dr_mabeuse
seduce the mind
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He waited at a table in the back of the dimly-lit restaurant, a chilled martini before him, waiting for her. He was impeccably dressed: his charcoal gray suit fit him perfectly, his red necktie was the only splash of color in an otherwise tastefully subdued ensemble. The necktie had been selected to contrast with his dark complexion and the hints of gray in his dark hair and beard. A professor, perhaps, or a collecter of fine art: a man of impeccable taste and refined manner.
He was hardly the type that anyone would guess to be a personal trainer. He looked too urbane, too sophisticated to be associated with anything as coarse as a gymnasium or work-out spa, and while he was lean and well-built, with solid shoulders and strong hand, he lacked the athlete’s beef and easy boyishness. There was something intense and perhaps dangerous about him, a knowingness in his dark gaze. And yet that’s just what he had set himself up as: a personal trainer, but a trainer of amost particular sort. He was waiting now for his new client.
Of course, she wasn’t his client yet. He looked at his watch. It was ten minutes to seven. He’d told her to meet him at seven, and he was reasonably certain she’d come. He knew her, though she didn’t know him. He knew her because he had heard of her from a string of friends and associates. He knew that she was unattached, a junior executive, hard-working and successful, but not as successful as she’d like. She’d been frustrated several times recetnly in her attempts to move up the corporate ladder, losing promotions to men not as qualified as she, and so she'd decided she needed to do something about it. Something radical to change her image. To that end she had placed an ad in the paper looking for a Personal Trainer: someone who would help her get into perfect shape, who would help focus her energies and sculpt her body into a formidable weapon suitable for the corporate wars, in which beauty and sex appeal were tools to be used like any other.
So far she’d been unsuccessful in her search. She was maried to her job and worked very long hours, and really she needed someone who would be available 24 hours a day. Such help didn’t come cheap, and while she earned a very comfortable income, she wasn't eager to pay what such a trainer would cost, so she had all but given up the search. That’s when word reached him about her needs, and he’d been intrigued.
A woman seeking to remake herself was just what he’d been looking for. True, his ideas of training her were not quite what she had in mind, but if she were truly looking to put herself into another’s hands, if she were looking to push herself, to break through the old limits of her rather mundane life, then he might be just the one she was looking for.
Everything he’d found out about her—and he had found out much, having connections everywhere--told him that she was just such a woman, so he’d phoned her, offering his services. She had rebuffed him at first, but he had been armed with considerable information. He already knew about her, and as he described her to herself, she grew quiet on the other end of the line as she listened to what he told her about herself.
“How do you know so much about me?” she’d asked him after a considered pause.
“I always check out my potential clients very thoroughly,” he’d said. “I don’t offer my services lightly, and I get results. Believe me, you won’t find another trainer like me anywhere. I know what you’re looking for even better than you do yourself.”
“I doubt that,” she’d said with a nervous laugh.
He wasn’t amused. “Then come and find out for yourself. I’ll be at the Villa Tuscany at seven o’clock tonight, and I’ll be waiting for you. You can interview me there, and I can interview you. We can see if we have a match. There are no strings, no obligations, and I’ll even buy you dinner.”
She’d thought about that. “I have to work late, and besides…”
“I would very much suggest that you think about it. It will cost you nothing, and it could very well change your life." He let the words sink in for a moment, then added, "Until tonight, then.” And he’d hung up the phone.
If she was the woman he thought she was, she would show up. If she was a woman who needed to make changes in her life, she would most certainly show up.
He was hardly the type that anyone would guess to be a personal trainer. He looked too urbane, too sophisticated to be associated with anything as coarse as a gymnasium or work-out spa, and while he was lean and well-built, with solid shoulders and strong hand, he lacked the athlete’s beef and easy boyishness. There was something intense and perhaps dangerous about him, a knowingness in his dark gaze. And yet that’s just what he had set himself up as: a personal trainer, but a trainer of amost particular sort. He was waiting now for his new client.
Of course, she wasn’t his client yet. He looked at his watch. It was ten minutes to seven. He’d told her to meet him at seven, and he was reasonably certain she’d come. He knew her, though she didn’t know him. He knew her because he had heard of her from a string of friends and associates. He knew that she was unattached, a junior executive, hard-working and successful, but not as successful as she’d like. She’d been frustrated several times recetnly in her attempts to move up the corporate ladder, losing promotions to men not as qualified as she, and so she'd decided she needed to do something about it. Something radical to change her image. To that end she had placed an ad in the paper looking for a Personal Trainer: someone who would help her get into perfect shape, who would help focus her energies and sculpt her body into a formidable weapon suitable for the corporate wars, in which beauty and sex appeal were tools to be used like any other.
So far she’d been unsuccessful in her search. She was maried to her job and worked very long hours, and really she needed someone who would be available 24 hours a day. Such help didn’t come cheap, and while she earned a very comfortable income, she wasn't eager to pay what such a trainer would cost, so she had all but given up the search. That’s when word reached him about her needs, and he’d been intrigued.
A woman seeking to remake herself was just what he’d been looking for. True, his ideas of training her were not quite what she had in mind, but if she were truly looking to put herself into another’s hands, if she were looking to push herself, to break through the old limits of her rather mundane life, then he might be just the one she was looking for.
Everything he’d found out about her—and he had found out much, having connections everywhere--told him that she was just such a woman, so he’d phoned her, offering his services. She had rebuffed him at first, but he had been armed with considerable information. He already knew about her, and as he described her to herself, she grew quiet on the other end of the line as she listened to what he told her about herself.
“How do you know so much about me?” she’d asked him after a considered pause.
“I always check out my potential clients very thoroughly,” he’d said. “I don’t offer my services lightly, and I get results. Believe me, you won’t find another trainer like me anywhere. I know what you’re looking for even better than you do yourself.”
“I doubt that,” she’d said with a nervous laugh.
He wasn’t amused. “Then come and find out for yourself. I’ll be at the Villa Tuscany at seven o’clock tonight, and I’ll be waiting for you. You can interview me there, and I can interview you. We can see if we have a match. There are no strings, no obligations, and I’ll even buy you dinner.”
She’d thought about that. “I have to work late, and besides…”
“I would very much suggest that you think about it. It will cost you nothing, and it could very well change your life." He let the words sink in for a moment, then added, "Until tonight, then.” And he’d hung up the phone.
If she was the woman he thought she was, she would show up. If she was a woman who needed to make changes in her life, she would most certainly show up.
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