Dearest Readers,
Today we have another excerpt from my latest novel The Angel and The Captain. This is from their third date, and the Captain is taking his Angel to tea at the five-star hotel that happens to be in town. The Captain is a regular visitor to five-star environs, but it is Angel’s first trip.
I have some expensive tastes. I enjoy the five-star experience. It’s the best our planet has to offer and I enjoy enjoying it: the service, the atmosphere, the food, the drink, everything the very best.
I have some zero clue where I got this from. Well, yes I do, a wealthy older woman was my entrée to luxury hotels and restaurants. I certainly wasn’t to the manor born.
I suspected Angel would do well here and I knew she would like it. As an older stalker, er, gentleman, I have an eye for things like this. She was simply the prettiest girl on this planet. Her hair was curled, but sort of curled behind her ears, which made her look both older and younger at the same time, and her white dress was perfect. There was no one I’d would have rather been there with. She had told me it was her first time here to actually do something as opposed to just doing some sightseeing with her mom, but she acted with complete aplomb, as is she’d been taking tea here regularly her entire life.
She was the perfect younger woman.
And the Gospel According to Angel:
Boy, it was a dream of mine to go to the nice hotel since I was a girl. Every now and then, like two years, mom would take me there to walk around the gardens and do some window shopping and being a girl I dreamed of being there as a woman on the arm of my man with no guarantee it would ever happen, of course.
Well, dreams come true of you let them…I’d never had tea that hadn’t involved a tea bag or a powder! They put actual leaves in a thingy that rested on your cup and poured water over it. They had these little sandwiches, too, that tasted really good. I was very nervous at first. I mean, how many nights had I been in bed dreaming of this? And here I was.
The Captain made feel at home. I trusted him completely. He wouldn’t have brought me here if he didn’t think I belonged and even though I hadn’t known him all that long, I knew he wouldn’t let me fail. I don’t know if that makes sense. But it’s how I felt. I knew he liked our age difference – no one leers like an older man – but I also know he enjoyed me and us.
We had some time after tea, so we walked around. He kissed me at a fountain. Our first kiss. Gentle. Tender. Loving. Everything a girl wants. A fairy tale, really, in a lush garden, in front of a fountain.
Then we wandered by the restaurant! The Chancellor’s Room has 5-stars, is very fancy and very expensive. Or so I heard. I’ve never been, but that changes next Tuesday bay-bee! He kissed me again, said he would like to take me here, and since we’re here we should probably spend the night, too.
I was fully on sold older men right then.
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