The first time was awkward and a little embarrassing. It did not go completely as I hoped and I left after half to three quarters of an hour excited at what I had done, but not fully satisfied.
"It's often like that," the young guy in his mid-twenties said. "Well the first time, but don't worry it gets better the next few times.
He left me then to have a shower and get dressed. Ready, I went to the reception and Greg was waiting.
"I hope to see you again Cat, will I?"
"Yes I think so Greg."
"It will be much better next time, much, much better I assure you," he said. "You'll be more relaxed."
"Yes I expect you are right."
"Would you like to book something now?"
I thought for a moment or two and replied hesitantly. "Yes, ok why not?"
He opened up his iPad and asked. "When? I do have availability tomorrow and Friday, it's often best to do it again quickly."
I got what he meant so I checked my diary on my phone and said. "Yes I understand that, how about Friday?"
"Eight ok?"
"Yes that will fine."
"I'll look forward to seeing you then Cat, eight on Friday."
I left the Victorian house in Highgate, North London with my heart pounding having just booked my second happy ending erotic massage.
*
I am just over forty-five and have been married for what seems ever, but in reality is nearing twenty-five years, my silver anniversary. I have two children both of whom are away at university and a husband who travels extensively with his job and works murderous hours when he is home. I do not see much of him. I am bored and lonely. And on top of all that the lack of consistent sex with my husband makes me almost continuously sexually frustrated.
I knew that I was a prime candidate for an affair. I had one several years ago, but that was with a man who I thought was probably the love of my life. We may well both have been the love of the other's life, but we did not have the courage to break up two families so we parted. The memories of that affair were still with me. The sex was phenomenal, but that was due to my love for David. The excuses, the lying, the subterfuge and the getting up from one bed and going home to another were awful. So much so that I had vowed never to have another affair and I had not. So I was in a classic catch 22 and there seemed to be no way out
I had gone back to work and by chance I met a lady on a training course gave me the solution. This was over oou third bottle of wine on the last night of the five day course.
"Many of the women I know who have jobs like ours," she told me. "Use escorts as I have done, but they are too much like a date, you have to talk to them, maybe have dinner and generally provide the location. They are ok if you want to try and play act romance, but if it is just sex you are after and you are comfortable with yourself about acknowledging that there is a better way."
We were at a training centre just outside Manchester and had finished dinner. I had met Margot on the Sunday evening at registration. We had got on well and had lunch and dinner with each other each day. She was from a brewery company and had a similar job to mine.
"You've got your iPad with you haven't you?"
"Yes why?"
"Let me show you something on there."
I logged on and handed it to her. She went into Safari I noticed and typed in an address, waited a moment or two then handed it back to me. I looked at a website that was elegant, stylish and modern in soft colours with nicely constructed phrasing. In essence it was for a massage service for women that promised to provide the 'ultimate erotic experience with the happiest of endings.' It advised that clients could choose a male or female masseur or, have two of each or one of each.
*
It was vaguely ridiculous I knew, but on the Tuesday evening I got ready as if going on a date. I washed and groomed my shoulder-length hair that since my new job I had kept as blonde rather than changing colour every few months. I wore tight, black trousers that were moulded to my hips, bum, stomach and pubic mound like a second skin and a button up white blouse with the top three buttons undone showing some cleavage. I had strappy heels on so that my deep red painted toe nails were on view. Underneath I wore a slither of a thong and a diaphanous white, low cut bra. I felt good, but smiled as I drove down the AI from St Albans towards 'my destiny' in Highgate. 'All this to go for a massage.'
I was far, far more nervous waiting for the big, black door to the house to be opened than I ever had been on a date, but then it was so many years since I had been on one. Greg answered the door and showed me into a room at the back of the house with a nice view over the well-kept garden.
"Welcome back," he said moving over to the window and closing the blinds.
He was wearing a white tee shirt and blue, track suit trousers that had three white lines down the side. "Thanks," I said nervously having strong second thoughts and wondering whether I could go through with it.
Several times since my last visit on Tuesday I had decided that I would cancel and forget all about it. But then as the sexual frustration built up as it did most evenings, I would change my mind again. On the Thursday I had been in a hotel in Norwich. During the drive up in the morning I had decided I would definitely not go and had held that belief during my back to back meetings. After checking into the hotel at around eight and ordering a room service steak and salad with a half bottle of Merlot, I began to waver as the arousal built up. However, I still thought I would be able to resist going to see Greg even after I had undressed to my bra and panties, sensible businesswoman stuff, and was finishing my meal. I held the same opinion as I removed my bra and logged onto my laptop. I wavered a little more as I stroked my C cup breasts and pinched my prominent nipples. Even when I went onto the porn site that had a huge selection of massage videos I thought I had a good chance of resisting. As I watched a lovely looking girl being massaged by a hunk of a masseur, I had my doubts. When he fingered her and she grabbed his cock I got serious doubts. And when that lovely looking girl and I came at the same time I knew it was futile resisting.
Greg adjusted the lights, asked if it was warm enough and clicked on an iPod filling the room with lovely classical music.
"Ready Cat?"
"Yes."
"Ok would you like a shower?"
"No I had one just twenty minutes ago, thanks."
"Ok well I will leave you to get comfortable," he said handing me a dark blue towel. "Lie on your back on the table and cover up with this and I will be back in a few minutes.
The room was sparsely furnished with a wardrobe in which I hung my clothes, a low cabinet on which there was a number of bottles, a small flamed heater, presumably for heating the oil, a few towels, all dark blue and some jars. It was all very clean and neat and orderly. In the middle of the room was the massage table that I saw was wider than the ones I had used in the spas I had visited; it also had two head holes, presumably for two people to be massaged at the same time.