There's a girl where we work, that everyone calls the Iron Bitch because she's got a hard as nails personality and doesn't put up with shit from anyone. The thing that they don't know, is that underneath that hard shell is a very soft and very hot woman. She's warm, she's loving, and she's extremely unselfish and uninhibited during sex. And all it took to find that soft center was to be there to help pick up the pieces when that hard shell cracked.
True, there had to have been some amount of attraction in both directions for anything to have happened. And while I can't speak for her side of that, I have to admit that there was some on mine. I mean, even if she was a first class bitch, she was still good looking and had a nice body. She was also intelligent and witty, and there were rare moments when she was in a good mood and acted like a normal person. Plus, now that I stop to think about it, there must have been some attraction or something on her side, because she was nicer to me than to anybody else. So, there were times, those few times that she actually smiled, that I felt a little something towards her. But, since she was still a bitch most of the time, I was not as attracted to her as I was to other pretty girls I knew.
That is, until the last week of the fiscal year when the Finance Department found a mistake they'd made earlier in the year that totally screwed up the materials budget. As head of the Purchasing Department, Tami, the Iron Bitch, had to recalculate all material costs for the year, with less than a week to do it in. And, as head of the IT Department, it was my job to provide her all the computer support she needed. And since this was a critical issue and she needed large amounts of immediate support, I had to move my computer terminal into her office and work hand in hand with her the entire time. Not that anyone expected us to fix the whole mess in such a short time, we were just supposed to minimize the damage to the company. But, we made a good team, and by skipping lunch and working lots of overtime, we surprised ourselves and everyone by getting to the last one on day 4 of the 6 days we had.
Working in close proximity for those long hours had accomplished something else too. That was to give me an idea as to why she was such a bitch most of the time. That's because the people we had to deal with weren't really qualified for the jobs they held. Its one of the problems of having a unionized work force, that promotions are based on seniority, not competence. Her and I are management, which doesn't have a union, and we have to produce results. But the people at the shop supervisor level were for the most part slow, lazy and in some cases downright stupid. So, she had to be hard nosed and threatening on a daily basis and that showed in her overall personality. But in those 4 days, she let her guard down with me, and there were times that I almost felt something between us.
Then real disaster struck, because in doing a thorough review of the accounting mistake, Finance found something that negated half the work we'd just done. Some other accountant, no longer with the company, had found the first mistake 6 months before. And, without telling anyone in management, had built in a correction factor to fix it. So, half of the documents that we had just fixed in record time, would have to be redone again with just the weekend to do it in. With all the long hours we had put in, and with victory in hand, to have the rug pulled out from under us just proved too much for Tami to take. But, instead of screaming and yelling, and using every dirty word in the book, like she usually did, Tami did something I never expected. As I mentioned at the beginning, that hard shell she wore didn't just crack, it shattered, and the Iron Bitch broke into tears.
Had anyone else still been on the upper floor where we worked, I might not have done what I did. But, since we were already working overtime, and the accountants were on the lower floor working too, we were alone up there. And I did what any man would do when a beautiful woman starts crying in front of him. I put my arms around her, and rubbed her back to comfort her, while she cried on my shoulder. If I had stopped there, I doubt anything else would have happened. She would just have cried herself out, we'd both have felt awkward when we separated, and then things would have eventually gotten back to normal. I didn't though, and I'm still not sure why, because although my sex life isn't everything I dreamed it could be, I'm more or less a happily married man. So, even I was shocked when as I was telling her everything would be ok, I leaned down and kissed the top of her head. And, I was even more shocked with myself when she turned her face up for a real kiss, and I didn't hesitate to give it to her.