We were going to school. It was a seminar pertinent to our business. Five of us from work, Jack, Loren, Michelle, Rene and I. Me, I am the boss. Rene and I were last in line entering the school building. The sidewalk was icy and Rene slipped. I grabbed her from behind and kept her from falling. The back of her head was pressed against my waist. I lifted her to her feet and realized as I was letting go of her that I had lifted her by her breasts. She turned to me, this twenty-three year old red-haired woman with the face and body of a model who I had always been so proper around, with a smile on her face and said, "Did you enjoy fondling my breasts?"
I was shocked. I thought she would thank me for helping her. She was accusing me of improperly touching her. "You should apologize for your behavior" she said still smiling at me. I thought she was only teasing me and started to relax a little when she pulled her glove off, handed it to me and said "hold this till I ask you for it." Then she slapped my face. With a smile, without a word, she turned and walked into the school building.
I was shocked. I just stood there holding her glove unsure what to do. I entered the school room. The instructor had started his lecture. I sat in the back never hearing a word. I looked at Rene, but she never looked my way. I stared at her for the duration of the lecture. I hadn't done anything wrong, but I felt so guilty and so confused... When the seminar ended my group gathered in the hallway discussing the subject of the lecture and how we could apply it to our business. We went out to Loren's van. Rene sat up front. I was behind her and stared at the back of her head all the way back to our office. I retreated to my office to think, but nothing came to me.
I decided the only thing to do was to apologize to Rene. I went to her office but she wasn't there. Her secretary said that she had left work right after we got back from the seminar. I returned to my office and tried to concentrate on work, but I glanced at the glove laying on the corner of my desk. I could not concentrate on anything. I kept looking at her glove. A little before five Rene entered my office and stood in front of my desk. I started to apologize to her and tell her it had been an accident that I was trying to help her. She said "shush". I was startled but stopped talking and waited for her. She walked to the door and closed it.
My eyes were glued to her swaying ass and I was growing hard. She laid a sheet of paper in the center of my desk.. It said go to Rothchildes at the mall and buy the largest bottle of Opium perfume they have. Go to the lingerie department and buy stock number A60695. Go to Jackson's Wine Cellars on Boniventure Avenue and buy a bottle of Bollinger RD Champagne. Go to your home. Your wife is waiting for you. She turned and walked to the door. I had to say something. I lamely said she had forgotten her glove. She turned and smiled at me and said, "Leave it on the corner of your desk till I ask you for it." She turned and left my office. I was more confused now than before. What the hell was going on? What was with this insane shopping list? In utter confusion I decided to go home.
In my car as I pulled into traffic I turned right. It was the wrong way. I lived in the other direction. I was headed to the mall. I didn't know why. I pulled into the mall found Rothchildes, bought the perfume, and blushingly bought the incredibly beautiful sheer black neglige as I was told. Back in the car I sat wondering why I had just spent seven hundred and fifty dollars on these gifts. Were they for Elizabeth, my wife, or was I supposed to give them to Rene. In a daze I made my way to Boniventure Avenue and bought the bottle of wine as I was told. I don't even want to mention what that cost. I headed for home. I had never felt such humiliation in my life as this day had brought. I pulled into the circle drive in front of our big stone house and entered the front door.
Elizabeth was reading in the living room. She was her lovely, perfectly groomed self. It felt so good to be home, to be safe, to have the madness end, that I greeted her loudly and rushed to kiss her. Elizabeth ignored my greeting and gave me an expressionless look and asked "you have some things for me, don't you." I was plummeting into confusion again. I tried to speak but no words came to me. Elizabeth said "I do not want you to speak, not a word. Take the wine to Marie in the kitchen. Lay out the neglige on my bed. Disrobe completely and put your clothes away. Run me a bath, and wait for me in the bathroom."
I stood riveted to the floor unable to speak, unable to think. Elizabeth returned to her book and without looking at me said "you may go." I walked in a trance to the kitchen and gave Marie, our cook, the wine. She didn't greet me as she usually does with a "Hi Mr. B." I went up the stairs to our room laid the lingerie on her bed, she had said "her bed", undressed, put my clothes in my closet, and entered the bath. I started the water and added bath oil to it. I got a fluffy towel from the linen closet and put it on the warming bar. I waited. Was Elizabeth furious with me? Obviously Rene had spoken to her. Had she been here. What had she told Elizabeth. I would have to set the story straight. Elizabeth would believe me. I had done nothing improper. I waited.