Krista looked up from her computer. Her office atop the high-rise headquarters of her business had a great downtown view. She paused to scan the skyline. She was knee deep in things to do: hedging the commodities market to control a key rare earth metal, reviewing and rejecting another buyout offer, re-arranging her schedule to attend an emergency Total Woman Academy board meeting. Her office door opened without a knock and she turned to confront the intruder. She heard "Got time for a quickie?" and her heart skipped a beat.
Sheldon, the love of her life, stood there grinning. She rose and approached him saying "I'm sorry, not now, too many snags today." As she drew near, Sheldon couldn't decide which view was better, the skyline or Krista's cleavage. He settled for Krista's bountiful cleavage. In addition to those assets, Krista owned a piece of his company and all of his heart. Krista's finger stroked his cheek as she kissed him. Sheldon's groin tingled as Krista hugged her softness to him. She trapped his earlobe lightly in her teeth and her lips whispered "tonight" in his ear.
Five years ago Krista hardly noticed his presence in a room but Sheldon thanked all the gods for that day this Total Woman had stepped into his life. He turned to leave her to her corporate responsibilities and called over his shoulder "I meant a quick lunch but I like your idea better."
Krista was a golden woman, an indefinite blend of European, Asian and African heritage. Her bronze skin, black hair and almond eyes exuded exotic radiance. She had graduated from Total Woman Academy with a degree in Chemical Engineering. She followed that with an MBA and then law school after which she passed the bar exam first time. Krista was a brilliant Total Woman. She interned at a law firm, and then was a junior associate, then an associate within a few years. A partnership should be hers shortly.
She met Sheldon in his role as a prime intellectual asset for a high tech company. Her employer represented the counter-party. They were negotiating a patent dispute, her specialty. Krista would have been a key player by her own credentials. But she used her superior intellect and her Academy trained skills to subtly, but absolutely, dominate the meeting, resulting in a resolution favorable to her client. The counter-party's young scientist/engineer approached her after the meeting. Sheldon had discovered a break-through battery technology that would revolutionize the electric vehicle industry and wanted Krista to file the patent.
That was when the trouble started. Sheldon's employer sued him, relying on their standard employment agreement wherein all patents became the property of the employer. Krista scrutinized the pre-employment agreement and found a change had been incorporated and initialed. It read "
(remove-initialed: AA SB) all patents for work performed ^entirely^ (add-initialed: AA SB) at the company facilities". Sheldon had documentation showing that he had done substantial work at his home, i.e., not 'entirely at the company facilities'. Krista handled the negotiations, employing her acquired distractive charms and ended with a favorable settlement agreement. The company formed a subsidiary and shared ownership with Sheldon. Sheldon was ecstatic at the news. He had other technical ideas to patent. Sheldon retained Krista as his permanent personal attorney. Krista handled Sheldon's part of the inevitable IPO and his green-mail stock raid afterwards that surreptitiously purchased control of the entire new company. Sheldon gave Krista 20% ownership in the company as compensation for her brilliant legal work.
After that, Sheldon and Krista had dinner and drinks occasionally with the usual flirtations but Sheldon was no Casanova. Sheldon was neither an athlete nor a nerd. He was a technical genius in love with science. However, by now, Krista had selected Sheldon as her lifelong mate and began Operation Captive Heart.
By and by Sheldon invited Krista to accompany him to the islands for an industry conference he was attending. This was Krista's opportunity to move her plan forward. They checked into a two bedroom suite at a luxury beach front resort. Settling in to the rooms, Krista claimed weariness and asked Sheldon if a room service evening meal was okay. Sheldon, absorbed in some technical reading, agreed since that would give him free time to review the conference agenda and technical submittals.
Sheldon was still reading when Krista called to him to dinner. Room service had delivered a candle-lit dinner onto their private balcony. Sheldon lurched to a halt. Krista stood in a silvery mid thigh strapless cocktail dress which was struggling mightily to encase her magnificent form. Sheldon forgot the technical submittals. Seated opposite Krista, Sheldon ate the food and drank the view across the table. Krista glided around the table and handed him a champagne flute. Sheldon gazed up at her as she clinked his glass and said "Congratulations on your successes and your generosity to me. I haven't thanked you properly for all the good you have brought into my life."
Sheldon choked out a "Me neither". She leaned over and kissed his trembling lips. Krista took Sheldon's hand and led him inside to her side of the suite.