Jill

"I will reach in there for you," said Jill.

As she suspected Leanne had her own gun in the purse. She said," I was not reaching for that. I was reaching for my checkbook. We are here to do business."

"True, let me get your gun out of your way while you get your check book. Here use my pen."

"Let me see what you found first."

Jill held up lavender bikini cut panties with lace trim.

"How do you know they are not mine?"

"They were sold at a boutique in Carmel to a special customer. They were special ordered and the real owner has described them in detail."

Leanne released a sigh. "How much?"

"Whatever you think its worth not to get booked on suspicion of murder. Not to have the press hound you for months. Not to have the world look at you as that woman."

Leanne shrugged. She made out the check for a hundred thousand dollars knowing she could retrieve it once the woman was dead.

"Whom do I make it out to?"

"Just leave that blank. Thanks. Now, take your clothes off and get in bed."

The woman's smirk made Jill's blood boil but she was not revealing the end plan just yet. As soon as Leanne was naked on the bed Jill drew velvet lined handcuffs from the night stand and secured Leanne's wrists to the headboard. Jill gave her a kiss and smiled sweetly.

Mia quietly slipped into the room from the bathroom. She went to Leanne's purse and silently pulled out her car keys. Jill blocked Leanne's vision by initiating a long series of kisses while Mia pried the door open and handed the keys to Mr. Elizondo just outside the door.

After wiping Leanne's gun Mia returned it to her purse. She then joined Jill in pleasuring their captive's body. They wanted to take her to the verge of orgasm as they kissed and sucked her tits and their fingers entered and left her pussy. The woman could not help but respond to the ministrations of two beautiful women.

Jill and Edna stayed on their task until the woman was on the verge of release. Then at the ten-minute mark they abruptly said goodbye and duct tape was applied over Leanne's mouth. Mia and Jill left the room quickly leaving the stunned woman handcuffed to the bed.

Leanne was furious. She fought against her bonds in rage. Soon she began to feel sleepy. Her head hurt.

Her eyes flew open as she realized what was happening.

She was being murdered.

She was going to die just as she had killed Elizabeth, as she had tried to kill Edna.

Leanne was fighting loss of consciousness when she felt someone tear the tape off her mouth and kiss her. It was Elizabeth. Another kiss. It was from Edna. Leanne knew all was lost.

She was dead.

That was not the intention of the plotters. She was supposed to be discovered before she died. The idea was for her attempted suicide to point to her guilt in the deaths of Elizabeth and Edna.

Elizabeth released Leanne's body from her bonds. Edna placed the duct tape and the cuffs into her apron pocket. She wiped around Leanne's mouth and removed the traces of the tape.

Leanne's ghost appeared briefly, full of fury, before being absorbed by a cold darkness.

Edna left the room while Elizabeth sat on the bed with her former lovers body. She would remain with her until the body was discovered.

Mia and Jill had quickly returned to the very popular restaurant that was two blocks away. Mia asked the young hostess how much longer before their table would be available. They had first arrived forty minutes earlier.

They had been there just before eight and added their name to the waiting list. They had been promised a table in just under and hour. The two women flirted with the young lady long enough to be remembered.

The perky young thing apologized to them for their long wait but assured them they were next on the list.

This night revenge was not served cold.

Ten minutes after receiving the car keys Mr. Elizondo had walked to Leanne's car not knowing if he could go through with his end of the plan. All doubts were removed when he saw the hose attached to the exhaust of Leanne's car that led to a hole in the building.

Using his handkerchief he opened the car door, started the engine, locked and closed the door and walked away. A slow stroll around the block later, as he passed by the hotel entrance, he asked a young man if he had left his car running.

The young man thought it was a strange enough question for him to walk into the hotel and tell the desk about it. The timing Jill had counted on was upset when the young man was distracted by a pretty girl in the lobby talking to the night clerk about a ghost in her room. After she was assured that any ghosts in the hotel were harmless she returned to her room and was waiting for the return of Don Ernesto only to have to be evacuated five minutes later.

When the clerk came out and saw the hose from the exhaust going into the wall he rang the alarm. The young men were hailed as heroes for preventing further injuries. The death of the socialite by suicide was quickly tied to a previous death and it did not take long for everyone to see her as a remorseful murderer. That she had donated one hundred thousand dollars to the women's shelter ameliorated her image some and was seen as her attempt at atonement.

When Mia and Jill returned to the hotel after dinner they were stunned by the events. Jill kept asking if they were sure the woman on her bed was dead. Jill and Edna were surprised when they each felt remorse. They knew Leanne deserved her fate but not at their hands.

After the building was declared safe Jill was moved to a room on the fifth floor. On the way up she first made the elevator stop at the second floor. As she and Mia had expected Edna and Elizabeth were waiting for them. Jill walked out and brought Elizabeth to her and Mia held Edna and they pulled their lovers into the elevator. There was a short period of instability but when they stepped out of the elevator on the top floor their lovers were still in their arms.

Jill's new room was a large suite that had been occupied for years by the hotel's previous owner. It had a sitting room, a small kitchenette, a spacious bath and an electronics center.

It also had Elizabeth.

Suddenly, Jill knew.

It took her three months to purchase the hotel. The corporate owners wanted no part of a property stained by murder and suicide so Jill was able to get it at a low price and comfortable terms.

Mia became the assistant manager then manager when the lady that held the position retired. Her husband could not handle the new self-confident Mia and divorced her. She and Edna lived in the apartment behind the hotel office.

Edna gained the ability to roam the entire hotel. She became the defacto assistant manager. It never dawned on guests that the pretty mute girl seeing them to their rooms was a ghost.

Over time Mia forgot Edna was a ghost. She was simply her Edna. They would at times invite a woman guest to their apartment and made sure that before she left her favorite hotel was theirs and their favorite city was Santa Fe. There was a lot of return business.

Jill spent a night in room 212. She wanted to speak to Don Ernesto. When he came to her he seemed stunned to see that she was wide-awake and could see him. Jill opened her arms and legs for him and he was soon adoring her naked body. He fucked her lovingly, expertly, and completely. When she recovered from her orgasm Jill introduced herself as the new owner of the hotel and gave Don Ernesto rules to follow.

She was very grateful she had worked hard at learning Spanish. It had been a useful skill often but it never crossed her mind she would need it to talk to a ghost.

She promised him that every single woman alone or with a female companion checking into the hotel would be placed on the second floor. Those that would not welcome him, men and couples and children would be on a different floor

He was to make love to each and every adult female regardless of age or looks. He had to make the love sessions part of their dreams unless they extended their stay or spoke to him personally at which time he would be as real to them as he was to Jill now.

Those that saw him as real once would always be able to do so. He was not to be startled by that but it required that unless he was actively making love he needed to be dressed.

He was to never force himself on a woman that did not want him but was permitted to gently seduce the reluctant.

Elizabeth had painted his portrait and it now hung on the wall opposite the elevator. This was his floor.

He was welcome to stay.

Don Ernesto was now convinced he was in heaven. And there was a lot of return business.

Jill convinced Mr. Elizondo to return to work as a part time consultant. She knew he would be her best teacher on how to run a hotel. Mr. Elizondo resumed his visits with Alma. Elizabeth introduced them to each other formally and at last Alma could see him.

Six months later as he lay in his deathbed he insisted in being taken to the hotel. His daughters humored him and he died peacefully on Jill's bed. The daughters whispered to each other about his hallucinations as he died but he was in fact not hallucinating, Elizabeth, Edna, and Alma were kissing him.

Returning from his funeral three days later Jill and Mia saw a younger version of Mr. Elizondo leading Alma away from her window. They were holding hands. They would not see either again.

Elizabeth became the love of Jill's life.

Jill became the love of Elizabeth's death.

For them, "Till death do us part" had no meaning.