I work as the head housekeeper in a slightly run-down but decent hotel. I don’t hate my job most of the time, but there are days when nothing seems to go right and I wish I worked anywhere else.
I was having one of those days last Friday. Two of my girls hadn’t shown up, using lame excuses to call off and forcing me to have to clean twenty of the forty-five rooms that had been rented the night before.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not lazy and I don’t mind hard work, but I do mind when people screw me over because they want to go party or shopping. To say I was a bit frustrated is a real understatement. Add to that a husband, who seemed to have lost interest in me and my own sexual frustration becoming unmanageable – well, I wasn’t in the best of moods. To keep from taking this out on my other staff, I took the rooms on the outside back of the building, the ones furthest from everyone else.
As I began stripping beds, my mind kept wandering to my husband and his sudden lack of interest. I’m not a bad looking woman, even at thirty. My body is still toned and tight, a lot of that due to the hard physical labor of being a housekeeper. Lifting mattresses and moving furniture all day is a good way to keep fit.
Did he have another woman on the side? Could that be the reason he seemed so disinterested lately? The guys that work at the hotel seemed to find me attractive, so why wouldn’t my own husband?
Taking a moment, I checked out my reflection in the mirror over the sink. My skin looked clear, still taut across the cheekbones and under my eyes. Green eyes sparkled with life, despite my confusion about my life. My body looked really good, even with the baggy T-shirt and shorts I had on for work. And I knew for a fact that several male employees like not only my body, but also my Irish pale skin and long, red hair.
Sticking out my tongue at my own reflection, I decided to table the inner discussion and get back to work. No point dwelling on something you aren’t going to find an answer to, at least not that day.
The last room I had to strip was one on the corner. The corner rooms had the most privacy of any other room in the entire hotel. Situated to where you had to be standing right in front of it to see in made them very popular with the one-night standers. They were also our most updated rooms, with new wallpaper and beds. Next to the honeymoon suite, these were the ones that I most often fantasized about having sex in. Usually with George Clooney.
The room didn’t even look like it had been used. The bed was still made and only looked slightly rumpled, like someone had sat down on it for a minute. Still, it would have to be checked and remade. I wondered if I could get away with just smoothing out the bedclothes instead of redoing the entire bed. I decided to go the lazy way and just smooth it out. Being frustrated often makes me want to do bad things, and if not making a bed made me feel a little bit better, than so be it.
I pulled the vacuum off the cart, grabbed some paper towels and glass cleaner and walked back into the room. We aren’t allowed to shut the doors completely behind us, even in the winter months, so I closed it as far as I could and turned on the television for some company while I worked. I found a music video station and started cleaning, dancing around, the beat of the heavy bass too tempting to resist.
I never heard the man at the door, didn’t notice when he pushed it open wider to get a better view of me as I danced. If I had noticed it might have turned me on even more to know I was dancing quite seductively for a total stranger. Would’ve thrilled me to see the lust heavy in his eyes.
The song changed to one with a slower, more erotic tempo and my hips followed right along. I was lost in my own little world, unaware that the stranger had moved closer. That is until he buried his hands in my hair and tested the texture of it between his fingers.
The scream that rose up inside me froze. I couldn’t breathe. My entire body had frozen and all I could think of was that I’d walked into this room thinking that I was safe and had no worries. Now I was about to be raped by a total stranger.
His touch was light, caressing instead of threatening, confusing my senses into releasing some of the fright I felt. I have no excuse for the sudden rush of lust that seemed to overwhelm me. I can only say that his touch made me feel reborn in some way, needed, and wanted in a way I hadn’t felt in so long.