It was not until Eliza was invited to another dinner at Martin and Laure’s house that she thought about Margaux—because she was still there. Eliza thought that she had returned to Paris, so she was really startled to see Margaux at the house.
“Hello,” Margaux said, embracing her and kissing her on both of her cheeks.
Eliza returned her kisses, and smiled at her. Margaux stepped in closer so she could hug Rafe, and Eliza held his hand tighter while they kissed.
At the table, they ended up sitting next to Margaux—well Rafe sat next to her. The theme for this dinner was not as sensual as the last one, but heavy on the elegance with waitstaff with slicked back hair and waistcoats. Dinner was beef again with a decadent wine gravy, that Eliza wished to dab the excess on her plate up with her fingers. She turned to looked over at Rafe, when she heard a loud crash.
“I am so sorry,” Rafe said to Margaux, who slowly rose from her seat to reveal the savory gravy all over her bare legs. She wiped her legs with napkins that were handed to her.
“I am so sorry,” Rafe repeated, covering his mouth and staring at her as she wiped up.
“It is not a big deal cheri,” she smiled, dabbing him with a gravy-soiled napkin. “Not a big deal at all, it is so savory…I could lick it off…” She dabbed some off of her leg, and licked it in Rafe’s face.
Eliza coughed, and stood up to attend Margaux—and to get between her and Rafe.
“Do you need any help?” Eliza questioned her softly.
Margaux licked more gravy off of her shapely legs, and licked it. Rafe stared at her, and Eliza was not sure he was breathing.
“Non,” Margaux said to her. “I will be right back…”
*****
Hours later, most of the dinner guests had left, but Eliza and Rafe were still there.
“I am so sorry about the gravy,” Rafe said to Margaux again, and Eliza could smell the wine on his breath.
“Oh, I have definitely had worse on me!” Margaux grinned sheepishly.
“You really have!” Laure said, looking at her sister with a knowing look.
“What, you sisters are keeping secrets? You have to share everything with your guests!” Rafe demanded, and Eliza downed her wine and reached for the bottle before someone could pour it for her.
“Well in Paris, and now here in New York,” Margaux looked at Laure, before she continued. “I work as a fetish model.”
“Like Bettie Page?” Rafe asked.
“Yes, exactly,” Margaux nodded, smiled and added shyly. “And since people are always saying I resemble Myrna Loy…”
“You do,” Eliza said, taking another sip of wine and not wanting to be forgotten. Not wanting anyone to forget that she was sitting next to her fiancé.
“Yes, so I get a lot of vintage and retro jobs…” Margaux continued. “But I did do some tentacle porny stuff. I was in vintage underwear, and this realistic looking tentacle thing was placed on me. It was creepy! But at least it was a photo still, and none of it went inside me, you know?”
“She is like Bettie Page to us?” Laure announced. “In our family, she is like our French Bettie Page. She does a lot of fetish stuff that looks like stuff Bettie Page would do. And some of the older pulp stuff too. She’s beautiful so…” Laure ran her hands through her sister’s hair. “But we tease her about it, I ask Martin how it feels have married the not-so sexy sister!”
“And I do not answer!” Martin burst out laughing.
“Smart man!” Rafe laughed, and the men looked at each other conspiratorially.
Eliza laughed, but she did not find anything funny really.
“We should have taken pictures of you with gravy on you!” Laure declared. “You even managed to make a gravy spill sexy—licking it off! It must be someone’s fetish after all!”
“I really am sorry,” Eliza heard Rafe whisper to Margaux again.
“I told you cheri, it was nothing. It was not tentacles after all…It was nothing…”
“Okay,” Rafe said, looking at her nodding.
But Eliza wondered if it was really nothing, as she put her wine glass down.
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