Choosing Her Lover
Chapter 2
Seated at the bar, he is watching the door as I walk in. He stands as he sees me, smiling. “Debbie?”
“Ryan?”
He looks good enough to eat. Beckoning me to the barstool by him, “What can I get you?”
“Red wine, please. Did I keep you waiting long?”
“Not at all, I just arrived a couple of minutes ago.”
As he waves over the barman, I study him. Ryan understated himself in his profile; tall, with strapping shoulders and a lean fit build. Dark, slightly wavy hair and a light tan set off his white smile and dark eyes.
He is disconcertingly attractive. There’s usually a reason that someone who looks this good is on the dating circuit, even when it’s only for sex dating.
Fourth finger, left hand…. No, nothing there….
Nice hands though…. long fingers….
Holding two glasses of wine, Ryan eye-points me across the room. “I hope I’m not out of order here, but I booked us a table. Even if we can’t stand the sight of each other after a couple of hours, at least we’ll have a good meal inside us.”
He sees me looking askance at the table. Holding both hands up, almost warding me away, “Hey, it doesn’t mean I’m making any assumptions other than it’s the end of the working day, and I’m guessing that you’re hungry. I certainly am.”
Feeling foolish. “Yes, sorry. My suspicious nature….”
He looks at me oddly.
Weighing me up?
I think so, yes.
“Shall we sit?”
He seats himself opposite me, ignoring his wine, gazing at me. Chin propped on a fist, he is, very obviously, looking me up and down.
“So, what’s the deal?” he asks. “Women who look like you don’t tend to appear on dating sites like that one. There’s generally some guy in the background beating the jungle drums.” He glances down at my left hand. “And if you ever wore a wedding ring, there’s no sign of it now. Have you ever been married? For that matter, are you married now? Is this supposed to be some kind of ‘on the side’, ‘playing away from home’ kind of thing?”
He's wary of me….
“Is this ‘Twenty Questions’? Yes, I’ve been married. But no, not now. Been there, done that….”
He laughs. “…. Seen the movie, read the book, got the tee-shirt, eh? That bad, was it?”
“Oh, yes, that bad. But I’ve got control of my own life now, and I’ll not be letting it slip out of my fingers again.”
He sniffs, reflectively I think. Not critically. “That’s why you’re doing this? You don’t want entanglements?”
“That’s right. What about you?”
My last long-term relationship was a bit of a nightmare.
“You didn’t do yourself justice you know, on your profile. Very few
eyebrow at him. “Is this where you tell me you think
a liar? A
so. You’re right. You’re not conventionally pretty. Your features are quite strong, and your nose is a bit big for
laughing. “You’re a silver-tongued
furrows. “Have I offended
out with some
his chair, holding
you’re pretty, doesn’t mean I don’t find you attractive. Quite the contrary. You’re just…. unusual, in more ways than one I think….
“You can ask.”
really
think I’m going to hand out my details to anyone
doing what you’re doing, especially
the rules. No name.
hear it. Have you encountered any…?”
at the e-mail and messaging stage. Only one got
looks intrigued.
and cream. Y’know,
his
made a point of sitting on the opposite side of the table from him, but he moved across, all but pinned me into my seat. He kept coming too close, invading my space…. And there was something about the way he looked at me.
“What did you do?”
a polite hour; had a polite couple of non-alcoholic drinks, said graciously that it had been nice…. which it hadn’t… and we must do this again sometime…. which I was lying about…. Then I got in my car and drove
found out if he was really a screwball, or if it
coming in within five minutes of me leaving. They were polite
“In what way, strange?”
what he wanted to do with me. And some of them were…. odd; revolting actually. I’m pretty broadminded, but I wasn’t interested in going the places his mind roamed. I don’t know if he imagined it was some kind of seduction technique, but it felt like stalking… I changed my phone number in the end.… Um, do you mind
at all. But after an experience
like him. And I’m not afraid of men in general. I just exercise a bit of
your own judgement for this? How do you know that a man you meet like this isn’t a psycho in disguise?
you know that the woman you meet in the theatre, or the library didn’t just walk out
taken. I exercise my
“So….?”
be strictly a casual thing. You’re not husband-hunting? Looking for a
hip. I like a bit of fun a couple of times
of
“White horses?”
carry you
I laugh. “Not me.”
nods. “And would this be,
just want to pass by every few weeks…
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