It had been a long day at the office but I would have to be there a bit longer. I finish in the toilet and grab my toothbrush to return to my desk. Brushing your teeth at the office might seem odd, but since I regularly eat my dinner at the office, I keep a toothbrush at my desk. Eating at the office allows me to keep a moderate form of intermittent fasting with 14 hours of zero calories between dinner and breakfast. I am ok with that as I tend to work out in the early morning and have breakfast before heading into work. Staying late at the office allows me to avoid the unmoving rush hour traffic.
My desk is on the 5
th
floor but I need to go to the general conference room on the 6
th
floor. The 7
th
floor boasts a larger conference room but that was for big events. I am to give a brief on new export options to be tested for Western markets, along with new adjustments to overseas distribution partners. The thing is they had installed a new audio video system in the conference room and I want to make sure my laptop would connect with the projector. The bosses are business people who do not have time for technical difficulties.
With the office now empty, as far as I could tell, I had the conference room all to myself. Having given dozens of briefs before, this is familiar stuff. Just make sure the connection to the new projector works, and flip through the slides the same as I will tomorrow. Laptop in hand, I head up the stairwell to the next floor. The top company bosses have offices on the 7
th
floor. Though my direct supervisor, Anna, has her office here on the 6
th
. She is the daughter of the CEO and leading share holder. Her grandfather founded the parent company. Do not be fooled into thinking she is daddy's little girl who gets a management position while hardly knowing what to do. This is a family that has been in the industry for generations and they mean business. Children are expected to do their part for the family business.
Anna and her father do not always agree on things. He wishes she would focus more on the traditional methods of how things have been done. Fortunately, he is wise enough to see her potential with new ideas, and has put her in charge of developing new products for foreign markets. She works us like a product sales testing factory. It comes with failure upon failure, but successes hit big. From what I hear her work has come at a cost, her marriage is only real on paper, and who knows for how long, as her husband has a gik, a girlfriend he spends all of his time with. As the family works out how to cut the sleaze ball husband out without costing them any money, Anna has to put up with officially still being married.
But that is all office gossip and has little to do with my presentation. Though she has started acting more provocative lately. Once when I was working out in the gym on the 2
nd
floor of our office building, (usually I work out at a gym near my apartment) and Anna was there too, running on the treadmill watching the news. She had her dark brown hair tied back in a ponytail so it could bounce behind her. I was doing a bunch of low weight high rep bench presses. I looked up and there she was looking down with a sultry air. A healthy view in her green sports bra and skin tight yoga pants, sweat pouring down. I was at the top of a rep holding the bar up.
"Nice muscles," she whispered before lazily tracing her fingers down my pecks and over my abs. She sniffed her finger tips, gave a coy smile, and causally strutted out leaving me to stare at her round butt and tight legs. That was two weeks ago.
Then another time, we had a group meeting to brainstorm ideas and as she was standing over a coworker looking at some numbers on their tablet, her cleavage pressed together under her low V-neck shirt was clearly visible to me seated across the table. While staring at what I could see of her smooth breasts, she looked up and realized what I was focused on. No one else had noticed as everyone was focused on the numbers.
Instead of correcting me, she commented to the small group about the importance of a certain figure pointing it out on the tablet. With everyone thoroughly focused on their screens her hand could pull at her already low neckline as if she needed to let the heat out. It opened her shirt up so much I thought those melons might just pop out, and she let them just hang there for me. Her eyes kept switching between the work on the table and me staring at her hanging breasts, all with a look of how she wanted me to be focused on her plush chest. Eventually she winked at me before straightening up. That was a week ago.
Continuing past Anna's office onto the conference room, I hurry to finish up my day so I can get home. Home being just a small apartment empty of anyone other than myself. The conference room has a large table surrounded by chairs in the middle and a water cooler, mini fridge, and small table against the back wall. Two of the room's walls are full length windows showing bustling streets below, as good a view of the city as a 6
th
floor gets. I set my laptop on the small table to see if my computer brings up the conference room projector in the wireless connections. I can see the projector connected but switching to duplicate display mode lags behind a bit.
Focused on the laptop I am startled when a voice calls out.
"Staying late again, are you?"
I spin around to see Anna sitting at the far end of the conference table, papers, tablet, work, etc. all scattered in front of her. Her brown hair tied back with a couple locks left free to accent the sides of her cute face.
"Oh my god! You scared me."
In my hurry to finish up I had not looked to see if anyone else was in the room. Not that it matters much, she obviously just needed extra space to do her work.
"What are you still doing here? It's almost 6:00," I ask, in an attempt to recover.
"It seems that I asked you first," she replies, sitting as if she owns the room and everything in it.
"Wanted to make sure my laptop connects with the new projector before tomorrow's meeting; besides I hate traffic." My answer satisfies her. I nod that it is her turn to answer.
"This product we have been exporting for almost a year is not breaking even. Kun Pa (her father) did not like the product to begin with. When we show this tomorrow, I am not sure how to convince him to let it finish out the year." She slumps a bit, looking stressed, less like the master of the room.
"You know sometimes the people most involved with something are too close to see when it is past saving." We pause in our thoughts for a few minutes. She picks up a glass on the table and takes a drink from what appears to be a whiskey glass.
"Well, I had better check the projector and get out of your way," I mumble.
She looks at me then back to her glass, and her eyes light up.
"You want a drink," she offers in a hopeful manner.
"Not sure if I am supposed to be drinking with the boss," I say not quite refusing but not quite accepting either.
"The work day is over with. We can relax a bit," she points out. "Besides, traffic is still heavy......and I could use the company."
"If you say so, boss," I tease her. She rolls her eyes at me while rising to walk across the room carrying her glass with her. Today she has worn a dark gray dress that opens on the right side of her stomach. Thank God, she has the abs that make an open midriff enchanting. The fabric gives only a slight peak at her toned body below. The neckline is round and high, not giving a view of her cleavage today. The silk-like material is tight enough to accent her womanly curves. The hemline comes midthigh, not quite unbusinesslike, but definitely pushing the limit.
I just wear dress slacks and a button up shirt. The commute is just too hot for a sports coat.
"Hope you do not mind plastic," she says, snatching a cup from the water cooler. Her whiskey glass must have come from her office, along with the whiskey bottle. She bends at the waist opening the mini fridge to pull out ice and such. Bent over her dress pulls tight against her round ass. The mid-thigh skirt does not give any hint of what is underneath but the view of her tight muscled legs is clear. She glances over her shoulder pleased to see me looking.
"Soda water? Coke?"
"Yeah," I say, letting her put whatever in my drink. She is making a drink of the same order as the old men who play checkers in front of my apartment building. Mixing both my drink and her refill all with a double portion of whiskey, she swirls the cups to stir the drinks. When stuck at the office, one has to improvise.
She starts to hand the cup over to me but pulls it back when I reach for it.