The district attorney struck a miserable figure, on first glance. Her head was resting on her folded arms, elbows wide on the desk, back hunched. Her computer screen had long ago switched to sleep mode. Binders were stacked in various piles on the floor around her chair, the trash was an overflowing mess, leftover food lay systematically pushed to the sides of her desk. She had given up on her tasks for the day.
On second glance, the clerks and interns who were still working that late might have noticed her heavy breathing. But no one who passed by her office that evening had any inclination to bother her. It had been a bad week at the DA's office. Everyone had been taken off their normal tasks to aid in a mess of a case against a very rich and very famous mogul whose wife had been found dead and mauled in their driveway. It had seemed like an open and shut case, and yet the DA's prosecution was floundering under the manipulations of an overpaid white-collar defense lawyer. The situation seemed to worsen by the day, and people were avoiding the ooze of frustration that seeped from their boss's office like trapped gas from a volcano.
No one heard the district attorney let out a gentle moan as she turned her head to rest her cheek on her folded hands.
In truth, she was not thinking about the doomed trial at all. Her thoughts were far away, enveloped in her husband's sweaty arms at home in their bed. From her mind's eye she could see his hands gripping her hips and his teeth pulling at the skin of her thighs. It had hurt so much...
Another soft whimper escaped her.
She stood up. From her office she could see down the stairs of their building into the main lobby. The receptionist had left a long time ago, and anyone who remained was likewise sheltering in their office.
She knew it would be a few more hours yet before she could leave for the day -- she was waiting for some blood samples to return from the lab and desperately hoping for some good news. The defense had somehow managed to stall this lab testing for three weeks and were gaining all sorts of traction through media reporting. She felt her skin crawling as she remembered the self-satisfied smile on the defendant's face in that morning's tabloids.
She took a breath, trying to stem the rising frustration in her chest. She heard her husband's voice in her head: "
Patience, sweetheart. I expect you to win, and so you will.
"
"Yes, Sir,
"
she whispered.
She drew the blinds on her office windows. She stretched her neck from side to side, trying to loosen the tension in her shoulders. Back in her chair, with her feet up, she slowly began to relax. She was thinking about a particular evening with her Sir from a week ago.
"
You might be an important lawyer out there, slut.
" Her husband's voice had an audible smile in it. "
But in here you're my puny little slave.
"
"
Yes, Sir. Please... fuck me, Sir!
"
"
Not yet,
" he had smiled wickedly.