My husband is away in Singapore this week. I went to meet an old friend for a drink but she bailed on me. I had a nice drink with a married man instead at a quiet table. I let him kiss me and stroke my knee but that was it.
Later, in my bath, I masturbated myself to an intense orgasm imagining what might have happened if I'd let him go further... I hope you enjoy it my lovely fans. Think of me all alone and naked and vulnerable in my house in Surrey this week as you read this. I hope it makes you hard (or wet).
Sara
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It was supposedly Dr. Johnson who said every man's secret desire is to be a soldier and every woman's is to be a whore. Knowing not very much about Dr. Johnson I'm unable to tell whether his comment about women was gleaned from conversations with many in his acquaintance but I can certainly say that as far as I'm concerned he was onto something.
It's not as simple as saying that every woman wants to be a whore, of course. Prostitution is dangerous, unpredictable and the last resort of many women on the edge of desperation. But for a comfortably off middle class housewife like me it has a certain draw. The power that women have over men is almost entirely sexual - figuratively, but nonetheless powerfully, represented in the metaphor of the vagina taking in the hard viral male member and then disgorging it limp, placid and spent. I've always been drawn to that image of my own power, conscious as I am that I am considered extremely attractive and also intelligent, but without a career of my own (as yet) to show for it. To be a whore, therefore, is an extension of the female power game. Only a fool would ever connect it with money.
I'm Veronique. My mother was French and my father is British. My mother died when I was twelve, and my father never remarried, so I became very much the maternal figure to my two younger brothers, Jonathan and Will. I went to university and came away from four years at Cambridge with a Masters degree in mathematics and no earthly idea what I wanted to do with it. By then I'd discovered my sexual power, first losing my virginity at the high school prom (not with my date but with a friend of his in the car park), and then a string of lovers at college culminating in the senior lecturer in modern European drama. By the time I married Clive at the tender age of 23 (he was a high financier ten years older than me and an advisor to the Cameron government at the time we met - though since Brexit that's all disappeared as has Cameron, of course), my sexual partners count was in the twenties and I was becoming addicted to the rush you get when someone new takes your fancy. Clive was supposed to put a stop to all that.
And he did. At least for a while. I stayed more or less faithful for the first year. Apart from a quiet experimental snog with a hotel bellboy on our honeymoon in Mustique (just to see if marriage had quieted the fires down - it hadn't), Clive was the only man whose lips touched mine for thirteen months after our wedding. But it appeared not much had changed. He would manage to make me cum once during our love-making and then assume the way was clear for him to charge ahead, pump me full of sperm and then roll over sighing with contentment and go to sleep. I was more used to a bit of sustained performing. Indeed at college I'd prided myself on regular all-nighters, even if that did mean threesomes more often than twosomes. Clive wasn't providing what I needed and I knew it would break his heart to tell him so I kept quiet and made a few discreet purchases at a certain online store that delivers its products in plain brown parcels. Those products I kept in my bedside drawer and used them (on silent mode) to complete things throughout Clive's snores of a night.
The night that changed everything still remains vivid in my memory. It was a Tuesday - 21 April when Clive was away in Singapore at a finance conference. I'd made arrangements to catch up with an old friend, Charlotte, and was at the wine bar waiting for her when she texted me to say her babysitter had rung with flu and she'd been able to find no one else. We could either postpone or I could take a cab to her place and we could have a drink there. I had no car and had arrived in Blackheath that night by train from home in Surrey.
Bloody typical. Cursing Charlotte I decided we'd have to postpone. She lived at least ten miles away (actually, I later checked and it was only seven) and I was damned if I was going to go out of my way when she'd organised the whole catch up date in the first place. I managed to send a controlled text and reached for my glass to finish the Malbec I'd ordered.
"Something up, sweetheart?" said a voice to my right.
I looked up. A rather well dressed man of about 40 was standing looking at me. Clean shaven, bright eyed, dark brown hair with a hint of grey at the temples, well groomed and wearing impeccably pressed trousers with expensive Oxford brogues. I summed him up thus far in about a quarter of a second and replied
"Oh, just a friend letting me down. Guess I'll have a different evening to the one I was expecting."
"May I?" he said, motioning to the stool beside me. I nodded and he sat down.
"Two more Malbecs, please Henry," he said to the barman who had walked over. "Large ones."
I looked at him and a soft smile began to play at the corners of his mouth.
"You're wondering how I knew you were drinking Malbec." he said. "I could bullshit you about being a sommelier, or simply having incredible intuition. But the truth is I heard you order about ten minutes ago, and if I hadn't been dealing with a text from my wife that turned out to be a little more complicated than just "How are you doing over there?", I might have come over and joined you much earlier."
He said all this keeping his eyes fixed on mine. They were hazel brown and friendly. I smiled back and said
"Well, if you're buying the next round, I'd love another Malbec. It's a good vintage."
"Henry knows only good wine," he said smiling back at me. "Henry, leave the bottle with us!"
"John." He said to me, extending a hand.
I took it.
"Pleased to meet you, John. I'm Veronique."
"Alors, donc, parle-te franΓ§ais?" He said at this.
"Bien-sΓ»r, John." I replied in what I knew was my sexiest French accent (I was brought up bilingual).
"That's a shame, then," said John. "Because my French is lousy. But tell me the story of your name," he continued. "There presumably is a story?"
Over the Malbec I told him about my mother and why I had a French name and had been brought up bilingual but how since my mother's death I hadn't really spoken much French and was afraid I might lose it through lack of practice.
It turned out this was a subject he knew something about. He reassured me that by the age of twelve most children have embedded mother tongues to the extent they will survive even decades of non-use. He told me about an uncle of his who had escaped Hungary after the 1956 uprising at a similar age. He had not spoken a word of Hungarian until he went back to visit three years after the Berlin Wall came down.
"That was thirty-six years of never speaking a word of Hungarian," he continued. "Yet, it came flooding back within hours of his getting off the train in Budapest and reconnecting with family members who had remained there all through the hard times."
"Fascinating - and inspiring." I said.
And I meant it. We had drained our glasses during his story and I ordered another two from Henry.
"Or we could just take the bottle to a table?" said John, pointing to the bottle that Henry had left.
I paused. John's phone buzzed.
"Your wife again?" I asked.
He checked his watch. "Yes, I expect so. She's in Singapore at a conference. It'll be early morning there and she'll be going for her 6 o' clock swim."
The mention of his wife reassured me somewhat. "Sure," I said. "Let's take the bottle."
He stood up and placed his hand on my waist as he guided me to a table for two in the darkest corner of the bar. A single tea light illuminated the table and the next four nearest tables were in darkness. It was Tuesday. We were almost the only people there. He sat down beside me, his chair touching mine and poured me a large glass before pouring a smaller one for himself.
"To intelligent conversation, and to bilingualism. God bless her and all who sail in her!" he said with mock gravity.
I laughed. We clinked glasses and I took a long sip watching him as he surreptitiously slid his phone off.
"What about you, Veronique?" he asked. "Husband? Kids? Work?"
I placed my glass down on the coaster on the table.
"Yes, I have a husband. Funnily enough, he's in Singapore too. He's in finance. No kids. No career as such. I do a bit of maths coaching at the local school near where I live. I dabble at art and I mountain bike at weekends. That's about it for me."
"Not at all," said John reaching out and taking my hand suddenly.
"You also have great taste in wine, and you have the most fascinating ability to listen to my rambling stories and make intelligent comments in response! There's more to you than meets the eye, I fancy."