If I though I couldn't get Sarah out of my mind before, after our rainy day encounter in the back of her Range Rover I could think of almost nothing else. I counted down the days and hours until Sunday afternoon came again.
I wish I could say I felt guilty for cheating on my wife -- but I didn't. Things were not good and had not been for awhile. I had needs that had gone unfulfilled for so long and I had finally found someone who was meeting them. That this someone was a tall, long-legged young woman with deep green eyes and the worlds sweetest most beautiful smile made it easier to push any negative feelings away.
I looked at myself in the mirror as I got my jogging gear on. I was in good enough shape for a 40 year old. Nothing special but not bad looking. I still had all my hair. I was lucky Sarah wanted me on our Sunday afternoons together and that's all there was to it.
"Bye, have a good run!" my wife called as I headed out the door.
"Ok, back in a little while!"
I drove down to the elementary school and onto the single lane road that wound into the woods behind it to the parking lot by the stream. The green Range Rover was there. Just seeing it made me feel like I was coming back to life.
Sarah was by the beginning of the trail, stretching out. She wore a long-sleeved turtleneck t-shirt, the classic black-framed shades she always wore and black spandex tights. Those legs . . . I don't want to beat it to death but there's no other way to describe how tantalizing they were. She was 5'10'. Long and lean but with wider hips -- an hourglass figure. Her legs showed she'd been a faithful runner for a long time. Her ass showed how hard she'd worked going up and down these hills. Round and tight.
She saw me and beamed that smile. "Hey! What's up?"
"Just another Sunday!" I grinned.
We ran. Along the stream on the paved path and then up into the wooded hills on the dirt trails. We made small talk. Sarah was 28 (!). A Boston College and Georgetown Law grad. If that meant Catholic high school too she must have been quite a sight in a schoolgirl uniform. She was trying to work her way up the ladder at her firm. Extremely long hours. Little to no social life. A lot of stress.
We were running along a pretty isolated part of the trail network, in a thickly wooded little valley uphill from the stream bed.