Setting the last floor-board in place, Liam screwed it down. He preferred using screws to the original nails, as they would not pull back out or cause that squeakiness often associated with lose floor-boards. He had just laid the carpet back in place when his phone 'tinkled', advising him that he had a message. He pulled his phone from his pocket and saw that his mum had messaged. 'Hello. It is 5.30. Am starting to cook dinner. Are you nearly done?' As usually she finished the message with a throbbing heart emoji.
He smiled and sent back. 'Just finished. Will wait for Izzy to get back to make sure she is happy. She should be here any time now as she said she leaves work at 17:00.' He pressed send. And popped his phone back into his pocket. He was about to move the bed back into place when he got another message. He looked at his phone. 'Where's my kiss then?' (Throbbing heart emoji). He had forgotten to put a 'X' at the end of his message to his mum, so sent her 20 of them. Then in a separate message, 'Happy now? Xx.'
He waited for her response. His phone 'tinkled' again. 'That's better. Can't have you forgetting about me, now you have a new girlfriend.' (Smiling, winking and throbbing heart emoji). He sent back in capitals, 'MOTHER!' Purposefully leaving off any kisses and popped the phone back in his pocket. Lifting up the foot of the bed, he set it back to where Izzy had it, then he did the same with the head of the bed, making sure it was straight. He didn't need to vacuum, as he had made very little mess in the end. He was not surprised to see that Izzy had moved her sex toy. She had obviously realised that he had seen it. His phone 'tinkled' and made him smile. He assumed it was his mother again, asking for another 'X' at the end of his message. So, he ignored it for now.
Clearing up all of his tools into his tool-chest. He looked around one last time to make sure he had not left anything, and that all was as he found it. Happy that he had done a good job, he went down the stairs to the utility room to screw the socket face-plates back in place. On the way down, his phone advised him of another couple of messages. He laughed, thinking that he would make his mother wait before responding. As he tightened the final screw, his phone received another few messages. He was about to reach into his pocket when he heard Izzy come in through the front door.
"Hello? You still here Liam?"
"Hello Izzy, in the utility room."
Izzy walked around the corner and looked at Liam. Liam felt that the look was one of expectation, like she was waiting for a reaction or something from him, she looked flushed and excited, eager almost to see him? He wrongly assuming that she wanted to know how he had got on. So, wiping his fingerprints from the white socket he said. "Well, it is all done. I replaced the wire completely. Here look." He rummaged in his tool box and pulled out the cable and moved in close to Izzy to show her. "Look, you can see where the mouse had chewed the outer and inner insulation away, exposing the wire. One bite then touched the two cables together and bang, no lights and no mouse!
Don't worry, I disposed of the body." He winked at her, "That can be our little secret." He smiled, finding that he was pleased to be this close to her. Her perfume smelt expensive; a mix of heady scent and the animal rawness of female pheromones; it had been freshly applied he thought. It was both exciting and intoxicating. He had noted that Izzy had secured the top couple of buttons on her blouse, so that she did not show too much cleavage at work. He turned away from her with difficulty and moved back to drop the wire in his tool box. His body seemed to be resisting the separation from the voluptuous woman. He grabbed the rag he had been using and wiped down his hands.
"As I said, I have filled all the holes that I could find, but those little buggers can pretty much get in anywhere. So, I can't guarantee it won't happen again. For now though, the repair is as good as it would have been when new. I prefer to screw, than nail the boards in place, stops them creaking, so have done than for all those that I removed. If you find you need some more 'screwing done', then call me. Oh and I have left your bedroom as I found it, clean and tidy."
Izzy appeared to him to be a little confused or dumfounded. Her face was quizzical, she showed no real interest in what he was saying about the repair. And didn't even react to his own innuendo about 'screwing'. He suddenly clicked why and his eyes involuntarily went to the drier. 'Oh God,' he thought, 'She has noticed a pair of her knickers are missing. You idiot Liam, you flipping idiot!'
"Sorry Liam." Izzy broke the awkward silence; "I am just a little overwhelmed at how you have come to my rescue and spent a whole day sorting out my problem." She turned and walked back into the kitchen. Coming back almost immediately with an expensive bottle of wine. "I got you this as a thank you. I...I..."
"Now Izzy, I said that I didn't need anything? It was my day off, so I would only have been getting greasy under that old car of mine. This really has been no problem."
"I insist," she said. "You don't know what this has meant to me." She leaned forwards and kissed him on the cheek as shyly as might an eighteen-year-old. She smelled the maleness of him in his sweat and found it to be an aphrodisiac. Her insides began to churn again with need. Having had three orgasms that day already, was obviously not enough, for her body wanted more, she was immediately hot with lust and getting wet, but was already accepting that what she had planned to be the culmination of her plan, had gone awry. Even so, that one peck had her nipples announcing their arrival on the scene and her petals began to bloom for the forth time that day. It would seem that when she was about him, her body controlled her, rather than the other way around.
Liam's phone chimed again. He looked down to where it was in his pocket, grateful that his mum was chasing him. He had an excuse to get out of there before she broached the subject of her missing panties. "Look, I've gotta go..." Liam witnessed the small swellings of Izzy's nipples enlarge before him. The clean lines of Izzy's blouse, suddenly disturbed by the very prominent protrusions as they reached full erection. Her breathing had become a little erratic and she seemed to be flushed about the neck and top of her chest. It was probably the first time that he had witnessed a woman's nipples erecting. He wondered what was turning her on. He struggled to control his voice and his thoughts as he continued his conversation. "That'll be mum, telling me that my dinner is ready. Thank you for the wine. I will not be ungracious and not accept it. But for all future jobs, unless they are really big ones, no payment ok?"
