Lockdown

Cleo could not keep her eyes off of Mathilde. Usually it was Cadmus that had her undivided attention — if he was in the room, she could not notice anything else but Mathilde was riveting. She could see why he wanted her, and it made her hurt all the more. She was going to need an emotional lockdown in the hotel room after this, so she could process her thoughts.

For now, she sat at the table watching the other woman and sipping her wine. Cadmus of course had selected something amazing for them to drink.

When she got to the bar, they were fucking as much as two people can fuck without actually fucking in public. They kept touching around each other like their hands were butterflies, and looking at each other awed expressions like they could not believe that the other person was with them. When she walked up to them they, both looked at her with dazed expressions like she was an unexpected cloud on a sunny day.

Mathilde was polite to her, but that was another thing about her. She was cosmopolitan and elegant, but there was a lot of reserve. Cleo caught herself when she almost touched her hand, while she was talking but she did not think that that was something that she should do. Cadmus barely looked at her, and when he did it was fleeting.

It was after when he went to her hotel room, where she had planned her lockdown that he looked at her. She looked at him confused because she was not sure why he was there.

“Where is Mathilde?” she asked, after she let him in and wrapped her arms about herself. She could feel the heat of his body, and saw him follow her out of the corner of her eye in the mirror.

“In our hotel room Cleo, you’ve seen us — I wanted you to see that this was not a fling.”

Cleo turned and looked at him.

“I came and I saw Cad–ironic no?”

He looked at her with his lips in a downward curve.

“Cleo…”

“I don’t need your words Cad, I don’t need your words!”

She looked at him with tears in her eyes, and her emotional lockdown began even though she was not alone.

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