This is one of those "I had a strange thing happen and I need to tell somebody" stories. But I really do need to tell someone because I just can not get it out of my head. It's not really guilt... more a fear I may be going insane. Well, that is if not being able to tell the difference between fantasy and reality classifies as insane. I mean I know what I am about to tell you could not have really happened... but... this is the second time I have had such an intense fantasy that I have my doubts. And both times there have been an email... a real email which I received (but somehow was deleted) from the same man. But, I am getting way ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning.
I am a married woman, and yes, a happily married woman. I have had one affair, which my husband does not know about. It was both passionate and short-lived. I mention this just to point out that at the age of forty-four, there are men out there who still find me attractive. I have been told I have the "classic" redhead-look with my red hair and very freckled, very fair skin, and tend to look younger than I really am. After having two kids, I do not have the skinny body I had when I married twenty-three years ago, but am still able to fit into a dress size which make some of my friends jealous. And also, as a result of having children, my breasts filled out and seems to catch the attention of both men and women.
About a year ago, my husband was out of town. I was alone at home and was working on the computer when suddenly I was bound to my chair. I thought my lover had crept into the house, but it seems it was some black man, who took full advantage of the situation. It was not a rape... more like the playing out of a bondage fantasy which I did not even know I had. The strangest thing was when it was over, and both of us sexually and totally satisfied, it was like I awoke from a dream or fantasy. I was still just sitting at the computer. My clothes were not torn or even in any form of disarray. There was no evidence anything had happened. But I immediately received an email which indicated something had happened and was signed, "Your Black Lover". To add to it, in the email, he said that this time he came to me... the next time I would come to him.
This whole episode messed with my mind for a long time. I never told my husband, but spent a lot of time trying to figure out just what happened. And if anything really did happen. But I had that damn email and it was REAL!. The most obsessive thing about it was the intense sexual feelings which I felt whenever I would think about it.
But as with most things, the obsession with it faded as the days, weeks and months passed. One of the things which did linger though was how I looked at black men now. I found myself paying more attention to black males when I would see them. And I finally had to admit to myself that I am attractive to black men. Please do not misunderstand me. I have not ever considered myself racist. It's just I never thought about having a black man as a lover. But I guess it's like how some men are attracted to redheads, I realized I am now attractive to black males.
Like I said, my thinking about the whole episode had faded... until last night. My husband was again out of town and I was again home alone. I was just passing time on the computer, checking my email when I noticed an email with the subject line of "More Memory Making" and the sender was Your Black Lover. When I saw it in my In Box, it suddenly felt like a hundred butterflies filled my stomache. And all those intense sexual feelings returned. My hand started to tremble, yet as if on auto-pilot, moved the mouse... and click... opened the email. Unconsciously holding my breath, I read:
Hello, Dear Lady,
Please join me. Your Black Lover.
There was some odd looking icon or link or something right after the message which seemed to beckon me. Hesitantly, yet without much thought, I moved the cursor over the icon and unable to stop myself...
In an instant, I am no longer sitting at my computer. But I find myself standing outside two very large, heavy doors. I am wearing some sort of very light ivory-colored long dressing gown. Slowly, the doors swing open, revealing a massive hall or chamber with exotic music drifting through the air. The room is very dark except for a strangely lit path leading from the open doors, down stone steps across the smooth stone floor of the room, and ending at the base of a raised platform with a type of altar on it. The altar seems to be no more than a table or platform in itself, covered in white linen. Brilliant light is beaming down on the altar from somewhere above, giving it an appearance of sanctity.
As I stand, two figures in dark hooded robes move from behind the massive doors and come to my sides. I sense no malice or ill-will. Rather, I am feeling warm, welcomed... protected by my new escorts. Silently, we descend the stairs and as we cross the floor, I can see two more hooded figures move to either end of the altar. As if silently agreed, my escorts and myself stop at the bottom of the steps leading up to the lit platform and wait. A large statured black man dressed in an ornate white robe drifts out of the darkness and gracefully moves until he is standing in front of the altar, peering down at us. He is a powerfull looking man, yet with a glow about him that gives off a natural warmth. As our eyes meet, a welcoming smile fills his face and with a simple hand gesture, beckons us to him. Ascending the steps seems effortless for I am attracted by this man's strength.