Once again I found myself sitting poolside at home alone, other than the hurried activities of the household staff, the security team and my personal business manager. This had become quite the norm for me to be lacking a companion to spend my time with. I seemed to no sooner have a new flame in my life than they would move on when they realized my lifestyle was not compatible with their expectations.
Being wealthy enough to afford this lovely hilly, almost mountainous countryside estate on several hundred acres of pristine wilderness filled with streams and wildlife, the mid century modern style timber framed home blending perfectly into the natural surroundings. In the local area I am something of a reclusive multi millionaire, known for owning multiple businesses and many other properties to travel to, coming and going frequently weather it be by a small vehicle convoy or simply by helicopter from the estate to the local airport to catch a private flight to another property or somewhere exotic. The local women often fawned over trying to catch my fancy, a few were even very successful and developed a relationship with me, a couple even came as far as to move in with me for a short time, and one in particular I was lucky enough to ask to marry me before she decided that this lifestyle was just too much for her and we separated prior to our wedding day.
To protect not only myself but my investments and businesses any dates that ever made it to the house were always fully vetted by my staff and were required to agree to very lucrative non disclosure agreements. So far around the small nearby towns this had only lead to rumor and innuendo about what I must be like and the things that must occur out at the sprawling property.
Being honest about it, most of the time the reasons for the continuing string of on again off again relationships stemmed from my lavishing the women of various ages with vacations, spa treatments, cars, expensive jewelry, fine lingerie and designer clothing and shoes; but in return I required the assortment of women to be very open and adventurous sexually. Almost always this became where the break of the relationship would occur, eventually the women would get tired of my continuously more and more exotic sexual activities. Sooner or later, no matter the woman, they would find the desire to leave rather than continue. We would part ways amicably, they would be paid a calculated sum to keep the details of our relationship to themselves and I would once again find myself in search of someone to be the one.
As my assistant, Anne, came out to join me for a drink before heading out for a weekend off we sat at the poolside Tiki bar and enjoyed a Mai Thai while chatting. She encouraged me to have my driver take me into town for a night out to at least get out of the house. We toasted each other farewell for the weekend and I took her advisement to get out of the house into thought.
After finishing another drink I closed down the bar alone and made the decision to heed Anne's recommendation and head into town for dinner and a few drinks, after all I may as well go enjoy myself. I sent my driver a text and told him to get ready to take me to town for dinner.
A few minutes later he texted back that the cars were ready to leave whenever I was. After changing into some dark blue jeans and a light blue button down shirt I slipped on a nice pair of brown dress shoes and grabbed a nice black quarter zip sweater to throw in the car in case it got colder out while I was in town and jumped in the back of the car telling the driver to take me to one of the more low key local bars.
Walking into Mac's Tavern and leaving my driver and couple of security personnel with the cars I was led to a darker booth toward the back of the bar where I normally liked to sit when I visited. The owner wasn't in but the chef came out to visit with me and the staff knew to take care of me well as I was known about town for being a very generous tipper and often times would pick up the tab for several other tables when I did visit as well. I caught up with the chef and the waitress came over and sat my usual whisky Manhattan in front of me and I thanked her and indicated that I would have my usual for dinner as well while finishing my chat with the chef.
Sipping my drink and staring off at the wall I didn't even notice at first that a woman of my age had approached my booth. Snapping to focus on her as she was smiling and closing in close I fought to recognize her. I knew the face but could not make the recall of the now older but still familiar face.
Then she spoke "Mike? Mike, it's me... Jenny... You must not recognize me...".
As she spoke the memories came flooding back. There she was, my first ever girlfriend, the all American girl that had gotten away right before my eyes, I still wasn't clear on why she had broken things off between the two of us. "Jenny! Ohh my goodness, it is so thrilling to see you!" I quickly slid from the booth and stood reaching out to greet her with a warm and friendly hug and noticing that she was alone asked "If you're here alone, I must insist that you join me for dinner! We should catch up, shouldn't we?" Noticing that the years had treated her fairly well and guessing that she continued to work out and another guess that she had at least a breast lift performed if not some minor implants as her slightly larger than baseball sized breasts still sat high on her chest and her nipples poking at the fabric of her top would indicate that she was either not wearing a bra or had a cupless or peek-a-boo style bra on if anything. Her cute short blonde hair with a hint of gray showing making her light blue eyes sparkle just as I remembered. She still must spend a fair amount of time in the sun as her tan skin shown with a healthy glow. Her cute button nose still had the small jeweled stud on the side all these years later. I also made notice of no wedding ring on her hand and her tight top and nearly skin tight jeans leading down to a modest set of high heels in candy apple red made her look stunning and indicating that she was either out on a date or out looking for one. She immediately made me happy by seeing her.
"I guess we could catch up for a drink... I think you've grown out of my league from following your fortunes and the news about you. Not to mention the rumors about town of your reclusive lifestyle out on that spacious property you live on, at least that is, when you're here and not jet setting off somewhere exotic." Jenny indicated to me as she slid into the other side of the booth.
"You must not believe all the rumors you hear." I said with a slight smile, wondering what all she had heard about me. "I've been successful in life and I do enjoy the finer points in life as I can, but it can also be a lonely lifestyle of not knowing who I can trust. My business staff, security team and household caretakers seem to be about the only true people around me most days and they get paid to be there..." My slight smile revealing a hint of a frown. "What brings you back to town?" I inquired as I made eye contact with the bartender and indicated that she should come and take Jenny's drink order.
"My husband passed away recently and the kids are both grown and out of the house, so I decided to move back here where I had many happy memories growing up." Jenny replied softly, her demeanor seeming a bit saddened as she tilted her head down to look at her hands that were on the table but glanced up to regain eye contact with me.
"Well, I'm very sorry for your loss." I offered, not sure if this was the right thing to say or not.
Jenny smiled and replied "Don't be. He was not a nice man and I should have never married him."
I nodded, remembering back when I would listen to her talk about her family and her desire to someday get out and go off on her own, her mother was a strict, overly religious woman and her father was a violent alcoholic, not a good combination at all.