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The Hotel Manageress

by Jim Priest

Copyright© 2025 by Jim Priest

Fantasy Sex Story: Jim is seduced by a fit older woman who then gives him a real beating

Caution: This Fantasy Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa   Coercion   FemaleDom   .

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You know how it happens. You end up in a hotel in the middle of some place you don’t know, miles away from the nearest town. Not knowing anybody, you feel like a wally sitting alone at a table in the hotel restaurant while everyone around you dines in company. What do you mean that’s just me? How rude! The restaurant reeked old fashioned upper class extravagance and so it should because this hotel was once a former stately home in the old Windsor area and now a Grade 1 listed building. Suddenly in walked this stunningly dressed woman and all male eyes turned towards her. But wait, I am getting ahead of myself.

Set within the large grounds of a former estate, the house was large, possibly Georgian (but I’m no expert) and flamboyant. My room was on the first floor in the east wing. I’ve stayed in many hotels belonging to well known chains where the rooms are modern and functional and look virtually the same wherever you were. This room however was spacious with original antique fittings and a feeling of old fashioned comfort. It should, it was burning a big enough hole in my wallet.

I was just settling in, relaxing on the soft quilt covered bed to recover from the nightmare of the road to hell (the M25) when my peace was rudely interrupted. BAM! BAM! THUMP! THUD! Loud banging noises were coming from the room next door. I’d hoped it would stop but it carried on. With a sigh of resignation, I got up and opened the door of my room. I had just stepped into the corridor, when the door to the next room opened and a woman stepped out. She was dressed in a smart black jacket, white blouse with blue cravat, a smart black skirt, sheer black nylons and shiny black heeled shoes. A small silver badge on her lapel marked her out as an employee of the hotel. She was shorter than me by at least 5 inches which would make her around 5 feet 4 and her body was very slim. For a moment she seemed startled to see me and closed the door rather quickly then turned to face me. The immediate impression was of a strangely attractive mature woman with a thin stern face and a sexy pout.

The pout widened into a forced smile which emphasised a wide mouth, strikingly high cheek bones with a sharp lower edge and a hard chin. “Is everything to your satisfaction Mister Priest?” she asked in a gloriously resonant voice like cut glass which spoke of a privileged education. I was impressed that she had taken the time to learn my name. These are the little touches that mark out good customer service. Her cool glacial demeanour with a touch of sultriness took the edge from my annoyance. “Yes fine” I replied without even thinking. “Oh, except there was a lot of banging coming from the next room” I nodded towards the door that she had just came out of. For a moment she didn’t reply but stared at me through small elegantly slender eyes with tantalising green irises. Thick mascara and a touch of eyeliner made her eyes smoulder beneath slim arched eyebrows. These looked out atop a long slender slightly beaklike nose with sharply flared nostrils. Fine lines and wrinkles suggested that she was older than first appeared. However her thick long mane of brown hair showed no signs of grey as it tumbled from a parting high above a generous forehead down behind her ears and below her shoulders. Her skin had a natural tan that suggested holidays in exotic sunny locations. Overall she was an attractive yet hard looking woman with a cold sensual appeal.

Finally she spoke, her voice deep and vibrant. “It was just the air conditioning. I’ve fixed it now. I’m sorry if I disturbed you, Mister Priest”. “No, not at all” I replied trying to read her name badge which was on the left breast pocket of her jacket without making it look like I was staring at her breasts, but it was obscured by the position of her sleeve. She smiled with a strange tightness then turned on her heels and wandered off, leaving me admiring a very shapely pair of slender yet nicely toned calves beneath the sheen of sheer black nylons.

I spent several hours trying to speak with various members of the hotel staff but no-one was prepared to help with my investigation. They would look around nervously as if they were frightened that someone would walk around the corner. I couldn’t be bothered to drive around and find somewhere reasonably priced to eat, so that evening I ended up in the hotel restaurant. Fortunately the prices were fairly reasonable.

So I was sitting on my own at a table in the corner of the dimly lit restaurant waiting for my order to arrive when in walked the woman I saw earlier. The eye of every heterosexual man present immediately swung towards her. When I had met her in the corridor, she was a smartly dressed business woman but now she was a vampish sexual predator that stirred the groin. A shiny black leather skirt clung tightly to the contours of her upper legs as she walked with a sinuous slink towards the bar. Although not particularly tall, her slenderness made her slim legs look very long. The skirt fell to just above the knees revealing long shapely calves sensually clad in sheer black nylon. The way her slim hips swayed as she moved was breathtaking as the black silky blouse that she wore with a plunging neckline. At first glance I noticed that the sleeves were sheer giving a black sheen to the slim firm looking arms beneath but as my eyes wandered to her moving chest I realised that the whole blouse was the same apart from the lapels and the edges down the front where the buttons were. Not only could make out her breasts beneath the sheen but it was also perfectly clear that she wasn’t wearing a bra.

Aware that I was staring, I tried to look away. Out of the corner of my eye I caught her sitting herself upon a high stool at the bar and cross her legs. The hem of her leather skirt slid up along a seriously long slender thigh. Draped over the knee was a long shin with a slightly flared calve. My eyes kept returning to the lanky display of sheer black nylon no matter how times I tried to force myself to look away. The barman gave her a drink and she sat there sipping it looking incredibly sultry with a knowing smile that every man was trying their hardest not to look at her and failing. Earlier the makeup that she wore had been light and professional but now was more pronounced making her hard features even more smouldering.

If it hadn’t been for the fine lines that I had noticed earlier and liver spots on her hands, I would have mistaken her for about 40. However she much older yet she was sex personified, unbelievably slinky and with a stern smouldering sexuality that seemed predatory. She seemed like one of those cougars I’ve heard about on TV. Dressed like that, she could pull any young man as her toy boy if she wanted. I couldn’t stop stealing glances at her and then our eyes made contact. Embarrassed at being caught in the act, I tried to look away but she slid from her stool and slinked towards me. “May I join you, Mister Priest?” she asked in a deep resonant voice that stirred my loins. I nodded my head, stunned that this seriously seductive mature woman wanted anything to do with me.

As she sat in the chair adjacent to me, I didn’t know where to put my eyes. The black blouse concealed nothing; her breasts were full and rounded; quite large in comparison with her slim body and I could clearly see her nipples which were erect. “Please call me Jim” I finally managed to make something coherent come out of my mouth. “Not while you are a guest in my hotel but you can call me Kate” her wide smile made me uneasy. “Kate Eisenberg?” I asked mentally smacking myself for not suspecting. Through Aberdeen Agnus [JIMP#50], I had learnt that this was one of two women who were looking for me.

The smile got wider, like a predator that has found its prey. “Of course, Mister Priest, I’ve been looking for you for some time now but I never expected you to just walk into my hotel” like everything else about her; her voice was mature, deep and sensual. Every word was like pouring honey and I found myself entranced. However it was no coincidence. Passing the contact number that Agnus had been given to Gerald, a former IT colleague; he traced it to Miss. Eisenburg. Further digging on my part tracked her down as the Manager of this hotel. “And why were you looking for me?” I asked, breaking myself out of the spell realising that she had stopped talking. “Not here, Mister Priest. Later when we can have some privacy” she purred then took a sip from her drink.

Kate snapped her fingers without taking her sultry eyes off me and a waiter immediately appeared to take her order. As we waited for our food to appear, I began to realise why she had sat adjacent rather than opposite. Swish swish, the sound of nylon rasping upon nylon caused me to look down. Gulp! The underside of her leather skirt on the side closest to me had risen right up giving me a blast of stocking top and bare upper leg. For a mature woman, her legs were free from any unsightly blemishes or cellulite. Her smile got wider like the cat that had got the cream. “I’ve got pretty good legs for a woman of 73” she told me to my astonishment. Although the lines on her face suggested it, what I could see of her body would have looked amazing on a woman a third her age. I told her so and she seemed pleased. “I’ve kept my body in very good shape, Mister Priest and I’m proud of it” she told me.

She paused while the waiter delivered our meal then resumed when he had gone. “All of my young lovers are very complimentary, although none can keep up with me in the bedroom” she added with a saucy wink. I tried not to think of trying to keep up with her in bedroom but it was no use. Despite her face showing her age, her slim body was devastatingly appealing clad in that sheer blouse and leather skirt. Rounded firm breasts pushed out her figure at the chest like small hills before sloping to a very narrow waist. Hills with big erect nipples covered in a black gauze that called to my groin. “I assure you they are real” she said noticing my gaze. “As is everything else about me” she added. “I’ve no need for cosmetic surgery”. She continued to talk about herself and her good looks while we ate. It seemed to be her favourite subject and she had good reason, her body looked amazing and from a distance her age was less noticeable. “Men are always surprised that I’m in such good shape. I’m 73 and still a perfect size 8”. I don’t know much about women’s clothes but that sounded smaller than my teenage daughter Jackie. “Most women my age are grandmothers. I’m lucky to have supple skin, no stretch marks, a flat stomach and big firm boobs” she told me. “I work at keeping it that way”.

Swish swish the sound drew my attention again. She had stretched out a long stocking clad leg and draped the lanky shapely calve over my knee. Oh boy, this mature sexpot was coming onto me! Although close-up one could see the fine lines and wrinkles on her face, she was unbelievably slinky and seductive. Her voice became low and breathy, dripping sheer sexual magnetism. “I have a suite here at the hotel. Why don’t we finish our meal then go back for afters” the way she said that with a saucy twitch of the corners of her mouth and a subtle flick of the tongue had my dick rigid. Kate lent closer, her heady perfume filling my nostrils, every wrinkle and line glaringly obvious. Her big unfettered breasts dangled provocatively in the V of her sheer blouse. “You can look, Mister Priest” she whispered with a lusty smile. “They just seem to keep getting bigger as get older” she added with a breathy chuckle. Despite her age, this slender woman was a devastating seduction agent. My dick got a lot harder. She sat back and we finished our meal filling our conversation with meaningless chit-chat but all the while, her smouldering gaze and wide smile kept me entranced. I was hooked and couldn’t tear myself away.

Our meal completed, Kate led me back to her suite at the rear of the hotel. Maybe she had naughty designs of me but I also intended to find out why The Sisterhood sent her to look for me when some of the public organisations which they controlled had been helping me. The suite was large, consisting of a main central living space with smaller rooms off to the sides. Arranged on an antique display cabinet were various ancient Indian artefacts that caught my curiosity. “I was born and raised in India” she told me walking with me to the cabinet. “My father originally worked in the German embassy then defected to the British during the War” she told me, trailing a finger along one of the shelves with a red painted fingernail. Picking up a black ebony figurine of a goddess with two legs and 18 arms, she held it with reverence. “Kali” she told me. “The Hindu goddess associated with empowerment and death. The consort of Shiva” she told me. “It looks a bit like Anahita” I remarked. She smiled “Then that just shows your ignorance”. Carefully replacing the object she explained “Kali is the time manifestation of other Hindu goddesses like Durga who you call Anahita, Bhadrakali, Sati, Rudrani, Parvati and Chamunda. She is the foremost among the Dasa Mahavidyas, the ten fierce Tantric goddesses”. I didn’t understand any of it. Her green eyes seemed to be trying to burn into my sole as her wide full lipped mouth moved. “So you see Mister Priest. Women were the superior fighting sex even in those days”.

The hard looking yet seductive woman raised a foot upon a chair seat. “It’s alright Mister Priest, you can look” she said with a teasing smile as I tried not to stare at the thick black stocking top and bare flesh at the top of her slender thigh of her raised leg. She removed a shoe then repeated the exercise with her other leg. It was all done slowly and deliberately provocative. The sexy leg show with all that lingerie on show really got my pecker up. She slinked up to me, standing close and ran her finger up the front of my chest. “The Sisterhood are very annoyed about you sticking your nose into their business” she purred, her voice deep and sensual as she looked up into my eyes. “Yet some of them help me. So what do you really want?” I asked. BAM! Suddenly I had been slammed up against the wall. The next thing I knew was the mature woman pressing her buxom front against me as she slid a knee between my legs and began to rub it back and forth. Swish swish, sheer nylon rasped against the crotch of my trousers. Oh God this woman really knew how to get a man going. “It’s you I want Mister Priest” she purred then kissed me fully on the lips, her tongue slipping into my mouth. The sultry seductive old woman had me absolutely rock hard with desire and I closed my arms around her slender body and pulled her close while we kissed passionately.

“Hai!” my body jerked suddenly as the side of her hand chopped my neck. My nerve ends tingled like I’d just received an electric shock. “Argh!” A quick twist of my arm had me bending towards the floor as she pressed down on my elbow while bending my hand back at the wrist. “My my Mister Priest you’re as horny as they say you are” her resonant voice sounded amused. She released me then stood watching me with a bemused expression, her eyebrows arcing high above her green eyed stare. “You should know better by now not to underestimate the power of a woman” she told me.

“My father also underestimated that and suffered the consequences” she said. “Who are you? What do you want?” I asked, beginning to realise the pickle I was in. “Hai!” her fist moved so fast that I didn’t see the punch until her fist was withdrawn to her side. “Orrrgh!” I groaned at the tightness in my chest where the blow landed. “Don’t interrupt Mister Priest. You should listen. You might learn something” Kate scolded then resumed her tale. “My father gained an interest in esoteric Indian culture and the true nature of the various Gods and Goddesses that pervade Indian culture” she said conversationally slinkily stepping towards me. I raised my hands to protect myself but she was too fast. “Hai!” “Orghh!” a blur slicing between my defences and I was groaning from another sharp punch to my chest. For such a slender almost frail looking woman, she had a devastatingly fast punch.

“The Sisterhood of the one true Goddess recruited me to spy on father. Sadly I had to kill him when he got too close to the truth” her cold harsh words were chilling. “Hai! Hai!” a blindingly fast double punch to each side of my chest left me groaning in pain. “Mother never forgave me” she added with a tinge of sadness. “We all have to make sacrifices and she made a good one”. Her words had barely begun to sink in when her hands were a blur of action. “Hai!” Chop to my neck that sent my senses into a spin. “Hai!” slicing chop across the neck made everything go grey. “Hai Yah!” KERBLAM her long nylon clad leg shot vertically in a blur of sheen and blasted my face so hard that I didn’t remember falling to the floor. “Hai!” the shout made me instinctively roll to one side. BAM her foot stomped down where my head had barely a split second before. “Why Mister Priest, you’re as feeble as they say” her sonorous voice said as I hurriedly got to my feet, trying to clear my dazed head. “Hai!” BLAM Orrrpph! I crumpled as out of nowhere a small fist ploughed deep into my gut like an express train.

“Really Mister Priest is that all you’ve got” Kate sneered in contempt, the sharp edges of her cheeks giving her a hard ruthless look. She was systematically knocking the wind out of me and I knew that I must do something before I was completely immobilised by it. As she stepped forward to attack once more, I punched back but her forearms flew up crossing over and trapping my fist. With a smug self-satisfied smile, she twisted my arm out to one side and the hard cheeked pouting woman raised her knee level with her tiny waist. “Hai!” BLAM! My head was snapped back by a foot I barely saw blasting my chin with surprising force.

The glaze cleared from my vision and I saw Kate standing before me looking sultry with one leg slightly bent. I couldn’t help running my eyes along those long slender legs which looked so magnificent in stockings. “Yes, take a good look at my legs, Mister Priest. They will be your under doing as they have other more capable men” she said with her sonorous silky voice. “Kai Yah!” BLAM she sidestepped and blasted a thunderbolt kick high into my face that nearly knocked me out cold. I found myself on the floor with my head spinning and blood on my face.

Fighting to remain conscious, I heard her speaking. “Helen? Wonderful darling and you?” I managed to raise my bleary eyes for a few moments to see that she was talking on a mobile phone. My head felt so heavy and my brain spinning so badly that I could barely keep it raised. “Mister Priest is enjoying the pleasure of my company” as she spoke her fingers undid the buttons of her sheer blouse. There was a pause as she listened to the person on the other end of the call. “Of course dear, you can have what’s left of him” She chuckled as she undid the final button and allowed the blouse to fall open. I was stunned by how taut and well developed her abdominal muscles were on her slim stomach. It was certain a sexy sight as they rose then fell as she breathed. She seemed distracted listening to the other person so I quietly forced myself to my feet and approached cautiously from behind just as she closed the call “Ciao darling”.

Hating myself for doing it, I grabbed her by the hair and yanked it hard eliciting a yelp of pain. “Who was that?” I asked harshly. She threw a fist backwards over her shoulder but I managed to raise an arm and stop it. “Answer me” I hissed pulling her hair tight. She was a real live wire; in the very small space between us, she lifted her leg bent at the knee and sent it arcing back behind her. BAM! “Orr!” her foot got me right on my stomach. Not particularly hard but enough for her to break from my grip. I reached out to retake her but she spun quickly out of my grasp, her knee rising as she did. “Hai!” BLAM! “Boorrph!” I groaned as her foot slammed hard against my gut. The kick was strong, driving me away from her as she stretched out her long leg. I was sent stumbling into the sofa dropping my backside into the seat cushions.

“Never you mind who I was speaking to, Mister Priest. You will find out soon enough” her face was a sneer of contempt. “You have more pressing things to worry about, Such as me”. Her face was hard and stern, the smouldering sensuality turned steely cold and dangerous. She came towards me. A smoulderingly seductive cougar wearing a leather skirt and her blouse open wide showing that beautifully developed six pack on her slender stomach and large rounded bare breasts. Still gasping from that gut kick, I forced myself to my feet. As she raised her fists, I stood on the soft springy sofa cushions trying to ignore her swaying breasts and preparing to block her punch. “Hai!” BAM! A flick of leather skirt and a blur of sheer nylon shot towards my groin. “Orrr!” I groaned as her foot kicked me right in the balls. “I’m sorry. You weren’t expecting to use them were you Mister Priest?” the bitch asked as I cradled my aching nuts.

Slumped over my throbbing balls, I could only watch helplessly as the hard faced old bitch lent away from me and raised a bent leg to the side. Her open blouse fell back proudly displaying the moving orbs of her perfect breasts and the taut grid work of her abs. The leather skirt rose giving me a brief view of the length of her stocking clad legs to skimpy black panties at her crotch. “Hai!” her leg snapped straight, a blur of nylon rocketing towards me. BLAM! Her foot clubbed me around the head sending me sprawling across the sofa with such force that I fell over the arm and tumbled to the floor behind. This cougar could kick.

I was pissed for myself for getting seduced by this woman and then getting my arse kicked. I crawled as fast as I could behind the sofa. “Oh don’t hide, Mister Priest” her resonant voice said as she looked over the arm of the sofa and saw me gone. “Come out and take a beating like a real man” she said scornfully. I sprang up from behind the back of the sofa and caught her off guard. She tried to pull herself back from looking over the side but she wasn’t quick enough. I caught her arm and tried to pull her down onto the seat where I could try to subdue her. The old cougar wriggled and struggled but I held on. She managed to get her feet on the floor. “Hai!” She kicked back while I tried to pull her back down. BLAM! Her aim was off and cushion stuffing went everywhere as her foot struck the back of the sofa.

I tried to cling onto her, pulling at her arm but only managing to pull her sleeve down her arm. The sight of her firm naked torso distracted me. “Hai!” the topless old cougar lithely swung her body forwards while folding her leg and slamming it backwards avoiding hitting the sofa in an act of astonishing flexibility. BLAM! My head snapped back as her foot hammered my face. Ouch! Despite her slender body, this old witch could kick like a mule. With the shock of the kick I had let go of her arm.

“You will suffer for that Mister Priest” the stern faced woman said. “Hai!” Her fist blazed out like a cannonball and I surprised myself by managing to block it by quickly raising my arm. “Yah!” BLAM in the blink of an eye, her leather skirt shot up and the top of her foot blasted my jaw. My head whipped up scrambling my senses and I staggered numbly trying not to fall. Fooled by her feint, the deadly old cougar moved in for the kill. Spinning like a top, a long leg blasted out like a thunderbolt. “Hai!” BLAM! Her foot hammered my chest like a jackhammer. So powerful was her kick that both of my feet flew from the floor. In less than a second, her leg straightened lifting my body high above the carpet and sent me hurtling across the room. WHAM! My body hit the carpet hard and I lay on my back stunned by the power of the kick of the slender mature seductress.

A foot pressed on my cheek and I looked up in a daze to see Kate looking down at me. She wagged a finger at me causing her bare breasts to jiggle. “That’s where plebs like you belong, Mister Priest” she scolded. Placing her hands on her hips and thrusting her breasts proudly, she rubbed her foot in my face. Then she stood back and proceeded to remove her blouse and throw it onto the sofa. It was hard to believe that I was looking at the body of a 73 year old. Slim, fit and toned looking, only her taut washboard stomach was overtly muscular. Her slender arms also had a hint of definition around her shoulder caps and some sinew around her biceps with a feint blue line running across each. Her forearms also showed a hint of sinew.

Her slender green eyes watched me like a hawk with her wide smile resembling a smirk at my inept fighting ability. Hands lowered to her waist and to my surprise, her leather skirt slid down her legs and she stepped out of it. Wow! They are absolutely stunning. Long, slender and flawless rendered so erotic in sheer black nylon stockings and suspenders. “I’m glad you like them Mister Priest” she says with a self-satisfied smirk. “Not bad for my age” she added. Not bad for any age I thought. “What do you want?” I ask her tearing my gaze away from her hot legs to that sultry face. “Why nothing Mister Priest, except to play with you until I get tired of you” she replied. I sat up to watch in fascination as she raised each knee in turn to pull off her stockings and suspender belt. As she did so, her lean arms swelled slightly at the biceps.

With a smouldering hard-faced look of superiority, her hands moved slowly down her stomach. “You’ve great abs” I admitted in appreciation. Her predatory smile just got slightly wider. Her smouldering sultry gaze bore into me, her eyebrows arched in bemusement. By now I was on my knees watching in amazement with a stiffening rod lifting the front of my trousers like a tentpole. “Typical male reaction to the perfect female form” she said with arrogance. But boy, did she have every reason to be arrogant about her body. Her panties slid to the floor and unabashed, Kate stood before me completely naked; her slender body sculpted like a statue. She laughed at my discomfort “I’m not ashamed of my body, are you?”

Her arched eyebrows rose over her sleek sultry green eyes, her sharp edged cheeks raised by a smile of amusement. “You desire this body don’t you Mister Priest?” her voice was low and sensual. “But it is too much for a wimp like you to handle” she sneered. The insult burned. God, that body made me hard and I cursed myself for being taken so easily by her. She placed her hands on her hips thrusting her breasts forwards as if mocking my weakness. Her body tantalised me and drove me to distraction but I couldn’t allow it to. This sexy cougar was wild and dangerous. I had to do something to turn the situation to my advantage.

My decision made, I sprang from the floor and managed to get my arms around her neck. BLAM! Her palm whipped out and smashed me on the cheek. Despite the burning of my cheek, I held on trying to get the wriggling slim naked woman into a headlock. BLAM! The side of her hand slashed across my neck. Ouch! That stunned me for a moment and made me slightly dizzy. BLAM her palm slammed underneath my jaw and pressed back my chin hard causing me to lose balance and fall back to the carpet. “Yes, grovel at my feet, Mister Priest”. I looked up to see Kate standing with her open hands poised in a fight stance. Despite my predicament, the pose was exciting making her seem deadly.

Without warning, she fell to the floor, her legs spreading apart to land in a perfect front splits in front of me. Orrrr there’s something about a girl or woman doing the splits that really gets to a man’s groin especially if they are wearing a skirt. However this woman was totally in the nude. She had me absolutely rigid with her hot fit body and display of flexibility. “You are much younger than me. Can you do this Mister Priest? I think not” she said dismissively.

Without taking her slender green eyes off me and her thick lipped mouth pouting sensual promise, Kate placed her hands on either side and pressed her body from the floor with her legs held perfectly straight in front of her. Slender toned arms became knotted with smooth flowing muscle barely beneath the skin as they lifted her weight up. Her abdominals became a taut paved wall of muscle as she raised her legs into a wide V shape shamelessly exposing her pussy and the corded muscle on the inside of her upper thighs. Orrrrr I’d seen Jackie do this many times in gymnastic competitions and often had to look away or blank out my mind to avoid the uncomfortable effect it had on me. But this wasn’t my teenage daughter; this was a naked 73 year old woman with a really fit body. “You see how fit I am, Mister Priest. Do you really think you can keep up with me?” her sonorous voice purred showing no sign of exertion of maintaining that raised position.

 
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