The first thing Ben did the following day was to look at his iPad. No mail from Christine had arrived, but there was a brief text from Erika. Before the breakfast shift, Erika must have checked their iPad if Ben had posted a wished-for message to her. He,...
Ben did not have long to wait. The first text he read was from Erika: To Ben: - “Now I know what you see in me! It made me blush, but I love it! When will you see me next? Just like that!! C. will have to give me time off! E.” As always, Erika left it to...
After leaving Ben, Erika went to complete a few tasks. While she set the tables for dinner, she thought about her developing relationship with Ben. His wish to photograph her and to have pictures of her on his IPad pleased Erika. To pose for Ben in the la...
On Sunday morning, Christine served Ben’s breakfast. A badly withheld grin played over her face as she stopped herself from mentioning their outing last night. Ben expected, therefore, to receive during the day a message on his Pad. Just before lunch, it...
On the way down for dinner, Ben gave a wave to Gerd. He was, surprisingly enough, behind the desk in the reception office. Christine was supervising and waitressing in the dining room. After dinner, Ben went to the Lounge for coffee and celebratory cognac...
It had surprised Ben that Christine and not Erika was the first to text. He wondered if it was, for Christine, just playful flirting. On his way out the following day, nobody was in the office. It saved Ben from possibly being summoned in by Christine or...
The day after the excursion to Salzburg, nature provided a reason for Ben not going out. It poured with rain. At lunch in the dining room, Erika and a girl-help attended to the fifteen or so guests. He and Erika had briefly greeted each other but were now...
They got into Christine’s small Audi. Erika sat next to her in the front, and Ben had the backbench to himself. Christine drove smoothly and fast. Ben had to stretch his head forward between the seats if he wanted to converse with the women without shouti...
Erika came to his room as she had promised. She made it easy for Ben. Smiling, she took his hands. Ignoring the chairs opposite each other across a coffee table, Erika pulled him to the bed to sit down. She was determined to be close to Ben, brought his h...
Except for the name shield, the railway station looked unfamiliar. Now brightly painted and its hundred-year-old shell refurbished with wide doors and much glass, it seemed not the place where Ben had taken the train to leave home more than twenty years a...
As Jennifer looked around their ‘playroom’, she realised that George had been back while she was in the shower. Over a chair hung the dress, and on it lay a bra and panties. Jennifer smiled as she saw that George had left the toys of their playtime on sig...
When Jennifer woke up the following morning, a dull headache and a jumble of disconnected memories reminded her of a night out of her control. She had neither a watch nor her phone. The latter was in her bag. She had left it somewhere last night, in her r...
However much the care of George and the spa bath had restored Jennifer, she was still partially drunk and shaken from her experience earlier in the night. Lying wide awake in the luxurious bed, she stared up at the ceiling, at the encased rail running fro...
Jennifer heard the swish of the cane, and then it bit into her stretched up buttocks. She had promised herself not to, but it forced a howl out of her throat as her strung-up lower body convulsed, and a wave of superheat welled up into her in shock gaping...
III I had been in Australia for eight months and been living in St. Kilda for six. Being unattached and on the lookout for female company, one Saturday night I met Elizabeth. She arrived at the Austrian Ski Club at the Upper Esplanade in the company of...
