Mariah laughed nervously at his suggestion but left it with no reply. Henry volunteered to walk her to her car but the guilt Mariah was feeling could not let Henry to.
While they were going back and forth about the issue, Adonis and his visitor walked out of his place.
In sync, Mariah and Henry fell silent.
The girl was a blonde. She had a slim, petite figure unlike Mariah who was considered tall and thick. She had clear skin and shiny hair. Her lips were full and her eyes exceptionally bright.
As the two of them walked past, Mariah shifted to a corner. She could not help but feel ugly having to stand beside the girl, especially in front of Henry, it was better that he did not have the two of them in the same view.
However, she still needed to meet up with Leslie. So she could only put her inferiority behind her as she trailed in tow of the couple after bidding her goodbyes to Henry.
The elevator was quiet except for the giggling and low whispers of Blondie. Mariah glued herself to the corner of the elevator, she was still feeling small compared to the girl. She went through her phone to keep her mind off what she was thinking, but there was nothing exciting on it. Posts she had seen before and pictures she felt too lazy to delete.
The elevator suddenly grew quiet.
Curious, Mariah lifted her head thinking to steal a glance at blondie but as she did, her eyes met the electrifying blue eyes of Adonis.
Suddenly Mariah could not move a muscle. Her lips were still slightly parted as she stared at him, the inability to move her eyes away from him was something she could not hide.
He stared at her with a clenched jaw, his eyes moved from her eyes to beneath, taking in her outfit. Her fur coat had no buttons, when she was with Henry, she pulled on it to cover her dress underneath but as she entered the elevator, she didn't see the need to, she owed no explanation to Adonis or his guest.
So Adonis, though he did not have the full display of her dress, he was still blessed with the view of the low cut square neckline exposed. He stared, he stared so hard that his eyes almost left his head to be glued to Mariah's chest.
"Take it off"
His voice travelled from where he stood beside his girlfriend to where Mariah was watching. Like she was being controlled by a spell, locked in a trance, her hands moved to the fur coat and with slow moves, she took it off, while still keeping eye contact with Adonis.
Adonis could see everything now, and he did not even bother with hiding it for the sake of his girlfriend.
His eyes were filled with the lust of a thousand men. His tongue travelled from one side of his upper lip to the other, he stared at Mariah in silence like how a tiger watches its prey before pouncing on them.
The sex appeal oozing off him wafted in the air and came in contact with Mariah. Under such scrutiny, Mariah who would usually cover up, felt a rush of pleasure in her bones. It was like the feeling gotten from an achievement, in this case, she got it from watching how Adonis ignored his obviously sexy girlfriend to fix his gaze at her. To lust after her without control.
The sounds she heard minutes ago resurfaced in her mind. To have the producer of such sounds and the person behind everything standing right there with her in the elevator, Mariah suddenly pictured the both of them having sex.
"Babe, you wanna have a threesome in the elevator?" Blondie asked.
Those words pulled Mariah out of the trance. She cleared her throat and removed her eyes from Adonis. And seemingly, Adonis got back to his senses.
He turned to his girlfriend "of course not, Mariah and I are barely even friends, such a thing can never happen between us. Right Mar?"
Mar?
"Of course, Ad" Mariah responded.
Adonis chuckled.
"Besides, she's into Henry, things might even blossom into a relationship between them" he added.
Mariah looked away from them.
From where Mariah could not see, Adonis glanced at her with a longing in his eyes.