I hired Dominique, via Home Help online, at a premium rate since she was a qualified nurse. It was self-indulgent to pay a nurse to act as a housekeeper but I'd always been a bit of a hypochondriac, especially since I'd moved to London. Perhaps I simply missed the country air but I liked the idea of having my own medical practitioner, even if it was for just a few hours a week.
We had agreed that she should come to me once a week for three hours, with the option of her being contracted for additional hours.
Our arrangements had been made by email, so it was a pleasant surprise when I opened the door to a large, well-proportioned black woman. I'd thought, lazily, that she might have had French ancestry but not that she would be West African.
When she removed her long coat I was further surprised, just as agreeably, by the smart blouse and skirt that she was wearing -- stylish, certainly, but there was no more to them than the bare minimum that was required.
She cleaned the house at an easy, sedate pace, yet with impressive thoroughness, sipping from a large bottle of mineral water that she had brought. After about two hours she had finished what I had asked her to do so I I left my computer, made us a pot of tea and we sat down to chat.
She told me about her family in the Ivory Coast and about her six month old son, Ben, being looked after by her cousin in the flat they shared in Ealing. I told her a bit about myself, focusing on my struggle with my first novel, and she roared with laughter and slapped her thigh:
"Your
first
novel! And you've told me you've hardly started it, and you're thirty six! How many will you write and publish, do you think?"
I had to laugh too at my presumption; this woman was going to be very easy to like. Dominique finished her tea and assumed a professional demeanour.
"Now, I'm cleaning your house and doing your chores but since you're paying me as a nurse I must ask you about your diet. How much fresh food do you eat, especially fruit?"
I replied not as much as I should. She looked at me steadily, as if sizing me up, then smiled innocently, just a hint of mischief in her eyes:
"What about fresh milk, then -- do you want some of mine?"
I hesitated for almost a second, then, lost for words, nodded dumbly. As she had intended I had been admiring her stunning cleavage under her tight, low cut blouse since she arrived, but things were happening more quickly than I could have imagined. Of course they were. Because she was in charge. If it had been left to me it would have taken two months rather than two hours for us to get it on.
She unbuttoned her top and removed her bra, got out her left breast, hitched up her short skirt and sat astride me on the sofa, kicking off her shoes. I drew her enormous tit into my mouth and sucked evenly, then more insistently, and soon the sweet milk began to flow. At last she withdrew and passed me over to her right breast. When I'd drunk my fill I playfully sucked each tit in turn, in admiration and appreciation.
"What do you think?," she asked.
"That it's probably an essential part of my diet now."
Taking my head in her strong hands Dominique ran her tongue over my eyelids, inside my ears, between my teeth, and dribbled copious amounts of her delicious saliva into my mouth:
"That's an old nursing trick. Builds up immunity to infection. Let's see, what else would be useful? Can I borrow a fleece -- not too long, just down to my waist?"