It had always seemed to Bill that he could have been a poster boy for Murphy's Law where women and dating were concerned. "You're a great guy, butโฆ" followed by any one of a litany of excuses for not getting involved, usually meant the end of any promising situation.
He still carried a bit of a torch for one intensely compatible woman, with whom, years before, he'd had what amounted to a passionate, extended one-night stand during which she had taught him how to make a woman cum uncontrollably by caressing her G-spot in just the right way. The full-body orgasm, which he'd always assumed to be porn-flick fakery, was only too arousingly real, the evidence a hot, wet vagina contracting convulsively around his probing fingers or his lips and tongue.
He was tall at 6'1", had a decent body for a man who liked his food, beer and wine more than exercise, with kind blue eyes, a full head of sandy hair and unusually soft fair skin. Jaws often dropped when the subject of age came up: he was 47 but usually taken for mid to late thirties. Good genes and longevity ran in the family: his paternal grandfather had lived to be ninety and his beloved maternal grandmother had recently passed away at 95.
A loner by temperament in any case, his intelligence and the breadth of his interests and passions usually intimidated people, so that they usually kept their distance. Most never suspected the sensual, even a little kinky, side that he himself had only really acknowledged after turning 40. But once in a while a brief embrace, ardent word or fleeting kiss gave him a tantalizing glimpse of what just might be possible under more or less the right circumstances, with more or less the right woman.
Sensual as he was, it was no surprise that he yearned for more. The internet in particular was a gold mine of possibilitiesโeven considering the deceit, hyperbole and outright lies just under the surface of many of the personal ads on sites like craigslist. It became a game to him, mentally translating the gushing purple prose of the ads into reality: were these escorts trolling for clients, grotesquely fat sex-starved housewives playing out their fantasies, or something even more off-putting and possibly dangerous?
But one night it was as though the stars were aligned or the gods were smilingโhe smirked wryly to himself at the clichรฉs, even as he hoped that, for a change, they might come true. He'd been surfing the web and had come across a craigslist ad, posted less than 15 minutes before, whose heading read: "Did you know that CL personals users have a bad rep? - w4m โ 28" Of course they do, he thought.
But she was somehow different. Her name was Amy. She said she was 5'7", and the rest of her ad showed arch wit, intelligence and smouldering though discreet sexuality. The simple floral sundress she wore in the attached picture showed off just the kind of figure that drove Bill crazy: smooth skin, waist-length dark hair, smallish pert breasts, nicely curved waist and lovely long legs.
What the hell, he thought. I'm just going to go for it; maybe she's into older men. So he clicked on the link in the ad and wrote:
This is Bill. I'm 47 but look 10 years younger, 6'1", average build, full head of sandy hair, blue eyes, nice caressable skin; am intelligent, sensual, loving and kind with a dry sense of humour and a wacky streak. Tonight I've got this erotic itch I just have to scratch! I give as good as I get: terrific fullbody massage, absolutely love giving as well as receiving oral, and know how to treat the G-spot right! Your pleasure would be as important as mine.
So e-mail me and let's see if we can hook up. I live downtown too and could get to you relatively quickly.
To his astonishment, Amy replied within 5 minutes:
Hi Bill, you sound like my type! I'd love to get together! Let's share a few drinks and get comfortable. Let me know when you'd like to scratch that itch and maybe we can meet.
Amy
Wow! Was he dreaming? He responded just as quickly:
How about right now? Where are you located? I live 5 minutes from the subway and can get to most of downtown in 20 min.
She replied immediately that she was in Toronto on a training course,