I intended to write a short story about a loving Mother and her Son. Well, it turned out to be a bit of a Ben Hur! I have broken it into chapters for publishing on Literotica, but they now fall into different categories, so I hope the flowing continuity is not lost! I hope you enjoy it...
Special thanks to my Editor, Scorpius1945, polite, helpful and encouraging!
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CHAPTER 01
John enjoys evening with father's ex secretary
Category: Erotic Couplings
"Damn it, Clara, you could at least help me with these suitcases!" I said in frustration.
"Don't swear at me!" Clara replied, "And you should know that ladies never carry suitcases. Servants do that." Clara was standing with her arms folded across her chest looking at me. There were three suitcases at my feet. Needless to say, two of the cases belonged to her, the heaviest and biggest!
We had landed at Port Elizabeth airport and were standing in the arrivals hall where I had just retrieved them from the carousel. "At least go and find a trolley while I move them out of the way."
"Why don't you find a trolley and I'll guard the cases?" Clara was not going to budge.
I gave my backpack to her saying, "Please look after this, all our tickets and money are in here." With that I walked off through the milling crowd in search of a trolley. When I returned, Clara was sitting on one of the cases looking bored. I managed to load the three cases onto the trolley. "What have you got in here?" I asked, "We're only staying with my folks for a week, and that is in a beach house."
"You know I must always look my best, especially with your parents. Your father is a leader of society and we must look the part." Clara pulled her shoulders back and stuck her chin in the air.
Clara and I had been married for four months. It felt like a lifetime! I stood there staring at her wondering how I had got myself into this position.
We had met just over a year ago when I was in final year at university with only six months to go till I qualified as an architect. Clara, or Clarissa as she preferred to be called, was seven years older than my twenty five years. She was a part time university lecturer in landscaping, one of the subjects I had taken the previous year.
She sometimes visited the bars and restaurants that the students frequented where rumor had it that she was looking for a rich husband. She was tall, slim and elegant, beautiful in a classical sort of way, always stylishly dressed with never as much as a hair out of place.
We met casually at one of the drinking holes where she was with a group of her friends. I was seated next to her and we chatted for a while. She remembered me from the lectures the previous year. "I remember your final submission for the year," she said.
I remembered it all too well. She was this beautiful young lecturer that all the guys were trying to impress. I had worked long and hard on the project, more than I should have done considering the overall weighting of landscaping compared to building design. I had been really proud of my design and presentation. "Why did you give me such a low grading? I worked really hard on it and I still think it is one of my best designs."
"Oh, I thought it was all too casual. Not formal enough. Not regal enough."
"Not regal enough? It was a garden for a modern computer company office, not a palace or a museum." I was mystified.
"That is the problem with the world today. Nobody designs for palaces, or royalty, or even the gentry. Everything's casual, no formality. All rather plebeian." Her mouth was set and her chin was sticking out, her shoulders back in a manner that I later learned not to argue with.
I saw that this discussion was not going anywhere so I changed the subject. After a while we started talking about our families and what they did and so on, rather, I was encouraged to talk about my family while very little information was shared about hers. I saw her interest quicken when she learned that my father was a very successful architect, now retired. The company he started back in the seventies was still at the forefront of design and innovation in South Africa, still bearing his name Michael Graham Mitchell, Architects.
As the evening wore on all her attention was focused on me. She started by putting an elegant hand out and touching my leg when she was making a point. This became more and more frequent as the evening wore on. Later I felt her knee press against my thigh, nothing too obvious, a gentle pressure then it was gone.
At that time I was between girlfriends and was finding this all quite a turn on! I was flattered by her attention and interest and tried to play up to it, touch her in return when I made a point. It was a bit foreign to me as this was not my normal social behavior.
When the evening came to an end and we were all preparing to leave I was shocked when Clara ran her hand up my thigh, fleetingly squeezed my semi-erect penis, then touched my hand and said, "You're sweet. I'd like to see you again."
"Me too. I mean, I'd like to see you again. Can I get your phone number?"
She looked me straight in the eyes for a long moment. "A lady never gives her number to a gentleman on a first date, let alone a casual meeting in a bar. Find me." With that she reached under the table and again squeezed my cock, now fully erect. Then she was gone.
I sat there in a daze. "Be careful," my roommate, Helm, said, "Word has it she's a gold digger..." Nothing more on the subject was said and we had another beer before walking home and going to bed.
A week passed in which I acted the role of master sleuth. I checked the telephone directory. No luck. I checked with the faculty administration for her contact details. No luck. I did the rounds of all the likely watering holes in the evenings. No luck.