#Chapter 170 – Seduction

The next morning, Delia and Emma sit at the kitchen table, Delia’s phone between them.

“Are you ready for this?” Emma asks, hesitating.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready for this,” Delia says, her eyes wide.

Emma nods, understanding. She knows what she’s asking of Delia. She’s sending her into a situation that was potentially violent, unpredictable, dangerous.

“Hey,” Delia says, reaching out and taking Emma’s hand, reading the worry on her face. “I agreed to this of my own free will. If I wasn’t willing to do it, I would have said no.”

Emma nods, but shakes her head at the same time. “It’s just…it’s not right. It should be me, taking the big risk.”

“Yeah,” Delia says with a smirk, glancing down at her fit body. “But we both know that I’m the better bait.”

Emma just rolls her eyes.

Giving Emma a wink, Delia screws up her courage and grabs the phone, sending the text that they’d carefully crafted this morning.

Delia: Hey. We haven’t talked in a while. But I’ve been thinking about you…

Then, they wait.

The reply takes a long time – hours, it feels like. So long that both women get bored, moving around the kitchen, doing chores to keep the already-spotless place clean. Passing the time.

But then, suddenly, the phone blinks.

A new text message.

Emma stops, holding her breath, staring at it. But Delia moves to pick it up.

Joyce: I’m not surprised. I’ve been thinking about you too.

Delia reads it aloud to Emma and then they both stare at each other.

“What should I write back?” Delia asks quietly.

“I have…no idea.” Emma says, her voice quiet.

“Come on, Emma,” Delia says, putting a hand on her hip in frustration. “He’s your husband. What does he like?”

for a moment, but Delia holds her stare. Emma

Assertive now, and then let him take control later. Let him feel like…he wore you

back to the phone.

I take you up on that offer you made so many years ago.

back

finally paid

relief. “He took the bait. We’re having drinks

Evelyn have gone

you okay?” Delia asks, taking in her pale face,

according to plan,” Emma murmurs. “It’s just…it feels so much more real now. So much

smile. “This is going to work. And then you’re going to have your vengeance. And

laughs a little, putting her hand to her forehead. “I kind of regret going for the vengeance now. Can’t we

“If you want to leave

“Okay, fine.” She looks into her lover’s eyes, her face growing determined. “Let’s

before heading to the bedroom. “So what does bait wear on a date to destroy her best friend’s ex-husband!?”

following

Delia is sitting on her favorite stool at her favorite bar, sipping a glass of Chardonnay that she got from Cliff, her favorite bartender. She’s dressed in a skimpy red dress.

play it cool. She looks longingly at the crispy glass of wine, the condensation gathering on

after this, and she needs to

taking a long sip and draining half the glass. She

hears the door open behind her and forces her shoulders not

his voice thick with superiority and control. “She must be

her lips and then slowly turns to him. “I’m not sure I’d

on the stool next to her, leaning casually on the bar. He puts

Instead, she sits quietly, waiting for him to take

accepting his drink from Cliff, “I was so interested to

offer you made to me

a friend to support her at the

the marriage between Emma and Joyce was failing. That they had not been able to have children, and that Joyce took it out

drunker, his come-ons had become more and more blatant. Delia had done her best to laugh them off, seeking to make the night easier for Emma, but when he grabbed her ass and whispered in his ear that he wanted to f**k her, Delia had

laughed, saying he liked ‘em feisty, and that she should call him someday if she ever wanted

on that offer. Or, at

of his drink. Delia takes a sip of

spin for me. Then I’ll decide if the

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