"It looks like another lovely afternoon to sunbathe by the pool for you, Rachel."
Those had been Jack's last words to her after their breakfast encounter. At the time she had simply nodded and gone off in a daze, to stand numbly in her room, and later to shower. The cold water, however, followed by hot, had cleared her mind. She turned the sentence over in her mind. Rachel had realized that her enigmatic host almost always spoke with layered meanings. Given what had just happened this morning, and what had happened the other day by the pool, the meaning here was obvious.
Rachel paused in the shower, in the midst of washing herself, shocked by the audacity of what he was suggesting. Even as she pondered that, another realization hit her. Could he be watching her right now?
Rachel had grown accustomed to the idea of a camera in her room, though she had not found it exactly. It was foolishly naΓ―ve, but she had to admit she'd never thought about the bathroom. Of course he would want to watch her here, would he not? Was there anywhere in the house he could not see her if he wanted to?
Suddenly every touch of her soapy cloth to her skin was wrought with tension. Was he watching this, as she stroked the cloth down her side, brushing the side of her breast? Did he watch as she leaned back to rinse her hair, her breasts pointing up into the air?
Despite having just cum 20 minutes earlier, Rachel could feel her body heating up again. With a cry of near despair she pressed herself against the wall of the shower and rubbed the cloth against her crotch. Feet spread on the slippery tiles, she worked it against her hot pussy, wincing as the rough fabric worked over her sore clit. Despite how utterly worn out she felt, she came again, not as strong as this morning certainly but still a climax that left her knees weak, and Rachel stumbling wet from the shower.
The worst part was that this didn't resolve anything. She thought she could feel Jack's eyes on her even as she toweled off and dressed in her bikini. And even then, every move she made was with consideration of how it would look to a watcher.
As she snapped her bikini into place, looking in the mirror at how it barely contained her tanned breasts, and highlighted the lines of her hips, Rachel was thinking of that chair by the pool. Last time she had awoken there, ashamed and horrified to find herself being stared at by a crowd of Jack's friends. Yet here she was, dressing to sit there again, knowing that Jack had in mind some kind of encore. Was she not ashamed anymore, to think of some stranger ogling her body? Was she not afraid of what might happen, of what that might mean? Or was she simply too aroused to think through the consequences, the meaning?
All Rachel knew was that here she was, now reclining in the pool chair, watching that Italian sun dance on the rippling water. Sitting and wondering whether she should tan topless again. Was she meant to do so? Was there something wrong with her that she cared what Mr. Morrison meant for her to do? Was there anything that he would expect of her that she would not do? As Rachel unclasped her top and rolled onto her stomach she had to admit that so far the answer was no.
Jack was starting to learn her expressions, and as he watched her in the shower, he wondered if he'd ever watched someone think the way he watched Rachel. I must have, he thought, I've watched people my whole life, and yet at that moment he doubted his own history, his experience, because even looking through the cameras at Rachel soaping her breasts and then rubbing the cloth between her legs, he felt she was almost talking to him. He was convinced that she'd just at that moment realized he might be watching her there in what she previously thought was a sanctuary.
And instead of crying out in frustration or annoyance, she reacted the way he might have hoped but not truly expected, not so quickly after her the session in the kitchen. He rubbed himself sitting in his office, marveling at his good fortune, as Rachel brought herself to an orgasm and then dressed in her bikini. She wanted to sit by the pool, not shop or sightsee or read a book or write a letter. She planned to sunbathe by the pool as he suggested, and while she arranged and tucked her breasts into her bikini, he texted his British friend Geoffrey: "She'll be ready for you at 1."
He did feel a bit guilty about the sedative that had induced her first nap by the pool, and told himself that this time she knew what was coming, and, he thought, reading her eyes as she admired her own body in the full length bedroom mirror, that she was excited about the opportunity to repeat the game, to submit to the game. He waited in his office, sensed more than heard her pass a few feet outside on her way to the pool. His cock twinged when she removed her top and rolled onto her stomach.
In the kitchen he found Isabella and asked her to make some of the special lemonade for their guest and to bring it to her by the pool. He watched her make the lemonade and smiled as Isabella backed her way through the French doors to the pool, the tray in one hand, her other hand unzipping the top of the uniform to expose her cleavage.
The sound of footsteps roused Rachel from her reverie, and she opened her eyes, raising up from the chair to see who it was. Isabella walked slowly toward her, a tray in her hand. Of course it carried a single glass of lemonade. Hadn't Rachel known it would?
Rachel was aware of how her breasts hung down below her, bared, as she lifted herself up on her elbows. Then again Isabella's breasts were quite a sight themselves, crushed together in her tight uniform. Rachel wondered if Jack was watching this from some window, through some camera, the two women in his house, staring at each other in the hot sun.
Rachel turned on her side and sat up. Every instinct within her was straining to cover up her chest, but she resisted them. She sat, hopefully looking calm and collected, as her heart hammered in her chest. "Is that for me?" Rachel asked casually, sitting up the rest of the way now.
Rachel could feel the sunlight on her bare breasts, feel her nipples hardening under the housekeeper's gaze. She could no longer pretend she didn't like this, being seen, being watched. Isn't that why she took the lemonade from Isabella without a comment? Knowing what was in it, and knowing what she might wake up to.
"It's so nice of you to bring it out for me," Rachel said, the cool glass almost too cold in her hand. She blinked in the light as she raised the glass to her lips, drinking it slowly as if daring Isabella to watch. Was she crazy, doing this? It didn't seem so right now, but maybe Italy was driving her crazy, the cameras, Jack, all of it driving her to do something anyone would say was perverted, if not dangerous.
Rachel sat and drank down the glass of cold lemonade, all the while her breasts bared to the admiring housekeeper. "I'll just be laying out for a bit longer if anyone needs me," she said, setting the glass down beside her, admiring her own ability to seem so casual.
Lying back in the lounge chair, she closed her eyes, even while Isabella still watched her. She could feel her nipples go rock hard at that, that sense of not seeing but being seen. Her hands clenched at her side, wanting to cover herself or touch herself, but she laid calm, laid quiet and waited for the sleep to come.