CHAPTER 1
It was summer and the city sweltered. Pete had arrived the previous afternoon and after a good night's sleep felt horny. A couple of maids with dark eyes and cocoa skin came in, giggling, to do his room. They were from a Third World country and were probably used to being asked for it.
"Good morning ladies," he leered.
They took two paces back and looked at him fearfully.
"Do you speak English?"
The taller one nodded and said a little.
"I want a woman... in bed."
"We are married. We don't mess around. I get a bellboy. They sell phone numbers of sluts."
"Um, I wasn't interested in sluts. I want a woman who makes beds."
"You must not talk like this to us. We are good women; married women. Please leave us to do our work."
"Certainly ma'am. Your work is important to help feed your husband eh?
She bowed at him and spoke to her companion in a foreign language and the younger woman visibly relaxed.
Pete put four bottles of beer, a towel and swimsuit in a carry bag and gathered his floppy sunhat and shades. "I'm off to the rooftop pool," he said grandly.
"No sluts up there," the taller one said pointedly.
"I'm really a very nice guy."
The woman's expression indicated she knew a liar when she saw one.
There were a dozen people poolside, mostly in pairs. A woman alone with dark shades stared at him, or at least in his direction.
He took the sun loafer beside her and said, "Hello, I'm Pete" and was ignored. Either that or she was profoundly deaf.
Pete had accepted voluntary redundancy from the car assembly plant as a supervisor, one of the affects of downsizing. The oafs at head office had ignored market trends and left the plant spewing out gas-hungry pickups that fewer people wanted. Because he'd work there for eight years he'd received a fat severance check and had come to New York to spend some of it on women and booze. The broads weren't lining up for him but the supply of booze was endless.
He opened a bottle of beer, ignoring the signs that stated no glass containers, and heard the tight-ass next to him mutter, for his benefit, "Good god, beer and it's only 9:15."
Well ma'am, Pete felt like saying, it may only be 9:15 but already its fucking hot and beer goes down well under these sticky conditions. Unless you drink the heat will suck the moisture out of you and your tits will flop on you like a hag's. Grrrr, he thought and grinned. If he said that it would get her motor running!
Pete looked at her... about his age in her early forties. The face appeared to be well-kept, fancy nails, not much of a belly, thighs were a little heavy but she looked as if she could grind back at a guy for a good hour at least.
She got up out of her loafer and he sucked in breath. Her tits were good 'uns, very shapely. The temptation to touch his dick was resisted.
She struggled with the sun umbrella but nothing happened.
"Sir, would you please assist me?"
Pete jumped to his feet and said, "Yeah, what part of you needs assistance?"
The fading blonde looked at him sharply until she caught the grin.
"Oh funny boy. I would like the umbrella to shade me completely."
"There's quite a lot of you to shade," Pete said, staring at her tits so she didn't think he was alleging she was fat. You can call a woman a fat cunt and perhaps get away with it but simply call her fat and you risk decapitation.
A quick check and Pete declared, "This mechanism is seized."
"Darn, I'll have to shift."
"No, stay here... I'm enjoying your company."
She looked at him, raising an eyebrow.
Pete seized the two bent bars bedded into the concrete base for handles and frog-marched the umbrella up against the wall behind them. He then carried the umbrella from the vacant sun loafer on the other side of her and placed where the other umbrella had been.
"You're strong."
"I work out quite a bit. I wish to retain my youth as long as possible."
"Me too."
"Is there a bra built into that swimsuit?"
"No."
Pete grinned and said she was doing a pretty decent job at keeping a girlish figure. She positively beamed at him.
Guys on the assembly line who fancied themselves as great with the ladies talked about situations like this. If you get the woman a little left of center fake an apology.
"Look that remark was far too personal. Slap me, I won't mind."
"Oh don't be silly. That comment has made my day, truly. I suppose you think my thighs are too heavy."
"Yeah, but if you wear your dress length down to six inches above your knee whoever would know about your thighs? You probably do that anyway. From what I can see of the back of your lower legs if you were in heels I'd find it compulsory to take a second look."
"Are you flirting with me?"
Pete frowned and pushed her right of center. "I thought we were having a serious discussion."
"Oh I apologize. So we were. It's just that I wasn't confident you were."
"Now we have cleared that up jump onto your bed and I'll adjust the umbrella to fully protect you from the sun."
She eyed him at work and then said, "Oh that's perfect."
"Good, ready for a beer? Beer is only fortified water that is fermented. It should be compulsory drinking in humid weather like this."
"I understood only nonalcoholic drinks should be consumed when it' excessively hot; it's expected to reach 93 degrees today and be steamy."
"Ma'am, coffee is bad for us but we drink it. I say from experience beer is okay but I sure wouldn't guzzle a half dozen stiff martinis when the weather is boiling."
Apparently that topic hit a dead end because she was on to another. "My name is Cassandra Phelps. I'm here to celebrate my divorce."
"Oh, technically I had one of these two years ago. My wife became pregnant to one of our neighbors and ran off with him and our two kids."
"Oh, how dreadful."
"Yeah, for the kids. They liked me better than her. I did nothing to chase after Sharon and the kids and don't know where they are. I'm Peter Somers, but am called Pete. I've come here to have a bit of a fling after becoming redundant as an assembly line supervisor. That's why I came over here when I saw you, guessed you were about my age and looking lovely. "
"Are you talking about having sex with me?"
"Yeah. So now do you run or stay and call security?"
"If you don't mind I'm happy to stay here talking with you. I find you a little rough at the edges, but really quite interesting."