Chapter 163 - After Valentine's (10)

Sophia looked at Felix and her gaze stopped moving when it landed on his lips. Those beautiful lips on his handsome face. Lips that can make her head spin in a second. Lips that can kiss her and make her lose herself. She didn't like the idea of losing herself, she likes to be in control… but she was not able to stay away. The attraction was too strong, and she had no way to pull herself out of this… and she felt like kissing him... At the same time, she felt it's not appropriate, at least not on the street. There are people watching, she is not a teenager… but those lips…

Sophia forced herself to take a step back and cleared her throat. "What do you usually do on Sunday afternoon?"

Felix saw that she was lost in a daze for a second, and he liked it. His lips stretched into a smile, "Are you interested to find out?"

"Yes", she nodded while her eyes didn't leave two dimples on his cheeks that got revealed by his irresistible smile.

He called a cab and gave the address to the driver.

...

Sophia and Felix are in a large gym. All around them are rock climbing walls of different difficulties. Sophia is looking at the surrounding, looking apprehensive.

He observed her for a second before asking, "First time?"

Sophia nodded.

He liked that. "I will make sure that first time is special."

Sophia was speechless. His voice entranced her, but what about his choice of words? 'Just how suggestive can that be? And isn't he reminding me that he left me hanging last night?!'

Felix did his best to suppress his smile while leading her to the counter where few young men and woman chatted. When they noticed them, they recognized Felix and greeted him cheerfully.

Felix greeted them back. "I will use my locker, and this beautiful lady..." he looked at Sophia, "She will need full equipment."

Young man looked at Sophia, "Do you need introductory lesson?"

"I will handle that.", Felix responded instead of Sophia.

Young man gave a nod to Felix. "Is she coming on your card?"

"Yes." Felix responded.

"Oh, you finally brought someone!", a lady chimed in.

Members can bring up to three guests to join them for free. This was the first time that Felix brought a guest. Guests need to give their name, age, occupation and relationship to the member with contact info as optional.

Young man asked for Sophia's name, age, occupation and Sophia answered. When he asked about her relationship to Felix, she subconsciously glanced at him.

Felix stepped in and responded with a straight face. "My boss." Young people behind counter looked at her, and then at him. They looked quite close, is Felix that close to his boss? The most shocked look came from Sophia. She was internally screaming. 'This guy is driving me crazy. How dares he put me in as a boss!' Then another voice sounded in her mind. 'And you want him to put your relationship as a...?' She thought how she would feel if he said 'girlfriend', and blushed... it would be embarrassing.

Felix looked at her expressions that changed by the second and laughed. "Vela, help her suit up. I will wait at the wall two", Felix told one young lady who was behind counter, and went toward men's locker rooms.

…

In women's locker room, girl with name Vela gave Sophia a white tank top and black three-quarter leggings, as well as gray rock-climbing shoes. Sophia changed from her dress and high heel boots and checked herself in the mirror. She looks good because of her great body, but... even though everything is covered, she feels it's quite revealing.

Vela looked at Sophia with admiration. She noticed that Sophia has a troubled expression. "You look amazing!", the girl said. She thought that Sophia is not happy with how she looks and wanted to encourage her.

"Thank you", Sophia hesitated before continuing. "Don't you have a... less body hugging options?"

"This is your best option. Because it's tight, you don't need to worry that your clothes will get tangled or be in the way.", Vela responded while pointing at the outfit.

Sophia awkwardly smiled. She was covered, but she still felt naked.

"You are lucky.", Vela said.

"Why?"

"So many staff and members would kill to have a session with Felix.", Vela pouted.

Sophia was now interested to hear more. "Really?"

"Yes. He is charming, and the way he looks... he can take me to any mountain, and I will not mind suffering, as long as I can cling to him.", Vela giggled.

Sophia listened to her drooling over Felix and frowned. Sophia was not sure why it felt unpleasant to hear some other woman talk about Felix like that... she never felt jealous before; this is the first time for her.

Vela snapped out of her imagination and looked at Sophia. "Are you really his boss?"

"Yes"

"Ahh!" Vela screamed, and then continued with a whisper, "If I could be his boss! That is a fantasy I would not wake up from. I would always give him extra work, so he needs to stay back and work late with me... if you know what I mean...", Vela's eyebrows danced playfully as she suggestively smiled.

Sophia felt very uncomfortable listening to this woman. She could not define what is going on with her emotions, but it was uncomfortable. "Are we done? If yes, can you show me out?"

"Yes, yes... he said number two, right? Let me take you there.", Vela hopped out of the locker room, and Sophia followed.

...

Felix was waiting for Sophia. When he saw her approaching, his gaze moved from her top to bottom and back to top again. She looks great, it's difficult not to look at her. Few more men turned around and ogled at her.

Sophia's attention was on Felix. He was wearing jeans on the bottom, and a tight V-neck t-shirt on top. It was not as tight as Sophia's clothes, but his muscled body was not well hidden under that t-shirt. She was nervously fidgeting her fingers as she approached him. "Now what?"

"I will help you get into the harness." Felix picked up harness which was next to him.

"Where does that go?", she curiously looked at the straps of the harness.

"Around your waist and thighs.", Felix looked at her and his lips stretched into a smile.