There was but a small opportunity. Though she moved with purpose, it offered just the slightest of chances to be noticed. She thought that he would not dare look, be inspired to look, or possibly just not care to look. Her shift in the chair was swift, defter than she gave herself credit for being.
They had been working together in close quarters all day. It was now the transitional time between late afternoon and early evening. Almost everyone in the office had left for the day; enjoying their families, or perhaps finding a happy hour to relieve their minds of the burden of work life. Their project, long behind schedule, prevented such an opportunity. They bleakly faced the frustration of budgetary constraints and the unrealistic expectations from customers who want everything and wanted it for free.
She let her mind ruminate over her frustration. She was unsatisfied with what her life had become: work-centric, lonely, and malnourished for her desire to be free in spirit. She was forced to spend time with her partner on the project; he was slightly older, and slightly more experienced in these situations, but equally frustrated with how progress was coming so slowly. They frequently argued over minutiae, often the result of being like-minded. She admitted to herself that he was slightly attractive. Every now and then, she would catch a glance from him. Almost as if he was noticing what she tried to hide in the office, the desire to be noticed and fulfilled in the attention of another.
No way he would notice.
Yet he did.
He sat uncomfortably quiet. The cacophonous symphony of emotions roiled against the stoicism of his outward armor of false quiet. He feared his distance, wanting to be infinitely closer. He feared his quiet, needing to be bombastic in his opinion. Yet here he sat, an eye cast to the side to watch for the catalyst needed to spark his action.
He found it. In a split second of a moment. An exponentially small fraction of a lifetime, however infinitely important. He saw it. As she had hoped.
It flashed before his eyes, yet seared into the conscious sight, registered immediately. A weakness. His weakness was in his will. A structural weakness of a thread. A hole. A whole inch. Of unknown cause, yet of perfect placement.
For a moment she was sure she was unnoticed again. Such seemed to be her lot in life. Unnoticed. Of course, she should not be observed. She was just part of the office background.
Nothing was further from the truth. She stretched the perfect length, a figure that reached between the realms of now and the dreams any future would covet. The firm flatness of pleasing reality. Gorgeous curves of full supple fantasy. Shadows that tantalized the ideals of femininity. A light that stipulates the vividness of vitality that simmers just below the surface. She was mesmerizingly beautiful, an impenetrable fortress of gorgeous armor from his perspective.
He found the chink in that armor, a rip. It flashed red in blurred lace among the highlights of smooth warm-hued toned flesh of thighs. Her black dress was form-fitting, holding her beautiful arcs in its embrace so that when she repositioned in her seat, the material gathered in such a way to present him with a glorious view of the attack.
He did not look up to make eye contact. His next actions required gumption that would be lost to the powerful pull of her eyes. He watched his large left-hand move from his chair's armrest to her thigh. The warmth of her skin accelerated the burn of his confidence. He could not stop if he wanted to. He did not verify that his hand placement was okay with her. Though her leg slightly moved toward him, she did not pull away.
She had been caught off-guard. She was mid-thought in the battle against the darkness of her doubt. A battle she always won, but it took so much of her concentration. His touch brought a shock. His gentle hand electrified her skin, and goosebumps instantly raised as if to ask for more in rebellion against proper office decorum. She held her breath, and stared at his hand.
He listened intently for her to protest against his forward movement. He heard nothing except for the catch of her breath when he first made contact. His fingers found the firm resistance of her thighs exciting. He studied every inch of her soft flesh, yet this was not his goal. He knew not at that moment where this was leading, but he knew what he wanted to explore, and what he wanted. He wanted what he glimpsed with her movement. He wanted what was just beneath the red lace. He followed the line of her right thigh upward toward his goal. Listening, his own breath held so that he may hear her response.
Still, no protest escaped her lips.
On the contrary. She felt her eyelids heavy in the weight of her want as his hand slowly slid higher and higher. She felt the flush of blood race to her cheeks. She felt the warmth of excitement flood the flesh he touched. Energy awakened deep within her being, triggered by the firm grip and soft touch of his hand. Primal energy that burned slow, a spark that jumped with his first touch and that smoldered slowly into a glowing hot ember. She dared not move. She did not wish to startle him back to the reality of work expectations. She felt the wetness before he did. She was aware that she was leaking into the gusset of her lace thong.
She slowly became aware of the mistake she had made in the morning. She had been so busy with the customer's requests on the project that she had failed to keep up with her laundry. In a hurry to get out of the door, all she could locate was an old ripped lace thong at the very back of her dresser drawer. It contrasted greatly with the black dress she was wearing. But who would notice?
His hand was inches from finding her thong. She worried about how she would appear to him due to the shabby condition of her undergarments. However, his touch felt so good. Though concerned, she could not help but become wetter and wetter as the anxiety gave way to the restless energy of anticipation.
They still had not made eye contact. It seemed forever for his hand to travel up the path of her thigh to his goal. He felt the soft material of her dress slightly resist the meat along the outside of his palm. The dress moved with him though, and he pushed on until he felt the sharper threads of lace against his hand at the wrist. He breathed out a labored wow as his hand came to rest on the warmth and dampness of her want seeping through the material.
It had become too much for her to hold back. Somehow his low-toned wow had pushed her over the precipice of reservation. She could not hold her breath one moment longer, she exhaled in a broken gasp.
He immediately twisted in his office chair to face her, gripping her thighs firmly to hold his place next to her ache. His lustful eyes were wide when he found her half-open gaze. Her full lips said nothing but gave away a slight quiver as she breathed in deep. Her curls fell in front of her beautifully strong cheeks, half obscuring her visage. A sensual vision of perfection in his perception.
Their conference room was silent save for their labored breathing. The din of the office was falling quieter than it had been for the majority of the day. Yet that did not mean it was empty. The cubicles always harbor some poor overworked co-workers. The chance of a straggler should have deterred him from continuing.
He no longer cared. He could now smell her lust, feel her lust against his fingers through the lace and cotton gusset. The risk of failure was far from his primal mind. The risk of being observed by others did not register even the slightest concern. He wanted her. He was going to have her.
He used his grip on her thigh to push her chair clear of the conference table, simultaneously pulling his chair to face her. The force dragged her legs apart awkwardly and he could see the red thong in his peripheral vision. He did not break eye contact. He studied her face intently, bringing in the stimulation of her beauty. He felt the burn of excitement in his sternum. It radiated out in throbs. Throbs which grew in length as he grew in his own want and expectations. He pushed long into his pocket with his want, firm ache pulsing against the material of his boxers and khaki pants.
She was again shocked by his actions. For a moment the thought of protesting raced through her mind. However, this is what she had wanted. She wanted him to take her. She needed all of their tension, arguments, and pent-up aggression worked out. She wanted to be fucked. Hard. She wanted to be needed. So she said nothing. Instead, she erupted into a bit of a belligerent giggle.
His right hand reached for the left side of her face, he rested his palm on her cheek and leaned forward. She tried to back away, but his strength quickly halted her retreat. He held her head still with a partial grip of her curls. She continued to push against his hand with a smile. She resisted, but her smile conveyed her true state. She wanted him to work. He obliged, firmly consuming her lips with his own. She pulled back one last time, then with a gasp she returned his attack. She pressed her lips upon his. His tongue pushed into her mouth searching for her previous resistance and finding nothing but the reciprocating exploration of her own tongue.