standing with the bag of food. “We may barely make it into the room, much less over to the bed.”
Leading Raelin to the door with her free hand Delaney held the door open and then hurried down the sidewalk towards the small lot she’d parked the car in. “You know, I think I’m okay with that. Raelin, the way you moved in there...” she trailed off as her mind went back to the way Raelin had moved, the aching in her lower stomach only getting worse.
“I was dancing for you Delaney...I love the way that you looked at me. It makes me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world,” Raelin admitted. “I’ve never had anyone make me feel the way that you do.”
“You are the most beautiful woman in the world. Don’t you ever think otherwise,” she said firmly, as they stopped at the passenger side door. “I love you more than anything, except maybe my Harley,” Delaney said, pausing. “Nope, I love you even more than the Harley,” she finished with a grin.
“Okay, I see where I’m ranked. Come on, let’s go find a bed.” Raelin laughed. She waited until the blonde got in the driver’s side. “We can’t stay the night or you need to call Kasey and tell her. Maybe she and Jenny could go out and stay at the house with Kai?”
“Hey, I said I loved you more than the Harley, doesn’t that count for anything?” Del chuckled as she pulled them out of the lot and down the main drag towards the casino. “We can stay the night, but we’ll need to be out to the house very early. Considering my plans for you tonight, you think you’ll be able to get out of bed that early?”
“Who said that you will be able to?” the witch countered.
“Well, played Witchy Woman. Well played,” she chuckled low in her throat as she pulled up to the valet of the casino. She got out and moved around to open the door for Raelin, giving the valet the keys on the way by.
“Mrs. Delacroix, good to see you again. We were not expecting you. Shall I call and have a room prepared?” he asked politely, handing Raelin a ticket and ignoring Delaney altogether.
“No, that’s fine. My wife and I will check in. We just need a place to relax for the evening. Thank you though...Thomas,” Raelin read his nametag. “If you wouldn’t mind, would you make sure that my wife is afforded the same benefits as myself. We share everything equally.”
“As you wish, ma’am,” he replied, looking Delaney up and down with a critical eye. “Please call the front desk when you wish to check out and we will have your car ready.”
Del stood up straighter at the judging eye of the young man her eyes narrowing.
“Thank you Thomas.” Raelin reached out and took Delaney’s hand. “Did you want to bring the food with us, or shall we be decadent and order room service?” She turned and they started to walk inside.
“Up to you babe. There’s only one thing I’m hungry for right now anyway,” she murmured, letting Raelin feel every bit of her want and need.
Smirking as she walked up to the front desk, Raelin declined to answer or to show anything through their link. “Hi, we’d like to have a room please.”
The young woman looked up from her computer and shot to her feet knocking over a pile of papers in the process. “Uh, Welcome Mrs. Delacroix. We were not expecting you,” she stuttered, bending down to gather the papers and pile them messily onto the desk once more. “Would you like the executive suite for your stay?”
“Damn, I hoped I was the only one you had that effect on.” Delaney thought to her wife with a chuckle.
Barely containing a laugh Raelin shook her head. “No thank you Tia. Just a room would be fine, nothing special.” Bringing out her charge card, she laid it on the counter. She didn’t feel right about not paying.
Tia took the card and looked through her computer a moment, and activated a card key. “Here, you go. It’s a room on the twelfth floor. It’s a corner room and there is no one booked beside you or across the hall. Is there anything you would like to arrange with room service before you head up? Have your bags already been taken by the porters?” she asked shyly.
“No, we’re traveling light this time. Room service is open all evening, correct?”
“Yes ma’am. Is there anything else I can get for you?” the young woman asked.
“We’ll let you know, thank you Tia.” Raelin grabbed the card key in one hand and Delaney’s hand in the other before heading to the elevator. As they waited for the doors to open she leaned over to murmur in the blonde’s ear. “I wish that they didn’t have cameras in the elevator.”
“Me too. That poor girl was terrified of you. I could feel it rolling off of her.” Del chuckled, trying to keep her libido in check, at least until they made it to the room.
“Why me? I’ve never met her.” The doors opened and she allowed Delaney to go in first as she enjoyed the view from the rear.
They stepped into the elevator and just as the doors were closing a group of vacationers stepped in as well. Del sighed to Raelin in her head as they pushed to a far corner of the elevator. “She was scared because you’re the boss and they weren’t prepared for you.” She chuckled.
“Well, it’s not like I’m going to arrive and start firing people.” Raelin looked at her wife and frowned. “Maybe I should take a closer look at the management. I don’t want people afraid of losing their job if they’re doing them correctly.”
“It seems like your partners run a tight ship, but you can worry about that later. Tonight isn’t about work, remember?” Del thought back, the hand resting on the small of Raelin’s back sliding teasingly lower.
“Whatever you do, don’t get caught.” Raelin thought to her wife.
Saying nothing, Del simply slid her fingers lower slipping them up under the hem of her dress and meeting slick heat. She let her finger play there for only a few short minutes before withdrawing when the doors dinged for the vacationer’s floor. Soon enough the doors had closed again and they were heading up once more. “Yep, a real shame these elevators have cameras.”
“Yep, because I would be down on my knees and you would be screaming my name right about now.” Raelin thought, licking her suddenly dry lips.
Delaney had never been more thankful to hear the ding of an elevator in her life and she hurried off and down the hall towards their room, pulling Raelin behind her. She stopped once they got to the door so Raelin could open it, her hands resting on her wife’s hips as she waited. “Come on Darlin’, if you don’t get that door open in the next few seconds, the next person to get out of that elevator is going to get quite a show,” she growled into the taller woman’s ear.
Sliding in the card as soon as the indicator turned green Raelin turned the handle and pulled her wife into the room in one move.
Turning them around Delaney had Raelin pressed against the door almost before it had even closed. She pressed the witch’s wrists against the wood above her head capturing her lips in a demanding kiss unable to hold herself back any longer.
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nbsp; Moaning, Raelin tried to yank her hands away to start removing Delaney’s dress but her wife had them in a vice like grip.
Gathering both wrists in one hand Delaney ran her right hand down Raelin’s front, teasing her fingers over the silky skin of her wife’s neck ghosting over a perfect breast, feeling the pounding of her heart underneath the skin. “You’ve been teasing me all day and we never did get to finish what we started,” she husked into Raelin’s ear after she’d kissed a trail across her jaw.
“I’ve been teasing you...I do believe that you’ve been teasing me with just wearing that dress. You’re lucky I didn’t take you on the kitchen table in front of Kai...aw shit, we need to call,” the witch growled.
“No,” Del moaned, knowing her wife was right. “I need to tell Kasey I’m out of town anyway,” she sighed, reluctantly releasing the taller woman. “I hate being a grownup sometimes,” she said ruefully, her body thrumming with the pent up tension they had built up during the day.
Reaching into her purse where she had dropped it on the floor when they had entered the room Raelin handed her wife her cell phone. “Here ya go babe.”
“Thanks.” She smiled, hitting the speed dial for her deputy, her fingers teasing the loose white belt around Raelin’s waist as she waited.
A breathless Kasey answered the phone. “Spaulding…”
“Do you two ever stop? Every time I call you it seems like we’re interrupting something.” Del chuckled. “Um, aside from Jenny, what are you doing the rest of the night?” she asked jokingly.
“Where are you exactly Delaney?” The Deputy ignored the jibe at her love life.
“We ended up at the casino in Canal City. We were thinking of staying the night and just wondered if you wouldn’t mind staying at the house for the night?” Del asked, reaching up to free Raelin’s hair from where she’d pulled it back.
Pulling the pins from her hair, Raelin shook it free and leaned down to place a kiss against her wife’s lips.
“You might wanna head back. We’ve got a situation going on here.” The sounds of sirens, and people shouting made it rather hard to hear.
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