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“Mm… not yet,” she said as she flagged down a waiter. When he walked over, she said, “I saw you have a chess set in the bar. Could I trouble you to bring it out here?”

“Of course,signorina,”he said, then looked at me. “Would the gentleman like a drink?”

“Your finest whiskey,” I replied. “Make it a double.”

“Si, signore,”the waiter said, then hurried off.

“A chess set, huh?” I asked. “Is trouncing me your idea of foreplay?”

She laughed. “I suppose it could be. We playedyourgame of choice back in Macau; I figured we could playmygame of choice here.”

“Uh-huh. And what are the stakes?”

She smiled. “If you win, you get to take me up to the room and do anything you want to me.”

“Oh-ho! Well, I’m going to have to play the best game of my entire life.”

Two waiters came over – one with my drink, which he set in front of me, and the other carrying a chess set, which he placedon the table between me and Sofia. It was a beautiful wooden board with ornate pieces made of pewter.

After I thanked them and they left, I turned back to Sofia. “What doyouget ifyouwin?”

She rubbed one of her legs seductively against mine under the table.

“I get to takeyouup to the room… and I get to do toyouwhatever I want.”

“That both turns me on and terrifies me at the same time.”

She laughed but didn’t say anything.

I narrowed my eyes. “Are you into something kinky I should know about?”

“Not particularly.”

“‘Notparticularly?’That leaves a LOT of room for interpretation.”

She laughed again. “Don’t be so nervous. I promise you’ll like it.”

“Well, since we both know you’re going to win, why even bother?”

She bit her lower lip, and my cock swelled even more.

“Like you said… consider it foreplay,” she purred.

I put up a valiant effort, but I lost quite decisively.

Considering what happened in the bedroom afterwards…

It was the best goddamn defeat I’d ever suffered.

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Sofia

We were frantically kissing by the time we reached the room.

As soon as we stumbled through the door, I shut and locked it –

And then we proceeded to rip off each other’s clothes as fast as we could.

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