The Clerembeax Palace Hotel and Spa – Elementary

 The beautiful Downshire village of Clerembeax St Giles was situated to the west of Abbeyvale located between Grace Hill and Bushy Down and on the outskirts was the Clerembeax Palace Hotel and Spa.

It was once the home The Clerembeax’s, who arrived in Downshire following the Norman conquests and stayed for a thousand years before the name died out following the death of the reclusive Marcus Clerembeax at the age of 96.

The current owner was Yvonne Labuschagne, who decided to open it as a Hotel and Spa.

The Spa was a good attraction, but it was crucial for them to maintain a high occupancy rate, however things were tough in the Hotel trade with the success of Travelodge, Premier Inn and Holiday Inn Express and so places like the Palace needed to offer something extra to attract the guests, apart from the Spa. 

So, they put on novelty weekends, such as “Murder Mysteries”, which was what brought Dr Ryan Meakes to Clerembeax and when he arrived at the Palace for the Murder Mystery Weekend he found himself paired up with a Solicitor from Abbottsford, Penny Panagakos, because although she was staying at the hotel with her husband George he had no interest in participating.

And as they played the game and worked their way around the hotel he quickly came to appreciate just how attractive she was, her body was nicely toned and she had a nice shape and overall was in very good order for a woman just turned forty, and Ryan had a well-practiced eye when it came to women, but despite his penchant for all things feminine he had always tried to avoid fishing in someone else’s pond, no matter how attractive the body of water might be and the lovely Penny was married to a police Inspector and if it was the same man that she arrived with at the Hotel he was also a very large man.

So, on largely moral grounds, tinged with a little fear, he confined his interest in her to lusty perusal and no more.

But halfway through dinner on Saturday Night the goalposts moved when George was summoned back to Abbottsford, following a serious incident, on which he could give no further details, and so he excused himself, kissed his wife and left.   

 

The Murder Mystery continued to play out during the meal as actors performed little scenarios to give the players additional clues and following dinner the teams went off in search of further clues and to question suspects.

Although Ryan didn’t know it at the time George being called away was a game changer, but he soon found out when he and Penny stepped into a stairwell on the second floor at her behest.

Ever since they met he had looked at her with lustful eyes while she remained demure but the moment the fire door closed behind them there was no hint of the reserved and modest Policeman’s Wife he had seen earlier as she stood beside him smiling before taking his hand and almost dragged him towards her and kissed him very passionately.

It was a long languorous kiss with darting tongues of passion and his hands caressed up and down her voluptuous frame repeatedly, exploring every inch of the landscape from her neck to her buttocks, before she broke away and started up the stairs with his hand in hers.

He paused briefly on the bottom stair, although he already knew the answer, he asked

“Are you sure?”

“Oh yes” she replied and began pulling him upstairs, so he followed her up at pace and on arriving on the third floor, where the more expensive accommodations were, he was struck with the luxurious contrast from the floors below, but his mind didn’t dwell on the décor.

Penny used her key card and opened the door and continued dragging him until they were in the bedroom and after closing the door she went and stood by the four-poster bed.

At that point Ryan found himself in a quandary, because although he was undoubtedly a philanderer, who might even occasionally sleep with married women, he did have some standards and one of his rules was never to do it in the husband’s bed.

Now technically as it was a Hotel it wasn’t the marital bed, but it was as near as damn it, and he was about to suggest they relocate to his bachelor room when she slipped her dress off to reveal a vision in lace and silk.

“What the hell” he thought “it’s not a hard and fast rule”