Don't even need to change the name this time, I don't think I ever knew what it was.
I guess he must have told me at the time but I would have forgotten it by the next morning, never mind all these years later.
I was a student, in my late teens, working behind a bar to pay the bills.
If you've ever tried to chat up a barmaid you should know it is a lost cause. By the time we get to our second shift we've got bored of better lines than you could ever dream up, and if you want to know what we're doing when our shift finishes, the answer is going home alone to a large glass, a soak in the bath and a catch up on the soap operas.
The man in the sexy suit didn't really try to chat me up. Or if he did it was so quick and effortless I barely noticed. Maybe he didn't need to. I'd cleared the bar, sprayed down the tables, swept the floor and the manager sent me off with a few paltry pounds as my share of the tips jar. About enough to buy a packet of cigarettes, which were still needed back then as I was still a filthy smoker (I'm much healthier these days, even if still filthy haha.)
The man in the suit was standing just outside the side door, smoking and checking his phone. He was much older than me, probably in his forties. He wasn't George Clooney but he had the effortless confidence of a man who didn't have to try too hard. So different to the boys my age with all their - admittedly adorable - nerves and bluster. I asked if he had a spare and he casually, wordlessly flipped the lid on a packet of Silk Cut and let me take one, then he clicked his lighter and lit me. I'd barely taken a single drag before a minicab turned up. He threw his own cig to the floor and trod it out.
"I've got a bottle of wine and a bag of weed at my flat if you're not busy?"
This was the point where I say "thanks but I just want to get home." I would always say "thanks, but I just want to get home." I wasn't the type to say anything else. I wasn't that type of girl. Really. No one was more surprised than me to hear me say the words "is it far?"
The answer was no. It was a mile or so away and closer to my own flat than the bar was. I felt a galloping rush of excitement as I said the words "OK then," threw my cigarette to the floor, and got in the cab.
I knew there and then I was going to fuck him. I wasn't going to play hard to get. I wouldn't need to be persuaded or seduced. My imagination was already running through everything we would be doing together. We chatted aimlessly on the journey, I can't remember what he was saying, my mind was just racing with anticipation for what was about to happen.
His flat was as neat, tidy and sharp as his suit. Minimalist. Looking back now, I guess it was the flat of a recently divorced man, one who had started life over with a few hundred quid at IKEA. I didn't pay much attention at the time.
I've forgotten the small talk and preliminaries. I'm guessing there weren't many. Within minutes we were kissing on the couch and his hand was pressing through the buttons of my blouse. I was a lot younger and slimmer then but even at age 19 I was blessed with large, mature breasts and any self-restraint dissolved as he cupped my tits in the palm of his hands and then swiftly extricated me from my bra.
A lot of what happened in the next hour or so was a blur of adrenaline, passion and pure lust. But I will never forget that this handsome older man stripped me naked in his living room while he was still fully dressed. It aroused something primal in me, I felt more naked than was natural, as if he had removed an extra layer of protection, made me feel like some kind of sex slave from an erotic novel, and as he led me through his flat to his bed I remember thinking how strong he looked in his suit, how powerful he was, I grabbed at his lapels and pulled him towards me, kissing him hungrily, my bare skin pressed against his silk shirt.