I usually stay at the Hotel Del when I do business in San Diego. I like it because it is a gorgeous old pile right on the beach, with a great pool and some restaurants where you can eat and listen to the waves. But I hadn't been there a while. One visit during the pandemic had been positively sad.
Usually I didn't actively look for company or go with pros while I am there. Most trips are in and out to seal contracts, and lining up some in-and-out was usually too much trouble. I wasn't really hurting for it. I have an FWB back in Boston, but I prefer the friendship part as much as the benefits.
It was a blustery night near Christmas with the weather coming off the ocean. A mostly full moon was highlighting the whitecaps as the wind knocked the tops off the waves. Might be a good day tomorrow to rent a wet suit and a board and do some surfing if the contract negotiations in the morning went smooth.
It was pretty late and I was having a nightcap in the bar. Funny, I'm not the kind of guy to knock back liquor late at night. It churns my gut and keeps me awake. But the chill made it a good time for having a couple of fingers of Wild Turkey and listening to the piano and the wind whistling in the eaves.
I was ordering my second and popping some peanuts when the barmaid said with a wink, "This one's paid for, by the lady in the corner." Now this doesn't happen to me much; not because I am an ugly mutt. I work out a bit and there is only a tiny bit of grey at my temples. But I don't encourage it. Maybe I don't have that 'hungry wolf looking around for prey' vibe. And I had already told one working girl to go away. So.
But the lady in the corner had bought me a drink. Might be a lonely old broad, traveling saleslady, or spunky old divorcΓ©e who liked her sauce; or one of a gaggle of giggling gals who sometimes put each other up to such tricks.
I turned and looked and I couldn't really see her because the corner was dark; but the general impression was a reasonably attractive woman with long red hair. What the fuck. I took my bought drink and went over to thank my patron.
Nice surprise. Up close the lady could have been Poppy Montgomery's sister. From the "Unforgettable" series. We're talking a very attractive woman in her mid to late thirties. Maybe some tiny smile lines at the corners of her eyes. Creamy skin. Beautiful carved lips that shaped nicely around her martini glass as she sipped. Smoky grey bedroom eyes. And wonderful curves, revealed but not flaunted. Wow.
"You bought me a drink."
"I did."
"I'll be blunt. I don't hire professionals."
"I'll be equally blunt. I'm not a professional, but I am interested in sex."
"Just like that."
"Exactly like that."
"Okay. And you want to know if I am eligible and willing."
"Sort of. I also need to know if you ... qualify."
"Whoa, interesting. I know that a lot of women these days have nice high standards. My nieces whine that there are so many lazy slackers out there. But somehow I figure you mean something different."
"Uh huh." She sipped her drink and held my eyes with her own.
"And yet I figure you aren't auditioning life mates here in a dark bar. Hell, you already said you wanted sex."
"That's right." She held up her left hand. "You see, I am happily married,
very
happily married, with three gorgeous kids, to a real prince of a man. He is a hard worker, good job, attentive father, helps out around the house, gets along well with my parents, listens to me whine, loves me to the moon, and is
very
attentive in bed."
"But..."
"Yes. There is that." She sipped again. "Why would I be here, doing
this
, with
you,
if everything was
perfectly
satisfactory, in the
sack
as it were?"
"Exactly. So I'm assuming sort of a Lady Chatterley's Lover sort of situation."
"Sort of. But my husband is not an invalid; and I indeed have
three children
, so penetration and ejaculation have occurred, and we didn't even need petri dishes or special chemicals or centrifuges and any of that."
"But..."
"Yes, but...even though my lovely husband is
so
attentive in the sack, and has talented fingers and a magic tongue that can take me to the moon, he lacks the
one
thing I have discovered I need to be a sane lady."
"I can guess, but I'll let you say it because it's more exciting that way.'
"You're ready for a little excitement? I was hoping you were." Her hand was stroking my leg and she knew how to do it. "And you might be wondering why I risk this with a complete stranger, and whether maybe my husband is hanging out somewhere and likes to watch..." She was quiet for a moment.
"You just thought of doing it that way and the idea is intriguing...?"
"Yes, but I can't figure out how to work that yet. It might break up a very wonderful marriage. Or add a creepy element we would come to regret."
"And this doesn't? He doesn't know you are here?"
"No. I don't think so. I'm supposed to be at my sister's. My sister knows, and understands. She's willing to help. She knows it is important to me."
"Well, this seems to be a bit more than a tipsy lady getting a quick lay for...variety. You have set some ... standards."
"I do. I have particular needs."
"Maybe I should say, 'thanks, no thanks. I don't slap women around, or do dangerous breath play, or ...'"
"None of that. I just need one thing that my husband doesn't have. A big cock. My husband is small, very small. I love absolutely everything else about him. But starting on our wedding night...we were old fashioned...saving ourselves for each other...I didn't really know...about
him
. And he didn't know I was already
spoiled
in more ways than one. See, the previous summer I had gone to one of those summer league baseball games. And it was a gorgeous night, and the boys in their tight uniforms were so beautiful, and our team won, and the catcher was a friend of mine, and we sat in the stands and smoked ... and I was
so so
horny. And he kissed me on the neck and rubbed my nips through my tee shirt in such a fun, puppy dog sort of way...Wow. Yeah."
She signaled the barmaid for another couple of drinks. I insisted on paying this time. "So we found ourselves under the grandstands and I was sitting on his lap... and damn...he was
big."
She was quiet for a moment, looking down at the table, and her breathing was getting heavy. "I rode him until I came, and I had never come like that before, and it was