It had been years since I had been on vacation and I was happy as all get-out when the wife planned a visit to the Emerald Coast of Mexico. The drive was going to be a long one, but I didn’t mind, since we were saving on airfare. (This was all pre-COVID19).
We spent the night on the Texas-Mexico border and then a night in the mountains of Saltillo, Mexico outside of Monterrey, where we picked up my father-in-law and started our trip to Durango and then on to Mazatlán.
The beaches and the accommodations were everything I thought they would be, and I was surprised that most folks spoke a little bit of English.
We could not go out into the surf because of the red flag warnings, so we simply lounged around the pools or on the beaches where the cabana staff kept us supplied with all the free liquor we could possibly ever want.
There was no shortage of pretty women in very small bikinis, happily showing off their best assets, but because I am very married, I had to remain faithful and keep my eyes to myself, although I will admit to staring off every now and then.
It was hot. It was very hot and none of us were acclimated to the heat, not even my Mexican father-in-law, so it didn’t take long for him and my wife to decide the beach sun was too much.
“I’m going up to the room,” Maria declared, “this is too much!”
She asked if I was coming up and when I declined, she asked again. I reassured her I was fine and that I would be on my best behavior. She didn’t look like she believed me, so I told her I was going to get another drink at the bar located in the middle of the pool, and then I would head up to the room.
Maria gathered her stuff and headed up to the room, while I waded out to the crowded bar located in the middle of a large heated pool.
As I approached the bar, I saw this good-looking blonde sitting at the bar, all alone, with her stylish-looking platform shoes sitting up on the bar. Almost immediately, I realized she was the young hottie I had spied on the beach, only a few hours before, dancing with a group of guys. What struck me the most strange, is that she was not attired in a swimsuit. She wore a loose-fitting, button-down white shirt, which was unbuttoned just enough to show off her cleavage, and a brown colored skirt, that had a cut in the side which allowed her to very easily show off a great deal of leg.
I looked at the empty chair that sat at the bar. I asked in my limited Spanish if I could have the seat. She smiled, proffered a wink, and a head nod. I sat down in the chair and ordered up a Bloody Mary.
My hottie was more interested, so it seemed in an older, heavy-set guy sitting to her right. He had bought her a drink and they were deep into a conversation in Spanish. I sat there, wishing, and hoping she would become disinterested in the guy, but that was not going to happen. Finally, the guy broke off the conversation and waded away from the bar.
My hottie grabbed her platform shoes off the bar and with her drink in hand, she started to wade out across the pool. I grabbed my drink and followed her, hoping she would notice and perhaps try to engage me in a conversation. She headed for the hotel lobby, her drink in hand. I followed right behind her. She headed for the hotel elevator and I did the same.
The wait to get on any elevator was excruciatingly long- up to ten minutes and whenever the door would open, a crush of people would exit, and another massive crush of people would go into the elevator. I made sure I got on right behind my hottie.
Everyone started asking the people closest to the elevator buttons to push a floor button. As we went up, stopping at each floor, people would inevitably get off, allowing those of us on the elevator a little more breathing space.
There were eighteen floors in the high rise. Our suite was on the fourteenth floor. I looked at my hottie and proffered a wink. She simply smiled and said nothing. I decided to not get off on the fourteenth floor and see how far up the elevator would take us before my hottie would get off the lift. My plan was to get off on the same floor as the hottie and then casually say, “Whoops, wrong floor,” to excuse myself.
As we hit the fifteenth floor, everyone got off the elevator except her and I. There was no floor light lit up on the panel. I looked at my elevator companion and asked her in Spanish which floor she was going to, and she replied, by asking me, which floor my suite was on.
She smiled and asked if I wanted her to go with me. I showed her my wedding band, since my Spanish was rudimentary, at best. She smiled and said, “No problem.” She stepped closer to where I was standing near the elevator control panel and then she reached over to hit the eighteenth-floor button.
She looked at me and said softly, “Come with me.”
As she spoke, I noticed her button-down blouse was completely unbuttoned, and slightly parted, the only thing holding back her cleavage being her white lace bra.
“We can have a good time,” she declared, reaching out to take my hand in hers.
“Pero, no tengo dinero,” I said in Spanish, telling her I had no money.
She smiled, holding on to my hand with hers and said, “Es no problem. We have a good time anyway.”
Just then, the doors to the eighteenth floor open and she pulled me off the elevator.
“Vamonos,” she declared in Spanish. I followed her down the hallway, with her taking the lead. I was half excited and half scared. I had heard horror stories of guys getting kidnapped and held for ransom by the Cartels, so I had no idea what I was fixing to face.