To recap the situation described in The Entrepreneur, I was having an affair with a crazy married woman named Connie, who almost as a joke thought it would be fun to rent me out to other ladies in the neighborhood. I visited one such client a week ago and it had gone surprisingly well. Connie lined up the meeting, collected the fee, and paid me. I don't know what she told these women but basically my role was to drop by at an arranged time when a husband was gone, provide some services that a wife was not getting in her marriage, then leave again.
Connie had told me she had a new prospect lined up, she was going to introduce me to somebody at the Conquistador Club. She had a kind of grand vision for where this whole thing was going, it would be a win-win-win for everybody. Some lonely wife would have her fantasies fulfilled, I would obviously have a good time, and Connie would be hearing about it later, from the woman and from me. She would be the real center of attention, the one with all the power, which she enjoyed. Also she'd make a few bucks.
Tuesday night the Conquistador was dim, that noisy-ass jukebox was pounding, pool balls rattling, glasses and bottles cracking down on the formica bartop. The usual idiots were standing at the bar doing the same thing they always do, trying to get into each other's pants and somehow failing night after night, even when both of them wanted it.
Connie was sitting with her husband Jerry at the bar, with a knot of people standing around them. Both of them are major cut-ups and are usually the life of the party. Connie had been friends with my ex in another life, and Jerry and I had worked together and had been friends for years. Which was how he met Connie. I'm sure he knew there was something going on between me and his wife but my sense was that he was somewhat relieved to be able to share the responsibility for keeping her happy with someone he knew and could trust. We never talked about it, but if you knew Connie you would understand that one man was not going to be enough for her. And even if I was Man Number Two, I knew there were almost certainly others, too, but I could not see how that was a problem.
I sat at my usual place next to the jukebox and after a while Jerry waved at me and called me over. "Bring your drink," he hollered, "Come on down." There was a little bustle at their end of the bar and he waved me to the empty seat next to his. The crowd was noisy, joking and carrying on, and Jerry kind of introduced me to a bunch of them. I forgot their names as soon as I heard them, you know how that is. Connie was on the other side of Jerry and she leaned over and waved and smiled and went back to chatting with somebody. I talked to a couple named Rob and Julia, who had just returned from a vacation to the Dominican Republic and had some stories. Seems they go topless on the beaches there, which Julia had a little trouble accepting at first, until she tried it. There was a lot of loud laughter as they told their basically-G-rated story about a shy wife and a teenaged tourist trying to peek through the bushes. It was funny and you could see Julia lighting up all over again as she talked about it, both embarrassed and proud.
One of their friends, introduced as Carol, gravitated over toward my other side. She had heard the story already, in fact I had the feeling there was more to it than Julia's husband knew, but as a good friend Carol was keeping her mouth shut. Carol and I started talking about crazy things that had happened on vacations, while the rest of the crowd went off on their own topic.
Once nobody was paying any attention, Carol said quietly, "So you're Doc huh? Connie has been telling me about you."
"I hope it hasn't been anything bad," I said.
Carol smiled lasciviously at me. "Oh yes, it was very very bad."
"Yikes," I joked.
Carol was the kind of woman you don't notice until you actually do notice her, and then you wonder how you missed her. She had auburn hair, blended in with the crowd, but then up close she was actually built like a slender model, and with a fragile face with neat thin eyebrows, full lips, a straight Roman nose. She glanced at the partying crowd. Nobody was looking at us, we were in our own little world. "Connie was saying you might be able to help me with something," she said.
"Oh, sure, what is it?"
"I think you know," she said.
Right then Julia pulled at her arm and said, "You remember that, Carol? That one guy scared the shit out of me."
"What one guy?"
"That guy at the Home Depot that time."
"Oh yeah, he was scary all right. He scared me too." And Julia turned back to the other group, waving her wine glass as she gestured, forgetting about us again.
Carol looked into my eyes. "Would you like to come over for a little visit, maybe Thursday? My husband has to fly to New York that day."
"Thursday, huh, okay, I'll try to make that work," I said.
"Here's my address," she said. She had already written it on a napkin. "If something comes up, Connie knows how to reach me."
"What time do you want me?"
"Can you come at noon?"
Now the gang was laughing hard, and Carol and I got drawn back into the conversation. I saw Connie smile at me from several seats away.
Thursday I had prepared an excuse about a meeting with a client; I slipped out of the office and headed over to the address Carol had given me. I didn't want to put it into my GPS because I don't trust anybody, I don't like to put incriminating data on the Internet, you know, but I know my way around town, and I pulled up in front of her house a few minutes before twelve.
I saw the curtains move, and the door opened as I walked up. Carol let me in and shut the door quickly. We stood there looking at each other. She was looking, actually, delectable, in a kind of scooped-neck tank top over tight jeans. Barefoot. The tank top was white, a thin fabric that my brain sees as "rayon," almost see-through but not really, and it was clear there was nothing under it. Her hard breasts jiggled a little when she moved and her nipples left the slightest hint of a shadow on the surface of the fabric.
"I'm glad you could make it," she said. "I wasn't sure this was for real."
"Well it is a little crazy," I replied, "But yeah, here I am. For real. Ya got an hour or two?" I laughed but she remained serious.
"Let me tell you, I have never done anything like this before," she said.
"Anything like what?"
She studied my face. "I have been married for eleven years and I have never even touched another man in all that time."
Now I studied her. "So why now?" I asked her.
"I deserve it. I'm lonely," she said. "I need someone to want me."
I laughed softly. "Well, you have accomplished that already. I mean, look at you." My eyes roamed over her body; the statement seemed self-explanatory, and she seemed to take it in stride. She had spent some time, I was sure, thinking about how she would present herself in this moment. I was confirming that it worked.
Words spilled out of her. "I would like to lay myself down and let someone have me in every insane wild unspeakable way they ever dreamed of. I want to be someone's fantasy for once." There were tears in her eyes. I knew she had never expressed this to anyone, and probably had not admitted the depth of her need, even to herself.
She glanced down and blushed slightly. "I know I can never have these things but I hope it's okay to try at least once," she said. "My life has none of this. None."
"Are you kidding me?" I said, and I stepped up to her and wrapped my arms around her and crushed her mouth to mine. We took about a half a second to figure it out and then our tongues entangled in a most comfortable way, as if we had been making out for years. My hand came up to her breast and felt her firmness and I held her for a minute.
"Oh my," she said when we finally backed apart. "I think I am going to like this."
A wave of propriety swept over her for a second. "Uh, would you like something? Have you had lunch?" Like she was trying to go back to the suburban wife schtick, in case she had gone too far in her confession to me.
"I'm not here for lunch," I said.
"Yeah, okay," she said. "Well, what are you here for?" She smiled at me.
"I'm here for whatever you want," I said.
"Hmm, whatever I want." Her eyes gazed into space. "I like the sound of that. Well I guess I did sort of shoot my mouth off already, didn't I. I don't know what I want, really. I'm tired of making all the decisions."
I spoke. "Looking at you here, you are possibly the sexiest woman I have ever seen. I don't know if you realize that men on the street have to consciously hold themselves back. I'm sure they think the kinds of things I am thinking right now."
"I would never imagine that."
I said, "I have an open mind and did not have a plan when I came to see you here today. But looking at you, listening to you, you seem to be a woman who is overflowing with sensuality. Is that right?"
"I don't know," she said. "I am just a regular twice-a-week wife."
"But there is more to you than that."
"Oh my god, yes," she said.
"And you love to give a man pleasure."
"I don't know," she said again. "I think about it but I'm, you know, it's just me here, and my husband."
"Okay," I said. "So I have an idea for today. You can go along with this or not, it's entirely up to you. How about for the next hour or two you are an erotic love-goddess and your role is to give me more pleasure than I've ever known in my life?"
She looked into my eyes. "I wouldn't know what to do," she said. "I mean, it sounds wonderful. Unbelievable, really. But I don't know how to do that."
"Don't worry," I said. "I'll show you what I want, if you don't want to do something you just tell me. Really, I'm here for you." She nodded. "But today I want you to be here for me. How does that sound?"
"I don't know what to say," she whispered. "It sounds wonderful. I just don't know what to do."
"Are you wearing panties?" I asked her.
"Yes," she responded.
"Okay, good, take off your jeans. Leave your top on, and your panties, I just want to have a look at you."
She slowly unbuttoned her jeans, standing in the living room. They were tight and she rolled them down each leg, then tossed them into a corner near a piano with a bunch of sheet music on it.
"Let me see you," I said. "Put your hands behind your head and turn around for me, slowly."
Carol was slim and relatively tall for a woman, maybe five-seven. Her C-cup breasts stretched the translucent fabric of her top in the sexiest way, I think you know what I mean. They had a little heft, a little substance, very feminine and voluptuous. She put her hands behind her head, watching me.
"Those are amazing panties," I said. "There's almost nothing there." She was wearing a thong, dark blue lace.
"Well I don't usually dress like this," she said. "I got this because I knew you were coming."
"Look at that ass," I said out loud as she turned away from me. "That's the kind of stuff that causes car wrecks."
"Oh, I don't know --" she started.