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“Don’t be mad.  She doesn’t have a lot of
excitement in her life. Let her enjoy herself.”  She turned her back to me in
the doorway.  “Can you do this button?”
    The dress was backless and one little button at the neck had
sole responsibility of holding up the top.  It was a little rhinestone button shaped
like a rose, nestled in an antique-looking setting. It was more like a piece of
jewelry than a button, like a work of art, but the buttonhole was too small and
it was a bitch to get the damn thing fastened.  I buttoned her up and stepped
inside in the light and checked out Landra in her evening attire and forgot all
about my nosy neighbors.  “Damn,” I said involuntarily.  She looked like a
goddess.  She was wearing a slim-fitting, long, sleeveless black dress, slit
high up the middle in the front.  Her 4-inch heels brought her within a couple of
inches from my six feet so we were practically eye level. She was wearing
make-up and she had lined her eyes in black, and her hair was a cascade of
these long, loose, ringlet curls all over the place.  The effect was so
stunning that I couldn’t help myself and I had to reach out and touch her
hair.   It was so soft.  I pulled on a curl and when I let go it bounced right
back into shape like a little spring.
    “Awesome hair!”  I stood back and looked her over from head to
toe.  There was no way I’d be able to keep my hands off of her with her looking
like that.  Shit, I wanted to bite her neck just looking at her.  And she
smelled good too.  “Damn you look good, Landra.”
    “Thanks.”  She hugged me, which only made matters worse. “You
look great, Sam.”  She checked me out in that way that she had.  “Come in.  I
want to show you my house.”  She took my hand and led me through her house to
her living room.  “This is what I want to do to your back room.”
    I looked around the room.  She had painted big stones on all
four walls and it looked incredible.  “You did this?”
    “Yeah.  Do you like it?”
    “Hell yes!  When can you do mine?”
    Landra clapped her hands like a little kid.  “Maybe I could
start on Sunday,” she said smiling.  We were standing there right next to each
other and I knew I needed to get out of there before we ended up kissing
again.  She must have read my mind.
    “I’d love to kiss you right now, but I’m afraid where it might
lead,” she said.
    On the contrary, she didn’t look like she was afraid of
anything.  She was staring into my eyes, just daring me to kiss her.
    “Oh, I can tell you exactly where it would lead.  And it
wouldn’t be to your party.”  I was keeping my hands to myself, trying not to
tempt fate, but she was so close and she smelled so good.  I’d been wanting to
run my hand down her back since I’d walked in the door and finally the
temptation got to be too much. I reached my hand behind her and ran my fingers
across her bare skin and immediately I knew I’d gone too far.  She’d been just
waiting to ambush me.  She moved closer and wrapped her arms around my waist,
pressing her body up against mine and she brought her mouth to mine and kissed
me really softly.  She was playing with me again.  It was a cat and mouse game,
and I was definitely the mouse.
    She pulled back from me and looked me in the eye and smiled. 
“You’re gonna break my heart, aren’t you?”
    There it was again .  Just when I thought I had her
pegged, she’d come out with an outrageous comment just like that one.  Suddenly
she seemed vulnerable when a second earlier she was a predator.
    “Now, why would I do that?” I asked her.
    “Because I like you more than you like me,” she said, then she
stomped her foot.   “I hate it when that happens!”
    “Yeah, that’s the worst.  I’m just glad it’s you and not me.” I
ran my fingers through that incredible hair and looked at her.  She was the
most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on.  “We better get out