captured her eyes
again.
"And no girlfriend, either."
She remembered giggling like a silly schoolgirl. And that's what I
was, she thought. A silly, inexperienced virgin schoolgirl, bowled
over by her first taste of sheer physical lust. Lusting after that
beautiful, soulless bastard, and thinking that lust was love.
"And how about you?" he had asked, smoothly.
"No boyfriend?"
"No," she said.
"I find that amazing."
"It's true."
"So it's OK if I ask you out tonight? For a meal at the Gala Hotel?"
The Gala was the most expensive hotel in town. She had seen the guests
arrive, the men in dinner suits, the women in long gowns.
"Oh, but I couldn't," she said.
"I haven't anything suitable to wear." She knew now that she had
responded exactly as he'd planned. How could she have been so pliable?
So stupid?
"That's not a problem," he said.
"We'll go shopping." He stood up, and again she studied the outline of
his penis and the curve of his balls beneath the thin, silk bathing
slip. Tell me the name of your hotel, and I'll come and collect
you."
It had been a perfect afternoon and a perfect evening Faisel had been
attentive, funny, and generous. He bought her a beautiful white silk
dress and a gold chain, plain and tasteful. The meal was excellent but
when it was finally time to go home, she felt suddenly nervous. Now
he's going to expect his payment she thought. He hasn't spent all this
money on me for nothing. And although the idea excited her, she was
afraid she would disappoint him. He might not have a girlfriend but he
would certainly have had other women. Maybe even professionals, who
would have entertained him with their repertoire of exotic tricks.
What could she offer? She'd never touched a man in a sexual way in her
life.
But it didn't happen like that. Clever bastard, she thought, turning
on the bed, the pictures clear in her mind. Taking me home, kissing my
cheek. Thanking me for a wonderful evening. Waiting a moment, then
kissing me gently on the lips. Treating me like the romantic innocent
that I was.
She remembered lying in bed that night, drowsily listening to her
friends talking about their conquests.
"And then he said, open your legs, I'm going to put my tongue right in
there and lick you. And he did."
"What did it feel like?"
"Nicer than having them stick their cocks in. I came so fast, I
couldn't believe it. And then he made me do it to him."
"Suck him, you mean?"
"Yeah."
"Urgh! I couldn't."
"Did he come?"
"You bet he did. I'm good."
"Kinky cow! You'll be asking them to pay for it next."
"Good idea. Maybe I will. It'll pay for my next holiday."
Jacey remembered feeling sorry for them as they giggled together. They
made sex seem sordid and cheap. She had something special, something
they would not understand. A man who wanted her for herself and not
just for what he could get from her. But the crude descriptions her
friends were bandying about sparked up pictures in her own mind. She
imagined Faisel's glossy head between her legs, his tongue working,
giving her the same kind of pleasure that she gave herself sometimes
with her own fingers. The idea excited her but it embarrassed her,
too. What an innocent I was, she thought. I was unreal.
I thought he would give me a nice clean, romantic orgasm, wrapped up in
tissue-paper like a pretty gift. We'd make love differently to
everyone else because we were special. We were in love.
She remembered her first time. They had spent the day on the beach
then she had gone back to her apartment to change before meeting him
for a meal. She told him she was flying back to England the next
morning. He had reacted with a suitably shocked expression, and had
reached across the