The leopard circled Vito slowly, flicking her tail back and forth, occasionally lifting her elegant paw to run her claws playfully along his skin, though she did not scratch him.
She spoke in a quiet, trained voice that reminded Vito so much of his own, only feminized, perfected by the opposite gender. They were so similar; she spoke of not wanting any harm to come of her flawless skin, while he himself had been thinking of burning her with the cigarette they had been passing between each other over the past few moments- it was as if she had read his mind. Vito parted his own lips and drew in a breath of the fine nicotine when the cigarette was placed in-between two of his fingers by the female before him, “Touch my hair and I’ll cut out your pretty little heart,” he purred into the smoke before him, revealing his own, cat-like qualities, his eyes narrowed in a very animalistic way, though it was impossible for either of the two to see anything other than the red glow of the tip of their cigarette in the dark-as-hell room.
Fire and darkness. Fire, darkness, and smoke.
Vito stood there for a moment, still with his feet firmly on the ground as he listened for another sound from Zara, another indication that she was not a figment of his imagination- which seemed to be an option that his mind enjoyed jumping back to simply to torture him with the idea. She sat upon the mattress, and Vito heard the sound of the poor-quality bed frame squeaking softly.
He drew in a celebratory breath of cigarette smoke, which tasted smooth on his tongue, and expensive. Who’s cigarette was he smoking then? Was it Zara’s or was it his own? If it was, indeed, her cigarette, and that was money that he tasted on his sensitive tongue, it was a definite indication that the female he would be spending the evening with had a fair amount of money. Which didn’t make sense. Vito had assumed from the start that Zara Ellis was a call girl, someone who would do anything to get the money they needed- but she was more intelligent than most of them, and she had played his game, and had won.Vito dropped the last of the dead cancer stick on the hardwood floor, listening as it crumbled upon impact; the ember would probably burn the place down.
The idea interested him to say the least.
The poltergeist brought his hands to the shoulders of his suit and he began to shrug out of the jacket, turning around on the spot at the same moment, so that he was once again facing Ms. Perfection Personified. Questions continued to tear through his brain; he was incredibly curious about the female, he had to admit. She had managed to rope him in thus far with her mysterious mask and her wit, and he was dying to figure out what lay beneath both the clothing clinging to her small frame and the well-planned expressions she wore. “I’ve got to ask…” Vito hung his jacket over a near chair, which he found by mistake when attempting to fling the article of clothing to the side, “who are you?- and I don't mean your name, doll, we did that already.”
Vito’s appearance flickered in the dark, his attention straying away from the way he looked while no one could see him- the light switch was flicked off and the monsters came out to play. He joined Zara upon the bed, his full lips once more curling into his signature, default smirk of amusement, which he brushed roughly against her lips upon finding them. “And if you don’t tell me, I’ll kill you when we’re done having our fun…understand?” he asked in a mockingly chirpy voice.