When she slid them around to his ass and lightly mapped out the musculature there she was leaning in so he felt her breath on his cock. It throbbed in reaction and he bit his lip to keep from moaning.
Her hands moved down his legs and she eventually played them over his feet. She sat back on her heels and he watched her forming the image in her mind.
“Ok, I’m done so I’m going to go back to my room and work on the design. Tomorrow morning I will need to get you to do the pose I choose and I’ll do my final mapping to ensure it matches the image I have. Then I can begin,” she explained.
“So I can get dressed now?” he asked.
She smiled. “Yes, for now.”
He helped her stand and she made her way to his door. “Good night,” she said.
“Good night.”
She opened the door and stepped out. Ben realized he was standing in plain view of the doorway completely naked and Rachel was just coming out of her room with a sweater in her hand. Her eyes locked on his then dropped to his erection and widened in shock. Ben jumped forward and closed his door, cursing at himself for his carelessness. He pulled his clothes on and opened his door again but Rachel was gone. He went downstairs and followed the sound of voices until he found the group outside sitting in comfortable looking chairs positioned in a circle around a beautiful fire pit out on the lawn in front of the house. There was one open chair between Rachel and Sophia and both women were looking at him with knowing smiles.
The darkness hid Ben’s deep blush as he took his seat. The chairs were close enough to each other that the armrests touched so when Ben sat down he was surprised to feel hands taking a gentle hold of his. He looked at Sophia who had a coy smile on her lips then over to Rachel who was looking back at him while she ran the tip of her tongue across her lower lip. He felt a spark shoot from her hand through his arm directly to his cock which hadn’t calmed down yet. She smiled as she felt his involuntary twitch.
“How did the posing go?” Alexis said with a grin.
“What? Oh, ok I guess. It wasn’t what I was expecting,” Ben mumbled.
“But you rose to the challenge, right?” Rachel said with a sly grin.
Sophia snorted and looked away.
Ben blushed harder and was grateful for the firelight painting everything deep yellow and orange.
“I understand you will be gracing our gazebo with another dance with Sophia,” Béatrice said with a smile.
Ben was grateful for the change of subject. “Yes, I’m looking forward to it. The gazebo is beautiful!”
“We built it for Stephanie. Sound of Music was her favorite movie. She knows all the songs and she used to dance…” Alexis began enthusiastically but ended with a sad look. Ben looked at Gabriella.
“Stephanie was an artist and a dancer when she was a child but by the time she reached her mid-teens she began to lose her sight. Retinitis Pigmentosa. She was completely blind by age twenty. She’s thirty five now and seems very well adapted to her new life,” she explained.
The group was quiet and Sophia broke the sad reflection when she stood up and reached her hand out to Ben. He smiled and took it as he stood up. Gabriella whispered to Alexis who looked surprised then nodded and moved off into the house. Daniel raced into the house ahead of her. The rest followed Sophia and Ben to the gazebo and sat on the benches at the edges while the two moved to the center of the floor.
Daniel ran up to the gazebo with his camera in his hand and began to record them. Rachel used her phone to queue up a music track, something classical. Sophia moved and he moved with her. She instantly smiled as she realized he was in perfect sync with her. The space for dancing in the gazebo wasn’t close to the space they’d had at Versailles so they had to constrain their movements. Even so, it was still beautiful to see them step and spin to the music.
Sophia had a natural grace and Ben moved with a smooth power that made the watching ladies smile and squirm.
When the piece ended Ben bowed to Sophia and she curtseyed.
The rest applauded as Alexis arrived with Stephanie on her arm. Alexis was all smiles having seen the last minute or so of the dance but Stephanie looked tense. Ben walked over to her and took her hand.
“I understand the gazebo is yours. I think it’s time you took it back. Will you dance with me?” he asked gently.
A look of surprise played over her face then a smile stretched across her mouth. She nodded and he led her to the middle of the floor. She leaned in and whispered to him and he made an agreeable sound. He held her close and they began to move. The movements were bold and sinuous, flowing around the limited space they had. He controlled their position in the space and she their moves. Ben wasn’t familiar with the dance Stephanie was performing but his body reacted to her movements automatically and naturally. He had the oddest sensation of being detached from his body, like he was standing back and watching somebody else moving him.
Then he saw himself as an eleven year old dancing with a petite older woman who moved like smoke. Her motions were mesmerizing and her smile was a picture of bliss. They flowed together and swept around the room faster and faster as this was what she was meant for. Not to be the housewife of some crude machinist. She was meant for the stage!
“Ben?”
“BEN!”
“Huh? What?” He blinked and saw he was leaning over Stephanie in a deep dip. She was breathing fast and her eyes were wide. He lifted her back to her feet and she clung to his chest as she panted. He was surrounded by the others and Daniel was still filming.
They were standing on the grass on the front lawn, well outside of the gazebo.
“How did we get here?” he asked quietly.
Gabriella and Catherine shared a worried look. Stephanie leaned her forehead against Ben’s chest and reached her arms around him to give him a big hug. He looked down and hugged her in return.
When she pulled back her face was glowing! “That was WONDERFUL!” she cried. “I haven’t danced like that in years! It was so freeing! It felt like we were flying! Oh Ben, I’m going to sculpt the hell out of you!” she giggled, drunk on adrenaline.