Deep in the Woods

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Author: Annabel Joseph
Tags: Erótica
myself. And you.”
    “How?”
    His lips quirked into a patient smile. “You’re full of questions, aren’t you? I know because I’ve trained in self-defense, for one.”
    She was silent, looking at her feet.
    “Come walk with me,” he asked one last time. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”
    Finally, to his relief, she nodded yes.
     
    She was so annoyed with herself. Running out of Studio Erotica, making a scene. It was so embarrassing. They all already thought she was a whack job. Her behavior only reinforced what they already suspected about her.
    Take a deep breath, Sophie. Let it go. The night air was comfortable, warm but not muggy. The streets were quiet. She would never have walked around at night alone, not like this. She slid a look at the man walking beside her. Strangely, she felt secure with him. She believed him when he said he could protect her. The way he’d moved in the dungeon, even the way he loped along beside her hinted at a special physicality, a quiet strength. He finally broke the silence with a casual question.
    “So how long have you lived in Atlanta?”
    “Oh, years now. When I dropped out of college—” She stopped. Yes, talk about how you dropped out of college, Soph. Talk about how you work at The UPS Store and live in your hole of an apartment alone.
    “What were you studying?” he asked when she went no further. “Why did you drop out?”
    “I couldn’t pass freshman biology and chem. Or the math courses I needed to go pre-med.”
    She hadn’t thought about college in a long time. One more failure in a long line of failures. She’d wanted to become a doctor since a childhood hospital stay for pneumonia, but the courses, even the introductory ones, had proved too difficult for her. She still remembered the excruciating conference with her college counselor. You simply do not have an aptitude for this. Her lifelong dream had slipped away in the space of one semester. Her father’s face when she’d told her parents she was dropping out…
    “What do you do?” she asked to change the subject.
    He held up his camera bag with a smile. “This is what I do. Photography. Mostly arts photography. Well, kink photography now, but it pays the bills pretty nicely. I teach classes too, every now and again.”
    “Photography classes?”
    “Martial arts. Would you like me to show you some moves?”
    He came at her then, too quickly. She flinched and felt ridiculous. The awkward silence made her want to run.
    “I was just playing,” he said in apology. “I wouldn’t have hit you.”
    She set her teeth and stalked on, feeling very near to crying. She concentrated on the clop-clop of her wedge heels on the pavement to drive the sudden emotion away. “Let’s just walk,” she muttered. “Isn’t that what you wanted, to walk?”
    “Okay, sure. Let’s walk. Look, I’m sorry I’m such a dork. I just find you really interesting. And really beautiful. I mean, I’m a photographer,” he said, gesturing to his camera bag. “I notice these things.”
    “You find me interesting? You mean I’m weird, right?”
    “I never said you were weird. Are you weird? I’m a little weird,” he added with a crooked smile. “I did meet you for the first time at a BDSM munch. So how weird are you?”
    “I don’t tell that to just anyone. Only people I’m trying to scare away.”
    He laughed, and she was amazed to realize she’d just made a joke. Wow, and his laughter. Low and masculine, but light and playful at the same time. His eyes were so warm and relaxed. He made her want to let her guard down and play along, but as soon as she felt that, she wanted to run away. Why did she want to run? God, everyone was right, she was a psycho. She wanted him to hug her. She wanted him to hold her. He was so strong, so vital. So confident and assured. Why was she so attracted to him? Because he was dominant and she was submissive? Or because she was lonely and sad, and he seemed so
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