Chapter 17: Mrs. Sheffield's Displeasure
I was a mess. Megan and Hera did their best to comfort me. Hera immediately attacked my cock, squeezing, sucking, tugging, and kissing it. She might as well have been fondling an old sock. Megan caressed my upper body, massaging my shoulders, kissing my neck, gently pinching my nipples. They were lovely, loving girls, and I knew I was lucky to be with them, but I was in despair. Beth had our video.
Beth was my newest coworker, my teammate on the database migration project, my subordinate. She'd only been with the company a few weeks, and I'd already made the wrong impression on her first day of work, completely by accident, when Tethys had sent me a photo of Sonia and Henri posed in her living room, both of them gloriously naked, his massive cock draped comfortably over her shoulder. I can't imagine how I could have been so naive to not suspect it would be porn. It was from Tethys, and she loves porn. It was on a Monday, which was her traditional day to entertain Sonia and Henri. I opened it, and Beth saw it.
I had immediate assumed with horror that it was the end of my career. Alone in my office with an attractive woman, on her first day at work, showing her sex pictures? It was a classic case of sexual harassment, right? But Beth hadn't turned me in, Human Resources was never alerted, no complaints were filed, and even my other coworkers remained unaware of the incident. I was grateful for that. On the other hand, Beth did treat me with suspicion for some time afterwards, despite my repeated apologies and explanations. It begin to feel as if she were dangling it over my head. A blackmail opportunity?
Eventually she settled down, revealing to me that she herself was a secret and unpublished writer of erotic fantasy. She even showed me some of her work. It... wasn't great, but I was supportive at least. I was more uncomfortable with some of the other personal details of her life she confided in me, stuff I didn't want to know. She told me about how she'd driven off boyfriends by cheating on them, how she felt guilty about her inability to be faithful. She was paying her penance by not dating at all. It was too much. I only wanted a professional relationship, I didn't want to deal with the personal lives of my coworkers. I knew only that most of them were single, and that they envied me for my hot girlfriend Tethys. They didn't know the details of our - and her - sex lives, and I had every intention of keeping it that way. I didn't want to know about theirs either. Megan and Hera weren't even in their picture, since I'd not yet spoken of them, and my coworkers had only met them for the first time the previous evening, in a context where it wasn't at all clear that our involvement was sexual.
That comfortable compartmentalization was now shattered, at least with respect to Beth. Once she realized I wasn't creeping on her, she became unduly interested in my personal life, and pried details from me that I had not intended to reveal. I couldn't completely shut her down, even though I tried. She had turned into too valuable an associate, her programming skills were first rate, and she had become a partner in our advocacy, and more recent approval for revamping our database capability to something worthy of our corporate goals and reputation. In other words, we were spending too much time together to not talk at all.
What's worse was that the girls loved her. From the minute I had come home complaining about this embarrassing new girl at work, they had been clamoring to meet her. We'd finally met up at Beth's weekend hangout, a western dance club, and my girls had been wowed by her cowgirl attire, her country dancing skills, and surprisingly enough to me, her personality. They bonded, and now she was on their distribution list for everything they shared. It was too late. My "professional" relationship, already hanging by a thread, was toast.
"Taylor, I don't see the problem," Megan whined. "She's not going to think less of you, she already knows you're fucking lots of women, and she's already told us she's happy about that."
"She can be happy about it all she wants," I grumbled. "That doesn't mean she has to be
involved
with it!"
Megan looked for help to Hera, who continued the argument. "Beth is nice, and she's pretty. I think she's sexy. Maybe you
should
involve her. I'll bet she'd like it if you did. I'd want to see you fuck her. It might make her life a lot better."
"She's our friend, I'd like to see her happy," added Megan.
"She's not
my
friend, and I have to see her every damn day!" Now I was becoming upset with myself for raising my voice in agitation. As far as I was concerned, every new piece of information she possessed about my love life gave her more ammunition, more weight to hang over my head, more of an ability to threaten me with... whatever. In truth, she had done nothing with what she already had, except smile knowingly when she saw me. She had assured me she would not be a threat. We'd worked well together, and she seemed as invested in the project as I was. I didn't see any sign of her trying to undermine me. So why
was
I so suspicious? Was I still overreacting to the embarrassment of that first incident? Was I the one magnifying the trivial? Mountains and molehills came to mind. I laid back onto the bed with a sigh. Hera took it as a signal to slurp her mouth back down around my cock. It didn't respond quickly.
"Fine. You're right, it shouldn't be a big deal. And it's not like we can take it back anyway, so there's no point in getting upset about it. I'll see Beth Tuesday, and I'm sure she'll mention it. I just hope she does it in private."
"Well, the first thing you can do is stop being so defensive and sensitive about it," Megan scolded. "It's nothing to be ashamed of. You should be proud of it. Own it. You have several beautiful women who desperately desire your body."
Hera popped her face up from my cock momentarily. "And your mind," she added. I had to snicker just a little.
"You're living every man's dream, aren't you?" Megan continued. "I mean, look at us, we're not even high maintenance! You've basically got your harem for free. You haven't had to buy us any clothes at all!"
I laughed and nodded. That was enough to improve my mood.