“Sort of.”
He arched an eyebrow. “Should I be excited or scared?”
“Excited. This is your reward for getting signed.”
He waved a sheaf of paper at me. “I haven’t signed yet. I’ve got to go back next week to do that. I wondered if you could look through the contract with me. I can’t afford to pay a solicitor to do it.”
“I can do that. Tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Yes. Right now, I want you to put your things down and make yourself comfortable on that chair.” I pointed to a dining room chair that I’d moved away from the table so there was plenty of space around it.
He kept half an eye on me as he put his things on the breakfast bar and then sat on the chair. I used my phone to change the lights to a pre-designed setting and start the music.
Jae covered his mouth with his hands as I shimmied towards him. “A striptease?”
“I promised you one, didn’t I?”
He laughed behind his hands. “You did. I wasn’t sure you were serious, though.”
“I always keep my promises.”
“Is the no-touching rule in place?”
“No.”
He clapped his hands and then sat on them.
I began my routine. The music started slow, so I sauntered towards Jae and slid my hand from his knee, up his thigh, and over his upper arm and shoulders as I walked around him. He watched me, wide-eyed, practically vibrating. I walked away, turned, and planted my feet shoulder-width apart. At the same moment, I raised my arms and put them out to the sides. Then, pointing at Jae, I swept my arms together and then up and over my head as I did a sultry body roll. Jae squeaked and drummed his feet on the floor.
I bent my legs until my thighs were almost parallel to the floor, and my knees were angled out. My boss at the club had called the move a slut drop. I’d never liked the term, but it was the only name I knew it by. I lifted my arms and went up onto the balls of my feet. I curled my hands into fists and thumped them down against the air at the same moment I dropped onto the flats of my feet. I ground my hips, dipped down farther, grabbed my groin, pulled my body up, and snapped my feet together.
“Oh my God!” Jae covered his mouth again.
I winked at him, hoping his reaction was a good one. From the way his cheeks flushed, I guessed it was.
I crossed one foot over the other as I walked to the left and then to the right, reversing my steps. At the same time, I loosened my tie and feigned undoing it completely. Then I shook my head and wagged my finger.
“Aww! You’re a tease!”
I chuckled. It wasn’t called a striptease for nothing.
I slut-dropped again, with one arm straight forward as though I were holding the back of someone’s neck. I pretended to hold my invisible partner’s waist while I ground my hips as though I were screwing them. It wasn’t hard to imagine making love to Jae like that. I pinched the corner of my bottom lip with my teeth and waggled my eyebrows suggestively. Jae’s face went bright red, although he did his best to cover it with his hands. He scissored his fingers and peeked through them.
I pulled my hands up to my head as I stood tall and then slowly went down into another slut drop as I slid my hands down my chest and over my abs to my groin. I body-rolled from slut drop to standing and back again as I undid my tie and tossed it onto his lap. I undid the top five buttons of my shirt. Jae moved his hands away from his face so he could clap and wolf-whistle.
“Take it off!”
I wagged my finger at him and walked in a large circle so my back was to him. I rolled my body until my arse was stuck out and my hands were on my hips. Then I winked at him over my shoulder, stood, and swung my right leg around my left. The momentum spun my body around so I was facing him.
I’d undone enough buttons that I could lift my shirt over my head. I lightly grasped the hem and slowly tugged it up, skimming my fingers over my skin until I reached my chest. Then I let the fabric go, and the shirt dropped down.
“No fair.” Jae pouted.
“You just want me to get naked.”
“Yes!”
