I was finishing up in the rose garden when I heard giggles and whoops coming from inside the house. The white silk curtains were billowing out the open French doors and streaming across the flagstone patio.
I crossed the lawn with a bucketful of rose blooms ready for Flora to arrange in vases throughout the house. In early autumn, the best way of prolonging the late blush of blooms is to pick them on a daily basis.
My nameâs Charlene, and Iâm the gardener at The Willows, the country homestead of Flora and her family. Most of the time her twin daughters are away at boarding school, and I never knew her husband, long since departed. I graduated five years ago with a degree in horticulture and a burning passion for Flora, whom I met when I was on a placement at the local nursery.
Not that Flora knew that I longed for her lissom limbs to be entwined around my shoulders and my face to be busily buried in her twat. Oooooooooh, noooooooo. And to Flora I was Charlie the Gardener, though I did notice that whenever I wore my tight khaki shorts with my Blundstone boots and work socks, she often stayed on the terrace and watched my departure down the driveway at the end of the day. I always sashayed my arse a little as I went. Once she even ran her hand down one of my long tanned leg, telling me she was sure she saw a bug on me. I dunno about that, but it sure felt good!
Not that that particular fantasy had any chance of coming true today. I was about to leave as soon as I deposited the cut roses on the patio, and Flora was out, not due back until late that evening.
Then I remembered that Floraâs girls, Daisy and Marguerite were coming home this weekend, and I guessed the noise coming from inside the house heralded their arrival. The girls went away at thirteen, the week after I started the job. I had watched them grow up in that weird way that happens when you only see people every few months at vacation time. Now they were all grown up, and gorgeous. Just last month they had held their eighteenth birthday party here on the lawns. It was the social event of the summer season, and I made sure the gardens were outstanding. I hadnât attended the party, not being a friend of the girls, but I had heard Flora making arrangements for months as she sat on the pool terrace talking to caterers, decorators and party planners on her mobile phone.
I neared the open window and was sure I could hear more than two voices. I recognised those of the twins, but there was someone else there as well â no doubt a school friend. It was a deep, husky, you might even say almost sultry voice, which sounded more mature than the girlsâ.
The words âThey were caught by Miss Beveredge and expelledâ drifted out on the breeze.
âWell they deserved it for THAT!â exclaimed one of the girls.
At that moment, just as I stepped onto the patio from the lawn, Marguerite emerged through the cloud of billowing curtain, attempting to tame it. As she gathered the fabric up in her arms and reached for the door handle, our eyes locked before I glanced past her and into the room in the next instant. Marguerite looked like a subject from a Botticelli painting, long, golden, tightly wavy hair tumbling over her shoulders and down her back, framing an alabaster pale face. She was wearing a completely transparent dress made from some soft floaty material, delicately embroidered with scattered leaves and buds. The dress was gathered and drawn tightly under her high and firm breasts, the tops of which strained unencumbered from the top of the low-cut bodice. Underneath she wore nothing other than a tiny thong.
Under normal circumstances I would have been entirely captivated with this beauty, but in that instant I was looking past her into the room at the most extraordinary scene. Margueriteâs twin sister was crouched on her hands and knees in front of one of the white, over-stuffed sofas. I drew in my breath as I took in what I was seeing. Daisy was completely naked . Her smooth and flawless buttocks were pointing in the air. Daisy is as dark-haired as Marguerite is fair, and as beautiful. Where Margueriteâs blond locks cascade, Daisyâs hair is blue-black, and styled into a sleek bob, not a hair out of place. Her perfect bare breasts were pointed to the floor; the nipples extended an inch from the rounded orbs, her head was thrown back and I could see her lips were parted. But what was most extraordinary was that she had a length of gold chain attached to her left nipple, looped through a glinting nipple ring, and the other woman who was unknown to me was holding the other end as she stood over Daisy with a short handled whip in her other hand!
I suppose the woman was somewhere close to 40, but it wasnât her age I was pondering as I took in the scene before me. She stood about 6 foot tall, legs akimbo. She wore nothing but a harness from which stood proud an enormous latex dildo. Iâm no stranger to chickdicks, and this one looked a beauty.
I heard a small intake of breath as Daisy registered my presence just outside the open door. We all froze as if elements of a tableau.
The momentary silence was broken by Marguerite. âOh, fantastic!â she gushed, without a scintilla of embarrassment. She indicated towards the bundles of roses I carried, âMum didnât tell us you were here. Come in and lay them on the table.â