Midnight Window in St. Petersburg – Erotic Short Story
The frost clung to the cobblestones of Nevsky Prospekt’s quieter arteries, turning every breath into silver smoke. Alexei pulled the collar of his long wool coat higher, the same cream-colored coat that now carried the faint scent of pine tar and other people’s cigarettes. He had intended to walk straight home after the late shift at the typography house. He had intended many things tonight.
Then he saw her.
Second floor, third window from the corner of Liteyny Prospekt and Kovensky Lane. The casement was thrown wide despite February’s bite, yellow lamplight spilling like spilled cognac onto the snow-dusted balcony railing. And there she stood—completely bare, one hip cocked against the frame, long auburn hair cascading over breasts that rose and fell with slow, deliberate breaths.
She wasn’t hiding. She wasn’t performing for the street exactly. She simply… existed in the open rectangle of light while the rest of the city buttoned itself against the cold.
Alexei stopped. His boots forgot how to move.
Her eyes—impossible to read the color from this distance—found him almost immediately. No surprise, no shame, only a small, knowing lift at the corner of her mouth. She raised one arm lazily above her head, stretching so the lamplight carved long shadows under her ribs, along the gentle curve of her waist, down the inside of her thigh. The motion looked practiced and unpracticed at once, like a cat that knows exactly how beautiful its spine can arch.
He should have walked on. Instead his feet carried him closer until he stood directly beneath her window, neck craned, heart thudding loud enough he was sure she could hear it over the distant tram rattle.
She leaned forward then, forearms resting on the sill, breasts pressing softly against the cold wood. Her nipples had already drawn tight from the night air—or perhaps from being watched so openly. When she spoke, her voice floated down clear and low, carrying the soft lilt of someone who had learned Russian in Moscow drawing rooms rather than on Leningrad streets.
“You’re going to catch your death staring like that.”
“I already have,” he answered, surprised his voice worked. “I’m just waiting for the coroner.”
A real laugh—short, delighted. She tilted her head, studying him the way one studies a painting one might buy.
“Come up,” she said. Not a question. “The door code is 1917. Fifth apartment on the left. Don’t ring. Just turn the handle.”
He hesitated only long enough to feel the absurdity of hesitation.
The stairwell smelled of boiled cabbage and old varnish. Each step creaked like it was confessing something. By the time he reached the fifth door the blood was roaring in his ears louder than the Neva in spring thaw.
The door stood slightly ajar.
Inside: warmth, the scent of cedar candles, a record spinning something slow and French he didn’t recognize. And her—still naked, now reclining along the length of a velvet chaise, one leg draped over the armrest, the other bent so her foot rested flat against the cushion. Open. Unapologetic. The lamplight painted her pubic hair copper.
She crooked a finger.
Alexei crossed the room without remembering the steps. When he reached her she caught his coat lapels and pulled him down until his mouth hovered an inch from hers.
“Take the coat off first,” she murmured against his lips. “I want to feel how cold your hands are.”
He obeyed. The wool pooled behind him. Then the scarf. Then—piece by piece—everything else until he was as bare as she was. Her fingers traced the chilled skin of his chest, his stomach, lower, until she wrapped around him and gave one slow, appreciative stroke.
“Poor thing,” she whispered. “You’ve been hard since the street.”
“Yes.”
She guided him between her thighs. No preamble, no teasing games. Just slick heat meeting him as she lifted her hips and took the first inch, then another, then all of him in one smooth glide that left them both gasping.
For a long minute they stayed like that—locked together, breathing each other’s air—while outside the open window the city continued pretending it was ordinary.
Then she began to move.
Slow rolls at first. Lazy. Luxurious. The chaise creaked beneath them. Her nails mapped the muscles of his back. When he tried to set a faster rhythm she pressed a palm to his chest.
“No,” she breathed. “Like this. Let the street hear how slowly I can come.”
So he matched her tempo—long, deliberate strokes that let him feel every flutter, every clench. Her head tipped back over the chaise arm, throat exposed, lips parted on silent moans that grew less silent with each circle of his hips. When her calves hooked behind his thighs and pulled him deeper he felt the first real tremor ripple through her.
“Look at me,” she ordered.
He did. Green eyes—finally close enough to know the color—locked on his as her body tightened, tightened, then shattered around him in long, rolling waves. She didn’t cry out. She simply held his gaze and let him watch every flicker of pleasure cross her face while her inner walls milked him relentlessly.
Only when she had ridden the last aftershock did she slide her hand between them, fingers circling her clit again, smearing their combined wetness.
“Your turn,” she said. “Where do you want to finish?”
He didn’t trust himself to speak coherently. Instead he pulled out, knelt between her thighs, and let her guide his cock so the head rested against the soft mound just above her fingers. She stroked him—quick, slick pulls—while her other hand worked herself.
“Come on my stomach,” she whispered. “I want to feel it cool against my skin while I keep touching myself.”
He lasted perhaps six more strokes.
The release hit like a fist to the spine. Thick ropes painted her belly, her fingers, the crease where thigh met hip. She moaned at the heat of it, then dragged her fingertips through the mess, spreading it across her skin like lotion while her body shook through a second, smaller climax.
Afterward they lay tangled on the chaise, her head on his chest, his arm around her waist. The window remained open. Snow had begun again—fat, lazy flakes drifting past the lamplight.
“Will you come back tomorrow night?” she asked eventually.
He kissed the top of her head. “If the window’s open.”
She smiled against his skin. “It will be.”
Outside, the streetlamp flickered. Somewhere far off a tram bell rang. But in that small pool of yellow light above Liteyny Prospekt, winter felt suddenly very far away.
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