I strongly advise reading Part 1 to understand the characters and context of the story. Warning: these chapters include nudity, watching porn, voyeurism and masturbation.
Chapter Three
I woke up around seven-thirty after a great sleep. The sun was shining, and all seemed right with the world. My world anyway. The world outside was probably still a mess. Rob had clearly already had breakfast and, as I discovered, done a bunch of chores. I wondered what time his day started. I found him in the cow shed standing by one of the cows.
"Good Morning!" I said, standing there in my boots, PJs, and parka.
"Good Morning! Did you sleep well? Have you had breakfast? I can get you something."
"Yes, I slept very well, and No, I have not had breakfast yet, but I can get it myself. No need to disturb you." I paused and watched him. "You won't remember but when I was eight, we came here, and Aunt Jill taught me how to milk the cows."
"I don't imagine you have had much chance to practice since. Why not take a turn?"
He pulled over a stool and I sat down. He put a bucket between my legs and handed me some nitrile gloves. "Nowadays we use gloves."
I put them on, took hold of two of the udders and began the firm squeeze and pull-down technique I remembered. For a moment nothing happened but then there was a satisfying stream of milk from each udder to the pail. When the stream of milk stopped, I had almost filled the pail.
"Well done! I'll take over from here. You obviously remembered well."
I thought better of telling him about the injury I had almost caused my first boyfriend, when I thought the same technique could be used for a hand job. Maybe, if we got better acquainted. It meant I would never forget the technique though.
"I'll go and get dressed and have some breakfast."
After breakfast I went back up to the studio. As I predicted He had tidied up. While the stack of landscapes, still life art and renditions of animals was still there, the nude studies of him had been put away, possibly in the locked metal cabinet that stood against one wall. I decided to use the studio myself and began with a series of quick pencil sketches of the outbuildings and the horses. Later when he dropped by and offered constructive criticism, I began to get an idea.
The next day I drew a nude of an imaginary young woman and deliberately got the proportions wrong. When he stopped by, he pointed out the most obvious errors. "You have the head too small. That's a common mistake. Also, the breasts are too close together. Look at your own in the mirror." I resisted the urge to pull my shirt over my head and say "You look at them" right there and then.
"I guess I'm better with animals" I said. Considering I was one of the best in my life drawing classes this was a joke, but he did not know.
"Did Aunt Jill ever draw or paint life studies or portraits?"
"Yes, she did. I think she had a talent for it."
"Do have any you could show me?"
He hesitated. Was he really going to refuse?
"I'll see if I can find some that might be helpful to you."
"Thank you." Now I would just have to wait and see.
Watching the news on my laptop, I was starting to become familiar with the new vocabulary. There were shortages everywhere of PPE or personal protective equipment. Nowhere more so than here at the farm, where we did not have a mask to share between us. We did have plenty of gloves as they were in regular use now when looking after the animals. It did not really matter as Rob and I were the only ones in contact with each other. We were in the new parlance a "bubble." That made me chuckle thinking of our shower together. However, since then sadly it had become a damned awkward bubble.
After our sauna experience, we were tiptoeing round each other for a couple of days. I tried to behave normally, but he was as skittish as a pregnant mare. We ate together and talked about the news and made bland conversation about topics of the day but that was it. I felt our relationship had taken three steps backwards, even though he was always anxious to make sure I had everything I needed. Everything that is except him. I could not get him out of my mind. Was this a teenage-style crush or Stockholm syndrome?
He excused himself to go to his office at the slightest opportunity. Over the next few days much to my disappointment we did not share a sauna, hot tub, or shower. Although I continued to use them, the sauna and hot tub were not nearly as much fun on my own.
Apparently, Rob had a large order of groceries delivered every two weeks and an order of booze on a less regular basis. Otherwise, our food needs were met by the farm itself. For the time being I had brought a good supply of toiletries and feminine products. It appeared that even here Amazon could deliver almost anything I might want if I were prepared to wait for it. Their shipping focus had shifted to COVID essentials.
Every day on the news I saw the latest news on the spread of COVID and heard updates from the Chief Medical officer and the Prime Minister and other politicians and health specialists on the spread of the pandemic. Thankfully, it seemed much more under control than in our neighbour to the south. There were some serious outbreaks in certain seniors' long-term care homes but not much in the wider community. As far as I could tell there were no cases locally.
As the days passed, we still went riding together, but he was not going to repeat what he clearly thought of as an error of judgement. He seemed to believe he was my moral guardian. I don't know if my mum had said something or it was just a notion of his own. Pretty insulting considering I'm over twenty.
I made a practice of leaving my curtains open when I got ready for bed, but I was not sure if he ever spied on me or not. I began to walk to and from the bathroom whenever I took a shower with my robe loosely tied and occasionally falling open. But he was rarely in my side of the house, and if he knew I didn't elicit a single comment, not even an admonition. It was as though he had stopped seeing me. When I closed the curtains and got into bed, I would summon up memories of his naked body and his stiffening cock, which in my fantasies would grow to unimaginable proportions, although never too large for my insatiable cunt.
My unforgivable packing error was that I had not thought to bring my toys. Yes, those toys. The ones we depend on for satisfaction even when we are getting regular sex. And at this point in my life, I had had precious few relationship where I was getting sex regularly. I had to make do with my fingers and a suitably shaped plastic bottle of liquid soap.