[Author's note: Contains themes of consensual female-led-relationship, impact play. If femdom is not your thing, please
browse my other stories
for something more to your taste.]
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BINDING CONTRACT
The Thursday all-team meeting seemed to just go on and on, way past the point that Hector was paying attention, until he found himself just watching the way his boss's mouth moved as she rolled out the plans for the next quarter. He should have been listening, because what Claire was telling them was important. She had been seconded into a senior management role for three months, working her way up the food chain, and Hector was only too aware of what that meant at his level. He had seniority in the team and someone would need to step into her shoes. It was an opportunity for him to finally get one more rung up the ladder.
Claire was maybe five years older, recently divorced, recently blonde, losing weight steadily, with an air of knowing authority that kept his attention. Her lipstick was red, but not vampire red because that would have been too much in a work setting, though Hector often imagined her going into the restrooms at the end of a Friday and fixing her hair a little less straight, plumping her soft lips and applying a crimson shade, ready for a night out with her newest date. Or maybe even a night at home, getting through the door and unbuttoning that sensible work blouse to reveal something lacy, leading her chosen man by his tie to the bedroom, a sultry smile on those lovely lips.
He felt a little dig in his ribs and caught Bea's eye. She was watching him, smiling slightly, like she could read his mind. Maybe she could, they'd known each other long enough. Beatrice was his wife's best friend all the way from school and still inseparable.
Bea and Lotte, Hector's wife, booked holidays together most years, had been each other's bridesmaids, and Lotte had been there like a rock all through the aftermath of Bea's recent divorce.
Hector had supported her too, putting her name forward when an opening came up to join the team, campaigning on her behalf with his boss, getting Bea the chance she needed. She hadn't known too much about car fleet management, or financing contracts, but Bea had thrown herself into it with all the focus of an early-thirties woman who had expected kids by now but abruptly found herself on her own, abandoned by a husband who had simply appeared to get tired of her.
Not long after she'd started in the team, Bea had burst into tears one day at work, staring at a message on her phone, and Hector had pulled her aside into the privacy of the break room, holding her as she howled into his shoulder. It had been a one-liner from her now ex-husband with a picture of a champagne flute, marking the finalisation of the divorce.
Hector had never liked Brent, had never really clicked with him, but like everyone else around Bea, he hadn't said anything, assuming that just because the rapport wasn't there between him and her new husband, that at least Bea was happy.
When Brent split from her, demanding his half, Lotte had let slip one night after a few drinks that no-one had really liked him anyway, assuming that it would have made Bea feel better to know that everyone was on her team and not her husband's. It had produced the opposite effect, prompting heartfelt recriminations from his wife's best friend for not speaking up before she fucking put the bastard's ring on her finger in the first place.
Hector's wife could be like that. Lotte was boisterous, the queen bee at school, and had carried that attitude over into her adult life. She led from the front, running her department in an advertising agency in the middle of town with skill and flair, as if she enjoyed bending others to her will. But, sometimes she just couldn't read the room, as if she was so caught up in her own opinions that she couldn't conceive of a flip-side, hence the comment that cut her best friend to the bone.
Afterwards, Hector had walked Bea to her car, told her that she'd had too much to drink, and drove her home instead. They'd had a long chat; he did everything but tuck her into bed. He still remembered the utter silence in her house in that moment before he let himself out.
There was the rumble of chairs as the meeting ended; suddenly everyone was getting up, rousing Hector from his thoughts. Bea's hand was on his shoulder as she rose.
"We're done for the day, Heck. You can go home now," she said.
Hector got to his feet too, giving her a distracted smile. Bea beamed back at him.
"You seem happy," he noted, "Got something on this weekend?"
"Oh, maybe."
She was being coy, and Hector felt a little tug in his chest.
"Something special?" he probed, but she just smiled.
"What about you?" she replied.
"You're changing the subject."
"You're not just a pretty face, Heck. Smart too. Yes, I am changing the subject."
She was grinning at him now, giving him that teasing look.
"You have a secret," he noted.
Her brown eyes twinkled in amusement. She always seemed to love playing with him like this. Hector studied her face for a moment, trying to work out what it was that she had planned.
"A date?" he guessed.
"You guessing or offering, Heck?"
There it was again, that little spark. It had been missing from her demeanour for a long time, but it was back again, and it gladdened him to see it. Hector found himself staring down at her expression, transfixed, in the middle of the office. Bea didn't flinch or look away either, her soft eyes smiling as she looked up at him. Her delicate face, framed by a blonde bob, close to him: that little familiar tingle of temptation.
Bea had taken to wearing a skirt in the office, heels, nice blouses that were more tailored to her trim body, her small breasts, but still appropriate for the office. She'd started dressing like their boss, even down to becoming recently blonde herself.
Hector had always had a soft spot for her, even from the first time meeting Bea and Lotte together on a night out, talking to her first but then drawn towards Lotte, taking the taller girl's number at the end of the night rather than the more petite one. That feeling had long since transmuted as his relationship with Lotte had deepened, as Hector and Lotte had explored their connection, shared beds, fantasies and eventually matrimony. If Bea had found someone, and if that's what she was doing this weekend, he could feel happy for her. She deserved it.