"You have a very nice house," Alexa said. The admiration in her voice was not put on at all. Zack had just pulled into the driveway of a house large enough that it couldn't have been far from being a mansion. It went a long way to explaining how Zack had afforded a three day package. He was evidently a rich kid, with very rich parents.

They had driven over from the shopping mall separately, with Alexa leaving her car parked on a nice residential street a short distance away. It would be safe there for a couple of days until she came back for it. She had taken her travel case out of her trunk and put it into Zack's, and he had driven them to the house.

Based on the appearance of the property and her experience with Zack so far, Alexa had put together a hypothesis about his parents. Were they the type to obsess about status and other such nonsense? Had they eroded their son's confidence by grilling him over the fact that he had never brought a girlfriend home? If that was the case, she could only feel sympathy for her client. Well, she thought, Mr and Mrs Ryder are about to meet Chelsea Green.

"Thank you," Zack said as he parked up near to a detached garage and killed the engine. "It's a nice place for sure, but I'd like one of my own. I'm going to look for one soon."

There wasn't much Alexa could say to that, so she got out of the car, mentally getting into character as Chelsea Green, a hairdresser from Long Beach. She had told Zack to do something to change the subject if his mom started talking to her about hair styles because she wouldn't have much of a clue. It would definitely blow her cover as a hairdresser.

"I feel nervous again. I'm going to look like an idiot," Zack said to her after getting out of the car and locking it.

Alexa decided to nip that stuff in the bud before they went any further. Walking up to him, she stretched up and pecked him on the cheek. "You'll be fine. We're in love. Show me off. Be proud of me. I'll show them the same things from my point of view."

Zack seemed surprised and smitten by her kiss. At least it had snapped him out of his disconsolate moaning.

"I'm looking forward to meeting them," Alexa said as she walked with Zack up to the front door.

He used his key to open the front door. "They're looking forward to meeting you," he said before he pushed the door open.

I'm sure they are, Alexa thought. Apparently they had been waiting for close to six months, an extraordinary amount of time for his girlfriend not to have come to visit his parents.

"Hello?" Zack called out to announce their arrival.

The house was very warm inside. Alexa quickly took off her scarf while looking around the entrance hall. The decoration was a bit old fashioned for her taste, but she supposed that Zack's parents were probably twice her age. One thing she could appreciate was the grand wooden staircase. It looked like it was made of oak or something to her untrained eye. Whatever wood it was, it made a striking centrepiece of the entrance hall.

"I'm in here!" a woman's voice called back. It came from somewhere on the left side of the hall.

"Mom's in the kitchen," Zack said, setting off in that direction.

Alexa walked with him, taking off her gloves and unbuttoning her coat along the way. They walked through a dining room. The kitchen was on the other side of it. Before they got there, Alexa could smell some kind of meat cooking. She was hungry, and the smell was delightful.

Entering the kitchen just behind Zack, Alexa saw a plump, jolly-looking blonde woman working on chopping an onion. She was wearing an apron with cats on it. The first impression Alexa got was not at all what she had expected. She had been anticipating a stuffy, uppity woman, but the person in front of her looked anything but that. The big smile that appeared on her face further confirmed it.

"Mom, this is Chelsea," Zack announced proudly, turning to Alexa and smiling as she stepped forward.

"Chelsea! We meet at least!" the woman exclaimed cheerfully. "You picked the right time, while I'm chopping onions and crying my eyes out!"

"Timing never has been my strong point," Alexa said with a big smile of her own. "It is lovely to meet you at last, Mrs Ryder."

"Don't Mrs Ryder me!" she said with good humour. "My name is Mona, and my husband is Steve, wherever his ass has got to."

I'm going to like this woman, Alexa realised immediately. Whatever the reasons were for Zack's lack of confidence with women, it apparently wasn't anything to do with having an oppressive mother.

"Dad's in the garden," Zack said, pointing towards a window behind Mona. Outside, Alexa saw a tall man with grey hair pushing a lawnmower down the lawn, his back currently to the house.

Mona turned around and walked up to the window, then banged her fist on it to attract her husband's attention. Alexa couldn't help laughing.

"Get in here!" Mona shouted when her husband looked towards the house.

"That's my mom for you," Zack muttered to Alexa, for her ears only.

"I like her already," she replied.

Mr Ryder hurried towards the house. There was a back door in the kitchen that led to the garden. He was soon walking through it.

"Dad, this is Chelsea," Zack announced for the second time, with the same pride as before.

"Hello, Chelsea," Mr Ryder said. There was a shyness about him that surprised Alexa once more. If ever there was a reminder not to form opinions about people before meeting them, this was it.

"This lump is Steve," Mona said to Alexa, before turning to her husband. "Take the girl's coat. I've got onion all over my hands."

Smiling, Alexa stuffed her gloves into her coat pocket and took it off. She handed it over to Steve, along with her scarf. "Thank you," she said sweetly.

"That's a very nice coat," Mona said as Steve left the room with it.

"Isn't it?" Alexa agreed. "Zack bought it for me earlier. I had to choose it of course."

"Of course," Mona laughed, with Zack also managing to chuckle at his own expense.

"What would I know about women's coats?" he said with a shrug. "It looks great on you, that's all that matters to me."

"Such a man's answer," Mona said, and both women laughed again.

"It's so nice to finally meet you both," Alexa said next. "I'm sorry I've not been over before."

"We were starting to think you didn't exist," Mona said, laughing now that it seemed a ridiculous notion.

"Thanks, mom," Zack said, managing to put sarcastic dryness into his voice. "I told you a bunch of times, Chelsea wanted to come over, but she's been working six days a week for ages."

"What matters is you're here now," Mona said to Alexa. "I hope you're hungry? We're having braised beef with melting onions."

"Sounds delicious to me," Alexa said.

"Good," Mona said happily. "Zack, go show her around the house."

"Yeah, of course," Zack said. He and Alexa made their way out of the kitchen, meeting Steve coming back the other way. Alexa responded to his slightly timid smile with a nice one of her own.

As she walked with Zack across the hallway, she was just able to hear Steve speak to his wife in the kitchen. "Christ, she's beautiful," he said. She didn't think Zack had heard, so she kept it to herself, suppressing a smile.

"I like you parents," Alexa said to Zack. "Your mom especially seems like a lot of fun to be around."

"Mom is a lot of fun. Dad can be too, he's just reserved around people he doesn't know. You can see where I get it from."

"Yeah, I guess I can," Alexa said, realising that he was right. If he had a bit more of his mother's personality about him, he would almost certainly have a real girlfriend to bring home to meet his folks.

Zack gave Alexa a guided tour around the house. Throughout, it matched her initial impression. It was not particularly to her taste, but there was no doubt it was a nice home. Staying there for two nights was not going to be a problem for her.

Tour completed, they returned to the dining room. While they had been gone, the table had been laid, presumably by Steve, who was nowhere to be seen again.

"Dinner is almost ready if you want to sit down in there!" Mona called through from the kitchen.

"Now we get the tricky part," Alexa said quietly to Zack as they sat down opposite each other. Over the meal, the 'get to know you' questions would likely come thick and fast. She was confident of having the story straight herself, she had to hope Zack held up his end of the bargain.

Four hours later, Alexa was pleased with how things had gone. She and Zack hadn't vibed perfectly with each other, but they had done well enough. Any awkwardness would have been put down as understandable nerves by Mona and Steve. Anyone at a first 'meet the parents' dinner was nervous. The important thing was that the story had held up, and Alexa had skilfully worked some of the details she had been given about Zack's past into the conversation. They had spent an hour in the dining room, followed by three hours chatting over drinks in the living room. Mona and Steve had been so welcoming and fun to talk to that Alexa almost considered it a shame that she likely wouldn't see them again after this booking was over.

"I don't know about you, Chelsea, but I'm beat," Zack had just said. He had in reality jumped on the fact that Alexa had just yawned. They were sitting together on a couch, opposite another, where Mona and Steve were sitting. There was a coffee table between them.

"I am tired," she replied, taking the non-too-subtle hint that he wanted to go up to bed.

"I think we're going to go up," Zack said to his parents.

"Okay, goodnight," Steve said. He was lounging back on the couch, looking ready for his own bed.

"You kids have a good night," Mona said, giggling to herself afterwards. Maybe she'd had one glass of wine too many, Alexa thought with amusement of her own.

"Thank you for letting me stay. You have such a lovely home," Alexa said as she got up.

"You're welcome any time, sweetheart," Mona said.

Goodnights were exchanged all round, then Alexa and Zack made their way upstairs.

"I can't believe how well that went," Zack said once they were safely in his bedroom with the door closed. "I knew you would be good, but even so, wow. No way would I possibly have thought this was anything but legit."

He sat on the edge of the bed. Mindful of his uncertainty around sleeping with her, Alexa sat next to him, not wanting to move too fast. He had to be allowed to go at his own pace. "It was a nice night," she said with a smile. "I really like your parents. I'm going to wash up and change for bed now, okay?"

"Okay," Zack said. The prospect of getting into bed with her seemed to be unnerving him again.

Alexa fetched her toiletry bag and the t-shirt she was going to wear to sleep in from her travel case and went through to the en-suite bathroom.

A few minutes later she walked back into the bedroom wearing a long Mickie Mouse t-shirt that covered her underwear. With most clients she wouldn't have dressed that way, but she felt like it was the best thing to make Zack comfortable. Even so, she found him looking at her as if she was naked. He looked spellbound, lifting his head from his pillow.

"Holy... You're stunning, Alexa. You really are."

"Thank you," she said softly, getting into the bed. She lay down facing him, making herself comfortable under the blanket.

"I hate that I'm too shy to kiss you," Zack said. He actually looked terrified by the prospect.

"You can kiss me," Alexa replied. She slowly moved her head forward and kissed him on the lips. "Just like that," she encouraged.

Tentatively, Zack responded in kind, touching his lips to hers. As he did so, he moved slightly and Alexa felt his hard cock touch her leg. In other circumstances she would have had her hand around it in a flash, but that wasn't what he needed. Pretending not to have felt anything, she put a hand on his cheek and kissed him again.

"Can we cuddle?" he asked.

"Of course."

Alexa had been ready to cuddle him while they continued kissing. To her surprise, he rolled over to face away from her. He was so lacking in confidence that he didn't even want to kiss her. It would be a long road from there to having sex with him the next night, she knew. But that was tomorrow's problem. For now, she snuggled up to him and put an arm around him.

Zack held her hand and settled down to sleep. "Goodnight, Alexa."

"Goodnight, Zack."

Bless him, she thought. He was the shyest client she'd ever had. Even so, she was confident of ultimately delivering his moment of Bliss.

A/N: Special thanks to everyone who left a review on the previous chapter.

Alexa pulled off the 'meet the parents' part of the booking, but the sex is going to provide the kind of challenge she's not used to facing. How do you think things will go in the next chapter?