Hi. My name is Janet. You can get to know me in chapters one and two. Or you can stay here and jump right in.
Anita and Mike had been away in France for two weeks and I was having to find my own entertainment. The last few months of being spoon fed at Anita's dinner parties had made me lazy and I'd stopped trawling the dating site I used to use for easy prey. But easy pickings is no guide to quality. In the three years since I'd thrown Alistair out, only once had a first date turned me away. There were lots I'd said no to but whenever I offered they said yes. Except for David. It took me a month. A whole fucking month. I didn't especially want him but I was damned if he was going to turn me down.
I hadn't gone without of course. Young Toby from the office is (almost) always available if I need to be looked after. Young, keen, talented and ambitious. But not clingy. He understands the game rules and I'm coaching him for success. Almost always but not unfortunately this evening. Having introduced him to Sue Barron, is the MD's PA, as someone useful to cultivate I couldn't really tell him to turn down the chance to plough her rather neglected furrow. Sue needed his attention much more than I did. It would do them both good.
Which left me at 6.00 hungry for some attention, at a loose end, no date and dressed to kill. Business sexy. Black tights, heels, a skirt a couple of inches too short for a woman of my age (38) and the cutest tits in the whole department. You would think that someone would have asked me for a drink. Too many were off home, some were too scared of refusal, a couple knew they didn't measure up and Eric is gay. The others obviously didn't realise I needed someone.
The easy option would be the bar at the Mardlin Tower. There would be several overnighting visitors who would be delighted not to eat alone and to taste me afterwards. Too easy. Too boring. Too much like being a call girl. But without the envelope full of cash. Been there done that.
His name was Pascal. I had let him pick me up at the bar, feed me lots of overpriced seafood, take me upstairs for a nightcap, fuck me every which way ( very enjoyably) and tell me how unhappy he was. We had a nice evening. Just as I was about to hang my clothes up in the wardrobe and get ready to sleep he told me it was a shame a nice girl like me had to do 'this sort of thing', handed me £300 in twenties and asked if I needed money for a taxi. I still don't know if three hundred and expenses is the going rate but it paid for a nice dress. And some new tights to replace the ripped ones. It was a funny night. Gerry, the Mardlin's night porter, thought it was funny too and treated me to a nice glass of red. I treated him to a quicky, he found me an empty room to crash in and we were all happy. At breakfast the next morning Pascal didn't know which way to look. I'm just grateful that he didn't see me when he was sitting in our reception area later that morning. He didn't get the job.
Anyway, enough of my unplanned walk on the dark side. What of last Thursday? It was warm and I walked along the Embankment. I like the attention I get. From single men, from men who should be paying more attention to their own partners and from groups of young men who probably think I'm a milf. From men from 18 to 75. I think I'm the perfect age and I know I look sexy. But all the attention is just looking. Some licking of lips, a little muttering under the breath, the occasional cheeky comment and sometimes an old school wolf whistle. Men are generally very timid and intimidated by sexy.
I had walked all the way to the end, gazed over the parapet at the water - which did get two horns honking and a serious whistle - and I turned and walked back towards the station. I knew he was walking behind me. I could hear his shoes and I could hear his breathing. If I was not mistaken he too had been leaning against the wall and had been watching me. Pervert? Stalker? Dangerous psychopath? Rapist? Common or garden mugger with no interest in my body at all?
"Good evening... lovely evening......may I?" And he fell in step beside me. And looked at me. At my legs mostly. Not common or garden at all. Rather smart. And unquestionably interested in my body. We walked slowly and silently for at least two minutes. About 200 yards. "Are you staying at the Mardlin?"
"No, actually. Why would you think that?"
"I watched you come out of there fifteen minutes ago. So I just thought you might be. "
Stalker? "If you must know I popped in to use their...bathroom. How long have you been following me?"