I looked at the woman leaning against the wall carefully. She reminded me of someone I'd known at one time. She had the same mouth, the same eyes, and the same open smile, but there the resemblance ended. This woman was much slimmer than Sophie had been, her hair was shorter and far less elegantly styled and she didn't carry herself in the same upright, self confident manner. Even so, the similarity was amazing, and I couldn't help but stand and stare. Then, as if conscious that someone was watching her, she looked up and her eyes met mine.
"Dermot? It is Dermot, isn't it?"
So it was Sophie, and obviously I'd changed as much as she in the last four years.
"Good God, Sophie! Talk about a blast from the past. How are you doing?"
"Surviving, Dermot, as much as anybody else." She glanced at her watch. "It would be nice to talk to you but I'm busy right now, are you around for a day or two?"
She didn't look busy leaning on a wall, but what did I know? "Yes, I'm in town until Thursday, and it would be nice to talk to you too. Can we meet?"
"I'd like that. Tomorrow, say about eight?"
"Fine, but you'll have to say where because I don't know my way around yet."
"Tell me where you're staying and I'll come to you. Oh, and don't worry about Luke, we're not together anymore." She smiled briefly in remembrance of our past.
I gave her the name of my hotel and offered up silent thanks that Luke wasn't going to be after my skin in the way he was the last time Sophie and I met, then I went to my appointment and put her to the back of my mind for a while.
That night as I lay in my hotel bed, I couldn't stop thinking about the Sophie I'd once known. She and I had been lovers, our affair starting on the night before she married Luke and lasting the best part of three years. It began when we shared a 'knee trembler' in an alley behind the club where she was holding her hen party, with one of her friends keeping lookout while she enjoyed her last shag as a free woman. We had fucked up against a wall with her skirt rucked up and her knickers around her ankle, and with her 'lookout' watching shamelessly. Afterwards she handed me her knickers and told me to keep them as a momento -- I still have them. She wanted, she said, to feel my cum trickling down her legs while she danced. I discovered later that that sort of gesture was par for the course with her; she had a very open and individual attitude to sex.
It was about a couple of months later that we met again as I wasted an afternoon idling around the shops. To be honest I'd almost forgotten about her, until a voice behind me asked 'Have you still got them?' and I looked around to find her there, smiling broadly. It took a moment for memory to kick in, I mean, the last time I'd seen her she had been dressed in a rah-rah skirt and a T-shirt with the logo 'I'm still a virgin, but this is an old shirt' blazoned across the front. Now here she was dressed in a light blue business suit over a tailored white blouse and carrying a briefcase, but then I remembered her and I grinned back.
"Yes, as matter of fact I have. And any further contributions you care to make would be gratefully received."
She laughed, a light tinkling laugh showing no embarrassment or offence at my remark. "I have a business meeting to attend and I don't think a 'Sharon Stone' moment would be appreciated, do you?"
"Damn!" I pretended devastation and she laughed again, before raising her hand in goodbye and going on her way.
I expected that to be that, but about fifteen minutes later she came back down the street with a face like thunder.
"That was a short meeting." I said as she got near.
"Cancelled!" She barked the word at me as if it were my fault. "And the ignorant bastards didn't even have the decency to let me know."
"Then let me buy you a coffee and give you chance to cool off, or do you need to get home?"
"There's nobody at home and I'm not sure he'd notice if he was."
"Oh." I said and left it at that, domestic disputes are not my thing.
She calmed down pretty quickly and then we spent nearly two hours sitting, drinking coffee and chatting. I think the waitress thought we were testing out their 'buy one coffee and get free refill's' policy, judging by the dirty look we got each time she came around, but in truth the reason was simply that she was so easy to talk to and so straightforward. There were no airs and graces, no pretence, and no hidden agendas. What you saw was what you got with Sophie. I must also say that what I saw, and got, was pretty spectacular. She was a woman in her absolute prime, mid twenties, tall, well built, auburn haired and with the most glorious breasts it has ever been my pleasure to lose my cock between.
Sophie ran a small recruitment and temps agency that supplied local factories with short term staff, while her husband, Luke, owned a crane hire business. They were not yet wealthy, but certainly working towards it, enjoying a secure and prosperous lifestyle. I tell you this because it is relevant to the story. The only problem inherent in their way of life was that they were often like ships that passed in the night and communication was not good. Her hours were, to put it mildly, flexible, and she was often out and about visiting clients and setting up meetings, while Luke would regularly drive a crane himself if the job was particularly tricky, and could be away for days on end. Combine that with his 'missionary position in the dark' approach to sex and her very high and adventurous sex drive, and it was almost inevitable that she would stray. And stray she did, with me as the lucky recipient.
Now, I must admit that I was a bit wary of starting anything with Sophie. Luke was a big man, ex-army, short tempered and aggressive, and with a habit of solving problems with his fists, and I'm a dyed in the wool coward. But Sophie was a real beauty, with an easy laugh, a happy outlook, and a very frustrated libido. She needed someone in bed with an open attitude and an adventurous streak, and a willingness to satisfy her in whichever way she needed. I'm glad to say she saw that person in me and made it plain that she was available.
With the donated knickers as a starting point, our coffee shop chat soon began to take on overt sexual overtones, with innuendo and double meanings littering our conversation. We both began to feel randy and a repeat of our first encounter became more and more likely. Eventually we agreed to meet again the following day, this time at a motel just outside of town, and we both knew it was not just for coffee.
No sooner had we closed the room door behind us than we were in each other's arms and kissing passionately, but then she wriggled free and held me at arms length.
"Dermot, hold it a minute, we need to set some rules, and as I'm the one who's married and has the most to lose, I'm gonna set them."
I couldn't fault the logic, so I stood quiet and listened.
"Firstly, you must never contact me unless it is prearranged. Secondly, you have absolutely no rights over me whatever. Thirdly and most importantly, we will fuck my way, and you'd better be a damn good shag, because you and I are here together only because Luke doesn't do it for me. If I'm going to stay with him I need extras, and you're it. To put it in a nutshell, I'm going to use you as my animated dildo, and if you can't handle that, well - tough."
I looked at her in absolute amazement, but at least I couldn't say I didn't know where I stood. Strange as it may sound, that's the way it worked. She always rang me to say that she'd be free on such and such a day, and we'd get together. Sometimes it would be almost every day, and sometimes two or three weeks would go by between her calls.
Then, when we did meet, it was Sophie who called the shots, arranging where we would meet, telling me what she fancied doing, and even sometimes how we would do it. But the gaps between meetings were down to her fear of being caught, not because she waited until she felt horny then called on me to sort her out. And, even though she set the agenda, that was usually because she was plain fucking kinky and had a much wilder imagination that I would ever have. She was naturally an assertive person, but in actual fact she could also be slightly submissive sometimes, and even enjoyed being spanked and tied up.