Keeping tight hold of the bottle of red wine, I rest the bunch of flowers in the crook of my arm and press the gloved tip of my finger against the bell marked 'Dieter & Gabriele Hausmann'. I lean close to the speaker, my breath misting up the metal as I wait for a reply. Even in the entrance hall it is bitterly cold.
The speaker crackles into life.
'Frau Hausmann?'
'Jeff Taylor here.'
'Oh Mr Taylor. Hello. Please. Come.'
The switch on the inner door buzzes and I move over to open it. Warm air hits my face as the door opens. I walk to the lift and press the button for the fifth floor. The lift moves swiftly and smoothly upwards and stops. The door opens. And there she is. Smiling in welcome.
'Mr Taylor. How do you do?'
She is stunning. Black hair. Smiling dark brown eyes. A broad open face. Wide, full mouth. Her skin is tanned and lightly freckled. Her eyes and face are lively and animated. She is wearing a plain white full length dress, tied high at the neck but scooped over full tanned breasts. A single large brooch at her throat. I present the flowers and the wine and her smile broadens and her eyes twinkle in pleasure. She leans forward and kisses me on the cheek.
'Danke schon. Thank you Mr Taylor. Come. You are cold. We will warm you.'
She takes my arm and walks me towards the open door of the HausmannΓs flat. As she moves two long slits at the front of the white woollen fabric of her dress part and reveal bare brown legs.
'IΓm afraid Dieter is not here. He had to do go Hamburg on business. So I will have to look after you all on my own.' And she smiles that same michievious smile and adds, 'I hope you are not too disappointed!' And she laughs out loud at the lopsided can't-believe-my luck grin that has spread across my face and squeezes my arm. Come. Champagne. 'You like champagne? Then dinner for two. I hope you are hungry?'
My grin broadens and I relax. 'I have been thinking about it all week Frau Hausmann. I am very, very hungry. And you look very, very beautiful.'
She looks even better than the first time I saw her, at a boisterous evening in the Altstadt - 'the old city' - the entertainment centre in the middle of Dusseldorf, There were a dozen of us squeezed together round a large table in a noisy pub/restaurant eating Gebratene Schweinhaxe - roast pigs trotters done with roast potatoes - and drinking half litres of light German lager. It was my good luck to find myself placed next to her. Husband Dieter was seated on the far side and kept leaning over and explaining the local dishes and customs in his strangely accentless English. As the evening wore on the good humour of friends and business colleagues got louder and louder and the place became more and more crowded and round after round of the deceptively light beer kept arriving at the table.
Frau Hausmann - Gabriele Hausmann - Gabi - was wearing a long dark skirt and a white blouse, opened low enough that when she leaned forward the upper slopes of her heavy breasts were exposed, their fullness stretching the lace of her white bra. She told me she was a personal assistant to the boss of a publishing firm and enthused about a visit she and her boss had made to London and the people in our head office she had met and what she thought of them and her thigh rested comfortably against mine and her eyes sparkled and her red lips mouthed the unfamiliar English words and her full breasts flashed into view through the opening in her blouse and the evening was perfect, just perfect.
At the end of the evening as people begin to a noisy round of 'Auf Weidersehens' she turns to her husband and has a brief conversation before turning back to me.
'Dieter and I would like to invite you to a meal with us. Would Thursday evening be okay?'
I say I would love to come. Thursday would be fine. Her eyes light up. 'Good.' she says. 'I will like that very much. You will enjoy it very much too. I promise.' And she reaches out her hand over mine in my lap and squeezes it. At the touch of her soft hand my prick rises unbidden and as she releases my hand her long fingers trail slowly over the bulge in my trousers and her eyes are full of mischief. 'Till Thursday then Mr Taylor. Auf Wiedersehen.' With that, she and Dieter move towards the door and go, but not before she turns one last time and looks back at me to see me watching her and gives me a last small secret smile and a small wave of the hand.
I go back to my hotel, my body in turmoil and head straight for the bathroom. I unzip, take out my engorged prick and think of her body and that smile and masturbate into the sink, my sperm jetting against the white porcelain, my knees weakening with the effort and then emptied and spent I look up to the mirror and the face that looks back is heavy-eyed and glazed with an animal lust.
She leads me into the kitchen and reaches down to the fridge, the white dress moulding her buttocks and thighs in one glorious unbroken clinging curve. She cannot be wearing anything under that dress and as she rises and turns to hand me a bottle of ice-cold champagne her twinkling, knowing eyes tell me she knows I have got the message she wanted to send.
'Now enough of this 'Frau Hausmann' and 'Mister Taylor. We must 'dutzen'. Yes?'
I take off the wire, hold the cork and twist the bottle to release the bubbling foam and fill two long-stemmed glasses.
She gives a little laugh as the foaming liquid spills over and looks at me again. I love it when it spills out like that. Its so sexy dont you think? And now ...'
And in time-honoured German custom we link arms, look into each others eyes and solemnly announce 'Gabi' and 'Jeff' and drink deep from the glasses. The cold wine slips down my throat and I feel good - as alive to the moment as the bubbling wine. She looks up, eyes shining and mouth wet from the wine. Her lips part over big white teeth and she says, 'Now Jeff we are friends you and I - Yes?'
She puts her glass down and turns and puts a hand on each of my shoulders and reaches up and kisses me and at the feel of her soft warm lips my arms go round her waist and I pull her to me. Her full lips part softly. I move back a fraction and I look at her eyes and the smile is replaced now by a small hunger and she is looking down at my mouth. I move my left band up on her broad back and pull her into me and drop my opened mouth onto hers and kiss her hard. My hand moves down onto her full rounded sleek arse and the woollen dress slides over her taut flesh under my fingers. I pull her lower body onto my stiffening prick and push it into her soft belly so she can feel my desire. As my hardness presses into her she tightens her grip on me and her hands move up to the back of my neck and she pulls my head down to her mouth which opens wide. My tongue slips into her mouth and touches the warm wet live animal that is her tongue. I can feel her excitement as her belly pushes against my stiff prick and I know that before the end of the evening I am going to he sliding my prick up into her wet cunt and fucking this lush and lovely woman and pumping sperm into her beautiful warm brown body.
And then she breaks away and looks up at me. For a moment her eyes are heavy with lust, the eyes of a woman who wants to fuck - now, right now, please - and then she breaks the spell of her own desire and the light comes back into her eyes and she reaches up her fingers and softly touches my lips and whistles a long breathy, 'Wheeew'.
She disentangles herself from me and once more takes my arm and says, 'Come Jeff. I think we have to eat - first.' And as she pauses and then adds that last word the look in her eyes is a promise that dessert will be something I'll never forget.
She leads me into the lounge. There is thick carpeting everywhere. White rugs. A black wood dining table laid with silver cutlery and white tableware. Yellow candles flicker in white candleholders. The room is sofly lit with subdued table lamps. Over the dining table is a large abstract painting in muted greys, fawns and brilliant primary yellow. A stereo set plays Spanish guitar music. Soft but sharp. Little clusters of exploding sound.