Tuning Night
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Chapter 10: The Pantry During the Pathétique
Erotica Sex Story: Chapter 10: The Pantry During the Pathétique - Margot is 48, a cellist who stopped playing the day she married. Her husband Edmund, 57, looks at his Steinway more than he's looked at her in years. So she starts knocking it out of tune, just enough to bring Ansel, the 25-year-old tuner with perfect pitch and patient hands, back every Thursday while Edmund works across the courtyard. A slow-burn affair of near-misses, stolen afternoons and a recital with forty guests. Can she stay quiet until the final chord?
Caution: This Erotica Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Age Gap Consensual Romantic Heterosexual Fiction Cheating Cream Pie Masturbation Oral Sex Squirting Public Sex Slow AI Generated
Zero days.
I’d dreamed about this morning for seven weeks without knowing what it would look like. It looked like rain clearing off the lake at dawn, and a van from Dominic’s firm on the gravel by eight, and Edmund in his dressing gown playing the opening of the Beethoven over and over, a little too fast.
A black silk column dress, floor-length, with a high neck and a back cut low enough to be an argument. Bergamot at my throat and wrists. And under the silk, red. Red silk knickers, cut high, the reddest thing I’d ever bought. I put them on knowing exactly how long I’d be wearing them. About another hour, I thought, fastening my pearls. Perhaps less.
Ansel came at six for the final tuning, as I’d asked Edmund to arrange on Sunday. Edmund had thought it an excellent idea. “Last-minute polish. Exactly right. You’ve a good ear for these things, darling.”
The house had been taken over. Dominic’s team moved through it in black shirts and white aprons, laying out glasses on the marble island, lining up forty gilt chairs in soft curved rows facing the Steinway and the glass. Candles in the window. A server with a dark plait and a quick smile, Priya, thirty-two, was folding cocktail napkins into swans at the bar.
Ansel tuned for forty minutes with forty strangers’ chairs at his back. When he finished, Edmund, who was already in his dinner jacket, clapped him on the shoulder. “Stay for it. You’ve earned a seat. Margot, find him something. He can’t sit there in a work shirt.”
I found him one of Edmund’s dark suits. It was loose in the waist and short in the sleeve and he looked devastating in it.
Behind the raised lid, while Edmund was out in the hall greeting the first car, I reached under my dress, stepped out of the red silk, and put it in his hand.
He looked at it. Then he folded it with those careful fingers, three neat folds, and slid it into the breast pocket of the borrowed jacket, so that a triangle of red silk showed above the edge. A pocket square.
Only I knew.
On the printed programme, cream card on every chair: Beethoven, Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, “Pathétique”.
I felt the way I used to feel in the wings. I hadn’t felt it since I was twenty-seven. Terror and certainty at once, because every piece of what was about to happen was mine: the booking, the red silk, the pantry door.
Forty guests. Edmund’s colleagues, clients, a sprinkling of neighbours. Julian booming at the bar. Celeste in grey silk, in the second row. The lamps dimmed. Edmund bowed, sat, adjusted the bench a quarter-inch, and lifted his hands.
The Grave. The first great C minor chord crashed out, fortissimo, the whole room flinching with it.
I was standing at the back by the kitchen. I stepped sideways into the butler’s pantry.
Ten seconds later, he followed.
I pushed the door shut behind him. It swelled against the frame and stuck, as it always did, a hand’s width open. Nobody had planed it. I’d made sure of that.
Through the crack: Edmund’s straight back at the Steinway. The candles. Forty heads in rows, faces turned toward the music. Celeste’s silver hair.
The pantry smelled of starched linen and candle wax, and of champagne and warm pastry drifting in from the bar. It was very small, and the stacked tablecloths swallowed sound. That was the only mercy in it.
He lifted me onto the counter among the stacked linen, face to face. The marble was cold under my bare bottom. I pulled the black silk up around my waist, where it pooled and slithered, and I had his trousers open before he’d finished lifting me. I took his cock out myself. He was already hard, hot in my hand. I wrapped my legs round his hips, crossed my heels at the small of his back, and pulled him into me.
He slid in with one steady push, all the way to the root.
And we both stopped.
We waited for the music.
The Grave is all contrasts, thunder and then a whisper, and we learned it in seconds. In the soft passages, we did nothing. We held still, him deep inside me, my arms around his neck and our foreheads touching, breathing through our noses. I could feel every throb of him in me and my own pulse answering around him. The only movement I allowed myself was inside: a slow squeeze of my muscles around his cock, and then another, and each time I felt his jaw tighten against my cheek. Fully filled and not permitted a single stroke. The want built with nowhere to go.
In the loud chords I let myself move. A slow grind of my hips, a drag and a press, my clit rubbing against the base of him, never more. I only took a breath under the fortissimos. I timed myself to Edmund’s hands.
My lips shaped a word against his mouth without any sound. Wait. Then, as the next chord crashed down, Now, and I rolled my hips into him and felt him sink a fraction deeper.
His red pocket square was an inch from my face. I could smell myself on it. And under that, on the shoulders of the borrowed suit, the faint vetiver of my husband’s cupboard. I smelled Edmund on my lover’s jacket and ground down harder.
Then the Allegro broke loose, the left hand churning, the whole thing suddenly racing, and Ansel slid his hands under my thighs and lifted me off the counter, still inside me.