Please be gentle as this my first submission anywhere.
Episode 2 should follow shortly...
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It was mid January, 2005. Crisp outside with a fresh covering of snow from the night before and I was out on my daily run with my faithful companion Buster (my 3 year old chocolate lab). I had finished my run and started the 3 mile walk back to the house, my thoughts had again drifted back to my recent divorce which had been finalised a week ago.
I'd just had my 31st birthday but had not really felt like celebrating as I was still in the final throws of the divorce at the time. It was strange, I was so broken up about finding my wife with someone else 7 months ago but now that everything was final I felt the relief that I could finally start to move on with my life and forget about her.
Her, being my ex - Valarie. We'd been together for 6 years and married for 3, and I had thought that we were very much in love. But apparently not!
Anyway, I'd just walked back in the house and thought it was time to start thinking about work. Work being my own small construction business which I started 11 years ago, working on my own on site but now I was mainly office based running teams of sub-contractors and wore a suit most days.
It was a small but busy office that would receive a lot of incoming telephone calls, I employed 6 people (other than myself). Andy (31) was an old friend and my contracts manager, spent about a third of his time out of the office and his assistant Mary (43). Then there was Natalie (22), Sarah (23) and Amber (26) who basically job shared between receptionist, filing and other general office admin jobs.
The only other person was my PA, until November that had been Anne but she had taken early retirement after training up her replacement Melanie who was a bubbly enthusiastic 24 year old blonde. Tiffany was still new, so we were still getting to know each other and she had only been doing the PA job on her own since the Christmas break.
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I got into the office before everyone else and went about getting my morning coffee and started on the work at hand. Time had flown by and it was now just after 3pm, I had finished my work for the day and just sat observing the others at work in the office. I hadn't really thought about it before but Natalie, Sarah and Amber were all quite pretty and Melanie was a total knock-out. Tall and thin with a fairly large bust and a lovely heart shaped ass, she was also reasonably tall (5ft 9) which was helpful as my PA because I was nearly 6ft4.
I realised that I had been in a funk for a while due to my separation and divorce that I had almost been operating in robot mode for the last 7 months. Thinking back over those months, I had been completely oblivious to all the flirting and teasing done by the girls, including Melanie. In fact, Melanie I recalled had been very flirty and a bit of a tease at times as well. Then I also thought about the fact that I hadn't taken the time to get to know Melanie at all, Natalie, Sarah and Amber had all been working for me for a few years and I had taken the time to get to know some things about them and their personal lives. One was married, one was engaged and the other had a long time boyfriend if I remember correctly.
It was then that I realised Melanie had been standing next to my desk watching me stare into space (in the direction of the other girls) for about 10 seconds.
"Earth to Mike." Melanie said, as she smiled brightly and passed me some contract documents.
"Sorry Melanie, I was miles away... thinking about something." I replied.
'Yea, probably thinking about Amber's ass... she does have a lovely bum' Melanie thought, she smiled deeply at me and asked me to sign a few documents. Melanie then walked back to her desk and I couldn't help but admire her beautiful ass encased in her short skirt as she walked away, that skirt was a little on the short side for work. Short enough to be sexy but long enough to be appropriate work attire, just! Then a thought popped into my head and I felt really bad, thinking back I realised that I hadn't taken any time to get to know her and everything I did know I'd been told by someone else.
I picked up my phone and dialled Melanie's desk and she answered in her normal bubbly way. "Hi Mike, missing me already?"
"What? umm, no sorry Melanie... umm, could you come to my office before you leave for the evening?"
"Yea, sure. Have I done something wrong?"
"No, don't be silly I just need to talk to you about something"
"Okay, no problem I will stop at your office before I leave".
5.40pm Melanie walked into my office, 'was it just me or had the skirt got even shorter and it looks like she's taken her bra off... damn this girl is a damn tease' I thought. "You wanted to see me Mike?" she said, while leaning seductively on the door frame with a sultry look on her face.
"Yes Melanie, come in and take a seat for a minute".
"Okay, no problem but please call me Mel... only my Mum calls me Melanie, it makes me feel like I'm in trouble or I've done something really naughty" she replied while walking over to my sofa and taking a seat with a big smile on her face.
'She knows what she's doing' I thought, moving with an extra bounce in her step making her boobs jiggle as she walked looking me right in the eye and smiling at the same time. I'm trying desperately to keep my eyes on her face and not look down, she sits and crosses her legs but with the teasing she's doing I decide I'm not gonna rise to it and try to see what colour her panties are, if she's even wearing any.
"Okay, Mel it is... look Mel the reason I wanted to see you is that in case you hadn't noticed, I've been kinda running on autopilot for the last few months because of my divorce... I was originally worried that you'd take ages to get to grips with me and all our systems of work but you've been doing such a fantastic job that I barely noticed Anne's retirement. Now I just think of you as a permanent member of the team but unlike everyone else I know absolutely nothing about you. So if we're gonna carry on working together we need to get to know each other better."