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Charlie's Law
Date: 10/2/2014, Categories: Seduction, Author: henrygatewood, Rating: 14, Source: LushStories
five-story Victorian building loomed over us, all buttresses and ornate bay windows. I could still hear a distant rumble of traffic in the air and through the ground, and I guessed we were either still within the city or not far outside it. An elderly porter in a red suit came down the long flight of stone steps to greet us, looked confused when he saw that we had no bags, and then led us back up to the ornate dark green double-door. A small, discreet brass plaque to the left of the door carried the simple inscription: Hotel. Clearly this was far too expensive and exclusive an establishment to need anything as vulgar as a name. There was no check-in or any other formality - we were led straight to a wide spiral staircase and up to the top floor. I got an impression of grand corridors and ornate columns and sculptures and large paintings and coloured hangings, all fleeting by so quickly that they hazed into a single texture in my mind. We came to a private suite and the porter left us. Charlie led me through a reception room larger than my living room, into a surprisingly small bedroom almost entirely filled by an enormous oak-framed bed. Another door, closed, led out of the room at the side opposite where we had entered. A wide, curtained window took up most of one wall and a painting I recognised but could not place took up most of another. Charlie went to the window, opened the curtains a crack and peered out. I suddenly felt nervous. “What’s through there?” I asked, ...