This is Part 1 of the third chapter in a series. The characters and their situation were developed in GINNY LAYS HER CLAIM, a previous chapter. For continuity, it’s best to read that chapter first. Many thanks for your votes and supportive feedback.
I’d known my 20-year-old future daughter-in-law Ginny for a couple of weeks. Our brief relationship had blossomed into a torrid affair driven by a manic sexual hunger for one another. Compounding the already dangerous liaison, we’d been caught fucking by a neighbor of mine – the willful and aggressive Erica – who’d witnessed our passionate coupling in the underground parking garage beneath my office. Several months before, the 26-year-old Erica – a gorgeous East Indian physician interning at a nearby hospital -- had tried unsuccessfully to lure me into bed. Fearing her betrayal to my employees and family, I ambivalently refused her advances by using my marriage as an excuse. Now I’d been compromised. I wondered what she might be thinking, what she might do… .
So, Jay, my feelings are hurt. You turn me down, yet I surprise you with that young blonde girl in your car. Why? You leapt into bed with that pretty Korean teacher who used to live in the building, and the Persian nurse – Hami – who lives upstairs. Why do you scorn me? I am not a woman who takes kindly to rejection! Nobody does that to me! Now you will not refuse me or I will cause trouble! I shall have you yet, you hypocrite!
Erica dropped by my office on Friday. It’d been months since we’d spoken…since I’d turned down her blatant offer of sex. Of course I knew why she was here. She was going to confront me – and maybe blackmail me – with the embarrassing scene with Ginny. Erica is a fairly tall, 5’8” woman with coal-black eyes and long, lustrous black hair. She reminds me of the Indian model and actress, Aishawarya Rai. Her blemishless, brown skin makes my mouth water, wondering if it’s half as sweet as the dark caramel candy it emulates.
I was sitting alone in the outer office, surfing the net, when she walked in. The staff was gone for the day, having left early for a three-day weekend. I was not anxious to go home, since my wife Lee was driving to a sorority reunion several hundred miles away. I’d told Ginny I’d be busy for a couple of days – allowing me time to reflect on our steamy relationship -- so I was a weekend bachelor.
“You are busy?” Erica asked.
“No, I have a moment,” I responded, guardedly. “Like some coffee?”
“Thank you, no. I would just like to talk,” she said, amicably.
“Please come into my office,” I gestured, locking the front door and following her into my inner sanctum. Viewing her tall figure from behind, her slow saunter reminded me of a supple rope unwinding.
She looked at a sketch on my drawing table and perched sexily on the edge of my high drafting chair. I sat at my desk a few feet away, admiring my exotic neighbor. Sitting higher than I, her long, shapely legs -- clad in form-fitting, black jeans -- stretched to the floor. Her feet ended in flat sandals, with straps embracing her slender, brown ankles.
But it was her breasts that riveted my attention. Somehow my earlier memory of them had escaped me. Today her upper body was covered with a tight, long-sleeved black turtleneck sweater with vertical ribs. She appeared to be at least a 36 C. Pronounced curves surrounded nipples that were semi-prominent. They’re very full, I pondered absently, and I don’t detect a bra that surely would be needed to support their substance. My palms itched involuntarily.
“May I have a cigarette?” Erica asked, breaking the spell. I retrieved a pack from the outer office. Holding my hand with her long, dainty brown fingers as I held a light for her, she looked up at me with piercing eyes from under prominent black brows and thanked me silently with a blink. Her scent wafted to me, bringing to mind a mixture of jasmine and cinnamon.
“Keeping busy?” I asked.
“Yes. I have just finished a 72 hour shift. As you know, new residents work very long hours, with just a little sleep,” she remarked in her stilted English.
“So I’ve heard,” I said distantly, continuing the small talk.
“Jay,” she said, cutting to the chase, “I did not mean to embarrass you on Tuesday. What you do is your business, but I would like to get to know you better…become friends. Months ago I was much too forward with you. Now I would like to do something…safe…something that we both can enjoy without being threatened.”
“Okay, what do you have in mind?” I asked, sincerely.
“Oh, just an outing. In San Francisco, tomorrow, there is a gathering in the park. Some music...dancing. I get out not often, and you seem very pleasant company,” Erica complimented.
“Thank you,” I said formally. “I’m flattered. Okay, I’m not busy this weekend and it’s been eons since I’ve been to the park. What time?” I inquired.
“Four o’clock. Meet me at my place at two-thirty and we can take my car,” she said.
“Great!” I said, a bit artificially. “Look forward to it.” Standing and stretching, I was at a loss for words.
Stubbing out her cigarette, Erica looked me slowly up and down – hesitated as if wishing to say more – then concluded: “Good, then. I will see you tomorrow, Jay.” She brushed me lightly on the hand as I opened the front door for her, creating a spark from static electricity as we parted. “Bye-bye.”
That woman is evil! I mused, as she walked into her apartment two doors down. And persistent! As coldly as I’ve acted toward her, she acts as if she still wants to fuck me.