"So, do you actually get turned on thinking about my feet?" Even for Karla, this was an incredibly direct approach and the first time that Jack had actually heard her talk about their foot fetish experiences and relate it to how they were feeling.
Matching her directness, Jack spoke concisely and softly, his voice registering little more than a whisper. "Yes, I do." This was precisely the sort of one-on-one situation that didn't always make him feel very comfortable.
Curious to know more, Karla pressed Jack further. "Do you know why?"
For Jack, this moved the conversation slightly further away from where it had begun, and he felt a little more at ease. "Well, that's hard to say. I believe sexual fetishes are ingrained in us at an early age, so I guess mine is feet."
Karla looked sternly at him, distinctly unimpressed with the lesson in sexual psychology. She cocked her head to the left, raised an eyebrow and told him, "I'm not sure I'm interested in that. Talk to me about, you know, what my feet do to you." She was genuinely intrigued. Jack was the first man to have worshipped her feet, and she wanted to get an idea of what he really felt about it.
Jack wasn't finding this 'interview' an enjoyable experience.
"I have a foot fetish," he began. "I love looking at, touching, and worshipping women's feet." Looking up and meeting Karla's eyes, he realised something and dared to share it with her.
"I've never actually said that aloud before." Jack's face had flushed, and this mild embarrassment led him to struggle to get his words out without stuttering slightly.
"It's okay," Karla said, sensing Jack's discomfort, enjoying the feeling of control that gave her.
"What about you?" Jack blustered.
"Oh, I don't have a foot fetish, dear," Karla giggled. Jack confirming that her feet turned him on made her feel satisfied.
"No, I meant what about when I'm worshipping your feet," Jack clarified. "How does that make you feel?"
Karla smiled. It made her feel damn good, but Jack didn't need to know that. "I like it, but then I think you knew that already." She wasn't giving anything away, and Jack immediately felt he'd opened up more than he'd wanted to. An awkward silence was broken when the phone rang, and as Karla made to pick it up, Jack started to make his way out. She paused, held out a hand to catch his attention and asked one final question, making sure she had understood entirely what Jack had said earlier.
"You get...turned on...by my feet?"
Jack nodded.
"You fucking weirdo," she said, smiling wickedly, dismissively waving him away, and taking what would turn out to be her final call of the day.
Once Jack had left her office and closed the door behind him, he let out a huge sigh. He felt both relieved and nervous. He'd told her a lot, but there was an awful lot that she still didn't know.
She didn't realise that just the smell of her feet drove him wild, that he'd fantasised about her for years, and, of course, that he wasn't planning on sticking around and working with her forever. He didn't care if she thought he was a weirdo.
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A few days passed before they found themselves in the office, alone after everybody else had left.