[This is a sequel to
Mrs. Sykes's Last Brooklyn Exit
.]
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Driving for a car service requires a deft touch for customer service, as I found out when driving part-time for a New York outfit called Lioness Limousine. I had one particular passenger with unusual demands, but I was more than happy to oblige her requests. She was a 38-year-old divorcΓ©e named Holly Sykes, and she lived in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan.
What Holly asked for and got from me one Sunday afternoon in June, 1976, was my participation in her self-directed, quite kinky sex scene. She had me drive her out to Hubert Selby's favorite part of Brooklyn, and then park among some warehouses. Out there she revealed her dominatrix side, and she got me into the back seat and paddled my bare behind with her hairbrush. The pretext was that I had been giving her lascivious looks, which we both understood was merely a part of the game.
When she was done with the over-her-knees action, she had me lick her pussy until she reached orgasm. She had arranged that day to wear a dress with no panties underneath; she had a knack for preparation about these matters. As a finale, I had to masturbate kneeling on the rear floor as she watched.
Actually, I'm not sure I really
had
to do any of those things, but I enjoyed it all anyway. I was twenty-one-years-old and ending my junior year at the City College of New York. About six months had past since I had broken up with my most recent girlfriend, and I was willing to engage in some sex play with a horny mature lady.
The issue I had with Holly in the following week was that my emotions were getting into the mix. On the way back from our tryst she had sat in the front and she had been quite chatty, a big change from her previous demeanor. Back in the city, we had smooched in the car and then I had asked for a date that evening when I was finished with work. She obliged, and we had a good time talking and having drinks at a bar near her building.
She seemed willing to have a longer-term affair, and in fact she had specified that she needed a "proper fucking" from me. I considered that it might happen that very evening, but she deferred that to some unspecified future day. Then, during the week, she hadn't responded to any of the messages I left on her answering machine. On Friday, the company notified me that she had requested me again for an assignment on that Sunday.
I understood how she might be having second thoughts about me, but I was a bit miffed that she had called the company to book my time again. I was ready enough to drive her around, and I also was willing to have a fling with her. However, I didn't like having the two in a single package. I thought it was clear that we would have a relationship that was beyond my role as an employee. Maybe I had assumed more about our connection than she had.
On that Sunday I dressed in a jacket and tie and went out to Long Island City to get a car. This time I was given an Oldsmobile Delta 88. According to the specs the car was actually a bit smaller than the previous week's Buick Electra, but to me that was hardly noticeable.
When I arrived in Manhattan, the doorman came out of the lobby and my Queen Holly stepped out behind him. For Holly, weekends were not a time for casual dress. On that day she was wearing a jacket and skirt, and high heels. This time her shoes were dark purple instead of the earlier white ones. Yet she must have liked white for late spring weather, because she had a white hat rather than the straw one I had seen before.
She was fairly tall and she moved gracefully and confidently. Something about her reminded me of Barbara Stanwyck, but years later I also made a comparison to Kathleen Turner. Part of it was her dark-blonde hair, which she had pulled back into a tight bun.
As she approached she made no indication that I was the guy who had recently romped around the inside of a car with her. When I opened the rear passenger door for her, I decided to play it straight, "Good afternoon, Mrs. Sykes."
"Good afternoon, Paul."
Maybe she's just putting on an act to fool the doorman.
I would have thought Holly - being from the upper-middle or upper class or whatever - would be immune to the opinions of service workers, but that wasn't the case the previous week. She had been worried about him seeing her in the front seat. I wondered if she'd ever brought a guy up to her apartment since her divorce.
When I was seated in the front and had started in the engine, I waited for her to speak up. "Just drive along 21st for the moment." A few moments later she said, "Paul, I'd like you to take me to another secluded spot, but not the one in Brooklyn."
So she must have liked last week's escapade with me.
"Ma'am, what was wrong with that place?"
"It wasn't a bad choice, but it was on a public street. I'd like to go to some place more secluded."
I thought about it. "There's a train yard, an abandoned yard actually, up in The Bronx. Do you know where Co-op City is?"
"Yes, I've passed by there." I figured she had while using I-95 or the New Haven rail line; I knew she had roots in Connecticut.
"Anyway, ma'am, it's right next to the Amtrak line. It's Sunday, so we should be able to drive up there pretty quickly."
"That sounds fine. As you must know, I have a bone to pick with you today."
I understood that she was playing a game, and she couldn't have known it, but that phrase had always grated when someone used it on me.
After that, she stayed silent for the rest of the trip. I was struck at how readily she had gone back to her earlier frosty, almost withdrawn demeanor. As for myself, I wasn't in the mood to attempt pretend small-talk. I was still bothered that she hadn't returned my calls or attempted to contact me herself.
I had hoped that this weekend she would have some real errands to run and then she would invite me up to her apartment in the evening. Now I was concerned that she had put me into a compartment, one where she would continue to direct events and satisfy her needs as she saw fit.
When I looked at her in the mirror, she had her chin on one raised hand and she was looking out the window. During our initial conversation, I had looked down and saw that her legs weren't bare this time; she was wearing stockings or pantyhose. I remembered the sexual aspects of our time in the other car - licking her cunt until she had a noisy climax, ejaculating on the car seat as she complimented the amount and distance of my jism shot.
I wonder if she is wearing any panties this week?
Previously she had kept a pair in her bag to be donned for the ride back.
But I also thought about the genuinely warm way she had treated me after our tryst, including the hour or so we had been together in the bar.
You were no longer Mrs. Sykes; you were my Holly, my lover I thought. Why are you treating me so coldly today?
In about forty minutes I turned into a driveway and went down through an open gate. The area beyond had not been a big yard; there was an abandoned building that had probably been a passenger station. Across the tracks, there were some tall apartment buildings, part of Co-op City. It seemed to me that no one over there would be able to see what was happening in the car.
"Is this satisfactory, Mrs. Sykes?"
"It looks a bit open to me."
"True, but no one ever comes in here." In fact, I was just guessing about that. I wondered if Amtrak had its own police department, but I hadn't had time to check. I knew they had only received ownership of the corridor about two months earlier.
I continued, "We'll drive up to the far end and then I'll turn the car around." I didn't add that turning it would make for a quicker getaway if needed.
"All right, that's a good idea; go ahead."
I turned right and went up to a bridge over the Hutchinson River. When I had the car in place, I turned off the engine and cracked the window open. Fortunately, it was an overcast day so we wouldn't have the sun shining on the roof. In any case, we weren't going to be there all afternoon.
I leaned back and waited for her to begin her act. She sighed and seemed exasperated, "I suppose you know why I've brought you up here."
"Yes ma'am, you wanted to pick a bone with me."
"Don't get smart with me, young man!" I was surprised at how sharply she said that. I couldn't help but coldly think,
you old bitch.