Earlier (Part 1)
: Hans, a fresh graduate from the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain was now a young recruit at an European multinational firm with an assignment in a small Asian town; little more than an overgrown village. For eight months, he had endured the rigours of his posting and the continuous efforts of his veiled provocative attempts at seducing a 45-year old housemaid. Finally, the social and language barriers between them had succumbed to the libidinous desires that both had surreptitiously harboured towards each other. The 24-hour tryst with the raw, rustic, voluptuous and hirsute maid had brought him to the pinnacle of hedonistic and decadent carnality. And for her, Matty (real name Maitri), years of dormant sensuality and lust had erupted into a climactic apogee of sexual release.
Previously (Part 2)
: Hans' regular maid, Maitri, had been unable to come for work one extended weekend and had sent her young well-educated daughter instead. That was the first time Hans met Rupali (also called Rupa) but their relationship had blossomed from strangers to lovers in the short span of 12 hours. It was also the first time that she'd had sex with a man, her previous sexual experiences having been either with a girlfriend or playing with herself. He had found her unbelievably attractive; she had the most beautifully exquisite looking face he had ever seen and a curvaceous body that was buxom and lithe. They had spent 48 hours together, drinking and making love for most of that time.
Now (Part 3)
: It was just two days before Christmas and Hans was nearing the end of his tenure in this sleepy one-horse town where he had been assigned to for the last 12 months. By year-end he would be gone; first for a well deserved holiday back in Paris with his parents and friends, and then return to this country but to the capital city where his company's regional headquarters was located.
For eight months he had lived like an abstemious monk with no women for sexual company. And then one day, the social and language barriers between him and his maid (whom he called Matty) disappeared in a haze of unadulterated carnality as they both found release for their pent-up desire for each other. Since that momentous day, they had unfettered sex almost every weekend. Their lovemaking was limited to Saturdays and Sundays only because he was always at work when she came during the week. The only time they missed out on their regular liaisons was when Maitri had to go out of town or was otherwise unable to come and do her chores.
It was on one such occasion, when she went to another town to visit her uncle, that she sent her college-going daughter, Rupali, to fill in for her. The chemistry between Hans and Rupa was instantaneous, and he had to fight the moral demons in his head when his thoughts began to take on salacious overtones. The dishonourableness of having sex with both mother and daughter had tortured him initially, but the lust and the passion that fired up between Rupa and him were too seductive to resist. And even though the apparent disloyalty plagued him for weeks afterwards, he justified it by telling himself that there had been no promises of exclusivity between any of them.
Rupa and her younger sister lived with their mother in a two-room hovel on the edge of a shantytown about three kilometres away from Hans' apartment. His company paid her well for looking after the apartment they had rented and frequently used as a guest house for visitors from the capital or other offices of theirs. That day, about three and a half months ago, when Maitri returned from visiting her uncle, she thought she noticed a change in her elder daughter's demeanour. She couldn't put a finger on it but felt something of consequence had happened to Rupa during her absence.
"So, you met Hansa? What did you think of him?" mother asked daughter, trying to finagle out some information.
"Yes, I met him Mama. Nice person. Very polite," she said, avoiding her mother's probing gaze. Then, after a while, she said "I can go next weekend as well if you're going to be busy. No problem!"
Maitri looked quizzically at Rupali and said "No. You should be studying for your mid-term examinations; not doing stupid housemaid chores." College was going to open in another few days and the tests were scheduled for the first week itself. Maitri had invested much of her life bringing up the two girls after her husband left; she had ensured that they got a decent education and now the elder daughter would soon graduate, probably with flying colours. She wanted her to do well in life, forge a career for herself and not push her into a marriage too early. She wanted everything for her children that she never had for herself.
But Rupali was desperate to meet Hans again, or at least see him. She had hoped to be able to plot some way of doing so but it was beginning to seem impossible as the days wore on. Her mother went every day, seven days a week, and she herself soon began her daily trips to the college which was in a neighbouring town. She got up at 5 o'clock every morning, took a long bus ride to attend her classes, and came home exhausted at 6:00 pm every evening. On weekends, she studied at home while Mama went to clean and cook for Hans.
On more than one occasion, Rupa had hinted to her mother that she could go and do Hans' household chores but tried not to sound too needy or despairing lest Mama get suspicious. But Maitri already suspected. She wasn't jealous or anything; there was nothing proprietary about her sexual trysts with Hans. And she knew that Rupa would one day soon leave home to start a career and then she would be beyond any kind of maternal control; she would likely meet a boy she wanted to have sex with and there would be nothing that Maitri would be able to do. But for now, she ensured that Rupa devoted her time to her studies instead of romping around with men.
One day, mid-week, Hans was returning from a project site he had visited. He was roaring down on his 300 cc BMW G310R motorcycle on the same highway that connected his township to the neighbouring one where Rupali went to college. Traffic was light on the relatively narrow two-lane expressway but as he approached the turn-off for his municipality, he had to slow down and stop behind an inter-city bus. As he waited patiently for passengers to disembark, he spotted a woman in a shirt and skirt and knew instinctively that it was Rupa. She had a shawl wrapped around her and a large shoulder bag under it.
It was almost two months after they had last met; the monsoon season had long given way to the start of winter and the day temperatures had dropped to the high teens. The evenings and nights were considerably colder. While the bus started moving, he put his bike in gear and rolled it forward, took the turning and stopped about 20 metres beyond Rupa. As he saw her approach in his rear-view side mirror, he removed his crash helmet so that she'd be able to recognise him. Not wanting to make eye contact with strangers, she walked past him till he said "Why are you ignoring me, young lady?"
Rupa immediately recognised Hans' voice and swivelled around, almost screaming "Bhaiya!!!" Then she brought her hand to her mouth and looked around surreptitiously, hoping no one had heard or seen her. "Bhaiya" was a respectable term for a brother and was used quite commonly in these parts.
"C'mon, I'll give you a lift home," he said.
She didn't wait for a second invitation; despite wearing a skirt, she straddled the bike and nestled close against him as they began the ride over severely pot-holed lanes. He was wearing a biker's leather jacket and she managed to find a way to snuggle her hands inside it. Hans risked taking one hand off the handlebar and reached behind him to caress her bare left shin; the skirt had ridden up to her knees and she would feel the cold against her limbs. But despite wanting to feel her up, he needed both hands to manoeuvre the heavy machine around the ditches in the tarmac.
Over the next ten minutes, he would skirt the shantytown where Matty lived with her daughters and then go all around the pasture to the other side where his house was located. Neither of them spoke but each one knew they wanted to go directly to Hans' apartment. She would be late getting back to her house and although her mother wouldn't be overly concerned, Rupa knew that she would be questioned. She'd just have to lie and say she'd had a late class in college; that did happen every once in a while.
Hans parked his motorcycle in the shed where he normally kept it at night, and pulled the rolling shutter down. They went up the stairs in a hurry, barely managing to keep their hands off each other. He unlocked and pushed open the door, placed his helmet on a low side table and turned around to take Rupa in his arms. Still wearing their shoes, they wrapped their arms around one another as their mouths met in a heated kiss of passion. Their lips pressed each other's, tongues flailing in a liquid dance.