Already well past 7 PM, Monica and I sat in her car; streetlights overhead cast a poor glow over where we'd parked. The sun was off the horizon, and the city was alive with the scourge of rush hour: people hustling across the parking lot fence, the hum of revved engines, and more. Monica reached for the unlock button on her remote, and with a sly look, turned towards me and veered off to the other side of the car, where she let her gym bag and workout clothes drop. In what seemed like her work clothes-a short skirt that barely reached a few inches above her knees, and a blouse with a few unbuttoned buttons-she looked ravishing, even with braids somewhat disheveled from our earlier encounter.
The look in her eyes was intense as they met mine across the car, her licking her lower lip sending shivers down my spine. She gestured for me to get in, and I hastily obeyed, sliding into the rear seat and yanking the door shut behind me with a muffled clang. Monica joined me, slipping into the car with that sultry elegance that leaves little to the imagination. The closeness between us was almost palpable, a magnetic pull neither of us could deny.
I was a little apprehensive, looked around to see if anyone might be seeing, but my urge to be with Monica overrode any eventual reservation. Women of her age in Nairobi were usually seen wearing rings, and true to form, I spotted one on her finger, confirming my suspicion that she might be married. As she leaned in to kiss me, her soft lips brushed against mine, and I did not care.
Between kisses, half curious, half guilty, I asked about her husband. For a second, she hesitated, and, for that one fleeting moment, I had seen disappointment on her face before she looked into my eyes again. Her lips reached mine again, and she whispered between kisses that her husband had gone to South Africa for more than three months now, leaving her in anticipation of his embrace and unsatisfied. She said this was the first time she had ever had an affair outside her marriage, her voice shaking with vulnerability and excitement.
As she was admitted, a shiver ran down my spine as I felt an instant surge of blood into my system, my body reacting to the passion of that moment. I firmly yet gently grasped her neck, easing her beneath me as our lips remained locked in that fevered embrace. The car rocked slightly as we lost ourselves to each other, my hands tracing around the contours of her body behind her clothes.