I have no idea how sexual hypnosis -- or hypnosis at all -- works I just decided to use that here because later in their story Paul will use hypnosis (On Jill's permission) to make her orgasm in public.
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Jill
Paul was a charming and intelligent man, a great conversationalist, who had a wicked sense of humor. He knew how to behave in the gatherings of the rich and powerful, and he was the greatest lover I'd ever had. Sure, he was twenty-three years older than I, and he wasn't exactly handsome, but he wasn't ugly either. He was a huge muscular man with a friendly face and impeccable manners.
His size drew women's gaze like a magnet, and when he talked to them, making them feel comfortable, relaxed, and excited, quite fast, they were smitten by him. Paul probably was right in his analysis of why he had no trouble picking up women. He was a big and strong alpha male who oozed protectiveness, and that attracted women like bees to honey.
"He's something, isn't he?" a soft voice asked.
I turned to look at the woman who had spoken. She was a beautiful redhead woman. If you didn't know it, you'd never guessed that Mary Longden, the wife of billionaire philanthropist William Longden, was fifty years old. She looked, at least, ten years younger than her years. "Who?" I asked.
Mrs. Longden gave me an amused smile. "Paul Sandberg, the man you were staring at like a starving woman looks at a steak dinner," she glanced at Paul, who now was talking with her husband. "I never understood how Paul does that. How can he hide his loathe and hatred so well? I'm quite sure Bill doesn't know how much Paul hates him."
I glanced at Paul, talking with Mr. Longden. "Why would he hate your husband?"
"Because Bill stole Paul's wife of twenty-six years," Mrs. Longden said, and I realized that she was Paul's ex-wife. She glanced at me. "The rumor is that Paul is dating you."
"To tell the truth, I'm not sure what our relationship is," I said.
"But you are dating Paul?"
"We're not dating," I sighed, "I guess the best description is that we're friends with benefits."
"Do you love him?"
I looked at Paul talking with Bill Longden. Now that I knew what the smaller man had done to Paul, I wanted to save him from Bill. "I don't know, I really don't. But, even with the age difference, I think I might be falling in love with him," I confessed, not knowing why I told that to a stranger.
"Please, try not to hurt him more than I did. Paul is the best man I know," Mrs. Longden said.
I turned to look at her. "Then why did you leave him?"
She was silent for a moment before she said, "I was a single mother's daughter. We were so poor that sometimes mom didn't eat so that my brother and I could eat. Then I met Paul, and almost three decades, middle-class life felt amazing, like my slice of heaven. But then I saw how luxurious the life my brother lived after he got rich. And... well, when Bill started to court me even if he knew that I was married, I gave it a long and thorough thought. My kids were adult, and Paul didn't need me," Mrs. Longden glanced at me. "I chose money and luxurious life over love; it is as simple as that."
"Was it worth it?" I asked.
She gave me a sad smile. "When people ask that they want to hear that love is more important than money, and now that I lost the love of my life, I'm miserable. But that's not true. As shallow as it will make me sound... yes, as much as I still love Paul, the luxurious life I live now is worth losing him. I've found that love is overrated, and you really can buy happiness. Of course, the fact that Bill loves me unconditionally and worships the ground I walk helps a lot. I love to bask in his admiration. And, though I don't love him, I'm very fond of Bill, and I love everything he can give me. Losing Paul was a sacrifice I was willing to make to have the life of luxury I'm living now."
I nodded; I could relate to her. We'd used different routes to get there, but we'd had the same goal; to have a life full of luxuries, and we'd sacrificed a lot to get the life we wanted. "I also have sacrificed a lot to get where I'm now."
She glanced at me. "You're not judging me?"
"Why? We all must work what we have. You wanted something, and you took the steps needed to get it, and I've done the same," I said, "we took different routes, but we both sacrificed something to get to the top of the world."
"Interesting, you're the first woman who isn't judging me," Mrs. Longden said. "And you know well that you have what it takes to become a trophy wife. Even more so, since you're still young."
"I'm younger than you, but I still am not as gorgeous as you are. You are fifty-years-old, and men still turn to look at you when you enter the room. You age like Jennifer Aniston, a year for every five years. I don't have that going on for me, so I work my ass off to retire before I hit forty. Then I'll take myself a trophy husband," I said. "For now, I'm satisfied having a job I love and Paul as my boy toy."
"I age like Jennifer Aniston, a year in five years..." Mrs. Longden smiled. "That's a new one and appropriate since Aniston and I were born the same month," she raised her eyebrow. "Care to explain the boy toy comment?"
"My relationship with Paul is complicated, to say the least. We joke that I'm his sugar momma. The truth is that if he'd promise to be available when I want him, I'd give Paul everything he'd ever need. Paul's talents in bed alone are worthy of a lot of money," I grinned at her, "I guess I have you to thank for that... thanks for training him."
Mrs. Longden burst into laughter. "He was well trained before I met him. His tutor was one of his mother's friends," she said, "that reminds me, ask him to train you to please a man. Trust me on this; every man you'll date after him will send thank you letters to him."
I snorted. "Paul already is training me in the art of sexually pleasing a man. He just thinks that I haven't noticed."
"Yeah, he's not as slick as he thinks he is," Mrs. Longden said. "Did you know that he married me because he knocked me up? He didn't love me, but he saw it as his duty to step up and marry me."
"No, I didn't know that. It's hard to believe that any man would do that on this day of age." I said.
Mrs. Longden shrugged. "Paul is an atheist, but he was raised as Catholic. It is hard to get rid of that upbringing even if you stop believing in God. Be warned, atheist or not, Paul's view of abortion still is very Catholic."
I raised my eyebrow. "Why are you telling this to me? Paul and I... we're not serious."
Mrs. Longden smiled at me. "Because I've watched you since you came in with Paul. Regardless of what you say, even a blind person can see that you are in love with him," she said.
I looked at Paul, trying to imagine spending the rest of my life with him. I had nothing against him moving in with me. That revelation made me feel a bit uneasy, after all, I loved the freedom that living alone gave me. "You might be right," I said.
"Well, I advise you to be careful," Mrs. Longden said and picked two champagne glasses from the tray and handed the other one for me. "To us, Paul's little love-bitches."
I burst into laughter, and we drank the toast. "You are a strange woman, Mrs. Longden."