Getting Hev into bed was lots easier than getting her out of the Suburban Bar. Not that she really put up much of a fight which, given the size and athletic shape of her, was probably just as well.
I later learned she has martial arts qualifications to rival Jade Jones', so scrap that "probably!"
(Jade's won almost as many fighting world-class medals as Usain Bolt has for sprinting, by the way.)
Bunking off the booze early was not, however, top of Hev's agenda.
'We've only just got here,' she protested. 'We've got all weekend . . . And it's my round.'
I grudgingly played along . . . briefly . . . and, perhaps half an hour later, just after nine Friday evening, before most weekend revellers had even set off out, Bingley Taxis delivered us to her palatial home. It was a lavishly renovated farmhouse complete with enormous pond, scary guard geese and goodness only knows what else.
By then I wasn't looking and the venue was hardly new. By then my interests were purely carnal. The geese had become friends . . . well, almost, sufficiently to ignore them, anyway. By then my interests were as purely carnal as could be.
So too, praise the lord, were Hev's.
Giving the cabbie a twenty and telling him to keep the change we went to bed. That's right, we went directly to bed. We did not pass GO and we did not collect £200.
(And not $200 for board game traditionalists . . . or even fifty pence for anyone else).
Amazingly, Hev remembered that she had promised it was my turn to be "the girl in charge". She had promised me that before of course, more than once, but had previously suffered selective amnesia as soon as whichever front door closed behind us, be it at hers or at my infinitely more modest abode.
Not that location made a lot of difference.
What a tigress she could be behind a slab of locked wood. Or out on a cobbled street, come to that. I rarely knew exactly what to expect . . . apart from being delightfully taken unawares.
Tales of the Unexpected or what!
As if I ever objected. Anything that was good enough for her was more than good enough for me.
Anything was; absolutely anything at all.
And good old Bingley still has more than its fair share of cobbled back streets; I'd been in an awful lot of them, usually in Hev's tender clutches, but not then. No, then we were in agricultural Micklethwaite and Hev had other, much better ideas.
'Come on,' she said seductively . . . instead of instantly ravaging me. 'I'll get us vats of vino later. For now just take me upstairs and show me how shagging really should be done.'
Who was I to argue?
Normally going upstairs involved several breaks for urgent, energetic sex and we left a significant trail of discarded clothing behind us, one even Inspector Clouseau couldn't fail to have followed. That time we almost ran up the steps.
'Strip for me,' I commanded breathlessly, unsure if I was gasping from exertion or anticipation.
Fixing her startling emerald eyes on my (not so) innocent baby blues, she slowly obliged.
How exciting was that! Wildly ripping garments off of each other was great fun, obviously. Going slow and steady was even more exciting.
Correct; in charge or not, I matched her item for item, sexual tension expanding at a rate of knots as we went.
It was, coincidentally, early autumn and surprisingly warm (trust me; autumn in West Yorkshire can be sub-tropical or fit only for polar bears, and hard-boiled polar bears at that); that particular Friday it was distinctly balmy.
As it happened Hev had more items to discard than me. She had gone to the Suburban straight from WYB you see, while I'd packed in at five thirty and gone home for a soak in the bath. Oh, the benefits of being way down in the pecking order! Hev worked all hours God sent and usually dined at the local curry house. I clock-watched and effed off as soon as the big hand hit half five.
Then again, I earned thirty grand a year. That was probably Hev's monthly spend on vindaloo, Shiraz and pinot.
Not to mention another ten grand or so on pints of Landlord and Pedigree.
How the other half live, eh?
Anyway, back to the increasingly arousing action.
Still magnetically holding my gaze, Hev removed her mannish suit top. I was carrying my leather biker jacket and casually tossed it aside.
'More,' I commanded, battling eye-to-eye gravity, striving not to leer at my lover's well-filled blouse.
Grinning like a Cheshire cat she unbuttoned and exposed herself, twirling the white top over her head a few times before letting go. It flew off I know not where.
And gravity won its battle. My eyes shot downwards, as always transfixed by the sight of those superb tits. How to describe them? They are large but not too large, medium-sized nips surrounded by simply enormous areolae and all completely, totally self-supporting. No doubt about it; the girl had never had a single bra in any of her many wardrobes and sets of drawers.
No need, you see; simples, no?
The rest of her wasn't half bad either: quite broad shoulders for a girl, noticeably visible biceps and a V of a torso that went all the way down to a narrow waist and sexily curvy hips. And the six-pack she so proudly displayed!
Take it from me: Charles Atlas would have killed for a six-pack like hers.
(Younger readers should take that as "a Chippendale would've killed for a six-pack like hers." By that I include myself; I only know of Dynamic Tension because my dad still has an early version Bullworker which he inherited from his own dad.
Needless to say, the big man himself endorsed the product and I'd seen the faded old sales blurb . . .)
Note to me: How much would that be worth on one of those BBC antiques shows nowadays? And is it not true that still having the original packaging and blurb doubles the selling price? Hmmm . . .)
'Come on girl,' Hev prompted like the Queen of Hearts, 'off with your crop top.'
I obeyed like a good little girl and, very aware of the garments imbalance, unhooked my (needed one heck of a lot) bra.
'Here I am,' I cried, bouncing my unrestrained boobies for her.
For an instant I thought Hev was going to dive at me and go into crazy mode. By an unexpected act of God she did not. Instead she unfastened her stylish-yet-sensible work skirt and it was my turn to grin.
Often as not the divinity wore the full mannish suit but, once in a long while, she swapped trousers for a skirt.
And she'd known she'd be "seeing" me that Friday night.
That's right; she'd dressed especially for me.
Never mind the ins and outs, though . . . the legs on her! I already knew she was incredibly strong and had gladly been gripped by her so-sexy pins in the heights of passion, usually with me in the gratefully submissive position.