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| Emotional Mapping ...an exercise with selected emotions in a particular order | ||||||||||||
| 'You bastard' she spat through gritted teeth.'You absolute bastard' | ||||||||||||
| Martin looked up from his desk unprepared for the sight before him. Natalie stood, legs apart, hands on hips , dark eyes blazing with fury. The muscles of her face and neck stood tight ,the skin stretched almost to breaking point . There was a little twitch near the corner of her right eye and she shook her head every few seconds, an involuntary attempt to clear the spasm that defied her. A small glob of spittle was settling in the corner of her mouth as she forced the words out, a string of obscenities tumbled from her lips in a most unladylike fashion. | ||||||||||||
| Martin sat there, a bemused smile playing at the corners of his mouth while Natalie continued her rant, her face flushed with effort. He noticed how beautiful she looked, how erotic. Her nipples were protruding through the fabric of her shirt and he noticed her parted lips, slightly swollen, ripe and delicious. He wanted to kiss her, but of course he didn't. And Natalie continued her rant, unaware that he wasn't listening. He watched her as she raged, watched the way her mouth moved, how tight her lips were over teeth that were almost drawn, ready to bite. | ||||||||||||
| He was lost in his reverie , his fantasies of loving her, and when he looked up again Natalie had deflated before his very eyes, her anger spent. Her shoulders dropped and her arms hung limply by her side, her fists no longer clenched in furious little balls, but loose, the fingers hanging like bananas from a tree. A fat tear was rolling slowly down her cheek and she stuck out her tongue to catch it before it fell. She licked the saltiness away and blinked several times in quick succession in a vain attempt to forestall the deluge threatening to cascade over burning cheeks. She hiccupped. Martin rose from his seat , walked around behind her, reaching out a hand and laying it gently on her skin. She moved back against him and he breathed in her perfume, filling his senses with its sweetness and then he closed his eyes and kissed her ,feeling her soft mouth melt beneath his lips. | ||||||||||||
| He opened his eyes and saw hers twinkling back at him, the angry twitch a thing of the past, replaced with crinkles of delight as she broke away from him and he saw the grin that split her face in two delightful parts .He stroked her face for a second, wanting to kiss her gain, to fall into her charms, under her spell. | ||||||||||||
| 'You little witch' he murmured and she looked at him, her eyes wide with fear, brows knotted in question. | ||||||||||||
| 'Don't look at me like that ' he told her, holding her at arms length.'You know I want to' he kissed the tip of her nose 'but I can't' he added, pushing her away from him and walking back around the desk. 'I have too much to lose' he said, more to himself than to her. | ||||||||||||
| Natalie looked at him as he resumed his seat behind the desk, hardly able to meet her accusing gaze. The tears were prickling at her eyelashes again and he saw that the furious fists were forming once again as she dug her fingernails into her palms, the knuckles of each hand white with effort. She gulped noisily and he hoped she wasn't about to be sick on his plush carpet, she looked decidedly ill. He waited for her to speak, but she said nothing, just continued to stare at him in disbelief, her confusion etched on her face as her eyes wildly roamed trying to find some focus, some meaning. He hated doing this to her, but then he was a man of position and he had to protect himself. | ||||||||||||
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