The intercom buzzed. I glanced at the phone. My secretary's line was the only one lit. "What part of 'leave me the hell alone' don't you understand?!" I muttered to myself.
I hit the speaker button. "Yes?"
"You have a visitor."
I tried to decide if she was on speaker as well. Couldn't.
"Who is it?" I asked, doing my best to sound anything but highly annoyed.
"Your husband." Aaron answered.
She was on speaker.
"Come on back."
Without waiting for an acknowledgment, I hit the speaker button again, and hung up. I looked at my watch and checked the time. It was two fifty two. What was he doing here? Why wasn't he back at his office, mired in tax returns like I was?
The door opened. Aaron stepped inside, closed and locked it behind him. He smiled, took off his overcoat and tossed it onto the chair that sat just inside the door. I took off my reading glasses and leaned back in my chair. "Do Joey and Pam (his partners) know you skipped-out on them?"
His suit jacket followed his overcoat. He loosened his tie. "Where's your purse?"
"Where it always is: my bottom desk drawer."
"Get it."
I opened the drawer and took it out. He grabbed it from me and started rummaging through.
"What are you doing?" I asked, more perplexed than anything else.
"Stand up and take your panties off."
Slowly, I did as asked, watching with curiosity as Aaron continued his search. "There it is!"
With a magician's flourish, he took out a tube of K-Y® Brand INTENSE®.
"Now how did that get in there?" I said with a laugh.
"Planning!" he replied.
Aaron took me by the wrist and pulled me to the side of my desk. "For all the junk you keep in there, you sure don't have the important stuff."
"I'll make a note of it." I said, with a sly grin.
"Ready?"