Doctor Susmita Bose was a world-class professor of chemical engineering. And her breasts were driving poor Harry bonkers. No woman's set had affected him this way since high-school.
Harry first met Susmita and her husband Chandra at one of Harry's proposal-writing workshops. This trip was for four days, to help them write proposals β hers, his, and joint. Chandra, too was a Chem-E professor - not so successful as Susmita, but that caused them no friction. They were a nice couple, from southern India, in their early thirties, and when walking together on campus they were invariably hand-in-hand, almost child-like. Very attractive, both of them, with the perfect smooth dark-brown skin, pearly white teeth and stunning black hair of their Endo-Dravidian, near-Caucasian ethnicity.
They were small β Chandra roly-poly, a little balding, perhaps 5'4", Susmita not quite five feet, just below shoulder height on Harry, and definitely NOT roly-poly. Susmita wore no makeup, just some faint sandalwood-ish perfume that Harry found enticing, an earring, a nose-jewel, a caste mark on her forehead, her long and very thick hair twisted and rolled into a bun and held with two silver pins. He could easily envision her in an elegant, expensive 8-meter sari.
The Professors Bose had offices side-by-side, and shared this private antechamber. The couple could and often did work together, but each maintained a separate individual line of research. Yesterday the three had worked together writing and editing on Chandra's new solo proposal and two combined proposals β but today the target was purely Susmita's solo effort.
Harry was a bit surprised when he arrived at eight - Susmita was alone. When he inquired, she said in her singsong lilting Indian-English, "Oh, Chandra won't be coming in today, he is being very busy-busy elsewhere, somewhere else! That is a fine thing, you and I will work together, a team of two, we do not need his help on my own separate proposal."
Half an hour into the work, sitting across the table from her was giving him an unexpected β and quite unwanted - hardon. Her breasts were the reason. They were distinctly large for her frame, but although he had certainly noticed them, they'd never before been such a distraction. Yesterday, and each meeting previously, Susmita had worn a high-button blouse, beautifully tailored of colorful silk, and quite prim - and over the basement layer she invariably wore a light cotton jacket. She also wore traditional Indian baggy "pajama" trousers. Elegant materials, but unfortunate choices stylistically. Small she might be, but also disproportionately broad in shoulder and hip, the combination conspired with the cut and drape of her workaday clothing to yield an incorrect impression of being "matronly", somewhat thick-waisted and not particularly curvy. Wrong, indeed, that impression!
Leading to Harry's 'personal problem of the morning' was the initial 'problem'... to wit, today Susmita's top-hamper was strikingly different, a strongly scoop-necked lightweight silk blouse whose neckline drooped down and forward as she sat there.
Repeatedly, the tops of her boobs flashed at him. He tried to keep his imagination under control by concentrating ferociously and working fast. Once or twice during the day he thought that perhaps she noticed his distraction, but if so, she chose not to comment.
So, exactly what it was about her dΓ©colletage that disturbed him so? Other than the simple fact of the never-before view? Partly the intriguing, highly erotic depth and darkness of the cleft between them, depths he managed to examine thoroughly several times throughout the day's work. But more than that, it was their shape, the upper halves of near-perfect spheres, convex not concave, unmindful of gravity's tug. That was a condition he was sure he'd never seen on a mature woman β or on any female except a half-developed pubescent. Surely she hadn't already had some sort of a strange, overdone breast augmentation? Susmita certainly didn't seem the type, but then, who could tell?
Enroute once more to the teapot, he stepped past her. She was deep into edit-mode, looking down, concentrating, scribbling. The scribbling made them move, but not wobble. They moved as if three times as solid as they ought to be.
He pondered: every woman understands completely and precisely βand at all times- the view she is providing. He wasn't so crude as to stop and dwell or stare, but his vision was acute, took them in, dipped again into the cleft, seeking the top edge of a bra. To force her tissues into that convexity, any bra would have to be a near-cast-iron pushup, but he saw no signs at all of any external support whatever. No strange folds or bra-induced flexures along the sides, no ripples of badly-placed bags of silicone. A puzzlement, indeed.
Later, he watched her from behind as she made tea for them β it was HIS tea, for he had arrived with a four ounce tin of the finest first-flush hand-rolled high mountain silvertip. The gift had impressed the Boses, who found it both thoughtful and appropriate. The view of her bottom as she moved was interesting, suggestions through the fabric of a shape very different from one's first impression. He was reminded of his first girlfriend in high-school, blooming late, suddenly gifted with fine boobs and hiding them carefully beneath baggy sweatshirts.
Five PM, and great progress. Two full days to go on this visit β they would finish in good time, well before the deadlines.
Susmita declared an end to the work day. She stood, looked down at Harry and said "You lived in India, so you told us. Please to tell me Mister Harry, do you like Indian food?"
He nodded: "Certainly. If it's good β the problem is that I had every little minor god's plenty of bad Indian food while living there! If it's good, then I love it. From any region of the subcontinent, in fact. Why do you ask?"
She patted him familiarly on the shoulder, let the hand linger an unnecessary moment. "Because I am a good Indian-food cook, I learned from my Mommy, and you are hereby invited to dinner at our house tonight. I will be cooking β it's one of my most enjoyable pastimes. You are simply going to have to cancel any other arrangements you might have made, such as eating in that terrible restaurant beside your motel! Agreed?"
He could hardly refuse. Whatever she prepared, he said, could be at any level of spice she chose β chef's discretion. However, he told her that he needed some exercise before dinner, having sat all day, and having also missed his early morning yoga.
Her left eyebrow arched and she smiled at him β the first "personal" smile he'd been blessed with, and he was dazzled: it was simply devastating.
"You have some interesting depths about you, Sir Harry β Chandra and I, too, study yoga. Guruji Iyengar's style, perhaps?"
He nodded β it was the classical and most precise style.
A 'close-of-day discussion ensued. It was already dark outside, and drizzling, but a mere mile or so to the motel. For exercise, he would walk to it β he never rented a car here. He wouldn't mind the drizzle or the midwinter early darkness. She would come get him at 6:30. That gave him time for a shower and re-shave, and to put on his good trousers and shirt.
Susmita arrived exactly on time. It was beyond drizzle and into downpour by then. The dome light showed her sitting behind the wheel, barely able to see over the dash, in a long white trench-coat appropriate to the rain. When they arrived at her house, she toggled the garage opener, parked inside. She led him through an office and into the living room. The house was redolent with the scents of complex cookery. She kicked off her sandals, flashing several silver and gold toe-rings, and carefully-done nail polish. He followed her lead, and the thick carpet demanded bare feet, so the socks joined his shoes.
She took his coat, doffed her own. Harry goggled as she turned to hang them β she was totally transformed, spectacular, in a deep blue silk sari, perfectly worn, the nearly transparent material laced with a design in silver. He didn't have to ask if the silver was genuine metal thread β the hang of the fabric told.
Now visible in the lighting, there was something very different about her face, changes since five PM, tiny touches of makeup delicately done. A new, unusual, unidentifiable personal scent, too (perhaps several?), first noticed in the car, still detectable despite the kitchen odors. The entire unfortunate "matronly" aura dissipated instantly like a wisp of fog, blown utterly to smithereens by the way her sari left bare her midriff and back, by her quite unusual thinness from front to rear, with belly muscles clearly showing and not an ounce of fat under her perfect skin. A small gold-mounted jewel in her navel, and the edge of a lower-back tattoo showing over the tuck of the sari didn't hurt. The high neckline of her short-short "shoulders-only" blouse actually showed nothing of her upper chest, the hem fell only just millimeters below the bottom curve of her breasts - the hint of a kind of inverse dΓ©colletage was strong. "Where is a floor-mirror when you really needed one?" Harry asked himself, silently.
Her nipples were fingertip sized and clearly, proudly erect beneath the soft, flowing fabric β the material hung from those prominent points as if flung over two adjacent steel coat-hooks. Above the nipples, the fabric lay skin-tight against the still convex top curves. There was no brassiere involved β it would have been obvious - and utterly unnecessary, too.
Knowing that the changes were almost certainly purely for his benefit, he looked openly at her, and then, carefully, carefully, testing all the while, he let his face show his pleasure. When she reacted as he hoped, he murmured "Beautiful! Utterly enchanting!"
She smiled, tee-heed gently and said "You like the sari, then?"
Was she fishing? He nodded, did a tiny little bow, and told her "The sari is beautiful, superb, but what I really like is the contents! And what a magnificent combination. You are a gorgeous woman, Dr Susmita Bose. Stunning!"
She laughed, thanked him, took his arm and said "Time for a little tour of the house? Shall we perhaps start in the kitchen, since dinner is the bait that brought you here to our little nest? Maybe we can find a glass of wine or something."