He was completely warn out. He slumped over his desk and glared at the pile of paperwork still to be dealt with. It was very late but at least he no longer had to worry about when he got out. The bitch had left him, claiming he was having an affair with his co-worker. He never did, but he'd since discovered that it was just an excuse to cover her own extramarital affair. Fortunately he'd found out prior to the divorce hearing. His forehead hit the desk hard as he pushed another memo into the out box.
He looked up at a knock on his office door. He hid the laugh. It was the very woman the bitch had accused him of cheating with. "What are you doing here so late?"
She laughed and moved to collapse in the comfortable 'interviewee' chair across his desk. "I could very well ask you the same question. The answer is probably the same for both of us. 'Trying to catch up.'"
He laughed with her. "There is some of that. But honestly I think I'm just hiding here. But you, you'd be a welcome sight at the clubs. I know you used to go to 'em."
"'Used to' being the operative words." She shrugged. "They're getting too pretentious these days. It's more about showing everyone else up then enjoying the company and the music." She laughed bitterly. "Or maybe I'm just getting too old to compete and it seems like it now that I'm no longer on top."
"You haven't lost a thing in the ten years I've known you. You're still as sexy today as back then." Her eyes widened a little at his admission. Suddenly he remembered that she was more co-worker then friend. He'd known her so long that he occasionally forgot that he'd only seen her twice outside of a work setting. "I mean, uh. . ."
She waved it away. "Don't worry, I'm a big girl and know the difference between sincere compliments, humor and suggestive innuendo. You don't need to worry about harassment or anything if you're just joking or being nice." He began to breath again. "So what do you mean 'hiding'?"
He shrugged. "The house is nothing but empty memories. Nothing to rush home to. And I don't have any hobbies so, nowhere else to go." He cocked his head. "To be honest I think that's why we stayed together so long. Neither of us had anything better to go to." He looked up and saw the sympathy in her eyes. "So, was there something you needed or were you just investigating another midnight oil?"
She started. Had she been staring at him? She reached under her arm and pulled out a file folder. "A little of both really. I was coming to drop the quarterly reports under your door when I realized it was open and your lights were still on." She moved over to the desk and dropped the folder unceremoniously on top of the clutter of papers.
He quickly shuffled the papers into their respective boxes, clearing his desk of all but the folder. "Are you heading out or could we go over them now? It'd be useful to study the figures and get your impression before tomorrow's meeting." She was simply a co-worker, about the same level as he was, so neither had any authority over the other.
She shrugged. "Sure. I have nowhere else to be. Besides, a little extra work now and I can leave earlier at the end of the week." He felt an unusual spark when she winked at him, sending a delightful shiver through his body. She proceeded to pull the notes out of the folder and spread them carefully over the desk. The figures were stacking up as well as he expected and he listened with interest to her insightful commentary. He'd always found the quarterly to be dry but she managed to find the highlights, making it interesting.
She leaned across to grab an arrant paper and he caught a whiff of perfume. The base of his skull tingled slightly in response. He failed to shake off the sensation but focused on her review. Slowly he felt his eyes drifting. Suddenly it was another figure that kept drawing his attention. She had removed her dress coat to reveal a silver, sleeveless, mock-turtleneck. It hugged her figure, perfectly showing off the perky breasts normally concealed by a coat or jacket. He felt the thrill of the forbidden as he noticed, with just the right angle, he could first see her bra and then a little of the side of her breast. "What do you think of them?"
"I'm sorry?" He had been staring sideways at her breasts in profile for a few minutes. He thought, with his head down she wouldn't have noticed, thinking him pouring over the papers.
"The figures. What do you think of them?" She turned to face him, one hand leaning on one of the papers on the desk. What had been a splendid profile of her breasts as she leaned forward now became a full figure image with his eye level even with the very thing the bitch had accused him of indulging in.
He laughed to himself.
I think it's a very fine figure.
His eyes quickly darted up to meet hers. "I'm sorry. I must be more tired then I thought. My mind wandered a little. But they're working out well."
She turned to sit on the desk. Her legs, athletic yet demure, crossed at her ankles while she glared at him. "You were staring." His eyes, which had remained carefully focused on the desk for safety, snapped to hers as he tried to stammer a denial. The laughter in her eyes died in surprise. Her declaration had been a joke but his response surprised her with the truth. "You were staring at me." She looked down seeming to notice the sleeveless shirt for the first time. She blushed deeply when she realized a small portion of her underwear could be seen. "I'm sorry. I didn't think when I took off my coat. I usually don't wear anything this showy, but with the air conditioning recently I never take my coat off so I thought it was safe when I left this morning. I completely forgot."
She was rambling nervously. "
I
should be apologizing! I was staring." There was an uncomfortable silence. She hopped off the desk and nervously began gathering up the report. As she turned he discovered a wonderful view of her ass in the knee-length, tight, skirt. As she leaned forward to reach for a page the fabric pressed even tighter against her and he found himself wondering if she wore a thong or nothing at all underneath, given a lack of seam lines. He felt the fabric in his own pants begin to press more tightly against him. He spun his focus away as she turned to hand him the folio. He avoided looking at her. "You really are quite beautiful."
Her fingertips brushed his cheek. She turned his head to look at her. "Did you know I always admired you? I've always liked you. But I had to much respect for
you
to tell you while you were married. If you'd said yes I would've lost respect for you. If you had said no I would have been devastated." She leaned forward and kissed him.
Passion he hadn't felt in years blossomed from his chest, overwhelming his brain. His nose was filled with the glorious perfume. It had a mixed salty and sweet scent to it but mostly its effect could be felt as the sensation raced to the primal center of his brain. His heart raced.