It is liberating to learn, accept, and live out your role in the panoply of sexuality. It's often the case that an older man has a younger woman who cuckolds him, or that both partners are young. Not so with my lady and me. You could say she's my cougar, albeit with a twist.
I met her at the small independent bookstore where I work. While shelving/re-arranging items one afternoon I saw her browsing around, she having come in a few minutes before and the only customer there at the moment during that rainy afternoon. She is plump but not fat and a quite youthful early forties. When she speaks she is often demure and some would say a bit mousy, either way deferential in some manner to be sure, even now in her cuckolding me, even toward me as she denies me. I asked her if she needed help while she was immersed in a book she had taken down, standing and staring into the text. I was too busy looking at her thick round ass pulling her long skirt tight and up to her knees to notice that she was at the shelf labeled 'Erotica'.
"Oh, my, I'm just... I'm fine, thank you." She quickly turned so that her whole backside was facing me.
"I didn't mean to startle and interrupt you, please pardon me." It was then that I realized where she was. I decided to take a chance.
"It's so difficult to find tasteful erotic literature."
That got her attention. She turned halfway back to me, still hiding the book though.
"I mean, there's so much that reads like it's pornography, without exploring the intellectual connections that can be made through sexual chemistry." I had browsed a good deal through the Erotica section and knew quite a bit about the books we had and their contents.
"Oh, I was just, I don't know..." Blushing and embarrassed, I moved in to assuage her and take advantage of her clearly feeling 'caught'.
"I've looked through these and bought a few myself. While there is so much erotica online, it's nice to have solid books around, even if I don't put them on my bookshelf with the novels and nonfiction that I showcase, wink-wink." I felt like an ass for actually saying wink-wink, but she turned to look me in the eye right afterward and I knew that I had made a good move. Her face, delicate and framed by her dark hair, told me she felt safe now, like we shared a secret.
"Yeah, I have a couple of collections of stuff, I was just browsing for some new stories."
"Which do you have there?"
She was hesitant to show me.
"Oh, it's, well..."
It was a collection of Penthouse Letters.
"Ah, the classics."
We both had a light laugh. She was becoming very eased.
"Well, now you don't have to be embarrassed about bringing that to the register. I'm the only one here, and while you're at it, feel free to buy a bunch of them - the owner sure would appreciate the business." Another shared laugh.
She ended buying the book and I persuaded her to meet me when I got off that evening. Only then did we exchange names, hers being Nicole. We planned on a cafe around the way that served tasty light fare - I didn't want to push it by trying for a real restaurant.
We met and had a lovely time. She told me about her busy day doing secretarial and paralegal work for a busy lawyer who worked from his own office. She spoke about his having been at a firm years before where she worked as a paralegal and that he stepped out to do things his own way, his reputation preceding him and allowing for such a move. When he asked her would she also leave to go work for him, she was glad to join.
"He was always the nicest out of the bunch and he made a pretty good offer. I've been there four years now and although the work can get heavy I wouldn't dream of leaving. I work normal hours and he doesn't ask me to take the work home, so it's pretty great as far as this kind of thing can go."
I spoke about working at the bookstore and working on my novel, which was just beginning to really take shape. I said that having a muse would be nice as I'd not been in a relationship for a couple of years. We both smiled at that.
She'd never been married and I expressed shock at that, which was genuine.
"But you're so sweet-natured."
"I've had some wonderful relationships that turned sour, either due to men cheating or their inability to accept some of my needs."
"Which are? Wait, that was rude, sorry."
"No, it's all right. Not a topic for now, but maybe soon."
It went great and we planned to meet again that Saturday for a walk in the park. After enjoying the crisp but lovely fall day I asked if she would like to come over and that I would love to make us dinner. She agreed and took my hand as we walked back to my car. When we got to my building I had her walk ahead up the steps, watching her soft black slacks fall into her crack with each advance. The pants were pulled tight, showing her fullback panty line. She looked so good in those and her comfy sweater, and all I could think about was what kind of fullback panties she wore. She certainly seemed like a good ol' Hanes Her Way or Fruit of the Loom gal, which I like. To me it's sexy when women wear plain cotton bras and panties.
Inside we kept the conversation going while I made us some pasta and salad. It was great that we could talk about whatever, and that if we disagreed about something it wasn't anything insurmountable or of consequence as far as possible nascent relationships go.
After dinner I put coffee on and we sat on my couch. I asked if she'd like to find something on television and she said sure. She flipped through the channels while we sipped and commented on the passing shows and movies. I don't get any movie channels but it was a free weekend for one of the packages. She stopped on the movie 'In The Cut'. She perked up at her find and asked if I'd seen it.
"Actually, yes. Jane Campion did this one, right? The Piano is such a good film."
"Wow, it's great to hear a man say that. That movie is so powerful. A great feminist piece."
"I didn't take you for a bra-burner." I said it with levity as of course the wrong intonation could have turned out badly. Seriously, though, her seeming submissiveness made her comment surprising.
"Hey!" Feigning offense. I loved it.