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."
"Thanks Mike." She said blushing slightly, "Anne was really organised so learning everything was far easier than I expected... Anyway, changing the subject I didn't want to pry but as you brought it up, how's your divorce going anyway?" she asked.
"I finalised late last week thankfully, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted but don't change the subject missy... spill the deets, husband, fiancΓ©e, pets, family etc... I don't need your complete life story in one hit, just give me the basics and we can work from there." I replied.
"Well, okay. I married way too young at 19 to my high school boyfriend, but inevitably divorced by my 21st birthday. That was followed by a run of 3 boyfriends who lasted between 6 and 12 months. Each relationship ended with a proposal which I turned down. None of them felt right and if I did ever marry again, I will be certain he's the one. I've been seeing a guy called Paul for about 3 months but it's not really that serious yet. Umm, what else... Ah, no pets but I love dogs, I have a very small family, just my Mum and my sister Katie. Dad died when I was very young, my sister Katie is married with 2 lovely girls and lives close to Mum about 2 hours away by car or train. Anything else just ask, would you like my vital statistics?" Mel said with a wink.
I was blushing, I could tell I was but chuckled and said "It's good to know these things Mel, sorry I've been so distant but my mind has kinda been pre-occupied if you know what I mean. Same applies to me, anything you want to know just ask me."
"Oh, don't worry I know all about you Mike. Anne filled me in before she left and what she left out I think Amber, Nat and Sarah have probably told me."
"Well then Mel, I'll let you get home to Paul and I'll see you tomorrow morning."
"Yes, I'll see you in the morning Mike but while we're sharing, Paul doesn't live with me. I share a flat with an old friend called Amy who I've known for years."
"See, it's good to know these things so I can try and avoid putting my foot in my mouth if I ever met him. I'll cya tomorrow." I said getting up from my desk and offering her my hand to get up. She took it and stood up so close that her boobs we pressed against my chest. She let go of my hand and walked out my office.
"Night boss" she said, as she turned the corner and left the office.
I started thinking that I might need some reinforced underwear if she was going to continue teasing me the way she currently was.
And that's how things went for the next few weeks but Mel seemed to be continually raising the ante, like squeezing past me when not really necessary while rubbing her ass on my crotch, more provocative clothing at times especially on casual Fridays. Comments about things being hard or wet and emphasising the words, that girl was bad. She did seem to do it privately though, not even in front of the other girls and she never did it to Andy either. She just did it to me but I never acted on anything or asked her out like I would've done by now because she had a boyfriend and I thought it was just her way of flirting plus she was obviously just a natural tease.
To make matters worse, she was excellent at her job and I couldn't fault her at all. She never did, said or acted inappropriately ever except privately just to me. Her teasing was really starting to get to me though, the constant erections and lack of sex since my separation and it was starting to stir an animal within me and I was worried that sometime soon she was going to push me a little too far. Several times this week I've had to stop myself doing something epically unspeakable for a workplace environment.
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