This is my first story, comments and advice welcome please!
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Being a hotel barman has its ups, and its downs, if you'll pardon the pun. I work in a 4* hotel in Blackpool, a town described as England's answer to Las Vegas. As its that little bit classier than the guest houses that populate the majority of the 'Golden Mile', we attract a different kind of clientele. We cater for the businessman and woman, and also the well to do family, not wanting to travel abroad for a short break.
With my shifts running at different times throughout the day, if I'm working a late shift followed by a lunchtime one, more often than not, I'll stay over in one of the rooms not booked out by the public. It's handy as it makes it very hard to be late for work!!!
After a while you get used to dealing with drunks, while the men tend to get violent and angry when they have a few too many, the female of the species tends to lose her inhibitions and let herself go somewhat.
It had been a fairly dull night until this point. A bawdy hen party entertained earlier on, and the men in the clubs they were about to hit didn't know what was about to hit them. A couple were flirting with me, but that's all part of the job, and if you take it further, you have to be very careful that you don't get caught and luckily, touch wood, it hasn't happened yet....
I'd seen Jane earlier in the day. She'd come to the hotel with her husband and two brats, sorry kids. She'd looked a little stressed, maybe a bad journey or nagging kids, the usual for most mothers that you see here I'd guess. I'm usually good at guessing age, and I'd have said Jane was in her late thirties, but looking good for it.
I was quite surprised to see her enter the bar alone, though as she was dressed up, I expected her husband to be down shortly.
"What can I get you Madam?" I asked.
"Gin and tonic please barman" she replied.
I couldn't help but notice the way she dressed. She perched on her stool with her short skirt showing off her stocking clad legs, while a pair of knee-high boots almost made me forget her order. Her breasts showed no sign of sagging in her neat black blouse, and her shoulder length brown hair accentuated her facial features, deep brown eyes, and lips which weren't too big, but neither were too small.
"Can I get you anything else?"
"Not at the moment, thank you."
She sat there, and sipped on her G&T, and I stood there, waiting for her husband. It was just after midnight, so expected he wouldn't be too long before he arrived....
Time passed, and 3 or 4 G&T's, and Jane still sat there alone.
"Jason," she said, staring at the name badge on my uniform, "do you think I'm attractive?"
"Well, Miss, you are a beautiful lady. Your husband is a very lucky man" I replied, turning on the charm, and hopefully bumping up my tips.
"So why is he upstairs, snoring his head off, while his wife is downstairs?"
"I don't kn...."
"It's the nanny, I caught them at it. I came home from a shopping trip, he'd said he was away on a business trip, but I heard noises from upstairs, I saw his clothes on the stairs and peeked around the bedroom door. He was there on top of her, fucking her harder than he'd ever done to me, I could here her moaning while tears filled my eyes and hit the floor."
"I'm sorry to..."
"Sorry isn't good enough though, it's not your fault, it's his! He's the one throwing 15 years of marriage, and two gorgeous kids away, and what for? A cheap shag with a girl half my age?"
Tears began to well in her eyes. I handed her a tissue, and she grabbed hold of my hand.
"I want to know I'm still attractive, still sexy. We haven't slept together in over 6 months now, I try everything to get him in the mood, but he just turns over and falls asleep. Expensive underwear, quiet nights in, just the two of us, even when I attempt to go down on him, he just pushes me away. I can't cope anymore."
I didn't know what to say. Hey, I've broken my fair share of hearts over the years, but there's a big difference between teenage relationships and a 15-year marriage.
"Jason, please, will you help me, I just keep drinking my self stupid and all I want is love, a hug, a cuddle, someone to make love to me."
Was this drunken come on? Something to regret in the morning? Or a mercy mission, saving this beautiful woman from a sexless life?