With Penny's new job and me working all hours, the housework was beginning to get on top of us a little. It wasn't that things were actually dirty, it was just the everyday chores that neither I or my wife seemed to have time for. I had to admit that, before Penny started her new job, I used to enjoy coming home dog-tired to find a nice meal waiting for me. But cash had been tight recently and it seemed only logical that my wife should return to the work-place, if only on a short-term basis. So we were left with the problem: we had more cash but not enough time to get our lives in order.
It was Penny that first suggested some home help and, I must be honest, the thought of some pretty young maid running around the house with a vacuum cleaner, did not exactly put me off the idea!
"You dirty old sod!" Penny admonished me as she playfully squeezed the crotch of my pants, "don't go thinking that you can start putting this anywhere you like! I've got first claim on you and don't you forget it!"
Remembering the old adage about hell, fury and scorned women, I left the entire selection process to my wife, I would just be happy to have my home back in order again and not have to go hunting for a clean shirt every morning.
Over the course of the following week, agencies were contacted and a stream of young, and not quite so young, women drifted through Penny's quite stringent interviews. Thin, fat, tall, short - she saw them all and gave them all equal time. I had to say that I was much impressed by her selection criteria, but eventually, they all seemed to get rejected for one reason or another. I was determined to let Penny sort things out for herself, but it was still quite difficult not to involve myself.
After ten day's, though, we finally had a winner. Julie Stone came highly recommended and, as this was to be a "live-in" position, Penny wanted to ensure that her references were perfect. They were, and in a matter of a few days, Julie had moved her few possessions into our spare bedroom.
I was more than happy. Julie was an extremely attractive woman and an expert around the house. At thirty one she was a little older than most of the girls that Penny had interviewed, but her long, jet-black hair, lithe looking figure and open, friendly personality made up for that easily. I was immediately attracted to her and often found myself daydreaming about what it would be like to sleep with her - hell, no! not really sleep with her, more like fuck her senseless! Occasionally I would snap out of these daydreams only to realise that I had been staring at Julie's legs or breasts. I would look away immediately, embarrassed, but when I had to take another, sneaky look back, I would find Julie looking back at me and smiling as though nothing had bothered her. It was this look of innocent acceptance that led me to make passes at her on more than a few occasions.
The weeks went by and I tried everything to get Julie into bed. As soon as my wife was out of the house, I'd compliment Julie on her clothes, her work or her make-up, even making the occasional suggestive comment about the size of her boobs (they were indeed a wonderful pair of breasts!), but nothing seemed to work. Every time, Julie would throw me that disarming smile of hers and make some completely plausible excuse to get on with some work. The whole situation was driving me to distraction. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. If she didn't like me then why did she seem undisturbed by my sometimes rather careless advances? Why didn't she just tell me to get lost? It was almost as if she encouraged me and then slipped away from me at the last moment.
Then, one day, everything became as clear as mud!