The silence on the floor was genuinely eerie.
Jason seemed to be completely alone, in the middle of the morning and on the home-turf of a busy academic department. He saw not a soul until he arrived at the department secretary's door. That soul was Anita -- a stunning late-thirties Ethiopian-black woman whom he'd helped find this job some years before. Since then, they had worked together -- and very well - on many a faculty research proposal.
She rose, flashed him her melt-you-at-100 yards smile, engulfed him with her patented whole-body hug. She was shorter than he by a head, slender and buxom, nicely configured, hair always tightly bunned, minimal makeup. And a sparkling personality.
She greeted him enthusiastically: "Wow! A live person come here to visit with me! It's so lonely here this morning. Everyone else is gone to that damn Nobelist's seminar. It's like a morgue!"
Despite her having produced three children, her boobs were ridiculously solid, and flattened only slightly against his chest. Then she was leaning back to look him in the face, leaving their crotches pressed hard together -- they were hugely attracted to one another, but by unspoken agreement hadn't expressed it in any way save this species of hug -- t very long intervals.
Today, Jason let something slip: only inches from her face, he muttered "I wonder if you have any idea at all, Anita, how hard it is for me to keep from kissing you?"
She stared into him, said softly "Oh, yes, Doctor J, believe me, I do know!"
Then she reached out behind him and shut the heavy, windowless office door: it closed with a small thunk, like an acoustic exclamation point. Her hands went up behind his neck: "I doubt we'll go to hell forever if we grant ourselves one little indulgence. Besides, this conservative middle aged black woman has never kissed a white boy before. I've been thinking about this for quite some time... and time seems to have ripened, don't you think? It's long overdue!"
The kiss was the most erotic thing Jason had experienced in years. It lasted almost five minutes, and when finally Anita initiated the break, it left his mind whirling, his heart pounding -- and his cock granite-like. Anita looked at him with a genuinely stunned expression, finally managed a wan little grin. "Jesus Joseph and Mary! I'm actually dizzy! When was the last time THAT happened to me?"
She slid a finger gently across his lips. "Good thing for you I don't wear lipstick! We do that kissing-thing way, way, WAY too well for our own good, Doctor J. This has to be a one-of-a-kind. I'm a happily married woman with three kids. You have a wife. You and I just happen to work together. No more. Too damn dangerous! Agreed?"
Jason squeezed her to him, said into the top of her head "Agreed. But under protest!" She snuggled against him in what was clearly no longer their usual hug, then stepped away and opened the door. "Proprieties!" she muttered. "Damn them anyhow!"
She settled behind her desk; he took the visitor's chair. After a long silence, he reached across the desk, picked up a small picture frame. It held a photo of Anita and her identical twin sister Bonita -- the parents hadn't expected twins: Anita was born first by five minutes, was ink-marked with an "A". Number two got a "B". The name Anita had already been selected, and the "B" led directly to "Bonita". Aged perhaps twenty-five in the photo, they were utterly indistinguishable.
He studied the photo, then handed it to Anita with a grin. "Wish I knew your twin. It might help."
Anita looked puzzled: "Help? Help with what? Help how?"
He shrugged: "If I told you it'd be breaking workplace proprieties."