Page 7 of SnowFyer
The pants hit her just below her hipbones and were also laced.This time, the laces started at her ankle and crept up her leg to the waistband so that a strip of skin a couple inches wide on the outside of her leg was exposed.Naturally, panties weren’t practical.She wore ankle-high, black stiletto boots with silver-studded accents along the side and sole, completing her outfit.She wore athletic tape to support her wrists and covered it with two padded leather bondage cuffs with silver hoops on the tops of her wrists -- out of the way, but unmistakable in their usage.Her reflection in the mirror still looked like the same Scarlett… but with bite.
“Show time, Scarlett,” Arsen called, knocking at her door.“Time to go.”
With one last look in the mirror and a deep, calming breath, Scarlett caressed her guitar lovingly.“This is it,” she muttered to the instrument.“I’ll do my best not to let you down, and you won’t break a string.I’ll have no need of the backup, and you and I will finish this puppy together.”
More knocking on the door, louder and more persistent this time.“Scarlett?Now would be a good time.”Arsen sounded a little anxious but amused at the same time.Probably trying to keep it light when they all had to be more than a little nervous.Introducing a new band member was always a highly stressful time.Doing it on the spur of the moment with no real practice was unheard of and, in a lesser band, potentially career ending.
She opened the door and faced her brother.His eyes widened as he looked at her from head to toe, then looked away, his face going red.
“Holy fuck, Scarlett!Has Seth seen this outfit?Fuck!”
She lifted her chin.“There is nothing wrong with my outfit.”
“Except that there isn’t much of it,” he muttered.With a sigh he stepped aside and let her head off down the hallway to the stage wing where she would enter.Titan already had the drums beating out a driving, deep rhythm that just screamed head banger.As she approached the point where she’d enter the stage, she heard Ra start up on his keyboard and Garrick kick in with his bass.Ferris was soon to follow.Underneath the steady beat of the band, the crowd screamed with excitement.
She was next.She would start the band in their opening number just before Seth made his entrance on the secondary stage above the main.There was an elevator that lifted him up, and he ziplined down to the front of the stage -- or into the waiting arms of the audience.Whichever suited his fancy that particular show.
“That’s your cue, baby sister.”Arsen gripped her shoulders, seeming to sense she was a bundle of nerves.“You got this.”He gave her a little shake and a lopsided grin.“Give ‘em hell.Show Seth Snow what you’re made of.”
Joy bubbled up inside her.She was doing what she’d always known in her heart she was meant to do.With a grin of her own, she twirled away from Arsen and trotted out on stage, her fingers plucking out a heavy riff on her six-string.
She joined Ferris on stage, and the two played to each other, the swell of the driving metal increasing in volume and intensity until the upper stage exploded in a burst of pyrotechnics that thundered through her and flashed out across the dimly lit stage.Seth seemed to burst up from the smaller secondary stage high above them to the screams and frantic wails of the audience.
Scarlett let her body go with the beat, losing herself in the music.The rush from the first few bars was like an orgasmic high, and she nearly forgot she had a job to do.Focusing first on Ferris and then Garrick, she pulled herself together and led the band through the opening bars several times until Seth was ready to start his part.
Everything went off without a so much as a hiccup.Seth slid down his zipline, stopping just short of the crowd to the disappointment of the front rows of people stage-side.The crowd was totally nuts.Scarlett had seen this first hand, but always from the other side of the stage.She was either out front watching and enjoying the show or backstage fielding entertainment reporters and the like.She’d never actually been in the middle of the action.
After the first song, she led them straight into the second.Which was when Seth got his first glimpse of her.He turned in her direction intending to approach her as he would have Arsen.Did a double take.She had the impression that the only thing that kept him singing was pure instinct.
His gaze was hot, possessive.Like nothing she’d ever seen before.Even the previous night, when he’d stood over her naked body, he hadn’t looked at her this way.Perhaps it was her being in his element.Perhaps he’d always looked at her this way.Perhaps it was her meeting his gaze boldly and daring him to do all the wicked things he so obviously wanted to do to her.All Scarlett knew was that this show was either going to end before it really got started…
Or it was going to beelectric…
Chapter Four
When the show was over, Seth promised himself he was going to whip Scarlett’s ass for this.The outfit she wore accented what it covered.Which was little.All that flaming red hair of hers looked like a halo from hell.She was definitely a wicked, wicked girl.
At first glance he wasn’t even sure the woman before him doing nasty things with that double neck was Scarlett.But then she met his gaze with her defiant, haughty one and heknew.Not only was this his Scarlett, but she’d brought her A game.She fit the persona of rock star perfectly.Right down to the fuck-me stilettos.
Instantly, Seth was hard as a rock.Fitting since he was a rock-and-roll star in a hard rock band.He nearly laughed maniacally.Getting through this concert was going to be hell.
Except it wasn’t.
Scarlett was… perfect.She did her part, playing to the crowd.Playing to him.They played off each other.She and the band were seamless, the music blending perfectly but with a sound so uniquely Scarlett, it was obvious there was a new addition to the band.Which prompted him to introduce her after the fourth song.He hated that she got as much attention as he did.Not because she didn’t deserve it or because he was a glory hound.No.It was worse than that.He hated the eyes of ardent fans on her.Knowing they could see so much of her body, and that she clearly delighted in showing off what was his nearly made him growl.
Which only made the next set that much more intense.
In a perfectly orchestrated show, every band member had specific places to move, a specific path to take to those places, at specific times in the show so nobody got tangled or injured.Scarlet hadn’t had time to practice this part with the band so she stayed in her own “box” for the first couple of sets.She knew where Arsen was supposed to be and when, but she seemed to be either feeling out the others’ patterns -- each band member, with the exception of Titan, who seemed to have only the one setting of “gruff” -- had their own rhythm and set place to move.So, when they got to the next number where it was her turn to shine… boy, did she ever.
She followed Arsen’s pattern so when she approached Seth he knew the exact path she would take.As he watched her coming toward him, the beat of the music overtook him.There was no audience.No sound men.Nothing but him, the band, the music, and Scarlett.Their music wasn’t about sex so much.More nightmares and darkness.There was the occasional ballad, but even those weren’t about love.Passion, maybe, but any reference to sex was usually of the one-night-stand variety.But there was always passion in their lyrics, however sinister they might be.With Scarlett moving toward him, playing to him, rubbing the back of her body subtly over him as she twirled around him, every lyric took on a whole new meaning for Seth.
For the rest of the show, the two fed off one another.Seth touched her every chance he got.He’d come up behind her, gripping her hip possessively with one hand while he screamed his lyrics, holding his mic with the other.He was never inappropriate about it, didn’t grind against her or anything, but the possession couldn’t be misunderstood.He touched her bare skin whenever he could; that strip of creamy flesh between her top and pants seemed to taunt him every time she turned her back on him.Well.Her skin and her perfect ass encased in bright leather.
At one point, she was playing to Titan, his drums and her riffs blending seamlessly with one another.The big man saw Seth coming up behind her and gave a cocky smirk, twirling one stick between his fingers before acknowledging Scarlett by pointing it at her.It was just before Seth snagged her around the waist, whipping her around and away from the drum stage, his big hands nearly spanning her tiny waist as he gripped her firmly.Scarlett tucked her legs until the momentum shifted to take her down, and he set her on her feet as if they’d practiced the move a hundred times.The crowd went nuts, loving the interplay.Seth thought his cock would explode.
They kept it up through the rest of the show until the last two numbers.The songs Scarlett had used to prove to Seth she did indeed belong in this role.Seth both anticipated and dreaded these two numbers.He could only imagine how he’d ache for her and feared she could turn the tables on him with one cock of those generous hips.
She started the haunting arpeggios at the beginning of “Devil’s Heart,” her gaze fixed on Seth.The song wasn’t about love or even sex, but about a bone-deep commitment born of desperation, obsession, and unrelenting lust.In the song, Satan finds himself obsessed with the daughter of an angel who’s been cast out of heaven.It isn’t until he’s well and truly snared by her innocent beauty and the promise of her lithe body if he’d do but one small thing for her that he finds out for himself she’s manipulated him into invading heaven to avenge her.By then, he’s committed.And he finally realizes the woman he’s obsessed with has talked him into a war where both sides will lose… leaving her to rule heaven, Earth, and hell.
