This is the second chapter in the Office Jade series. All characters are over 18. Some of this may seem plausible, some not but try to enjoy the story based on the merit of the story by itself.
As always constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged so I can provide better reading. Peace.
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Following a brilliant evening of, then unknown, vengeance-based sex with one of his office coworkers and then a wonderful morning that started with a blowjob from his boss, the CEO of the company he works for, Bernard was finding the 'everything' in his recently exploded life changing dramatically: living space, detail orientation, consideration for other humans, care for work or friends or, really, just about anything.
The rest of the morning, following the visit from Dahlia and her fantastic mouth, was generally quiet and nearly wistful for Bernard. While he was eventually able to concentrate on what needed to be done there was much more that he missed. He completely forgot to go to a meeting about the show coming up. The other attendees actually had to come and retrieve him as he was the integral part to the showcasing of the designs from a computer standpoint. There would be models for the currently released and upcoming releases but the computer presentation was for the next year. There was a time just after the meeting that he completely lost all of the world - time, work, other people, himself...
Bernard was still caught up on his loss of fiancΓ©e and then sex with one of his office mates and then oral sex from his boss. It was as though his cognitive thought processes were shorting out. During the meeting he missed every eye that held him until the very end when he raised his eyes to look around the table and saw eleven women all staring at him with a quirk in the deepness of their gaze. He tried to set it aside but as the meeting came to an end and he was rapidly writing and rewriting notes hands brushed across shoulders as the ladies left the room.
When he was finally finished with his notations he looked up and saw a mostly empty room. The only other occupant was his boss, Dahlia, sitting at the other end of the table just staring at him. Her face was sharp but her eyes held an empathy he could feel from where he sat.
"Are you okay, Dahlia," asked Bernard. His tone was concerned with a tiny mote of the sardonic.
Dahlia looked at him without moving her head and replied, "I was going to ask you the same thing. I suppose the changes are going to take a little getting used to but can I count on you Bern?"
An embarrassment stole over Bern at that moment. He thought maybe he was keeping his losses of conscious consideration better hid but, obviously, he was incorrect. "I'm sorry, Dahlia. You can count on me and yes...it has been interesting, these changes are a bit out of my immediate understanding. I really am glad for some of the changes," he said pointing at Dahlia, "but it may take me another little bit to get me back to a hundred percent."
At that Dahlia stood, a look of forced acquiescence on her face. Her tall frame made Bern think she took up all of the important space in any room - she was beautiful and powerful and was always impressive to Bernard Lampson. She walked around the table, aiming at the door behind Bern, but stopped when she reached him, bent down to his ear and said, very quietly, "You see, Bern, I need you running at full force because you are important to this company. I also want your cock in two other holes on my body."
Bernard's jaw dropped and as Dahlia stood he looked up to the sky at her, she was so tall, and saw her blink at him before she, too, touched his shoulder and left the conference room. He felt himself cornered in the metaphorical room of pure and total confusion. Had the women in this office always felt this way about him? He supposed that since he was betrothed they had to hold themselves back and now that he was free they could go for broke. While the immediate idea of all this new sex and the bodies it could be attached to was extremely pleasant, and, let's face it he told himself, wanted, could he let himself go enough to enjoy it all? He'd always been a monogamous individual when it came to those he was courting but these women weren't necessarily looking for a relationship. They just wanted his body.
That couldn't be all bad, right? Bernard felt that ending up the office slut, so to speak, could be a good thing but he wasn't sure as this was all new to him. At no time in his life had he had sex so fast with a woman. Lisa was only a few minutes after she followed him home and Dahlia took him down her throat the next morning.
An odd thought of titling jumped in his thoughts just then - is it the "Office Slut," "Office Gigolo" or, in the old archaic version for men, "Office Jade?"
Whatever, Bern told himself, he needed to get back to work.
When Bern settled himself in his own office a couple of minutes later and began to find a type of rhythm in getting the show presentation prepared there was a knock on his office door. He looked up and saw that standing just outside his office window was Kerry Trannle, one of the designers for the company. She waved at him through the window with an odd look on her face and after a heavy sigh Bernard waved her in.
When the door opened Kerry stepped in. She was wearing her dark brown hair loose to her shoulders today. The dark green blouse with a just past the middle of her thigh toward the knee black skirt was about what she usually wore so Bernard thought there was no immediate danger of anything.
"Hi, Kerry," Bernard said flatly. "What's up?"
Kerry, who was usually about as quiet as a bucking bull in a China shop, seemed pensive and uncertain of what to say or how to say it. "Say, uh, One, do you think you could look at my computer? It turned off and won't turn back on for some reason." She couldn't raise her eyes to meet Bernard's.
Bernard listened to the moniker of One and was reminded of the why she started that, stupid it was but - he was the One man in the office. No, there had never been any other male at any time as far as Bernard was aware but it was still a silly name. Bernard also knew that Kerry was about as apt with electronics as was a chipmunk with an airplane in its cheek. He tried to be nice as he asked, "Kerry, is it the computer or the monitor that turned off this time?"
Kerry tried to raise her eyes to his but for reasons unknown to Bernard she couldn't...or wouldn't? Was something else going on?
"Both, I think," she finally said. "The screen is black and the coffee cup tray won't even come out anymore."
Bernard knew that Kerry had been a brilliant hand to paper designer. She still did much of her work that way. In the end, though, this is a computer age and while the touch screens had helped they didn't help Kerry very much. She was not unintelligent by any means; just not computer savvy. The coffee cup tray was the DVD optical drive. When Kerry tried to burn her designs to DVD she couldn't find the slot like her car stereo had.
Granted, optical drives weren't used much anymore as it was all the cloud, SSD JOBD NAS and huge flash drives but Bernard always determined that the discs were easier to catalogue when you were working with a team who were all smart people but the creative folk frequently lost that technical ability.
As all of that information screamed through Bernard's brain he rose from his desk and motioned for Kerry to lead the way to her workspace. The politically correct term was now workspace because the word 'desk' sounded too impersonal and took away from the individualization that creators needed or some such nonsense. Bernard told himself a desk is a physical place to work. You don't go to work in an office to be an individual as you're working for a company and your work belongs to the company so any personalization is pure frippery and a desk is where you work - Bernard had to force his thoughts into a modicum of nonsense when working for the ladies' as they liked to make fun and rarely asked questions he cared about.
Finally, though, they reached Kerry's desk and, indeed, the power to the whole table was out. No lights, no monitor, no computer. He flipped a few switches and nothing. That meant that he'd have to check the circuits for any burn outs around the desk and underneath it and then check the breaker in the power closet.
As he bent over the desk and checked the reachable outlets he saw that none were blackened in any fashion so he had to get into the kneehole and see if there were any issues there. As he bent his knees Bernard did not see the work stop from every other woman in the room. They all turned to look at Kerry. Some in disbelief, some in pure shock, some in collusion with what was about to happen.
When Bern put his head into the kneehole to search for the power strip or any other outlets he did not see Kerry sit down in her chair and scoot it closer to the opening under the desk. As his back went under the desk Bern noticed that the opening under the desk was very wide and he actually had to search further back than he recalled. This meant that nearly his entire physical frame was under the desk - only his calves and feet were not underneath with the rest of him. As a peripheral feeling he could sense the movement of the chair with a body in it but he paid it no mind as he searched for anything that may be a problem.