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“Thank you for this evening, Amber. I can’t tell you how much it pleases me to be your first,” he said, holding me to him.
I inhaled his scent and wrapped my arms around him. “I’m glad it was you,” I replied.
He gave me a brief kiss and then left, promising to call me in the morning before he left for work.
Calling me three times per day had become our norm. He’d ring before he left for work to wish me a good morning, then at lunchtime to check I was okay and that I’d eaten. He’d then call in the evening if we weren’t seeing each other. Although it had only been a couple of weeks, the relationship was already intense.
“I have a business dinner tomorrow night. Will you come with me?” he asked during one of our telephone conversations.
“I’d love to. I’ll have to find something nice to wear, though.”
“How about I take you shopping? We can go as soon as I’ve finished work,” he said.
“Oh, I’m not sure you need to do that. I mean, I’m sure I can find something here.”
“Amber, if I’m going to show you off to my work colleagues, I want you to look the best woman there. I want my chums to be jealous,” he said, laughing at the same time.
I laughed along with him. “Then, yes, let’s buy a new dress.”
He told me to be ready for five thirty, he’d leave the office a little earlier than usual. It was a Thursday; late night shopping had recently started in London on a Thursday. I was excited to be dipping in and out of shops, looking for that perfect dress. I already had it in mind, something demure, lacy perhaps. Or raunchy and sexy in red. I played with my hair, wondering if I could get a last-minute appointment to have it cut. It hadn’t been cut in a long time. I bunched it on top of my head, looking this way and that. Yes, piled up in a messy bun with tendrils escaping around my face would look perfect.
I fished around in my bedroom for some costume jewellery, I was sure I had some faux drop diamond earrings somewhere. And, of course, I had the perfect shoes and stockings.
Yet again, a pang of sadness washed over me. I had no one to tell about mybusiness dinnerwith Andrew. I shook it off when I remembered what he’d said one time.
You don’t need a bunch of friends who are just going to be jealous of you. You just need us.
He was right, I just needed him. I’d even stopped taking calls from my siblings for fear that they wanted something from Andrew. He’d mentioned once before about my sister calling and wanting money that I didn’t have to give. He’d said that I needed to be careful. If they discovered I was moving up in the world, they’d want to tag along and they’d never fit in. He was right, of course, I thought.
* * *
Andrew had decidedon the shop that he wanted to take me to. I thought we’d take a leisurely Stoll along Oxford Street, browsing the windows before deciding. He said we didn’t have time for that, and I wondered if he had something exciting for us to do. He held my hand as we entered the shop, and he walked straight to a rail of evening dresses.
He swept through them, discarding ones I thought were lovely, until he found what he liked. He held it up to me.
“Oh my God, Amber, this is you. So you! Everyone is going to be envious of you in this dress. Go try it on.”
He ushered me to a changing room, and I got caught up in his excitement.
I hung the dress up without really looking at it, and then undressed. I slipped it over my head. It clung to my curves, and the neckline was a little revealing for my liking. I could see the top of my bra.
“I’m not sure this will do. It’s a little too low cut,” I called out.
“Let me see,” he replied.
I held the dress up and walked out of the changing room.
Andrew wolf whistled.
“I need to get you home quick,” he whispered while holding his crotch.
I laughed, both embarrassed and elated I had that effect on him.
“Take the bra off,” he instructed. “Turn around.”
I did as I was told, and he unhooked the old greying bra I wore. I slid it from my shoulders, then turned back to him.
“Now, that’s better. You have an amazing body; you need to show it off.”
