Marissa loved to cook. She loved her charming bed-and-breakfast inn on the edge of town. She loved that her cleaning girl restored everything to immaculate condition by noon each day, which meant that after Marissa had prepared breakfast each day and generally overlooked the comings and goings of her guests, her work day was done and she was free for herself.
She enjoyed, as did many of her guests and the townspeople, exploring the woods that extended from the edge of town, sometimes alone and sometimes with her boyfriend, following the river and merging with the mountain wilderness the area was famous for.
Her boyfriend was a guide and a handyman, dividing his time between taking his clients on day and weekend trips to the wilderness and making such repairs and upgrades to the inn as necessary.
And that is where things became interesting.
When Marissa and Steven had converted the huge old Victorian-style country mansion to an inn, they had been delighted to discover a network of secret passages running between most of the upstairs rooms. Access to them was only possible from a discreet doorway at the back of the closet in Marissa's own room. Not even the cleaning girl was aware of their existence. Who knows what the original builders of the house used them for.
Marissa and her boyfriend had restored the secret passages, laying soundproofing carpet along the narrow wooden floors and adding spy-holes with a view into each guest room and bathroom. One extension led up a wooden ladder to the attic, where boards laid across the ceiling joists of the rooms below gave access to other spy-holes disguised by light fixtures over the beds below.
And that is where it became even more interesting, because Marissa liked to watch and her boyfriend liked to be watched.
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Their customers were mostly outdoorsy types, drawn to the rugged, athletic, or aesthetic activities the wilderness offered. At the end of the day or trip, though, they wanted what active, healthy people want. Food, a hot bath, and sex. Lots of sex.
And lots of kinds of sex.
Marissa liked seeing men with women. Straightforward fucking was a hot classic, and she never tired of it.
Yet that was not what could get her more inflamed than she had ever been. What turned her on the most was watching her boyfriend with another man.
As a woman Marissa knew what made her boyfriend attractive to women -- his boyish energy in a full-grown man's body, and a twinkling-eyed smile that made you feel like the two of you were sharing some sort of untold confidence.
What she did not know was how a certain type of man (more of them than you would expect) just seemed to know that Steven was open to their attention too. Hidden signals or secret chemistry just seemed to happen between Steven and those men. Marissa would eventually pick up on the erotic electricity and know exactly what direction things were heading.
He was quite selective, and she was learning more assuredly what his type was. Or types, as there was some variety there.
But when it happened, she would step back, enjoy observing the build-up of tension and playfulness, and let the erotic energy develop. When Steven and the man or men went off to be alone, she would find a way to follow.
* *
The first time had been a fix. A man in the front corner room had said the faucet in his bathroom was leaking.
The man had arrived around noon and after settling in made his way to the back garden where Steven was digging out an old foundation. His shirt was off in the hot sun, and his muscles were working smoothly as he tossed spades full of dirt and stones to the side. Something in their tone of conversation caused Marissa to drift closer, and she had been surprised to note that the man was looking at Steven's body with clear erotic appreciation. More surprisingly, she saw that Steven knew he was being looked at -- and that he was enjoying it -- flexing his muscles a little more than necessary and bending over a little further than he had to to dig the next spade, pausing to raise his arm to brush a lock of hair off his forehead in a way that exposed his torso to the direct sunlight. She couldn't quite make out what they were saying to each other, but some sort of mutual flirtation was clearly going on.
So she wasn't sure there actually was a leaking faucet, but when Steven gathered some tools and went up to the man's room, Marissa made her way from the opening in her closet, along the dim passageway, and to the point on the wall where a cloth covered a two-way mirror.
From the perspective of the bathroom, it was an ordinary mirror affixed to the wall above an ordinary sink.
From the perspective of the passageway, Marissa could see Steven shockingly close to her, no more than a foot away, his head facing her and looking down as he inspected the faucet. His voice was muffled due to the barrier between them, but she could hear him say, "Is this the leaking faucet?"
The man appeared in the bathroom behind Steven, and Marissa was surprised to see him come up very close behind Steven, put his arms around him and with his hands began to caress his chest through his shirt. She saw the change in Steven's face, as he accepted the man's touches and even leaned back a little into him. The man, emboldened, brought his face close to Steven's ear and spoke to him in a voice too soft for Marissa to hear, but she saw Steven's eyes close and a dreamy look spread over his face. The man's hands moved more firmly now over Steven's torso, exploring his pectorals and his stomach, and then proceeding to undo the button's on Steven's work shirt so he could slip his hands inside to the bare skin.
Seeing this seduction of one man by another from a distance of two feet made Marissa's breathing accelerate, and a moistness began between her legs. She slipped her own hands under her shirt and began caressing her own chest.
Very quickly the man had Steven's shirt fully unbuttoned, and they disentangled long enough for Steven to pull it the rest of the way off while the man simultaneously peeled his own shirt off. Now Maria was treated to the site of two hot men with their shirts off, both staring at each other with erotic intent.
Their two bodies came together in an embrace, torso to torso, face to face, mouth to mouth, and now she could see only Steven's back as the man's hands moved feverishly over his exposed skin there. Within a few seconds, though, the man's strong hands moved down to grip Steven's buttocks through his jeans, and she could see how firmly he was squeezing them. She knew how sensitive Steven's buttocks were and how much he liked it when she touched him there, and his moan was loud enough for her to hear clearly.
