Chapter 12
RACHEL AWOKE IN AN EMPTY BED. Her bed, but where was Elise? There was sunlight coming through the windows, something she almost never saw in her room. Their work started before dawn and continued until ten or so. Really, the only recreation she ever got was her late night run. Unless you counted getting rented. But how often did she enjoy that? Most of the time they just wanted a blowjob, even though her menu was, so to speak
prix fixe.
She absentmindedly started to rub herself, then realized her bowels and bladder were very full. She darted into the bathroom to fix that, then it was her stomach that was complaining. What was that pyramid of human needs? Oh yeah, thirsty too. That she could do something about. That left hungry and horny, probably in that order. Which made a visit to the terrace cafe the next priority. Elise would most likely be there, too. Rachel wondered what it would be like to rent her roommate, to do in public what they did for free in private.
She rinsed off quickly. No need to bother getting dressed. At this hour, if there were customers on the terrace they'd all be naked. Which reminded her, what had happened to the stuff Nestor had dumped on the bed before they went out for their run? No sign of it. Stranger and stranger. Maybe Elise could fill her in on what had happened in the last twelve hours.
Or Nestor. Maybe she should call Nestor. Meet him at the terrace. That sounded like a good idea to find out what had happened, and to satisfy the next remaining need on the pyramid (hunger) and maybe the one after that. But what was his number? She looked in her call log. Rocco had called her, but never Nestor. Of course she had insisted they leave the phones behind last night. Well, on the room phone then. She called the front desk.
"Hey Rachel. How are you feeling?" It was Edna.
"Okay, I guess. A little sore. Say, can you do me a favor? Connect me with Nestor..." She trailed off. She had no idea what his last name was.
"Nestor who?"
"I'm not sure. How many Nestors can there be?"
A pause. Then the answer, "Zero, as far as I can tell."
"Shit. He checked out?"
Another pause. "I'm not seeing any Nestors this week."
"That's not possible. He was in the restaurant the night before last. The guy in the blue suit who was fucking Bea, I mean Melanie. It was all over the internet." She started to search on her phone for 'Mel cheats on Steve'. Nothing. She had watched that video a dozen times, wishing it had been her, slowing it down to analyze each thrust. Now it was gone. She should have downloaded it. Wait, she
had
downloaded it. But it had vanished from her phone also. Who or what could do that? She remembered Anna's warning. Not just kill him, erase him.
But what about all the people who had seen him? Touched him? Who knew that he existed, at least had existed? There was an obvious solution, one that made her very scared. Erase them also. Oh well. Eat drink and be merry. She might as well go down to the terrace to see if Elise was there to satisfy one or possibly two of her needs.
"There you are!" Her roommate came running over to embrace her as she stepped onto the terrace. The place was almost empty, not surprisingly. It was after breakfast and before lunch. There was a middle aged man reading a newspaper while a somewhat younger woman was giving him a blowjob. An endless one, so it seemed. He sighed and turned the page, and she stopped until he patted her head to start up again. Rachel noticed then that the woman was wearing a studded collar. And an anal plug with a horse hair tail that looked like a little flogger.
"They've been at it all morning," Elise whispered. "They were showing off more when there was a crowd. He was pulling out the tail and making her clean off the plug, then whipping her with it. Then they rented me for a bit."
"You let them?"
"They offered me triple, if I would let them go for twenty minutes. So I checked with the kitchen and they said go for it."
"Did he whip you? With the tail?"
"A little. You ever try that?"
"No."
"I liked it. He had me lean over a chair and he whipped my butt, not the cheeks, but right in the middle. He was really good. Most of the strokes were getting my clit."
"You came?"
"You better believe I came. I mean, I would have put on a show for them anyway, but I came for real. Everyone was cheering. Then she licked my ass for a while and then he fucked me there for a while, then she stuck her tongue all the way in and wiggled it."
"You came again?"
A nod. "Then he started to sodomize me again, and she got underneath and licked my pussy."
"And?" Another nod.
"Then the twenty minutes were up. They've just been doing the blow job for almost an hour now."
Just then the man gestured to Elise, and she went over to see what he wanted. To rent her again? No, it was only to refill his coffee. But when she came back she said, "They were eavesdropping. They want to know if you want to try the same thing."
"For free?"
"For four hundred euros. That's what they wound up paying me."
"I need breakfast first. We need to talk."