Charitable Impulse
"Jean, what's on my schedule later today?"
Julia Mulloy called out to her long time assistant, voice just loud enough to be heard through the open doorway linking their adjoining offices.
"Your staff meeting at 11, then at 1pm you get arrested."
"Say what?"
Julia stood, striding on long shapely legs towards her assistant's desk, eyebrows raised in confusion.
"Remember...you volunteered for this year's Children's Hospital Jail-A- Celebrity Fundraiser. You get 'arrested'. Company venders and your friends bail you out. We've been raising money for weeks. They say you will be a
very
valuable prisoner."
"Oh, right...wish you had reminded me. I'm not exactly dressed for a penitentiary."
Julia raised her arms, twirling, modeling the short black skirt and creamy silk blouse that was her typical business attire. Sheer dark hose and black pumps completed the ensemble. At a sleek 5'7" and in her mid thirties, Julia was the model of the hot, young, ambitious business executive determined to have it all.
"I dressed up for that breakfast presentation today. The men seemed to pay particular attention. "
"No doubt," Jean responded doing her best to conceal her own admiration of the alluring package her boss presented.
Jean was a few inches shorter than Julia. Fit from years of tennis and running, Jean's frosted blonde hair was cut shorter than the long dark hair of her boss. Unmarried, Jean was a few years older than the young executive she had worked with since joining the company five years earlier. She prided herself in the loyalty and discretion that made them quite a team. Up until today.
"I'm sure they were impressed," Jean commented, taking in the tall shapely and stylishly dressed body of her boss.
"But that outfit should be no problem, I'm sure your 'jailers' will treat you well. Maybe the sexy outfit will even get you time off for good behavior."
"So explain the get arrested drill?" Julia asked, heading back to her desk to plow through accumulated emails. Following her into her office, Jean looked over Julia's shoulder, a smirk creasing her lips.
"Oh, no big deal. An off-duty police officer picks you up here and hauls you downtown to the Hospital's "holding cell". I will be there promptly to pay your bail".
"Well don't be late...I want to work out tonight. I have the night off for a change."
"Not to worry." Jean's smirk turned to a grin as she turned her back, returning to her office, musing "If only you knew".
Julia Mulloy wanted and (just about) had it all: a great career managing the foundation of a Fortune 500 company. Two great kids, off this week at summer camp. A successful and attentive husband, off on business trip tonight. And a sumptuous, well-toned body to die for.
Of course, Julia didn't get where she was in life without making a few enemies. Among her staff there were those who appreciated her talent and drive, but secretly called her a "bitch" when in unreasonnably demanding mode. Outside the company she had also made her share of enemies. When you had a budget of millions to spread around the City's many charities those that got were appreciative. But those left off the largesse list took it personally.
Julia's busy morning melted into early afternoon. As plates of chicken salad shared with her staff were cleared from the conference room table, Jean answered the buzz of a nearby phone. Looking to Julia, eyes twinkling, she said "Looks like it's time for your arrest." Smiles and laughs broke out among the half dozen mostly female members of Julia's staff.
"I can't believe I let you con me into this," Julia feigned protest as a short slender female member of the City's finest was shown into the conference room.
"I'm Officer Patricia Dunn. Is Julia Mulloy here?" she asked, all business.
Standing, Julia reached to shake the officer's hand. "Just let me freshen up and get my purse".
"Sorry Ma'am, where you're going a purse won't be necessary."
Grasping the young executive's extended hand, the short but surprisingly strong officer swiftly ratcheted shut the open handcuff she had concealed from Julia in her closed palm.
"Wait," Julia exclaimed, "You don't need to..."
"Just following procedures." Officer Dunn responded, twisting the cuffed wrist behind the back of the blushing executive, then clasping and cuffing the other wrist behind Julia's back. Heart thumping, the stunned young executive twisted her wrists in frustration, quickly realizing that in a few short seconds she had been truly and securely restrained.
"This is humiliating," Julia muttered, as her staff, at first surprised, laughed at their assertive boss's sudden demise at the hands of the much smaller female officer.
"This is not funny," Julia said, more loudly, face red, glaring at Jean, who approached her.
"Calm yourself, Julia. Remember, it's all for a good cause. Think of the Children," Jean reassured, doing her best to squelch a blossoming smirk as she considered her suddenly humbled boss struggling against the hardened steel cuffs.
Jean pushed the dark hair that had tumbled over her boss's face behind her ear, attempting to soothe ruffled feathers. "Let me get your jacket." The young assistant placed the dark carefully tailored suit jacket over her boss's shoulders, hiding the cuffs from prying eyes.
Julia squirmed in her bindings. She thought about other times she had been cuffed. Privately. But quickly sought to suppress the erotic thought. This was different. Humiliating. Non-consensual. But the reflections on those past encounters with binding steel made her stomach flutter. Of course, none of them knew.
"Let's get this over with" she demanded, trying to reassert control over the situation and her own slightly deviant thoughts.
"Just a second, Ma'am. I have some special orders for this arrest," Officer Dunn said, interrupting Julia's effort to reassert control.
"And those are?" Julia retorted, looking down on the officer approaching her, eyebrow raised in disdain, as she attempted to calm a suddenly racing heart.