Chapter 10: On the Job Training

The ducal palace was laid out in a hollow square with the hollow center containing a private garden. The front section of the building housed the dukes as well as the viscount’s offices and also housed the public offices supporting the duke in ruling the system. The two side wings contained the private residences of the duke and the viscount. The rear part contained the servant quarters.

The main entrance of the palace consisted of a huge lobby full of paintings of past dukes and viscounts. Being a favorite tourist destination, the was also half full of tourists during the festival seasons. When ever the palace was open to the public, a marine platoon was doing ceremonial guard duty inside the circular chamber with its lofty ceiling. At the rear of the reception hall, in line with the huge main entrance doorways was an alcove laid out like a fancy reception area. That was the public reception desk for the duke’s formal office, a large and well decorated office used only for formal receptions.

Behind the duke’s formal office and on either side of the center line of the building running from the main entrance through the duke’s formal office, were two identical offices. Both were slightly smaller than the formal office the duke, with one being the private office of the duke and the other being the Viscount’s private office. Both offices had windows facing onto the secluded and private garden.

Sylvia led Jason along the internal corridor past the private reception area of the duke to another private reception area next to it. That reception area was empty. Sam quickly looked around the outer office as Ron entered the inner office. By the time Sylvia led Jason into the inner office, Sam was again in front of them.

The viscount’s office was neat and airy. The huge windows facing the garden was closed but the curtains were all open. The layout was similar to that of the duke’s private office, complete with a comfortable seating area in front of the huge bare desk. As Jason stood in the middle of the office looking at the nature paintings covering the walls, Ron came out of a hidden doorway behind the desk. He nodded to Jason and left, back into the outer office. Sam also glanced into the hidden doorway before she left, after giving Jason a naughty smirk. Sylvia was sitting behind the desk fiddling with the drawers so Jason wandered over to see what was behind the hidden doorway.

Jason was surprised to find a small suite attached to the office. The suite had a full bathroom and what might have been labeled as a dressing room. There were shelves and racks for hanging clothes but also a large bed. The shelves and racks in the room were bare but there were clean towels in the bathroom.

“Believe it or not but this place is specifically built so the Viscount can get to know any of his visitors more intimately” Sylvia said as she walked into the suite behind Jason. “The duke’s office has a similar suite. Richard used to keep a few spare sets of formal and casual suits here, not that he ever invited a lady friend, or even a secretary in here.”

“How would you know?” Jason asked as he gave her a smirk.

“In my young days I was good friends with his secretary.” Sylvia said. “Over time we started sharing a lot of secrets, including if any females were invited into the main office by the viscount. He never did. His secretary was also responsible for keeping the bathroom stocked. There is a list of required items, like feminine hygiene supplies and such. She never found any evidence that Richard even bothered to use the bed.”

“What happened to the secretary?” Jason asked.

“She decided to retire when Richard had his accident” Sylvia said. “I suspect she had a secret crush on him for decades except he never touched her.”

“Would she have told you if he did?” Jason asked. Sylvia gave him a smirk.

“Oh yes” she said. “We always compared notes, not that there was much to compare. I always ended up listening to her telling me about the marine officers she ended up seducing in here when the viscount was out of town.”

Something about how Lady Sylvia was moving and looking at Jason was causing him some mild discomfort. In the past, before he ran off, he seldom saw her and when he did, she was usually dressed fairly formally. He could distinctly remember always seeing her in high heels and wearing stockings and long sleeve tops. Since he never had breakfast in the informal breakfast lounge in the past, he had no idea what she wore during breakfast in the past. Now she was wearing a light sleeveless summer dress which ended halfway between her knees and her hips, much shorter than anything he saw her in before. She was also not wearing stockings and was wearing flat open sandals. She also kept moving in circles around him while eyeing him as if she was a tigress and he was a tasty morsel.

“I have never cheated on Richard” she said in a low voice as she ended up standing right in front of Jason with her hands flat on his chest. “I was a virgin when he married me. I can count on my fingers the number of times we have been intimate, only three of which resulted in me getting pregnant.” Then she removed her hands from his chest and slowly unbuttoned the top button of her dress. Jason glanced down between them and noticed the buttons went all the way to the bottom of the dress. He idly wondered if she would scream or just move away if he was to go down on his knees and start unbuttoning her dress from the bottom upwards.

“You will have to teach me what the duties of a guardian is” Jason said softly as he watched his hands move on their own to land on her hips. He realized he could end up in deep trouble if he was reading her attempt at seduction all wrong. He was actually planning on making as if he was pushing her away if he noticed any negative indication on her face from him touching her.

“Teaching you to be a proper guardian to me will be my pleasure” she whispered as she untied the next button. The view of her exposed milky-white skin caused Jason to get very stiff.

“Those buttons, they go all the way to the bottom of your dress” Jason said as he looked Sylvia in the eyes. She had a slight smile on her face as she looked back into his eyes.

“Yes, so?” she whispered.

“Maybe you need some help with them” Jason said as he stood slightly back and then went down on one knee in front of her, his face now level with her hips. She dropped her hands to her sides as she looked down at Jason, that teasing smirk still on her face as she moved her one foot slightly to the side. Jason reached for the bottom button and slowly untied it. Sylvia’s only reaction was to move the other foot a few inched to the outside as well.

It was like unwrapping a long-awaited gift. As Jason unbuttoned more buttons he got to see more of her thighs. They were smooth and slender. She stayed standing in one spot but kept moving her legs wider apart, which gave him a better view of her inner thighs as they tapered up towards her groin. She seemed to be breathing harder with each button he undid as she looked down at him with huge eyes.

Jason was not sure what to expect when he untied the button in front of his face. He was shaking from excitement and anticipation. He has seen Roxy in the nude a few times when both of them were preteens and he saw both Roxy and Chloe nude in the shower that morning. As far as female underwear was concerned, his experience was nearly non-existent. Even during his time living and working close to Carmen and Sherry he never saw any of them in regular female underwear. He did see them in marine underwear, which basically consisted of the same boxer underpants and T-shirts the men wore.

He moved on to the next button, causing Sylvia’s dress to open further, exposing her panties. They were tight-fitting white bikini panties; the sexiest sight Jason had ever seen. He totally forgot to continue untying buttons as he stared at the view in front of him.

“You can take them off if you want” Sylvia said softly as she untied more buttons from the top. Jason was definitely planning on removing those panties but first he wanted to admire the entire package. He stood and continued with the buttons, causing Sylvia to stop what she was doing.

When the final button was undone, Jason just stood there looking at her. She was wearing a bra as well. He had seen those in the laundry room of Sand Harbor when he was a kid as well as the laundry room of the marine base when he ended up doing his laundry along with Carmen and Sherry but this bra was different. It was nearly see-through and frilly. Sylvia’s breasts were relatively small and very sexy. Her nipples were tight little buttons making little bumps in the material of the bra.

Slowly Jason removed the dress from Sylvia’s shoulders, letting it drop on the thick carpet. Then he slid his hands from her shoulders down her bare arms until he got level with her breasts when he slipped his hands between her arms and her torso, reaching for where he suspected the clasp was. Sylvia leaned slightly forward as she placed her arms on Jason’s chest as he hunted for the bra clasp. After a bit of fumbling, Sylvia giggled as she reached behind her and quickly untied the clasp, causing her bra dropped away leaving her breasts bare. Their shape fascinated Jason so much that he started exploring them, gently stroking over them. Sylvia inhaled sharply as his palms stroked over her pebble-sized nipples.

Jason was in heaven but he knew there was much more to explore so he moved down to her hips, hooking his fingers into the elastic of her panties. During all this time Sylvia never took her eyes off Jason’s face. As he slowly pushed her panties down her legs, she just stood there looking at him.

Jason again went down on his knees as he pushed Sylvia’s panties down to the carpet. She stepped out of them as she steadied herself with her hands on his shoulders. She stood so close to him that he only needed to lean forward slightly to be able to kiss her stomach. He could not see much of her sex through the dense brown patch of hair covering her groin. He knew his real objective lie there, behind that patch of hair but the idea of kissing her stomach intrigued him so he did just that as his hands found their own way behind Sylvia and onto her butt. Sylvia groaned softly as she pushed her hips against Jason’s chest as her hands curled around his head pulling him tighter against her. Her skin felt like silk against his lips.

“You are still stiff!” Sylvia exclaimed as her hand wrapped around Jason’s slimy erection. She had just rolled off of him and was cuddling up against him after having her third orgasm.

Jason could not imagine anything feeling more exciting and fantastic than making love to a woman. Granted, Sylvia was old enough to be his mother, was actually the same age as Lady Olivia, and she was the first woman he had ever touched. At one point, Jason was getting a bit concerned, when Sylvia started crying the second time that she went into what looked like mild convulsions. She had assured him that she was having her second orgasm at the time and could not believe how nice it felt.